Charities urged not to be documentary dinosaurs

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector, 27 June 2007

Charities should be less cautious about working with makers of cinema documentaries, which give them better opportunities for publicity and editorial input than TV documentaries.

This advice comes from film-maker Brian Woods, who directed The Dying Rooms, an acclaimed documentary about orphanages in China. He is one of the speakers at Harnessing the Power of Film to Change the World, a conference at London's Southbank Centre next Tuesday. Woods told Third Sector: "This medium can...

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