Irish Media Conferences

International Conference 2007 at the National Film School, IADT Dun Laoghaire

DOCUMENTARY FILM in the 21st Century

Bringing academics, practitioners and policy-makers together in a series of panel discussions and key-note addresses, alongside documentary screenings, this conference provides a forum for an interactive debate from diverse perspectives on documentary in the 21st century.

The conference will focus on three challenges to the documentary form: the increasing dominance of the reality television format, the current impact of documentary in the public sphere and the changing nature of the form in the digital age.

ORGANISERS: IADT, Dun Laoghaire, D O’Connell and H Doherty.

THUR 01.NOV.2007

• [18.00] Documentary Screening and Discussion

FRI 02.NOV.2007

• [8.30 am - 9.15 am] Registration and Welcome
• [9.15 am - 10.45 am] Observational Cinema and Reality Television
• Chair, Professor Kevin Rockett, TCD
• Dr. Harvey O’Brien, Lecturer in Documentary, UCD
• Alan Maher, Production Executive, Irish Film Board
• [10.45 am - 11.00am] Coffee Break
• [11.00 am - 12.30pm] Political and Social Role of Documentary
• Chair, Professor Desmond Bell, Queen’s University, Belfast
• Dr. Cahal McLaughlin, University of Ulster
• Mary Raftery, Filmmaker and Journalist
• Dr. Alan Grossman, Senior Lecturer, DIT
• [12.30 pm - 1.30pm] Lunch
• [1.30pm – 2.45pm] Documentary Screening and Discussion.
• [2.45pm – 3.00pm] Tea Break
• [3.00pm – 4.30pm] Digital Media, Documentary and Issues of Content
• Chair, Clare Duignan RTÉ
• Martin Freeth, Managing Director, Windfall Digital, London
• Dr. Patrick Brereton, Associate Dean of Research, DCU
• Neil Leyden, Digital Media Forum, Ireland
• [4.30pm – 5.45pm] Keynote The Changing Face of the Documentary in
  the 21st Century
• Professor Brian Winston, University of
  Lincoln.

DETAILS

• Directions to IADT, Kill Ave., Dun Laoghaire:
• Take the Dart to Dun Laoghaire and then No. 46A or 75 bus to Baker’s Corner.
• Bus from City Centre – No. 46A to Baker’s Corner.
• IADT is on Kill Avenue beside the Catholic Church. Conference will be held in Atrium Building (building on left after car park).
• Parking facilities are limited – some reserved parking will be available, otherwise parking needs to be paid for with a ticket from the vending machines to avoid clamping.
• Tea / coffee and a light lunch will be available for registered delegates.
• Accommodation
• Hotel bookings can be made at Tara Towers Hotel, Rock Road, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
• B & B accommodation is also available close to the college.

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