Collaborating with refugees: Power, ethics and reciprocity in documentary filmmaking

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dc.contributor.authorHughes, Mandy
dc.contributor.editorHemelryk Donald, Stephanieen
dc.contributor.editorSorbera, Luciaen
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-10T13:48:32Z
dc.date.available2019-12-10T13:48:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractRepresenting stories through documentary film can offer a means to convey multilayered and sensory accounts of the lived experiences of people in extreme transition, especially former refugees. However, along with the potential of this medium comes the responsibility to engage with participants in an ethical and reciprocal manner. This article examines these prerequisites and applies them to two films about the experiences of people from refugee backgrounds in Australia. The first film, The Last Refuge: Food Stories from Myanmar to Coffs Harbour (2015), explores the Myanmar community, their sociocultural relationship to food and how this informs their identity. The second film, 3Es to Freedom (2017), documents a supported employment program for women from refugee backgrounds. Despite having different purposes and target audiences, the two films reinforced the importance of establishing informed and negotiated consent with marginalised people as the basis of all interactions and representations on film. Such negotiation seeks to minimise power imbalances and forms the ethical starting point for reflexive filmmaking practice that considers the filmmakers’ and participants’ intentions, and that promotes a heightened awareness of how knowledge is created through image-making.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHughes, M. (2019) 'Collaborating with refugees: Power, ethics and reciprocity in documentary filmmaking', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 18, pp. 160-174. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.12en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.12
dc.identifier.endpage174
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued18
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage160
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9403
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue18/Dossier1Hughes.pdf
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectRefugeeen
dc.subjectDocumentaryen
dc.subjectEthicsen
dc.subjectCollaborationen
dc.subjectRepresentationen
dc.titleCollaborating with refugees: Power, ethics and reciprocity in documentary filmmakingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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