Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism Book cover type:Paperback He learned his craft in

He learned his craft in his own independent films and by directing television episodes before attempting his first feature film

hyper-nostalgic attention to detail

• how to visually compose a frame to best tell a story

and Steven Spielberg had enjoyed since the mid-1970s

of Black artists in the film business

Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism Book cover type:Paperback He learned his craft inIn Screening Social Justice, award winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film production company that makes documentaries intended to mobilize progressive grassroots activism. Ortner positions the work of the company within a tradition of activist documentary filmmaking and within the larger field of alternative media that is committed to challenging the mainstream media and telling the