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Charlie Shackleton

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Charlie Shackleton is a nonfiction filmmaker living and working in London. His work has screened at festivals including Sundance, SXSW and IFFR, and won awards including a British Independent Film Award and a Grierson. His latest film The Afterlight exists as a single 35mm print, which has toured continually since its premiere in 2021. His one-on-one performance piece As Mine Exactly won the Immersive Art & XR Award at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival.

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Show Us Your Shorts: It's Easier Said Than Done for Docs Under 40 Minutes in Length
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A Brave New World? Considering Career Opportunities in DVD
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'American Masters' Susan Lacy: Curator of Artist Documentaries
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Docs Have Their Day on DVD
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AppalaChina: Kentucky Meets Kunming in International Filmmakers' Exchange
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First Run/Icarus Rising: A Quarter-Century of Distribution
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Meet LACAC Summer Intern Corinne Gaston
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Roxie Releasing Has That Arthouse Moxie
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Maryland Film Festival: Smudging the Line between Docs and Fiction
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A Life That Mattered: Robert Guenette, 1935-2003
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Tracing the Evolution of Documentary
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Fatima Jebli Ouazzani's 'In My Father's House'
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Meet LACAC Summer Intern Niala Charles
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The Docs at Cannes 2014: A Battalion of War Films
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Jeff Malmberg's 'Marwencol'
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FirstCom Music Launches BBC Production Orchestral Toolkit
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Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Spring 2014
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Notes from the Reel World: The Executive Director's Column, Summer 2014
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Sealing the Fate of Proposition 8: Documenting California's Fight for Marriage Equality
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'112 Weddings' and a Documental: Doug Block's Look at Marriages Years Later
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Recalling 'Freedom Summer' 50 Years On
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#FunderFriday Q&A Launches with NEH Senior Program Officer, Jeff Hardwick
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A Digital Sandbox: POV Brings its Hackathon to LA
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College-Bound Get Help from 'Spellbound'
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2003 IDA Documentary Awards Winners
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Dying to Tell the Truth: The High Cost of Free Speech
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Sneak Peek: Inside the Summer Issue of 'Documentary' Magazine
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Playback: Pare Lorentz's 'The River'
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The Story's the Thing
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This Is What War Feels Like: Sebastian Junger's 'Korengal'
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USC Clinic Submits Comment on Behalf of IDA, Film Independent on Orphan Works
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Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle: Nat Geo's 'Explorer' Adapts, Survives on the Cable Landscape
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Letter to the Editor: Who's Victimizing Whom?
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2003 IDA Documentary Awards Nominees
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Cablers Take Docs to the Movies
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Understanding Politics: Capturing History with an Independent Lens
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New & Improved! IFP Market now Even More Doc-Friendly
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The Real CSI: Are Crime Victims Being Re-Victimized by Filmmakers?
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Of Prevarications and Varicams: Getting the Right Gear for your Shoot
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All Clear? Addressing the Complexities of Entertainment Law
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2004 Preservation and Scholarship Award: Michael Rabiger—Grist for the Mill: A Filmmaker's Education
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Rouch Job
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Four Editors in Search of a Thread: A Documentary Roundtable
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IDA Launches Kickstarter Partner Page
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The Doc Continent: The State of Nonfiction Filmmaking in South Africa
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Broken Men, Outsiders and Eccentrics Populate the Docs at SF Fest
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Diasporic Connections Black Documentary Filmmakers from New York Meet Their Counterparts in Brazil
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Oscar's Obstacle Course: Running the Qualification Process
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Wide Open Video: OneWorldTV Democratizes the Documentary
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Documenting Women's Rites: An Interview with Filmmaker Kim Longinotto
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