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The 2017 Storytellers鈥� Institute brought together a talented group of documentarians to engage with the theme of . Our eight Skidmore , two Skidmore and five professional documentary shared an intense five weeks of creation, critique, learning and fellowship.

Highlights include the , which brought together international documentary storytellers, artists, activists, scholars and the Skidmore/Saratoga community for four days of back-to-back programming and discussion about space and place in documentary storytelling.

This year we had exciting workshops led by visiting documentarians in using drone technology for documentary activism and oral history methodology. As well, students led excellent workshops in virtual reality and animation techniques. 

Among the many fascinating projects to come out of the Storytellers鈥� Institute this year is faculty member Diana Bryson Barnes鈥檚  about an undocumented farmworker, which aired on the . 

鈥�Sarah Friedland, director of the Storytellers鈥� Institute