Kartemquin’s Gordon Quinn on Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking

There are no set rules in documentary filmmaking, only decisions about where to draw the line. Pioneer documentarian and Kartemquin Films co-founder Gordon Quinn explores examples from films such as “Hoop Dreams,” “Prisoner of Her Past,” and “The Interrupters” to illustrate how the documentary process relies upon a constant negotiation of power relationships among the story, subject, and viewer.