31ST ANNUAL CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL
presents
From Reflection to Release
Embodying Social Justice Values in Documentary Filmmaking
SAT · NOVEMBER 22 · 2025 · 2:30 PM · THALIAN RED
From Reflection to Release - Embodying Social Justice Values in Documentary Filmmaking
Natalie Bullock Brown / 60:00
Saturday / 2:30 PM / Thalian Red
What are your values, and how do you actualize them in your filmmaking practice? In this Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) workshop, Natalie Bullock Brown, director of DAWG, walks participants through DAWG's signature
From Reflection to Release: Framework for Values, Ethics, and Accountability in Nonfiction Filmmaking, and portions of DAWG's newest offering, the
DAWG Syllabus. By looking at both documents, participants can gain insights into how to incorporate a values-based approach to documentary filmmaking in their production practice. Participants should bring ethical dilemmas from their own productions to the workshop to work through with the filmmaker community.
Speaker Bio: Natalie Bullock Brown is the director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG), a collective she helped to found in 2020, which has released a values-informed framework for documentary filmmakers that emphasizes care, consent, and collaboration in ethical storytelling. She is also a documentary film producer and emerging director; a 2023 Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Documentary Film Fellow; a 2023 DOC NYC New Leader; and a 2021 Rockwood Institute JustFilms Fellow.
