Media Trust Masterclass: Interview Techniques and Working with Contributors

Want to nail your interviews, build confidence in your directorial voice, and get the best from your contributors?

Join Keme Nzerem, for a practical, insight-packed masterclass on the art of interviewing.

Learn how to:

• Develop your unique interview style and directorial voice
• Get the story you need while respecting and protecting contributors
• Tackle tough questions with confidence and sensitivity
• Navigate the highs and lows of unscripted storytelling

In this hour-long virtual workshop, Keme will take us through the reality of trying to tell the stories of real people as faithfully, ethically and compellingly as possible.

Keme brings his decades of journalistic and documentarian insight to ensure that Media Trust alumni and networks understand how to get just the story they want from their key contributors.

Who should attend?

If you are an aspiring, entry-level, or early-stage filmmaker, creative, producer, broadcast journalist, development assistant, or indeed anyone who wants an insight into how to get the best unscripted human story on screen, then this workshop is for you.

About Keme

Keme Nzerem is a journalist, presenter, and filmmaker. He is a news anchor and reporter with Channel 4 News, and has reported for them on major news stories around the world since 2001. He is an RTS Foreign News Award winner; he also presented Channel 4 News’ BAFTA nominated Black to Front day coverage, which aimed to elevate Black stories and Black production staff. Keme is making his first feature length documentary, the Long Juju, with award winning producer Tolu Stedford, about his family’s complex global connections to slavery.

Accessibility requirements

Closed captions will be provided as standard but please get in touch with daisyc@mediatrust.org if you have any other accessibility requirements.

Register now to secure your spot!