CIFF Filmmaker Panel Archive

These Filmmaker Panel videos were produced by film students of the School of Film & Media Arts and, earlier, the School of Communication.

2024 CIFF  Filmmaker Panels

The Craft: The Creative Team and Their Decisions

The Story: The Journey from Page to Screen

The Business: Follow the Money! The Nuts and Bolts of Making a Movie

Documentary: Real People, Reel Stories

Social Justice: Making a Difference, One Camera at a Time

2023 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

The Craft: The Creative Team and Their Decisions

The Story: The Journey from Page to Screen

The Business: Follow the Money! The Nuts and Bolts of Making a Movie

Documentary: Real People, Reel Stories

Social Justice: Making a Difference, One Camera at a Time

2022 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

The Craft: The Creative Team and Their Decisions

The Story: The Journey from Page to Screen

The Business: Follow the Money! The Nuts and Bolts of Making a Movie

Documentary: Real People, Reel Stories

Social Justice: Making a Difference, One Camera at a Time

2017 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

Pre-production and Funding Essentials

Post-Production--Editing and More

Independent Film Production

The Documentary--Present and Future

2016 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

Pre Production and Funding Essentials

Independent Film Production

The Documentary Present and Future

Post Production Editing and More

2015 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

The Documentary Filmmaking Process

Film Authorship, Accuracy, and Artistic Freedom

Independent Film Production: Sound and Image

Global Film Production and Distribution

2014 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

Documentary Filmmaking

Independent Film Production

Distribution, Exhibition, and Film Festivals

Editing the Independent Film

2013 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

The State of Independent Film Criticism

Screenplays and Documentary Writing: Where the Road Forks

Shooting the Independent Film

Post-Production and All the Options

Intercultural and International Filmmaking

2012 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

From Idea to Screen

Filmmakers of the African Diaspora

Short Film - Production and Distribution

Documentary Distribution and Exhibition

Documentary Production

2011 CIFF Filmmaker Panels

The Real Story - Documentary Filmmaking

Shooting the Story - The Production Process

Getting the Story Out - Distribution, Exhibition and Film Festivals

Women's Stories

The World's Stories - International Filmmaking[/collapse]