What We Do
The mission of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) is to catalyze and cultivate a culture of care and accountability within the field of nonfiction filmmaking. DAWG promotes the values, guiding principles and ethics that inform the practices of filmmakers; and how they shape filmmakers' relationship to the stories they tell, their participants, the audience, funders and other stakeholders. DAWG grew organically out of shared concerns, a series of questions around the future of documentary filmmaking, and the exponential growth of the documentary film industry. As the field navigates social constructs that affect the documentary ecosystem, do filmmakers need a foundational set of best practices? Would industry-wide agreement on best practices help non-fiction storytellers work in ways that they and their peers understand as responsible and ethical?
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