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National Film School 2007 Conference - DOCUMENTARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY >>
08-10-2007
Thursday 1st + Friday 2nd November 2007
THU 1ST NOV
7.00pm Documentary Screening and Discussion
How To Invent Reality and Its Now or Never (together 85min)
Irish Film Institute,
www.ifi.ie
FRI 2ND NOV
8.30 am REGISTRATION
9.15 am PANEL 1
OBSERVATIONAL CINEMA AND REALITY TELEVISION
Chair, Professor Kevin Rockett, TCD
Dr. Harvey O’Brien, Lecturer in Documentary, UCD
Alan Maher, Production Executive, Irish Film Board
Donal Haughey, Filmmaker and Lecturer
10.45 am COFFEE BREAK
11.00 am PANEL 2
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ROLE OF DOCUMENTARY
Chair, Professor Desmond Bell, Queen’s University
Dr. Cahal McLaughlin, University of Ulster
Mary Raftery, Filmmaker and Journalist
Dr. Alan Grossman, Senior Lecturer, DIT
12.30 pm LUNCH
1.30 pm DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
2.45 pm TEA BREAK
3.00 pm PANEL 3
DIGITAL MEDIA, DOCUMENTARY AND ISSUES OF CONTENT
Chair, Clare Duignan RTÉ
Martin Freeth, MD, Windfall Digital, London
Dr. Patrick Brereton, Asst. Dean of Research, DCU
Neil Leyden, Digital Media Forum, Ireland
4.30 pm KEYNOTE
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE DOCUMENTARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Professor Brian Winston, University of Lincoln.
