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Nick Geidner suspects that if he\u2019d asked his students several years ago if they\u2019d ever watched a documentary, few, if any, would have raised their hands.<\/p>\n

So when Land Grant films was born in 2016, Geidner had no idea how wildly successful his documentary program would become.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit at the perfect time,\u201d said Geidner, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media in the College of Communication and Information. \u201cNetflix and cable have really changed the way people think about documentaries. All of a sudden documentary filmmaking is hip and there\u2019s an audience for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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