For the down side of Asian shrimp farming, watch "Cheap Shrimp, Hidden Costs," an excellent documentary produced by University of British Columbia journalism students: To see how shrimp farming can be done without antibiotics and mangrove destruction, watch "Linda Thornton: Seeking Sustainability, One Shrimp at a Time," the documentary shot by my Pace University documentary students:.
"You can shoot digital video for pennies on the dollar, compared to 16-millimeter film," Mr. Davidson said, "which helps our documentary students immensely, because of the amount of footage they have to shoot".
In addition to the 40 feature-length films, the festival is to offer about 20 original short films, as well as entries in documentary and student categories.
And jurors for the documentary and student short film competitions include the actresses Susan Sarandon and Shailene Woodley; the "Tower Heist" director Brett Ratner; and Scooter Braun, the manager who helped discover Mr. Bieber.
Word of mouth has promoted the popularity of a new documentary on student learning, titled Race to Nowhere.
The producer of the footage is Huw Sambrook, a researcher and videographer who at the time was making a documentary about student sex work for his final-year project at Bath Spa University.
My son, Quinn, a documentary-film student, was eager to see where I'd been during the war, my wife signed on, and suddenly there we were — lying off Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, after a two-day cruise from Papua New Guinea.
The 75-minute documentary teaches students about black history and the Harlem Renaissance through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance Big Five, more commonly known as the The Harlem Rens.
Yasmine Mustafa, the editor of The Council, a documentary about students running for elections at the UNRWA school in Jordan, was walking to her screening when the bomb hit.
Awards will also be given to the top documentary, independent and student films in the festival.
Newspaper articles and a student documentary film have been devoted to the subject.
