Ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougal was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv at the What is Documentary? conference held at the University of Oregon in Portland, April 24-16, 2014.

He talks about his work filming children in three institutional settings in India. In 1997 he began conducting a study of The Doon School in Northern India. This resulted in five films: Doon School Chronicles (2000), With Morning Hearts (2001), Karam in Jaipur (2001), The New Boys (2003), and The Age of Reason (2004). Recent projects include filming at the Rishi Valley School, a progressive co-educational boarding school in South India based on the educational philosophy of Krishnamurti. His experimental film SchoolScapes (2007), made at Rishi Valley, won the Basil Wright Film Prize at the 2007 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film. His latest film, Gandhi's Children (2008), concerns a shelter for homeless children in New Delhi. MacDougall is the author of Transcultural Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1998) and The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses (Princeton, 2006).

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David was educated at Harvard University and the University of California at Los Angeles and since 1975 has lived in Australia.  More complete bio here.

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Mr Bhatt has over twenty five years of teaching and leadership experience, and has been instrumental in the development of internationalised education in China for almost two decades. He was the

Mr Bhatt has over twenty five years of teaching and leadership experience, and has been instrumental in the development of internationalised education in China for almost two decades. He was the founding International Principal of the International Curriculum Centre at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (Beijing Renda Fuzhong), Nanjing Jinling High School and Suzhou International Academy, Beijing Foreign Studies University. He was also the Academic Principal at the Beijing Luhe International Academy. Currently, he works with the teacher training team at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, designing and delivering training and consultancy programmes to teachers and educational leaders.  His research interests include Educational Leadership, Building Sustainable Schools, Self-seeking, Fear and Creativity. When time permits - and it always permits - he likes to be close to the existence in the form of children and nature, loves reading about existentialism, writes poems and plays badminton. His educational philosophy is much influenced by J. Krishnamurti, which revolves around the true meaning of educating the child for facing oneself and the world as it is, rather what it should be!   Mr Bhatt has over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience, and has been instrumental in the development of internationalised education in China for almost two decades. Currently, he works with the teacher training team at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, designing and delivering training and consultancy programmes to teachers and educational leaders. His research interests include Educational Leadership, Building Sustainable Schools, Self-seeking, Fear and Creativity. When time permits - and it always permits - he likes to be close to the existence in the form of children and nature, loves reading about existentialism, writes poems and plays badminton. His educational philosophy is much influenced by J. Krishnamurti, which revolves around the true meaning of educating the child for facing oneself and the world as it is, rather what it should be! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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