Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens

Phoebe Hart is very well placed to write this book, drawing on her own experiences in industry as well as academia to contextualize what it means to imagine, develop, produce, and distribute a documentary in the contemporary landscape. The focus on meaningful ideas, impactful stories, and innovations in process and form provides an excellent addition to the field. And through interviews with a wide range of practitioners from across the globe, the book really does get to the heart of why documentaries matter. --Craig Batty, executive dean, UniSa Creative, University of South Australia Phoebe Hart's lovely book should live on the bookshelves of scholars, artists, and students around the world who adore the documentary form and want to understand the nuanced innerworkings of the craft. This is a contemporary, accessible volume that champions the voices and motivations of creative nonfiction makers as they chart a future path in the global media marketplace. --Caty Borum, executive director, Center for Media and Social Impact at American University; author of Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change This volume offers unexpected insights to the documentary filmmaking process through accounts of an array of different makers. It is a fascinating read which makes an important contribution to documentary film studies as well as the emerging discipline of creative practice research. Highly recommended. --Agnieszka Piotrowska, filmmaker and scholar; author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film