Michael Rabiger, taught documentary filmmaking at Columbia and wrote seminal textbook, dies

Michael Rabiger, taught documentary filmmaking at Columbia and wrote seminal textbook, dies

Michael Rabiger taught documentary filmmaking at Columbia College Chicago for more than three decades and was the author of a widely used textbook on the subject, “Directing the Documentary.” “In Michael’s lengthy career as a professor and chair of the film department at Columbia College, he inspired generations of documentary filmmakers as their teacher and mentor, a relationship that often evolved into lifelong friendships,” said Michael Schle…