Are Documentaries Reshaping the TV Industry?

In this Educational Program, foreign journalists will learn, through the experience of the renowned producer and documentary filmmaker Robert Frye, how to successfully carry out audiovisual projects. The interview is also an opportunity for foreign journalists to hear, from the director's perspective, the details of "The Nuclear World Project" (https://www.thenuclearworld.org) which so far has three documentaries: In Search of Resolution, The Nuclear Requiem, and In My Lifetime. The interview was conducted by journalist Patricia Vasconcellos, Board Member of AFPC-USA, White House and State Department Correspondent for Brazilian Network SBT. 

Robert Frye is an Emmy Award winning producer, documentary filmmaker and has worked as network news program producer for over four decades.

His most recent film, In Search of Resolution, is the third in a series on the challenge of dealing with nuclear weapons. Robert Frye is also the director of In My Lifetime, released in 2012 and The Nuclear Requiem from 2017.  Earlier in his career, Robert Frye produced broadcasts at ABC News, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Public Television in the United States. He was executive producer of ABC World News. Tonight with Peter Jennings, executive producer of Good Morning America, and the creator of World News This Morning. He founded his own independent production company in 1988.

Topics discussed in this Educational Program:

* Documentary making and TV Journalism 

* The TV market for documentary makers and the changes imposed by streaming 

* The Nuclear World Trilogy. Learn from the Director's perspective about the three documentaries that focuses on the dangers posed by nuclear weapons