One month ago, Sabine Lee and ESR Nastassia Sersté travelled to Chicago to join local research assistant Elaine Thai to interview Amerasians living in the US as part of the Wellcome-Trust-funded project on "Life courses of Vietnamese GI children". The occasion was the annual Reunion of Amerasians Without Borders (AWB), a group representing the interests of Amerasians in the US and Vietnam, organized by Jimmy Miller, the group’s founder. Several hundred Amerasian from around the US came to spend the weekend together. [Picture of Chicago, ©NastassiaSersté] [Picture of the room, ©NastassiaSersté] Jimmy Miller and the AWB kindly agreed to facilitate the research project. Miller is himself an Am
In July 2017, Early Stage Researcher Lukas Schretter finished a four-week-secondment at the BBC Studios in London. The BBC Studios is the BBC‘s main TV production division, which launched as an independent operating company in April 2017. Placed in the Documentary Unit, Lukas contributed research findings and gained insight into operational processes of documentary development. Documentary storytelling Documentary films are story-driven, which separates them from visual material that simply documents an actual person, place, or event. As Sheila Curran Bernard, filmmaker and Associate Professor at the University of Albany put it, “until it's been shaped and given meaning by the filmmaker – un
