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  • Iyabo Boyd (left), a Black woman with short hair and glasses, is standing with other women of color documentary professionals—all members of Brown Girls Doc Mafia—during True/False fest. Courtesy of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
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    By Iyabo Boyd

    Brown Girls Doc Mafia: Working Towards a Future of Thriving

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  • Participants at the first gathering of FWD-Doc members, at the 2018 Getting Real conference. Photo courtesy of AMPAS
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    By james LeBrecht

    FWD-Doc: Working to Add 'A' for Access onto DEI

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  • An outdoor venue for the 2021 Black Star Film Festival; the screen shows the BlackStar Film Festival logo. Photo courtesy of Terrell Halsey
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    By Maori Holmes

    A Kind of Time Travel: BlackStar Film Festival at 10

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  • MacArthur Foundation's Kathy Im is an Asian American woman with shoulder-length black hair and glasses, wearing a black dress and standing at the podium at the IDA Documentary Awards.
    Feature
    By Kathy Im

    MacArthur Foundation's Kathy Im: Addressing Inequities, and Grateful for the Frank Conversations

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  • A collage of photographs from past events of the Black Documentary Collective featuring its members. Courtesy of BDC/Sabrina Gordon.
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    By Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

    We Been Here: The Black Documentary Collective

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  • Filmmakers Leo Chiang (left) and Jerry Henry filming Connie Young Yu, an Asian American historian, for the PBS documentary series Asian Americans. Courtesy of WETA and CAAM
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    By Renee Tajima-Peña

    A-Doc Exerts Its Collective Power

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  • Don Young is an Asian man with short gray hair, speaking into a mic, at an event centering the PBS doc series ‘Asian Americans.’ Courtesy of Don Young/CAAM.
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    By Donald Young

    Public Media at a Precipice: A Call for Commitment to Transformative Change

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  • Poh Si Teng is an Asian woman of Malaysian Chinese origin with shoulder-length black hair. She is wearing a black turtleneck & in front of a brick wall. Photo by Marcus Yam
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    By Poh Si Teng

    A Call to All Documentary Gatekeepers

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  • A BTS photo of a female participant, wearing a purple headscarf, being filmed for 'Healing the Healers.' Courtesy of Transform Films.
    Feature
    By Katie Murphy

    Preparing the Audience: Creating a Safe Space for Difficult Screenings

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  • An image of Miranda Yousef’s editing suite: mental health resources creating a much-needed work-wellness balance for the editor. Image courtesy of the author.
    Feature
    By Miranda Yousef

    How to Practice Self-Care When Editing Documentary Footage

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  • JP Jayasankar is an Indian male filmmaker photographed on the sets of his documentary, ‘So Heddan So Hoddan.’ Photo by Mangesh Gudekar
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    By Priyanka Borpujari

    Duty of Care: The Filmmaker-Protagonist Relationship

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  • Carteles Unidos in Michoacan, getting ready to fight against their main enemy: Cartel Jalisco New Generation. Photo courtesy of Miguel Angel Vega
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    By Ciara Long

    The High-Risk, Low-Return Life of a Fixer in Latin America

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