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Fair Use Explained: Our Expert Guide for Documentary Filmmakers

Fair Use Explained: Our Ultimate Expert Guide for Documentary Filmmakers What do we mean by fair use? Once a baffling

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Using Footage Without Permission: the Orphan Work Dilemma

Using Footage Without Permission: the Orphan Works Dilemma Using footage without permission is not a simple issue and can land

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A Look at Documentary Short Films & the Opportunities Out There

Documentary Short Films : Why they are here to stay and how you can be a part of it. Some

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How to navigate the tricky terrain of archive research for documentary and fiction film

Article written by Madeline Bates Madeline Bates currently works as a freelance consultant with arts festivals and regional screen archives

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“Finding Sally”: Exploring Ethiopian Archives on a Personal Quest.

Archive Valley met with filmmaker Tamara Dawit to exchange about her new documentary « Finding Sally » and her use of Ethiopian archives to tell her family story.

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Key Takeaways: Discussing the Impact of COVID-19 on Archive Researchers.

A month ago, at Archive Valley, we’ve run our first webinar that was fully dedicated to our international community of

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Interview with the archive researchers behind “Diego Maradona”, Asif Kapadia latest documentary

“Diego Maradona” is the latest Asif Kapadia documentary, and it is fully archive-driven – more than 500 hours of never-before-seen

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The Ups and Downs of Finding Footage from YouTube for Your Productions

For content creators and professional archive researchers seeking to use material found on YouTube in their final cut, here are a few of the ‘ups and downs’ of researching on the world’s most popular video platform.

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