COVID-19 exposed and accentuated long-standing fault lines in our industry: a financial sustainability crisis, the absence of labor protections, and a growing movement to reconcile decades of structural inequities between white and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and communities.
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Reclaiming and reshaping narrative around Black women by Black women is liberatory work, and is what Oge Egbuonu executes so carefully and lovingly in
The documentary community lost Jonathan Oppenheim last month, at 67, following a long bout with brain cancer. Jonathan was a giant among documentary
I am a white female filmmaker, a director of documentary films. Women, especially white women, have traditionally done better in documentaries than in
The world has radically changed over the past four months. Not only has the work of documentary filmmakers been significantly disrupted, but so has
In this new age of physical distancing and social isolation, computer screens and television monitors have become the focal point for our contact with
Documentaries expose wrongdoing, illuminate culture, and take on powerful interests—and they depend on fair use to do it. Every day, members of our
Director Dawn Porter ( Gideon's Army, Trapped) felt equipped for the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble. She had, after all, interviewed the US
As a stopgap measure, the AFI Docs festival in Washington, DC was remarkably satisfying. The technology largely worked; most Zoom participants
Since March, filmmaker Juhi Sharma has been grounded in Chennai, India, where she's been working remotely on the post-production of The Vinyl Records