This panel reflects on the role of ethnographic film in pedagogy and public anthropology past, present, and future. It explores the introduction of ethnographic film into school curricula in the 1960s, the emergence of institutional centres in the 1970s (such as Documentary Educational Resources (DER), founded by filmmakers John Marshall and Timothy Asch), the establishment of the first university programs that sought to teach and research ethnographic film in the 1980s (such as Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California, led by Asch until his death in 1994), the impact of increased access to digital video from the 1990s, and the landscape today, in which there are many graduate and undergraduate programs that incorporate ethnographic media production. Hosted in collaboration with University of Southern California Dornsife, with the participation of Alice Apley (Documentary Educational Resources), Jennifer Cool (University of Southern California), and Nancy Lutkehaus, (University of Southern California)