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Mdocs Poster-2016-06-02, Adapting Reality For Stage And Screen, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman Jun 2016

Mdocs Poster-2016-06-02, Adapting Reality For Stage And Screen, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

MDOCS Publications

Fact or Fiction?: Adapting Reality for Stage and Screen

What is the relationship between truth, or fact, and story? Many documentary storytellers push the boundaries of truth, whether by sins of omission (framing, selection) or commission (reenactment, ordering). Conversely, many works of fiction are “based on a true story” and strive for emotional truth when choosing between art and narrow factuality. In this Point of Departure filmmaker and photographer Chip Duncan, producer of stage and screen Dan Markley, and co-founder and president of the Nantucket Film Festival Jonathan Burkhart talk truth and fiction in storytelling.

5 pm: Keynote: A conversation …


Mdocs Booklet-2016-06-01, Storytellers' Institute Art Book, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman Jun 2016

Mdocs Booklet-2016-06-01, Storytellers' Institute Art Book, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

MDOCS Publications

A collective booklet of photographs from 2016 Storytellers' Institute