SocDoc is an MFA program at UC Santa Cruz designed for future documentarians committed to social cha SocDoc goes beyond the story.
SocDoc is a one-of-a-kind program designed for future documentarians committed to social change and to documenting communities, cultures, issues, and individuals who are marginalized in our current landscape of representation. That's our motto and our practice: to go beyond story-telling into the intimacy of people's lives, the causes underlying social injustice, the issues too pressing to ignore.
10/09/2024
Applications are open for next year's UCSC Social Documentation cohort! We are one very few funded MFA programs with a specialty in documentary in the US, and a great program for anyone looking to deepen their engagement with research-driven and social justice-aligned nonfiction making. Please share with your networks!
More at https://tinyurl.com/socdocMFA including info about our upcoming virtual visiting day on October 25th.
11/01/2017
SocDoc alum Bridgette Auger is in post-production on an amazing new film. In town from Beirut. Not to be missed!
DocuClub LA: We are Not Princesses Please join us Monday, November 6, for Docuclub LA, with a work-in-progress screening of WE ARE NOT PRINCESSES. Following the screening, we will be joined by Director Bridgette Auger and Producer/Editor Sara Maamouri for a moderated feedback discussion.
10/24/2017
Application cycle is open! AND, look who is a MFA now!
10/17/2017
Anyone want to work for FB? Here's a job posting
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Film Producer, Creative Services Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps…
09/24/2017
Apply Now for Fork Films’ Documentary Grants – Women and Hollywood Documentary filmmakers, take note: Fork Films’ annual open call for doc grant applications is here. The New York-based production company…
11/17/2016
06/17/2016
'Death by a Thousand Cuts' wins Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize at Seattle...
Death by a Thousand Cuts won the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).
Co-produced by Participant Media's television network Pivot, the film was by directed by Juan Mejia Botero and Jake Kheel.
Death by a Thousand Cuts…
06/01/2016
10th Annual Social Documentation Screening next week! Please come and see the new work. http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events/2016/05/18/10th_annual_social_documentation_thesis_documentary_screening
05/05/2016
Continuing, graduating and incoming SocDoc students!
05/05/2016
Production Fellowships A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
04/29/2016
SocDoc mediamakers came back to campus to talk about their work as independent documentarians with B Ruby Rich Jennifer Maytorena Taylor