Introduction: Why Film?
Teresa Hollingsworth, Senior Program Director, South Arts
Sally Van de Water, Program Associate, Folk & Traditional Arts and ADA Coordinator, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Brief (two sentences!) introductions from each participant

Taking the Tiger by the Tail: Managing Media in a Cross-Cultural Digital Research Project
Tomas Valladares, University of Oregon, Production Coordinator, ChinaVine.org
In this, the year of the tiger, ChinaVine.org works to manage the evolving landscape of interdisciplinary digital research across cultural and physical borders. From conceptualization to implementation, the ChinaVine team attempts to balance anthropological and artistic interpretations and presentations of traditional culture in China. Tomas Valladares, the project's Production Coordinator, will present ChinaVine's use of film and media, and the challenges posed when creating an interactive website.

Speakers: Bill Mansfield, Division Specialist, Folk & Traditional Arts, National Endowment for the Arts; Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist, Research & Programs, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; Robert Baron & Willie Smyth, NASAA Folk Arts Peer Group Planning Committee; Betsy Peterson, America Works Program

Learn about the joys and challenges of presenting a film festival. Then we’ll meet the filmmaker & see a film; enjoy movie treats!

Technology, Filmmaking and the Folklorist
Speaker: Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist, Research & Programs, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Technology now offers a dizzying array of options for the folklorist in the field. How do we choose the best tools for our projects, and how do we learn what resources exist to suit our needs? What does the intersection of filmmaking, digital preservation technology and ethnographic film collections mean for scholars, filmmakers, and archivists?

Duke University Center for Documentary Studies
This week, CDS is offering an intensive course teaching the process of documentary filmmaking. We’ll tour the Center, observe a session at the CDSD Documentary Video Institute, and join filmmakers for lunch. Lunch will be provided on-site.

Tom Davenport, FolkStreams.net
Founder and director of FolkStreams, and inaugural recipient of the American Folklore Society’s Archie Green Advocacy Award, Tom Davenport will present a two-part session. We’ll explore FolkStreams mission to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk culture and to provide access to these resources.

Bynum General Store for dessert, storytelling by Walter “Corky” Harris and invited musicians; feel free to bring your instruments!

Short film screenings & talks with those behind the scenes:
Tomas Valladares, ChinaVine.org
Ko Su, filmmaker & traditional artist
Julianne Carroll, South Carolina Arts Commission

BREAKFAST PRESENTATION
Patricia Sawin, Associate Chair & Director of Graduate Studies; Coordinator, Folk Studies Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. We’ll learn about the stellar Folk Studies Program at Chapel Hill!

Southern Folklife Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
Housed at Wilson Library, the Southern Folklife Collection is an archival resource dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating traditional and vernacular music, art, and culture related to the American South. It is home to the William R. Ferris Collection, containing films and videotapes based on Ferris’ fieldwork in the American South. While on campus, we’ll also visit mission control of ibiblio.org, the public’s library and digital archive.