Daniel Clarkson Fisher is a Toronto-based writer and educator whose most recent work is the Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project (CJOHP.org), a digital storytelling initiative inspired by his partner Stephanie Lyn and her family. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, and is currently a contract lecturer in that program.WorldCat: @danielclarksonfisher
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Tag Archives: HBO
Notes on Notes from the Field (2019) by Anna Deavere Smith
I started blogging about oral history as a mode within the documentary arts not just to “teach” about this kind of work, but also to educate myself; though I’m already actively working in this mode, there’s still a lot that … Continue reading
Posted in Book Notes
Tagged Anchor Books, Anna Deavere Smith, documentary theatre, Eve Ensler, Fires in the Mirror, Hal Holbrook, HBO, Jade Budowski, John Lewis, Moisés Kaufman, Notes from the Field, On the Road: A Search for American Character, Oral History, Robin Soans, school-to-prison pipeline, Spalding Gray, Talking to Terrorists, Taos Proctor, Tectonic Theater Project, The Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project, The Laramie Project, The Vagina Monologues, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, verbatim theatre, Verne Gay
Why PBS, and Viewers Like You, Must Continue Saving POV and Independent Lens
[NOTE: This piece was first published on September 8, 2015, at Medium. It was subsequently named a “Must-Read” by MediaShift, and shared on social media by Los Angeles Times TV columnist Robert Lloyd, San Francisco Chronicle theater critic Ellin Stein, Gideon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged Alliance of Women Directors, Alyssa Rosenberg, Amazon Prime, Andrew Droz Palermo, Andrew Lapin, Anne Thompson, Ashley York, Brent Huffman, Byron Hurt, Center for Media & Social Impact, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cousin Bobby, CPB, Dave Bussan, Dawn Porter, Ellin Stein, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Gene Youngblood, Gordon Quinn, HBO, I'm Carolyn Parker, IDA, Independent Film on PBS Listening Tour, Independent Lens, Independent Television Service, Indie Caucus, Ingrid Kopp, International Documentary Association, ITVS, Jack Walsh, Jesse Moss, Jonathan Demme, Justine Nagan, Kartemquin Films, Ken Burns, MediaShift, Medium, Michael Moore, National Bureau of Economic Research, National Public Radio, Netflix, Newton S. Minow, Norman Lear, NPR, PBS, People for the American Way, Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, Public Broadcasting Service, public television, Rev. Robert Wilkinson Castle, Robert Lloyd, Sally Jo Fifer, Sesame Street, Simon Kilmurry, Tracy Droz Trago, Tracy Nguyen-Chung, WLIW, WNET
