This is perhaps the most crucial part of the documentary filmmaking process, and one that is too often overlooked.

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Today, more than 933 employees from corporate sponsors volunteer as teachers for everything from Web design and robotics to documentary filmmaking and electronic textiles.

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The Academy should try to bring more flair and variety to the Best Documentary Features category, and pay more attention to innovations in the genre and to filmmaking in general.

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It is just as important to infuse this ideal and goal into narrative film, animation, digital media, television and theater classes (whether mainstream or independent) as much as for documentary classes, an area often thought of as the primary domain for social impact filmmaking.

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