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Documentary Producer and Human Rights Advocate
About Susan Berkowitz
In 2017, Susan Berkowitz embedded with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar for six months, not as a detached observer, but as a co-archivist, training survivors to film their own testimonies using repurposed smartphones and solar chargers. That footage became the backbone of 'The Unrecorded,' a Sundance-winning documentary that bypassed traditional narration entirely, letting displaced elders, midwives, and teenage girls structure the narrative through edited oral histories and handheld visuals. Her approach rejects the 'savior lens': she insists on shared authorship, contractual transparency about image rights, and revenue-sharing agreements with participants, practices now cited in UNESCO’s ethical guidelines for participatory documentary. She doesn’t seek consensus; she surfaces contradiction, like interviewing both former paramilitaries and landless farmers in Colombia’s Pacific coast, refusing to resolve their opposing claims into a tidy moral arc. Her work lives in the friction between evidence and empathy, where every cut is a political decision.
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- “How did you decide not to narrate 'The Unrecorded' at all?”
- “What’s the hardest ethical call you’ve made during fieldwork?”
- “How do you handle consent when filming trauma survivors?”
- “Why did you partner with local radio collectives in Sudan?”