MYDM is a workshop for documentary filmmakers on how to make outreach and audience engagement part of the production planning of your documentary.

Engagement strategies not only make powerful tools to extend the reach and effectiveness of your documentary, they can also be part of your fundraising plan!

 

Welcome from Center director Pat Aufderheide
For some of us, it’s not enough to make a great movie. You need to find the viewers who need it, who will use it, who will change their lives and those of others because they made connections that you helped them to make.

That’s where strategies of public engagement come in.

Increasingly, filmmakers are figuring out that the time to do outreach planning is in the first stages of shaping their project, in the pre-production phase. They are also learning that building community engagement in from the start also creates new funding opportunities as they are making their films.

Learn in this one-day workshop from some of the most well-respected professionals in outreach and community engagement, and find out how their strategies helped great documentaries get made, and make a difference in the world.

Scroll down to find out all pertinent information, including a list of panelists and speakers. You can register online. Click here to find out more information about traveling to DC.

Time and Place:
Monday, January 30, 2006 from 9 am-6 pm
in the McDowell Formal Lounge
American University, Washington, D.C.

Topics include:
Working with Nonprofit Production Partners
New Distribution Strategies
Outreach for Action

Keynote Speaker:
Cynthia Lopez
Vice President, P.O.V.
Communications and Marketing

Other speakers include:
John de Graaf, Filmmaker, Affluenza and Silent Killer
Sandi DuBowski, Filmmaker, Trembling Before G-d
Robert Lavelle, Roundtable
Chris Palmer, Film Producer, and Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking, American University; Executive Producer, National Wildlife Federation Productions
Judith Ravitz, Outreach Extensions
Ellen Schneider, ActiveVoice
Robert West, Working Films
AND MORE TO COME!

Who should come:
Filmmakers, Teachers, Students, Nonprofit Communications Professionals

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