Documentary Storytelling 101

Grab your favorite Saturday morning beverage and learn some amazing documentary storytelling tips and tricks with Master Documentary Storyteller Glenn Holsten!

If you love our film TRIGGER and wonder what it takes to make a documentary, we’ve got the perfect StoryGym storytelling workshop for you!

Join First Person Arts’ favorite documentary storyteller Glenn Holsten as he teaches you the basics of documentary storytelling.

This course will teach you:

• How to find inspiring ways to tell stories
• How to set your project goals
• How to approach your documentary
• And so much more!!

This event is just $25 before 12/31 for 90 minutes of masterful storytelling advice.

About Glenn Holsten

Long-form documentary directing credits include WYETH (American Masters/PBS); HELL OR HIGH SEAS (Amazon Prime); FLOWING WATER (6abc); THE BAREFOOT ARTIST (Peacock); OC87: The Obsessive-Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie, (theatrical release, 2012, Netflix); SEDUCTIVE SUBVERSION: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968, (OVATION, 2010); and SAINT OF 9/11, (Tribeca Film Festival, IFC theatrical release, 2006, Netflix, Amazon).

Glenn has been honored with sixteen Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. A collection of his work was exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 20th Century Video Gallery. Glenn has directed films in China, Argentina, Portugal, Kenya, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Poland, Bosnia and the Republic of Georgia.
First Person Arts is Philly’s original storytelling arts nonprofit. We believe that we all have a story to tell and that the art of storytelling has the power to change lives.

Since 2001, we have helped ordinary Philadelphians become extraordinary storytelling artists who transform the drama of their real lives into memoir and documentary art.