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Dorothea Braemer on Using Your Voice in Filmmaking
Clip: Season 15 Episode 1 | 1m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Dorothea Braemer believes the filmmaker's mission: connect with others & express yourself.
Dorothea Braemer believes the mission of filmmakers is to connect with others and express yourself. The climate activists she interviewed in her film "It's Possible" inspires her activism. "Making films helps me find answers to issues that I care about," she says.
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TvFilm
Dorothea Braemer on Using Your Voice in Filmmaking
Clip: Season 15 Episode 1 | 1m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Dorothea Braemer believes the mission of filmmakers is to connect with others and express yourself. The climate activists she interviewed in her film "It's Possible" inspires her activism. "Making films helps me find answers to issues that I care about," she says.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Like, as a German author once wrote, "style is figuring out what you wanna say and then saying it."
And that really made an impression on me, because it's not like hula hoops and like amazing, you know, transitions and, you know, stuff like that.
But you wanted to like really figure out what do I wanna say with this?
And then you're saying it.
And that to me is the most powerful thing that you can do as a filmmaker.
Like, really figure out, what do I wanna say?
And I think a lot of, because filmmaking has been so intermingled with money, with commercialism, with, you know, getting a lot of views without even talking about the quality of the experience that we sometimes forget about our mission as filmmakers, that we have to really connect and really say what we wanna say.
Interviewing these climate activists was empowering for me as a filmmaker.
And that's one thing that I oftentimes do as a filmmaker.
I try to investigate issues to which I don't really know the answers, clearly.
And making the films helps me find answers to issues that I care about.
And one of the things that was said was by Flora Cardoni, who decided to become an activist.
And she said that we have all the answers for climate change, but all that is lacking is the political will.
And I thought that was like so eyeopening to hear that and gave me a sense of direction of where I should place my form of activism.
I do make films.
I only make films about things that I, that I believe in.
Filmmaking is a way to really express yourself.
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Cameron S. Mitchell on Creating Access Using Captions & ASL
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