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Workshop

Finding your Purpose:

Documentary Filmmaking

with Heather Mosher

Saturday Feb 28 / 2026

Speaker

Exploring purpose, burnout, and sustainability in documentary filmmaking—why we tell stories, and how to keep going.

This one-hour interactive workshop invites participants to step back from the “how” and focus on the why. Through guided discussion and reflection, we’ll explore what motivates us to pursue documentary work, how to choose which stories are worth telling, and how to recognize when it’s time to pause, pivot, or walk away from a project.

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Saturday Feb 28 / 2026
10:00am
11:00am
Doors: 9:30am

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Workshop

Finding your Why, Purpose and Values in Documentary Filmmaking

Award-winning filmmaker Heather Mosher explores purpose, burnout, and sustainable motivation in documentary storytelling.

Humans are natural-born storytellers, so it makes sense that we would be compelled to tell stories and create documentaries – but let’s face it, this line of work is hard. Precarious work, long days, little pay, endless labour, and on top of that, we’re often telling stories which carry deep personal meaning for us – a perfect recipe for burnout.

In this one-hour, interactive workshop, we will explore purpose and motivation in documentary filmmaking: what exactly compels you to do this work? How do you know what work to pursue, and when it’s time to put a project down and walk away? And finally, how can we create work that is both fulfilling and sustainable, to allow for greater longevity in this deeply challenging but ideally, ultimately fulfilling creative career path?

Speaker

Heather Mosher

Documentary Filmmaker

Award-winning filmmaker Heather Mosher explores purpose, burnout, and sustainable motivation in documentary storytelling.
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