A Commitment to the Next Generation of Non-Fiction Storytellers
Nina Gilden Seavey has had a 35-year career teaching, mentoring, and inspiring hundreds of emerging documentarians from across the globe.
Seavey is the Founding Director of The Documentary Center at George Washington University which she inaugurated in 1990. In 2012, she was named one of the top 50 journalism professors in the US. She currently holds the Academic Rank of Research Professor of History and Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University.
In 2021, Seavey joined the faculty of the Maine Media Workshops and College where she regularly teaches intensive workshops in directing and producing documentary films.
During her three decades at GWU, Seavey taught her annual Institute for Documentary Filmmaking, named a “Top Ten Documentary Program in the US.”
Seavey broadened her teaching mission when she launched the International Emerging Filmmakers’ Fellowship which brought together filmmakers from diverse nations such as Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Kashmir, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Armenia, and many other countries to work together in production teams.
Ever-committed to engaging the public in the art and form of documentary, Seavey launched the the documentary screening series, What’s Up? Docs! as well as to convened screening and conversation events in partnership with organizations such as Women in Film and Video, Docs In Progress, the International Documentary Association, among many others.