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32-685: The festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies , a non-profit at Duke University . This event receives financial support from corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors. The Presenting Sponsor of the Festival is Duke University. Additional sponsors include: A&E IndieFilms , Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences , National Endowment for the Arts , Merge Records , Whole Foods , Hospitality Group (parent company for Saladelia Cafe and Madhatter Bakeshop and Cafe), and

64-484: A 25th-anniversary event in 2015. The three-day forum, Documentary 2015: Origins and Inventions , included panellists and honorees from the documentary mediums that CDS is rooted in—photography, writing, audio, and film/video. Honorees included the Kitchen Sisters , Natasha Trethewey , John Cohen , and Samuel D. Pollard. Staff and faculty at CDS teach, produce, support, and present the documentary arts. Among

96-690: A CDS program in 2010. Full Frame is a qualifying event for nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) and the Producers Guild of America Awards . Center for Documentary Studies audio director John Biewen launched the organization’s Scene on Radio podcast in 2015 with a stated goal of exploring American society. The podcast is distributed to radio by the Public Radio Exchange . One of CDS’s oldest initiatives, Literacy Through Photography (LTP),

128-619: A CDS program, has its offices on the American Tobacco Campus in the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham. The Center for Documentary Studies has had four directors since its founding: Iris Tillman Hill (1990–98), Tom Rankin (1998–2013), Wesley Hogan (2013–2021), and Opeyemi Olukemi (2021–present). With support from the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the organization held

160-1052: A book and national touring exhibition. The Behind the Veil project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities , the Lyndhurst Foundation , the Rockefeller Foundation , the Devonwood Foundation, and the graduate schools at Duke University and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill . Both the Jazz Loft Project and Indivisible were in partnership with the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography . The Jazz Loft Project

192-684: A publishing program that includes photographic monographs as well as a series in Documentary Arts and Culture in association with the University of North Carolina Press . CDS has published books by winners of the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography in association with Duke University Press . The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual four-day event in Durham, North Carolina dedicated to

224-718: Is a radio producer, and museum curator from Santa Cruz, California . She is one half of the Peabody Award –winning public radio team, The Kitchen Sisters. Over the past twenty years, Silva has worked as history curator at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California , and as a freelance curator and exhibit consultant specializing in regional history. She and her husband, designer and artist Charles Prentiss , have produced dozens of exhibitions for museums throughout California including long-term exhibits chronicling

256-610: Is made possible in part by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. The SNCC Digital Gateway is a documentary website that was created as part of a partnership between CDS, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Legacy Project, and Duke University Libraries . The site explores SNCC as an organization and how it worked to organize a grassroots movement in the 1960s around voting rights that has relevance today. A stated aim of

288-537: Is named after the social-reform photographer Lewis W. Hine and places young documentarians in fellowships with humanitarian organizations focused on the needs of children and their communities. CDS’s Documentary Diversity Project is a three-year pilot program aimed at bringing more people of color into the documentary arts field. Emerging artists (18–24) and post-MFA fellows from underrepresented groups have long term, living-wage residencies to work on developing their skills and projects. The pilot, which started in 2017,

320-896: The American Tobacco Historic District / Capitol Broadcasting Company , Des Moines Art Center , Duke University, the IFC Center , the International Affairs Council of North Carolina, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers , PNC Financial Services , Rooftop Films , and the University of North Carolina (UNC) School System. Attendees have included Michael Moore , D. A. Pennebaker , Martin Scorsese , Danny DeVito , Ken Burns , Joan Allen , Al Franken , and Steve James . Each year

352-676: The City of Durham . The festival began in 1998 with a few hundred patrons and has grown significantly since then. Full Frame is now considered to be one of the premier documentary film festivals in the United States. Full Frame became a qualifying festival for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award for Best Documentary in 2012, and a qualifying festival for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2013. Full Frame also presents documentary work in other venues both locally and nationally, partnering with organizations like

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384-556: The 1940s. The Kitchen Brothers were the subjects of one of Nelson and Silva's first radio pieces. The Kitchen Sisters have produced over 200 stories for public broadcast. They chronicle hidden bits of history and subjects who have shaped the diverse cultural landscape. Their work includes Lost & Found Sound , narrated by Francis Ford Coppola , the Sonic Memorial Project , narrated by Paul Auster , Waiting for Joe DiMaggio, WHER: The First All-Girl Radio Station in

416-965: The CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for North American photographers who have never published a book-length work before, the CDS Filmmaker Award for artists in competition at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and, for undergraduates, the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards and the Julia Harper Day Award. Notable recent winners of the Julia Day Harper Award include Rebekah Fergusson and David Delaney Mayer . CDS presents documentary work through exhibitions in its gallery spaces and through CDS Books,

448-648: The Humanities , will focus on the work that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Through a 2017–18 publishing partnership with the Oxford American magazine, CDS contributes stories to the magazine’s online series, The By and By. CDS’s contributions feature work by its faculty, students, and affiliated artists. Several of CDS’s previous projects and initiatives include the Behind the Veil oral history project that documented African American life in

480-601: The Jim Crow South; the Jazz Loft Project based on photographs and tapes made by W. Eugene Smith , which resulted in a book, a radio series with WNYC , and a national touring exhibition; and Indivisible: Stories of American Community , a national photography and audio initiative that included the work of photographers Dawoud Bey , Bill Burke, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Lucy Capehart, Lynn Davis , Terry Evans , Lauren Greenfield , Joan Liftin, Reagan Louie , Danny Lyon , Sylvia Plachy , and Eli Reed and resulted in

512-678: The Nation , the Hidden Kitchens series, Hidden Kitchens Texas , an hour long nationwide broadcast special narrated by Willie Nelson and Robin Wright , and The Hidden World of Girls series. They currently produce the podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present for Radiotopia . The Kitchen Sisters are recipients of awards that include the duPont-Columbia Award , two Peabody Awards and three Audie Awards . Their book, Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes and More from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters

544-685: The North Carolina Triangle area —the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill , North Carolina Central University , and North Carolina State University —may also take these courses for credit. Students may complete a Certificate in Documentary Studies. As part of its undergraduate education program, CDS coordinates the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and

576-578: The United States. Nelson and Silva met in 1979, in Santa Cruz, California. Silva was curating museum exhibits about local history, and Nelson was recording oral histories for KUSP . They began doing a weekly radio show together about California regional culture. While Silva also works as a museum curator, and Nelson as a casting director, they have collaborated as radio producers ever since meeting. Their name comes from two eccentric brothers, Kenneth and Raymond Kitchen, who were stonemasons in Santa Cruz in

608-469: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which brings a documentarian to teach on both campuses each year. Past Lehman Brady Professors have included Deborah Willis , Allan Gurganus , and Marco Williams , among others. CDS offers several undergraduate awards and fellowships. CDS offers continuing education courses in the documentary arts through onsite and online classes, summer intensives, and weekend workshops. The open-admissions program includes

640-622: The documentary approach with experimental production in analog, digital, and computational media. Former CDS director Tom Rankin is the current director of the MFA|EDA. CDS’s competitive awards for documentarians include the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize ( Lange-Taylor Prize ) for projects that rely on the interplay of words and images, the Documentary Essay Prize for documentary photography or writing,

672-544: The documentary arts. Having been created in 1989 through an endowment from the Lyndhurst Foundation , The organization’s founders were Robert Coles , William Chafe , Alex Harris, and Iris Tillman Hill. In 1994, CDS moved into a renovated nineteenth-century home, named it the Lyndhurst House. That structure and a large addition house the main activities of CDS on the edge of Duke University’s campus in Durham, North Carolina. The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ,

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704-618: The exhibition of nonfiction cinema. Full Frame also presents documentary films in other venues throughout the year and has educational programs for students and teachers. The festival was launched in 1998 by Nancy Buirski in association with CDS, and then called the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival. In 2002 it became an independent nonprofit and changed its name to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. It again became

736-566: The festival invites a member of the documentary filmmaking community to curate a series of films on a specific topic. The curated series have included: From 1998 to 2011, the festival presented a filmmaker with the Full Frame Career Award. In 2012, this award was changed to the Full Frame Tribute. Past recipients include: Occasionally, the festival honors an industry member who has made important contributions to

768-513: The field with the Full Frame Industry Award. Past recipients include: The festival offers a number of prizes at each event. The prizes awarded at the 2016 festival were: Past Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights are: Past Grand Jury Award winners are: Center for Documentary Studies The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit support corporation of Duke University dedicated to

800-446: The founding editors of the quarterly publication, which featured photography and writing. The magazine won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 1999, the magazine became an independent nonprofit and moved to Somerville, Massachusetts. DoubleTake announced its closing in 2004. Kitchen Sisters The Kitchen Sisters are Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, who are National Public Radio radio producers in

832-536: The histories of Santa Cruz County, California , San Jose, California , Campbell and San Leandro . Some of the special exhibits Silva produced include: "California Indian Basketweavers": a look at historic and contemporary Native American weavers and their work; "The World Famous Tree Circus": the saga of a California roadside attraction ; the history of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region; "Never

864-666: The option of completing a Certificate in Documentary Arts; a two-year distance-learning certificate track is available for non-local students. CDS cofounded—with the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and the Arts of the Moving Image Program—Duke University’s first Master of Fine Arts program, the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFA|EDA). The two-year course of study brings together

896-425: The organization’s stated goals is promoting documentary work that fosters respect among individuals, breaks down barriers to understanding, and illuminates social injustices. Other stated organizational priorities include diversifying the documentary arts and exploring documentary innovation. Undergraduate courses in Documentary Studies are open to Duke University students. Students enrolled at other universities in

928-515: The site is to make SNCC’s experiences and strategies accessible to activists, educators, students, and engaged citizens. The gateway was made possible by the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , including a series of critical oral histories with civil rights veterans, historians, and others on the Black Power movement. A second series of oral histories, funded by the National Endowment for

960-1034: Was developed by Wendy Ewald in partnership with CDS and the Durham Public Schools. Ewald also developed an LTP program in Houston. The LTP teaching methodology challenges students to explore their world using photography and to use the images as a stimulus for verbal and written expression. An LTP undergraduate course at CDS includes working with children in local schools. Through the DukeEngage program, undergraduates can participate in an LTP program created by CDS staff in Arusha, Tanzania, that trains Tanzanian teachers in LTP’s philosophy and methodology and works with Tanzanian students on classroom photography and writing projects. LTP staff also conduct workshops at home and abroad. Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program

992-639: Was funded by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities , the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Indivisible was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts . CDS published DoubleTake magazine from 1995–1999 with major support from the Lyndhurst Foundation . Robert Coles and Alex Harris were

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1024-491: Was published in 2005 by Rodale Books. The book was a tie-in to the NPR series Hidden Kitchens. It explores street corner cooking, kitchen rituals and visionaries, legendary meals and eating traditions. The audio book is narrated by actress Frances McDormand . The Kitchen Sisters contributed an essay to John Biewen's book, Reality Radio along with Jay Allison , Ira Glass , Jad Abumrad and other radio producers. Nikki Silva

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