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Carole Snow knew she had the subject for her first film when her friend, Kurt Morris, told her about his UMass Boston master’s thesis, “I See Some Strange People Coming to Church: Christian Scare Films of the 1970’s.”

“I became fascinated by it because my evangelical upbringing included a ban on TV and movies, popular music?even Flannery O’Connor books,” says Snow, a Northwestern video specialist.

Media makers, who are pushing the boundaries of commercial, narrative, and documentary production, encouraged a recent IFP 2010 Producers Series audience to explore opportunities for innovation in a changing marketplace.

It was a near-chance meeting with his school’s janitor that set Bruce David Janu on the road to producing his first feature documentary, the 90-minute “Facing Sudan.”

Twenty-three year old janitor Brian Burns approached Janu after seeing flyers for the Teens Against Genocide group that Janu sponsors at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, where he teaches history.

Burns told Janu about the relief mission he’d volunteered for in Sudan.

“I was under the impression that I was doing the right thing,” Andrew Suh says in the trailer for Iris Shim’s documentary “House of Suh.”

Suh, who was 19 at the time, confessed to the 1993 murder of Robert O’Dubaine, his sister Catherine’s boyfriend. “She put a gun in my hand and said ?you know what to do,'” Suh says in the trailer.

Catherine was convicted of conspiracy.

Suh is incarcerated at Pontiac correctional center and is eligible for parole in 27 years.