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Happenings in the documentary industry and within SVA's MFA Social Documentary Film community

November 10, 2016

SocDoc Takes Over PBS this Fall!

Well, not officially, but several alumni and our fearless leader’s works will air on PBS, PBS’ POV and PBS World in the coming weeks. BEYOND BORDERS: Undocumented Mexican-Americans examines... Read More

March 12, 2009

The first comprehensive reference work on documentary film

With over 800 articles from scholars around the world, the Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers’... Read More

March 12, 2009

$25,000 HSUS ACE Feature Documentary Grant

APPLY NOW! For a fourth year, SILVERDOCS is joining forces with The Humane Society of the United States’ Animal Content in Entertainment (ACE) Program to offer a $25,000 grant to filmmakers for the... Read More

February 26, 2009

Documentary Film Reading List

The Social Documentary: Bibliography, Radio-Television-Film 345 Instructor: Dr. Laura Stein University of Texas at Austin; Spring 2004 Nichols, Bill. (2001). “How Do Documentaries Differ from Other... Read More