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A young Black girl in shorts and a t-shirt runs along the seashore. Tai Sheppard in ‘Sisters on Track’ (directors: Corinne van der Borch, Tone Grøttjord-Glenne). Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of June 20, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. For those of us who spent our summers poring over the comic strip Peanuts, the...
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A protestor holds up a banner with Nasrin Sotoudeh’s photo. It says “Free Nasrin.” From 'Nasrin' (Director: Jeff Kaufman). Courtesy of David Magdael & Associates
Screen Time: Week of June 13, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. When filmmaker Sean Wang wasn’t sure of the whole adulting thing, he decided to...
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Sly Stone, a Black male musician in violet and black, plays to a huge crowd in Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ (Director: Questlove; Producer: David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel) Courtesy of Cinetic Media.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 13, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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A drag performer in a golden dress, wearing a wig, smoking a cigarette. From Frank Simon's 'The Queen' Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Screen Time: Week of June 7, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Frederick Bernas and Ana González’s The New Yorker documentary Flamenco Queer...
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A BW photo of four young boys—one Black, three white—sitting on a building ledge
Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 31, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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A Black man, wearing a blue polar fleece, leads a protest calling for reparations for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
Screen Time: Week of May 31, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Tulsa Massacre is one the most horrific episodes of racial violence in...
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African women chefs in white hats and blue and yellow uniforms.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 24, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Mixed-media sculptural and painted representation of nature in the night
Screen Time: Week of May 24, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Korean-American artist Nam June Paik once said, “What matters today is what...
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:A bald Black man with glasses teaches a young boy with black hair how to engrave a casket with a drill.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 17, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Asian-American adult is standing in front of desert landscape, wearing pink tie-dye tee, black hair passed the shoulders with left side shaved.
IDA Member Spotlight: Sue Ding
Sue Ding is a documentary filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. She directs and produces nonfiction projects for platforms including The New York Times and PBS. Her most recent film, The Claudia...
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