Alan Adelson

Director

Alan Adelson works in both film and print. His film and television credits include: 1989, Lodz Ghetto (PBS, Channel Four, nine other countries), which was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1989, won the International Film Critics Prize in 1989 and played at Sundance, Berlin and nine international film festivals; 2006, Two Villages in Kosovo (ARTE, RTE); 2012, In Bed With Ulysses; 2020, The People vs. Agent Orange, 2020, Agent Orange: la derniere bataille (ARTE), winner of the Jury Award at the 2020 Eugene Environmental Film Festival and of the Erik Barnouw Award in 2020.

In the print realm, Adelson made worldwide headlines with his investigative articles in Esquire and The Wall Street Journal revealing the disappearance of enriched plutonium from an American nuclear reprocessing plant.

Participating Sessions

BALANCING ACT: INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING AND LEGAL PROTECTIONS

Journalists and filmmakers alike are reevaluating the traditional lines of authority and authorial voice, experimenting with ways to give more agency to the subjects of their films and news stories. The new approaches aim to rebuild public trust in journalism, and to foster less extractive forms of storytelling. At high risk in the variety of new collaborative approaches, however, are First Amendment and other legal protections that rely on the...