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why documentary skills for journalism?
Important facts don't automatically create a good article. All journalists know that. Your students will benefit from understanding how to make the facts sing and how to show, not just tell. How to capture a complicated reality that captures the viewer.

why teach documentary with dramatic film?
Most filmmakers have to work in both fields. But creating a doc can also give a "reality-check” and anchor the drama closer to the real world. Students will see how much feature and documentary are linked.

want a workshop?
for any audience – you decide the objectives, and I design the curriculum that gets us there.

contact:
kmoorh@aol.com
662-816-7253 (US)
+468 64 47 885 (Sweden)

to see Kent Moorhead's work, follow the links on the left to his Swedish website, Allt-i-ett Film and Media, or to his US website, Forever Young Productions, LLC

comments by students of Kent Moorhead:

It’s just such an awesome opportunity to have, to work with someone who knows what he’s doing, he can really teach you.

Eric Ingram

It’s a lot work though, got to get up early and stay out late, but it's a lot of fun”.

Katie Williamson

I had no idea we’d actually be doing a film all the way from beginning to end, with all the steps, acting, directing, filming, editing, all the things that it takes to put together a film. So I was delighted.

Ed Norris

Kent Moorhead gives courses in filmmaking in both the US and Europe.
He knows what it takes to make films – he's a working filmmaker with hundreds of credits. His courses are hands-on, students learn by making films. But with no cookie-cutter shortcuts. Filmmaking is complicated – that's what makes it wonderful.

Students also get a larger understanding of filmmaking – with documentary, that means, for instance, how to get interviews, going beyond "talking heads", finding a story from real situations,

With drama the focus is on how to understand what a story is, and to visualize it.
And looking at how different filmmakers have used different methods.