Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no hea… - Pamela Yates
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no hea…
- Pamela Yates
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out. - Pamela Yates
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. - Pamela Yates
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films ar… - Pamela Yates
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films ar…
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. - Pamela Yates
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the… - Pamela Yates
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the…
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard an… - Pamela Yates
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard an…
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. - Pamela Yates
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries. - Pamela Yates
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.
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