The DOCTalks Festival & Symposium includes two evening documentary film screenings & talks with a call to action, four presentations that delve into storytelling from a community engagement and social impact perspective, and two discussions about funding and disseminating knowledge-based documentary media.

DOCTalks will be a hybrid event (in-person & Zoom) taking place in Fredericton, New Brunswick at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University from Tuesday June 18th to Thursday June 20th.

Free admission for all event activities. Registration for the 2024 DOCTalks Festival & Symposium will be through Eventbrite. (Register HERE.) The event is co-hosted by STU and UNB, in partnership with DOCTalks and Springboard Atlantic.

To see the full schedule, please click here.

Thursday, June 20

Community Conservation Research Network & Documenting With Video

1:00 pm AST
STU - Brian Mulroney Hall Room 101

Tony Charles (PhD): professor at Saint Mary’s University where he works in the Sobey School of Business and the School of the Environment. 

Don Duchene: has over four decades of experience in the film and television industry and owns Nexus Media in Nova Scotia. 

DOCTalks Ecosystem & DOCTalks Presents Film Series

3:00 pm AST
STU - Brian Mulroney Hall Room 101

Lloyd Salomone is a DOCTalks Co-founder and a researcher, writer and documentary producer in New Brunswick.

Gary Weekes is the President of DOCTalks and a photographer and filmmaker based in Fredericton New Brunswick

Meet & Greet Socials

4:30 pm AST - 6:00 pm AST
STU - Lobby outside Brian Mulroney Hall Room 101

Closing Night Screening & Talk
Our Turn To Talk – Teenage Podcast Series & Documentary Film

7:30 pm AST

UNB - Memorial Hall

Beth Murphy is a journalist, author, documentary director and producer based in Boston, Massachusetts.