The three-day agenda of IDA's Getting Real '16 conference contains as many strands: art, diversity and sustainability braid together to form a rope
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I once considered documentary to be a fallback for filmmakers of color who were shut out of the fiction universe. I was wrong. As it turns out, we may

'Mama, Look, A Negro! I'm scared!'— Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Seven years ago I wrote a piece for Documentary entitled "Obama Nation: One

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Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine, which nabbed this year’s Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing, continues the

Crossing the Anacostia River back toward Northwest Washington, DC, tails between our legs, I thought, "Pick-up shoots are supposed to be easy." We'd

This has been called a new Golden Age of documentaries—with more of them being made and experienced by audiences than ever before. It's certainly

It's tempting to give the short film short shrift. Is less less? Is less more? Or is less the same? Various mechanisms allow the short to transcend

A recent flood of impressive, handsomely produced, mostly cinéma vérité Chinese documentaries hint at the versatility and maturity of documentary

Colleges and universities, often at the foreground of providing creative incubation for the research and development of new technologies, are