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2. Not Without Us: Collaborating across Difference in Documentary Filmmaking

Author : Samuel Avery

Published in: Documentary and Disability

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

Now more than ever, those who live with a diagnosed mental disorder are charged with counteracting negative stereotypes produced largely through popular news media, and many have turned to independent documentary film as an outlet for self-expression and definition. Most documentaries are a collaborative effort; however, how is the nature of collaboration altered when the filmmaker is not a member of the mental health community? What are the barriers to translating self-definition through documentary media in the case of collaboration across difference? This chapter seeks to answer these questions by tracing the trajectory of the conception, production, post-production and distribution of the award winning documentary Not Without Us (2013) from the perspective of the filmmaker/outsider using the framework of community collaborative filmmaking as a theoretical guide.

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The film Not Without Us can be viewed at: http://notwithoutusfilm.com(accessed 27 March 2017).

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Title: Not Without Us: Collaborating across Difference in Documentary Filmmaking
Author: Samuel Avery
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book: Documentary and Disability
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-59893-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-59894-3

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59894-3_2