Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on WORLD Channel as part of America Reframed, Rodney Evans' Vision Portraits profiles three blind or visually impaired artists who have adjusted their life and art in response to their loss of sight. Evans himself confronts his vision loss due to a rare genetic disease and ponders how it will impact his work, his life and his independence. Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester, directed by Lauren Tabak and streaming on the World of Wonder site
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Cutting Class is a new column that focuses on a specific aspect of the post-production process—breaking down a scene editorially, and delving into innovative solutions to creative challenges. David France's Welcome to Chechnya shadows an underground network of LGBTQ activists who help Chechens escape the anti-gay pogrom underway in this Russian republic. The peril is underscored by a text that appears at the film's start: "For their safety, people fleeing for their lives have been digitally disguised." "He's going to kill me for sure," a young lesbian renamed "Anya" says about her father, a
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 magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! Writing for Hyperallergic, Miasarah Lai calls for more visibility, equity and access for BIPOC filmmakers. Solidarity and social change require consistent engagement and, more importantly, putting marginalized people in positions of power. People occupying all levels of the documentary field need to educate themselves, listen, and give funding, resources, and access
And She Could Be Next, directed by Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia, is a two-part docuseries that follows the campaigns of six women of color running for US public office, including Stacey Abrams (Georgia), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Lucy McBath (Georgia), Veronica Escobar (Texas), María Elena Durazo (California), and Bushra Amiwala (Illinois). Taking place over the span of the 2018 midterm elections, the film documents both historic wins and detrimental losses, while amplifying the grassroots transformation of the US democratic system. The miniseries is executive-produced by Ava DuVernay and will
Taking Best Documentary Feature Film at last year's Outfest, Tom Shepard's Unsettled, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, adheres to every fraught definition of its title. Debuting on WORLD Channel on June 28 (and available for streaming on WorldChannel.org through July 12), the film follows four newly arrived LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers—Subhi, a gay man from Syria; Junior, a gender-nonconforming gay man from the DRC; and Cheyenne and Mari, a lesbian couple from Angola. Over several years, Shepard's camera captures this diverse foursome as they all figure out how to navigate life
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Time for Change: We Won’t Be Defeated, a multi-pronged event airing June 24 on ESPN, wiill examine black athletes’ experiences with injustice and the unifying role that sports continues to play in bridging the divide between law enforcement and people of color in America. The evening will center around the Time for Change discussions, and will be augmented by three documentaries: The 16th Man showcases the South African "Springbok" National Rugby Team and its impact on South
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 magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! Impact strategist Sonya Childress, writing in Medium, reflects on a moment of reckoning in the nonfiction media field—one for accountability and rebuilding. Filmmakers of color have advocated for a seat at the table for more than five decades. They have launched production houses, distribution collectives, affinity groups and pipeline development programs to improve
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Sam Feder's Disclosure, premiering June 19 on Netflix, takes an unprecedented look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Jen Richards, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood's most beloved moments. What emerges is a
How important is streaming media to documentarians in Europe? Really important. At the International Documentary Festival at Amsterdam (IDFA) last November, Guy Bisson from Ampere Analysis, a leading consultancy on video, explained why. In March, we followed up on the implications of Covid-19 for the marketplace. Streaming media is still only 10 percent of the European market, but over the last five years, pay TV—still the leader—has basically had flat growth. Meanwhile, streaming media has grown more than 400 % and shows no sign of stopping. In fact, streaming consumption is way up, with so
Belly of the Beast, Erika Cohn's follow-up to her multi-award-winning The Judge, tracks down a previously little-known story about enforced—and illegal—sterilization of female inmates in California's correctional facilities. For nearly 40 years after a 1979 law was passed in California banning enforced sterilization, this practice continued with impunity in prisons. Justice Now, a 20-year-old nonprofit based in Oakland, has been in the business of working with people in women's prisons and local communities to, as their mission states, "end violence against women, trans, and gender non-binary