The DOCTalks Festival & Symposium includes two evening documentary film screenings & talks with a call to action, four presentations that delve into storytelling from a community engagement and social impact perspective, and two discussions about funding and disseminating knowledge-based documentary media.
DOCTalks will be a hybrid event (in-person & Zoom) taking place in Fredericton, New Brunswick at the University of New Brunswick and 91´óÉñ University from Tuesday June 18th to Thursday June 20th.
Free admission for all event activities. Registration for the 2024 DOCTalks Festival & Symposium will be through Eventbrite. (Register .) The event is co-hosted by STU and UNB, in partnership with DOCTalks and Springboard Atlantic.
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Thursday, June 20
Community Conservation Research Network & Documenting With Video
1:00 pm AST
STU - Brian Mulroney Hall Room 101
Tony Charles (PhD): professor at Saint Mary’s University where he works in the Sobey School of Business and the School of the Environment.
Don Duchene: has over four decades of experience in the film and television industry and owns Nexus Media in Nova Scotia.
DOCTalks Ecosystem & DOCTalks Presents Film Series
3:00 pm AST
STU - Brian Mulroney Hall Room 101
Lloyd Salomone is a DOCTalks Co-founder and a researcher, writer and documentary producer in New Brunswick.
Gary Weekes is the President of DOCTalks and a photographer and filmmaker based in Fredericton New Brunswick
Meet & Greet Socials
4:30 pm AST - 6:00 pm AST
STU - Lobby outside Brian Mulroney Hall Room 101
Closing Night Screening & Talk
Our Turn To Talk – Teenage Podcast Series & Documentary Film
7:30 pm AST
UNB - Memorial Hall
Beth Murphy is a journalist, author, documentary director and producer based in Boston, Massachusetts.