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Why stories beat arguments | Bill Jersey | TEDxSHS

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Humans are Storytellers.The question is not will we tell our story- the question is - how well will we tell It ?



Bill Jersey has been producing documentaries for broadcast television for over fifty years. In the early 60's he established his reputation as one of the pioneers of the cinema-verite movement. Since then he has produced documentaries for all of the major networks in association with PBS, WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles, WGBH Boston, and others. Most recently EAMES: The Architect and the Painter, produced in association with Jason Cohn of Bread and Butter Films, aired on PBS American Masters and earned the coveted George Foster Peabody Award. Jersey's body of work includes two Academy Awards nominees: A Time for Burning, on race relations in America, and Superchief, on the life and legacy Chief Justice Earl Warren. Other award winning productions include the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow series (George Foster Peabody Award), Children of Violence (Emmy), Renaissance (Emmy Nomination), Faces of the Enemy (Emmy Nomination), Loyalty and Betrayal (Emmy), Hunting the Hidden Dimension (Pierre Gilles deGennes Award), and The Making of Amadeus. 

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