Podcast: Roger Graef on responsible film making
Roger Graef, criminologist and documentary film-maker, gave a lecture in February 2013 to a cross section of students in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.
Roger Graef, criminologist and documentary film-maker, gave a lecture in February 2013 to a cross section of students in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.
His talk looked at how the film maker mediates different people’s world views and prejudices. He goes on to discuss the kinds of impact a documentary can make, describing how his influential film Police: A Complaint of Rape (1982) - helped change the way police handle rape allegations. You can hear his lecture in full here.
Roger Graef OBE is founder and CEO of Films of Record, a Bafta award-winning television production company. In 2004 Roger was awarded the BAFTA fellowship for lifetime achievement. As well as directing and producing countless factual programmes, Roger has been Chair of the theatre company Complicite for twenty years and advisor to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on social justice matters for more than a decade.