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Last spring, Al Jazeera America announced a partnership with Chicago-based Kartemquin Films ( The Interrupters, The New Americans) on a six-part

The University of Texas at Austin offered its first degree in broadcasting in 1939. In 1965, the university formed its Department of Radio-Television

Werner Herzog: Interviews Edited by Eric Ames from the Conversations with Filmmakers Series, edited by Gerald Peary Published by University Press of

In 1996, I was working as a journalist and, in lieu of film school, living on a steady diet of documentaries. I was just finishing my first film, and

Dear Readers: As we go to press, we are looking at an über-confluence of happenings in the digital space that could be quite consequential to the

I introduced Barbara Kopple at the Cinema Eye Awards in New York this past January, where she received the Legacy Award for her 1976 film Harlan

A review of 'Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television,' by Jed Dannenbaum, Carroll Hodge and Doe Mayer.

A review of Liz Stubbs' 'Documentary Filmmakers Speak'

For a reason that has since been lost to me, during my last year of college in 1990, I volunteered to write a thesis on something called "reader

The summer of 1969. Clearly the world was about to change––or end––and at the age of 13, I was not going to miss it by going away to summer camp. So