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  • Projectionist Tim White is a white man working a film projector at a Flaherty Film Seminar. Photo by Anne-Katrine Hansen; courtesy of The Flaherty.
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    By Anthony Kaufman

    Film Festival Workers Unite!

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  • A collection of signs that state “Writers Guild of America: Without Us, There’s Only Reality.” Courtesy of Shutterstock
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    By Addie Morfoot

    The Guilds and Documentary Indies: Trying to Form a More Perfect Union

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  • The DGA emblem at its New York office entrance. Photo by DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.
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    By Alexandria Stapleton

    DGA's Documentary Committee: Empowering Filmmakers As They Empower the World

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  • Participants in a panel at DOC NYC about the ADE Guidelines and the BIPOC Editors Database pose in front of a screen with text on it. Courtesy of DOC NYC.
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    By Darianna Cardilli

    Alliance of Documentary Editors Unveils Scheduling Guide

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  • The Color Congress logo uses colorful, modern sans serif text.
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    By Rashid Shabazz

    A Kaleidoscope Coming Together: An Introduction to Color Congress

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  • A group of Indian children and adults are gathered together outside at night, watching a film from the People's Film Collective.
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    By Sudipto Sanyal

    India's People's Film Collective and Its Fight to Keep Documentary Free and Independent

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  • Cinemateca workers protest outside the Cinemateca Brasileira. They’re holding signs and cardboard cutouts of film reels. Photo by Benedito Faga / Alamy Stock Photo.
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    By Ela Bittencourt

    The Brazilian Cinematheque's Fight for a New Start

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  • A black-and-white image of a woman with dark skin and dark curly hair holding an early Sony video camera. Courtesy of DCTV
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    By Patricia Thomson

    DCTV Celebrates 50 Years of Media Activism and Training

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  • Alex Long of East Baltimore speaks at a community gathering about the need to stop gun violence. Photo courtesy of Andre Lambertson.
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    By Bedatri D. Choudhury

    Where Are They Now? Pare Lorentz and Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantees

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  • An Association of Professional Camerawomen member in the mid-1980s using a 1982 Ikegami HL-79D portable electronic camera.
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    By Bedatri D. Choudhury

    The Evolution of Documentary Film Cameras from 1982 to 2022

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  • Lourdes Portillo, a Latinx woman with white hair, glasses and a black top, accepting the IDA Career Achievement Award in 2017; Portillo is the only filmmaker to have earned IDA Documentary Award in four different decades. Photo: Susan Yin
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    By Tom White

    Where Are They Now? IDA Documentary Award Winners

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  • Kisrten Johnson speaking at a session at the 2016 Getting Real conference. Photo: Susan Yin
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    By Kirsten Johnson

    Kirsten Johnson Reflects on the Three Mirrors of Cinema

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