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Lauren Wissot

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Lauren Wissot is a film critic and journalist, filmmaker and programmer, and a contributing editor at both Filmmaker magazine and Documentary magazine. She also writes regularly for Modern Times Review (The European Documentary Magazine) and has served as the director of programming at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival.

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Barbara Lochiatto, from Lance Oppenheim's 'Some Kind of Heaven,' a Magnolia Pictures release. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
Doc Star of the Month: Barbara Lochiatto, 'Some Kind of Heaven'
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Doc Stars of the Month: Nunu and Patrick Hogan, 'Through the Night'
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Doc Star of the Month: Joy Buolamwini, 'Coded Bias'
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Doc Star of the Month: Pete Souza, 'The Way I See It'
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Doc Star of the Month: Carla the Bounty Hunter, 'Love Fraud'
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Doc Star of the Month: Michael Martin, 'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets'
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Doc Stars of the Month: Cheyenne Adriano and Mari Timans, 'Unsettled'
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Doc Star of the Month: Barbora Kysilkova, 'The Painter and the Thief'
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European Documentary Distributors Speculate on Post-Pandemic Market at Docudays UA
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Doc Star of the Month: Pat Henschel, 'A Secret Love'
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Science Is Culture at the Online CPH:CONFERENCE 2020
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CPH:DOX's Directors on Reinventing the Film Festival During the COVID-19 Chaos
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Doc Star of the Month: Cynthia Cooper, 'Women of Troy'
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Doc Star of the Month: Victoria Gonzalez, 'After Parkland'
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'The Edge of Democracy' Tracks Brazil's Slide to Fascism
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Doc Star of the Month: Yusuf Abdurahman, 'Accept the Call'
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Doc Star of the Month: Victor Rios, 'The Pushouts'
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Doc Star of the Month: Nicole Williamson, 'Made in Boise'
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Doc Star of the Month: Claudia Lacy, 'Always in Season'
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Better Science through Storytelling at CPH: DOX
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Doc Star of the Month: Mads Brugger, 'Cold Case Hammarskjold'
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Doc Star of the Month: David Carroll, 'The Great Hack'
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Doc Star of the Month: Raymond Braun, 'State of Pride'
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'Before Stonewall' Tracks the Pre-Movement Era
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Doc Stars of the Month: Trinea Gonczar & Amanda Thomashow, 'At the Heart of Gold'
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"#DocsSoWhite: The Path Forward" at Full Frame's 9th Annual A&E IndieFilms Speakeasy
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'Southern Sustainability' at Full Frame's 9th Annual A&E IndieFilms Speakeasy
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CPH:DOX 2019: VR and DOX:AWARD Standouts at the Sweet Sixteen Edition
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Doc Star of the Month: Eliza Hook, 'Blowin' Up'
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Doc Star of the Month: Alexandria Goddard, 'Roll Red Roll'
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Doc Star of the Month: Walter Burrell, 'The Gospel of Eureka'
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Ways of Seeing: Images and Politics of 'Hale County'
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Doc Star of the Month: Ashley York, 'hillbilly'
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Courage Under Fire Award: Stephen Maing and the NYPD 12
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Doc Stars of the Month: Rudy Valdez and Cindy Shank, The Sentence
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Doc Star of the Month: Judge Ruchie Freier, Paula Eiselt's '93Queen'
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Doc Star of the Month: Sergeant Edwin Raymond, Stephen Maing's Crime + Punishment
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Doc Stars of the Month: Leah Smith and Joe Stramondo, Rachel Dretzin's 'Far From the Tree'
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Doc Star of the Month: Leon Vitali, Tony Zierra's''Filmworker'
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Ukraine-Based Docudays Offers a Robust Slate of Human Rights Docs
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Full Frame Fetes Jehane Noujaim
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Doc Star of the Month: Master Shoeshiner Kevin Tuohy, Stacey Tenenbaum's 'The Art of the Shine'
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Expanding the Overaggressive Cops Conversation in 'Traffic Stop'
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Doc Star of the Month: Traveling Philosopher Dylan Olsen, Nanfu Wang's 'I Am Another You'
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Doc Stars of the Month: Christopher 'Quest' and Christine'a 'Ma Quest' Rainey, Jonathan Olshefski's 'Quest'
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IDA Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award: From Gatekeeper to Storyteller - Yance Ford
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'FU'! Jay Rosenblatt and Ellen Bruno on their Omnibus (Trump-inspired) Project 'Filmmakers Unite'
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Doc Star of the Month: Jane Goodall, 'Jane'
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Sterlin Harjo on the Dos and Don'ts of Filming in Indian Country
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Whose Story?: Five Doc-Makers on (Avoiding) Extractive Filmmaking
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