She decided to go for spring break; when she told the Russian instructor who was teaching documentary film, the woman said, "You must make a film there".
In Brazil he taught documentary filmmaking for Unesco, the United Nations cultural organization, and worked to help poor children.
In 1972 he earned a Master of Arts in American studies from the University at Buffalo, where he taught documentary photography from 1972 to 1974.
"I really think it's hard for Alabamians to envision how peculiar our traditions seem to outsiders," said Andrew Grace, who teaches documentary filmmaking at Alabama.
Ms. Chesler, who teaches documentary making at the University of California, San Diego, said she became concerned about efforts to eliminate menstruation when she first heard about the idea several years ago.
"We felt we were doing something bigger than ourselves," says Kate Amend, a researcher on the piece, who teaches documentary filmmaking at the University of Southern California.
There is a "rich churning" that goes into the best documentary work, said Bill Jorden, who teaches documentary photography at the Westchester Art Workshop at the County Center in White Plains.
I teach Documentary Photography at the Academy of Arts in Gent, Belgium, and that keeps me at home during the school year.
I had decided ahead ahead of time that I wanted to photograph the whole thing; I teach documentary photography at MIT.
For the second year, I've co-taught a documentary production course at Pace University in which a team of graduate and undergraduate communication students travels on spring break not to lounge on a beach, but to shoot a short film with an environmental theme.
