Docwest

DocWest is the name of The Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film at The University of Westminster, London. Established in 2009, it brings together an interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and students to foster creative conversations about documentary practice. In its premises in Central London it hosts a range of screenings, master-classes and conferences involving practitioners in today’s documentary world.

DocWest activities include teaching, film production, and academic research in documentary discourse, its history and its connection to art and politics. Particular attention is given to the study areas of Visual Anthropology and Human Rights, Arts Documentary and the Documentary Archive, whilst extending the range of production and research into other fields of documentary study, such as the interactive documentary and the web-based documentary.

DocWest has developed a Ph.D. programme, with both theoretical and practice-based doctoral degrees focusing on a variety of contexts and referencing many different documentary traditions.