Event: Creative Documentary for Researchers on Thursdays in August 2025 7-9.30pm – Online
For people of marginalised genders (women, trans, and non-binary participants)
In this intensive workshop, participants will join a small, international cohort of up to 10 filmmakers, artists, and academics to apply a creative lens to their research to make their own short film. Through a variety of collaborative filmmaking exercises over the course of a month, participants will develop their own 1 – 10 minute short documentary or experimental film by finding the human, emotional, and unique story within their research, as well as becoming part of the wider IMPRINT Documentary Collective community.
Creative Documentary for Researchers
Thursdays 7-9:30 PM BST, Online
7, 14, 21, 28 August
During the workshop, each participant will create their own short film on their research by moving through the main stages of creative documentary filmmaking:
- Introduction to Creative Documentary (7 August 2025) at 7-9:30 PM UK Time
- Approaches to Directing and Filming (14 August 2025) at 7-9:30 PM UK Time
- Editing and Story Structure (21 August 2025) at 7-9:30 PM UK Time
- Screening of Final Films (28 August 2025) at 7-9:30 PM UK Time
These workshops are suitable for participants of all levels of experience who have access to their own camera and a simple editing software. Artists, movement practitioners, researchers, students and filmmakers are all welcome to join. These workshops are for those who have faced marginalisation in film due to their gender, which includes women, trans and non-binary people.
ABOUT IMPRINT
IMPRINT Documentary Collective is a queer and feminist film collective exploring embodiment and the body in creative documentary filmmaking. Founded in 2021, IMPRINT delivers workshops, productions, and screenings to collectively experiment with embodied documentary filmmaking as a process for making uniquely felt yet political films. Our collaborations both within the film industry and local communities have allowed us to reach a wide audience on the potential of embodied documentary, and our goal is to broaden the representation of gender-marginalised storytellers by using the documentary medium as an act of radical and empathic resistance through the lens of the body politic.
IMPRINT Documentary Collective
Embodied Documentary Filmmaking