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Viva Doc is …

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… a student org focusing on documentary filmmaking!

… students from all majors!
… community and support!

… networking!
… collaborating on projects!
… film events!
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When: we meet every Tuesday @ 5:30pm
Where: the Doc Center.. 4th floor of 1104 S. Wabash
Who: all students are welcome!

Mission: fostering collaboration and mentorship between Viva Doc and the greater Chicago documentary community.
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Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron

Read what Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, Jeff Spitz, the filmmaker behind “The Return of Navajo Boy,” and Russell Porter, Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago with forty years of documentary experience, have to say about this decision to force Joseph Berlinger, the filmmaker behind “Crude,” to turn over his unused footage.

Fundraiser for ISDC at Viaduct Theater a Success

Collage of photos from the International Student Documentary Competition (ISDC)

Last Sunday, May 2nd, Viva Doc and a Documentary Post-Production Team class at Columbia College Chicago held a fundraiser at the Viaduct Theater for the International Student Documentary Competition (ISDC), which will be held in October of this year.

World Shorts ISDC Fundraiser & More

6 Days of Doc Events

Upcoming Documentary Events…

Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner Talk Early Kartemquin Films at Columbia

Just over a week ago, Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner came to Columbia College to participate in the “Art, Access & Action” Summit at Columbia and talk with documentary students (and others) about documentary film making and how film making and society has changed since the era when great early Kartemquin films like What the Fuck are These Red Squares? and Hum 255 were made.

Michael Moore Attends Premiere Screening in Chicago


Kevin G fills us in on the recent screening and Q&A of “Capitalism, A Love Story.”

The New Americans and Me

Jose from The New Americans
I couldn’t agree more with Kartemquin’s claim that The New Americans intimately connects viewers to its subjects. This was the first series that I’d seen that was able to follow immigrant families from their home countries to the United States

Sunday Night at the Forum: River Monsters


Ah, Animal Planet documentaries. Join Mario in the Viva Doc forum on Sunday Night so we can talk about what crazy Jeremy Wade is up to.

The Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary Film Celebrates its 20th Anniversary


Click through for photos from the event!