CPOY 76 Multimedia: Documentary Short

A single, short documentary film with extended run time of roughly 8 to 30 minutes that uses more than one form of reporting (still image, video, audio) in pursuit of enriching and enhancing the understanding of the subject. This is not open to a collection of stories or multi-chaptered websites. Documentary storytelling is grounded in truth, and docu-dramas, re-enactments, or television news reports are not allowed.

This category is open to individuals or to groups of up to 5 students, but the content, production, and presentation must be done without the input or guidance of outside professionals. May be a single component of category 18, Online Multimedia Storytelling. However, it may not be entered in any other category, and significant portions of this entry may not be used in entries in categories 19 or 20.

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Gold: Invisible Strings

Between 5 and 10 percent of all Danish women has experienced a postpartum depression on some scale. This movie is an examination of the relationship between the director and her mother. In this personal documentary, the director travels to her mothers home at the west coast of Denmark, after having found an old letter, where her mother describes how she struggled after having given birth. The interview in this film is the first time she and her mother talks about those difficult first months with postpartum depression, what might have caused it and how it has affected their relationship. In that way, the documentary is an attempt to create a language for something that is extremely difficult to talk about. The director holds the rights to the music featured in the film.

Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen / Danish School of Media and Journalism

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