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  • An underwater color photograph from 1982 of Valerie Taylor, a white woman, wearing a chain mail suit being bitten on the arm by a shark. Her pants are red and the top is sparkly. Courtesy of Ron & Valerie Taylor.
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    By Lauren Wissot

    Doc Star of the Month: Valerie Taylor, 'Playing with Sharks'

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  • Superimposed image of a pair eyes against sugar fields in an image from “Stateless”. Courtesy of National Film Board, Canada.
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    By Michele Stephenson

    'Stateless' Confronts Anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic and Haiti

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  • Two underwater cameras amidst seaweeds. An underwater scene from ‘The Loneliest Whale,’ directed by Joshua Zeman. Courtesy of Bleecker Street.
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    By Patricia Thomson

    The Challenges of Filming 'The Loneliest Whale' Documentary

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  • Two Black women singing a duet at the Harlem Cultural Festival. Mavis Staples (left) is wearing hoop earrings and Mahalia Jackson (right) is in a pink shirt. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
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    By Melissa Haizlip

    'Summer of Soul': A Conversation with Questlove about Black Joy

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  • Sarah Rose Huckman, a young transgender woman in skiing gear. Ski resort behind her. She is the protagonist of ‘Changing the Game’ (Directed by Michael Barnett)
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    Doc Star of the Month: Sarah Rose Huckman, 'Changing the Game'

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  • One Latino man, wearing a grey suit jacket, plays the violin, while the other, wearing a black suit jacket, watches and smiles.
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    By Lauren Wissot

    Doc Stars of the Month: Aldo Lopez-Gavilan and Ilmar Gavilan, 'Los Hermanos'

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  • Clinical trial samples being prepared for testing in the laboratory at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, UK.
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    BBC and CNN Team Up On 'Race for the Vaccine'

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  • A hand is holding a smartphone with a speech recording app open
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    Recording Phone Calls for a Documentary; Postmortem Right of Publicity

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  • Two FBI agents in gear standing next to a big black armored SUV
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    Fake Filmmakers: When the FBI Impersonates Documentarians

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  • Cover of ebook, ​In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1
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    By Sandra Ignagni

    In Their Own Words: A Compact and Accessible Digital Guide to the Masters of Nonfiction Filmmaking

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  • notes from the reel world
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    Notes From The Reel World, Spring 2021

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    Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Spring 2021

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