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Elhum Shakerifar on Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking (2020)

Duration: 01:25:50    

Elhum Shakerifar | Coffee Morning | 2020

This event expanded on DocSociety’s New COVID-19 Risk Assessment for Independent Filmmakers, focusing on the challenges of producing documentary films during and after lockdown, the ethics of working with people in vulnerable situations and the responsibility towards the crew, the protagonists and the audience.

About Elhum Shakerifar

Elhum Shakerifar is a BAFTA nominated producer, winner of the 2017 Women in Film & TV’s BBC Factual Award, and one of Screen International’s 2018 #Brit50 Producers on the Rise.

Elhum on Twitter.

Elhum’s website.

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