Welcome to our resource center for documentary lovers and filmmakers. The Library @ NW Doc includes a collection of non-fiction films, books, and this lovely blog. The library and resource center was established to support and promote NW Documentary's mission to encourage and inspire those with a love for storytelling.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I have two new discoveries to share, documentaryguide.com and explore.org. Documentary Guide claims to be the largest database on the Internet with “tens of thousands of films, schools, and festivals” indexed. Documentary guide is designed for educators and researchers and works like a search engine for films on the web. From their homepage you can simply enter your research topic and it will bring up links to full link films available online. Very cool and the website is pretty slick too.
Explore.org showcases philanthropic based media and is also an excellent resource for educators and researchers. The films produced and available on their website vary in length but most seem to be under ten minutes. This site also features a wide variety of themes from science and nature to cultural films to human rights activism.
4docs : Animated Minds
This a great website for the short documentary community. Watch, communicate, participate.
Classic!
Trailer for Salesman (1968) by Los Maysles
The Story of Menstruation—1946
From the Wonderful World of Disney. Wow.
Cooking Up a Story is an “online television show and blog about food and sustainable living.” The site features short documentary videos, interviews with experts on agriculture, cooking, and sustainability, cooking demonstrations, and recipes. It really is a neato website and beautifully designed. One could easily spend hours sifting through all of their resources—if one was interested in such things as artisan chocolates and goat farming of course.
Tami Tushie’s Toys
A short documentary about a Minnesota mom who hosts parties at her home to sell merchandise— only it’s not Tupperware she is selling. Wink, wink.
Tami Tushie’s Toys
Directed by Melody Gilbert
Festival Tips
There has been a lot of talk about festivals around here lately. Our director, Ian, has been visiting festivals all over the world for his newest film Summer Snapshot.
In honor, I am posting an interesting article I found on the DocAgora blog about navigating the world of documentary film festivals. The article was written in 2009 by Peter Wintoneck and offers some interesting insights.
PAM wants in on this storytelling thing
The Portland Art Museum has jumped on the storytelling wagon with their own version of Story Corps-style documenting of personal stories. Object Stories invites participants to tell the silly, sentimental, and heart-felt stories behind their favorite objects. The museum has set up a nice website that features information on the exhibit and showcases photographs and audio from these storytelling sessions. It is nice stuff and definitely worth checking out.
If you want to visit the museum to tell your own Object Story you can make reservations on their website. The museum will be hosting an accompanying storytelling event on April, 22 at 7pm. Local famous people will be in attendance.
The photograph above is of Jake France and his Spotted Owls. Hear his story here.
