The conference will bring together professionals from the heritage sectors, as well as a range of government, IT industry, rights holders and other stakeholders to assess current policies in order to propose practical recommendations to ensure permanent access to digital documentary heritage.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

It started off as an online digital collection of these stories, and the documentary was built from there, with help from AOL, PBS, and Simple.

FORBES: Why 'Makers' Is a Film Every Woman Should See

In 2008, Roskam had the rolls developed and transferred into a high-definition digital format, then set out again to find a documentary company to work with, finally connecting with Hayden 5 Media, a small New York firm.

WSJ: Ty Cobb: A Juicy Look At the Georgia Peach

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.

FORBES: Connect