With the United States’ 250th birthday, the documentary filmmakers of Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War turned to modern technology to reclaim history.
Director Stacey Holman and her co-writer/fellow director Maya Tepler explained why chose to use generative AI to “give our historical subjects agency” and how they hope this documentary, premiering June 29 at 10pm ET on PBS, “will serve as a blueprint” for how to responsibly use the technology.
“How do you create a historical documentary centered on the disenfranchised, disregarded, and decentered? As documentary filmmakers, our options have always been limited,” they wrote in an
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