This past October, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit UnionDocs convened a weekend workshop called "Speculations in the Archive," a sold-out gathering that
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Archival images often form part of our collective memories. Whether it be Leni Riefenstahl's footage of the Nuremberg Rallies, Martin Luther King's "I
Matthew White was a founder, first president, and is currently executive director of the Association of Commercial Stock Image Libraries (ACSIL), a
Over the past few years, the documentary form has seen a creative sea change in depictions of history: how it's rendered, what it represents and how
To create a portrait of an individual—movie producer Robert Evans, say, or musician Kurt Cobain—director Brett Morgen abides by an austere tenet. "I
Since American Experience debuted in October 1988, a guiding principle of the PBS series has been a belief that history matters. History can help us
I think that it's safe to say that most of us love working in documentary film because the work we produce does something to make the world a better
In the face of perceived dominance in the documentary marketplace by such major SVODs as Netflix and Amazon, an international coalition of
Since its inception in 2015, the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival in Washington, DC, has served as a rare meeting ground for investigative
Talal Derki is making a film in an area so dangerous, he and his wife must treat each departure as if it might be his last. After all, he explains, "I