Research and personal experience affirm that watching a movie can change the way someone lives their life. Documentary storytelling is a multidimensional change agent, a digital media artifact that is rooted in real communities, real lives, and real stories. Because documentary is rooted in the human social world, watching it is a cognitively, psychologically, emotionally, socially, and politically complicated act.

This video is a visual abstract for the article "Documentary Film as Interreligious Dialogue: A Cognitive Perspective" by Jenn Lindsay, published February 2023 in Religions journal.