This accelerator for nonfiction filmmakers immerses students in camera craft, audio design, and interactive documentary code. Faculty Oscar nominees guide projects from pitch decks to festival circuits, while courses in VR volumetric capture and data-driven animation push form boundaries. Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods become living labs; partnerships with Kartemquin Films and Sundance Catalyst open funding doors. Graduates emerge with a broadcast-ready feature or immersive doc and a roadmap for impact distribution.
Shoot a 30-minute verité film on mutual-aid networks during heatwaves
Create an interactive web-doc mapping migrant food routes with Carto JS
Capture 360-video diaries aboard Great Lakes cargo ships for VR installation
Design a data-animation short visualizing groundwater depletion timelines
Pilot drone-photogrammetry to document disappearing coastal wetlands
Develop an impact campaign partnering with NGOs on prison-reform lobbying
Produce a micro-doc series for TikTok profiling gig-economy workers
Research archival nitrate film and restore footage for a historical essay film
Integrate volumetric dance capture into a film on body-positivity activism
Compose a spatial-audio soundscape of Chicago’s jazz basements 1930-1960
Implement blockchain proof-of-authenticity for raw interview files
Organize a community screening tour powered by bicycle generators
Co-create a VR field trip documenting pollinator decline with K-12 students
Write a grant proposal to IDA for finishing funds and festival travel
Build a transmedia timeline layering oral histories with satellite imagery
Craft powerful nonfiction stories with Northwestern’s Documentary MFA.
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