Workshops and Appearances
The Business of Documentary (Online)
In this two-day workshop, Nina Gilden Seavey, an accomplished Emmy-winning veteran of the non-fiction world, will provide you with a “How To” guide to prepare your documentary film for the demands of a competitive marketplace.
The ABCs of Producing Documentary
Individual workshop with Nina Gilden Seavey being offered as part of this year’s ScriptDC.
The Business of Documentary (Online)
In this two-day workshop, Nina Gilden Seavey, an accomplished Emmy-winning veteran of the non-fiction world, will provide you with a “How To” guide to prepare your documentary film for the demands of a competitive marketplace.
Documentary Story & Structure (Online)
In this workshop participants will develop their ability to deliver insightful, incisive, film critique and analysis using the “language of film” in communicating these ideas. Then, you will translate that skill into the development and writing of a film treatment.
Left in the Midwest Author Talk
Join us for a virtual book talk about the newly published book Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Hear from contributing authors Clarence Lang, Luke Ritter, and Nina Gilden Seavey.
The Business of Documentary (Online)
In this two-day workshop, Nina Gilden Seavey, an accomplished Emmy-winning veteran of the non-fiction world, will provide you with a “How To” guide to prepare your documentary film for the demands of a competitive marketplace.
Maine Media Workshop: Documentary Development
Whether you are at the conceptual stage looking to develop a pitch or treatment, or you want to focus the core of a film you’ve started shooting, or have already begun editing, this intensive six-week workshop will help you take your project to the next level.
The Story of Howard Mechanic and Other Tales of Government Repression in St. Louis
Featuring Howard Mechanic, who was convicted of anti-war activity and was in hiding before being pardoned by President Bill Clinton and Nina Gilden Seavey.
Podcast Storytelling
This 90-minute workshop is Intended as a soup-to-nuts overview of podcasting. We will discuss how to conceive, produce and distribute a podcast. What makes a great podcast? What kinds of stories are “podcast stories?” How can you turn your story into a podcast? Do you have what it takes to produce it? Join us and find out!
Maine Media Workshop: Documentary Development
Whether you are at the conceptual stage looking to develop a pitch or treatment, or you want to focus the core of a film you’ve started shooting, or have already begun editing, this intensive six-week workshop will help you take your project to the next level.
Moldox Lab: Investigative Documentary Workshop
The Investigative Doc workshop is designed to assist Moldovan journalists and film directors who want to develop and transpose journalistic investigations on the screen. Participants will learn to use documentary techniques in investigative journalism to create compelling and resonant documentaries for our society, along with big names in the global documentary film industry.
Podcast Storytelling
This 90-minute virtual workshop is Intended as a soup-to-nuts overview of podcasting. We will discuss how to conceive, produce and distribute a podcast. What makes a great podcast? What kinds of stories are “podcast stories?” How can you turn your story into a podcast? Do you have what it takes to produce it? Join us and find out!
St. Louis International Film Festival: My Fugitive
St. Louis Public Radio host Sarah Fenske and Nina Gilden Seavey will engage in a wide-ranging discussion about My Fugitive and the tangled story it uncovered. Using film and audio clips, the program will revisit St. Louis in the late 1960s and ’70s — a hotbed of intrigue that included confidential informants, Russian moles, and a conspiracy to murder a civil-rights icon, all with links to the night of May 4, 1970, on the Washington University campus.
Washington University Digital Humanities Lecture
A lecture for the Graduate Program in Digital Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis: “Taking History Off The Page and Putting It On the Screen: The Use and Abuse of Audio and Visual Imagery in Historical Non-Fiction Narratives.”
GWU Women and Gender Studies Lecture
A lecture on “Women in the Film Industry and Representations of Women on Film in the mid-20th Century” for the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at GWU.
Deep Dive into Podcasting
This virtual presentation with Women in Film & Video DC will take you on the journey to conceiving and creating a top-ranked podcast. What are the requisites for a great podcast? What should you consider when deciding that this format might be the best one for telling your story? And how do you go from idea through production?
Indivisible Ohio: My Fugitive
Nina Gilden Seavey talks to Indivisible Ohio about her podcast My Fugitive.
Finding Your Story's Voice: A My Fugitive Case Study
Using the decade-long project, My Fugitive as a case study, Emmy Award-winning documentarian Nina Gilden Seavey delves into the metamorphosis of this series to reveal how we, as reporters and documentarians, can employ our visual, auditory, and narrative skills to best serve our projects.