A collection of ten interviews explore how producers of documentary media - filmmakers, journalists, and artists - located in societies considered marginal to the high-tech global centres respond to local and international audiences in creating their works.

Introduction George E. Marcus I: Cultural Producers as Journalists 1: Natural Cockroaches Fly: Khaba Mkhize and Communitarian Journalism in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Lesley Fordred 2: The Most Visible Hand: Russian Journalism and Media-Context Thomas C. Wolfe II: Cultural Producers as Filmmakers and Artists 3: Filming Poland: The Ethnographic (Documentary, Narrative) Films of Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz Michael M. J. Fischer 4: Correspondences: A Letter from Germany Gudrun Klein 5: The Accented Style of the Independent Transnational Cinema: A Conversation with Atom Egoyan Hamid Naficy 6: Art and Media-tion: Reflections on Violence and Representation Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo III: Cultural Producers as "Intellectuals" 7: Mediating Martinique: The "Paradoxical Trajectory" of Raphael Confiant Lucien Taylor 8: Interview with Albert Toro Nancy Sullivan 9: Pueblo Chico, Infierno Grande - Small Town, Large Hell: Toward the Global Village? Julie Taylor IV: Looking Backward and Forward: A Pre(re)view 10: Pescando en Rio Revuelto: The Crisis of Human Rights in Colombia Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo Contributors Index