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  • Dianne Weyermann speaking at a podium at the 2016 IDA Documentary Awards. She is wearing black and has her hair untied.
    Online Feature
    By Tom White

    Documentary's Most Passionate Advocate: Diane Weyermann Remembered

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  • A screengrab from the BIPOC Doc Editors website showing the faces of its directory members. Courtesy of BIPOC Doc Editors.
    Online Feature
    By Bedatri D. Choudhury

    BIPOC Doc Editors and Their Fight for Diverse Edit Rooms

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  • Mama Icha is a senior Colombian woman seen here wistfully lost in thought. From Oscar Molina’s ‘La Casa de Mama Icha.’ Courtesy of Oscar Molina.
    Column
    By Patricia Thomson

    Oscar Molina's 'La Casa de Mama Icha': Filming Longing in Documentary

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  • Three members of the Velvet Underground rehearsing in the studio. All are playing guitars. From Todd Haynes' 'The Velvet Underground.' Courtesy of Apple TV.
    Online Feature
    By Ron Deutsch

    'The Velvet Underground' Music Documentary Celebrates 60s Avant-garde Rock 'n' Roll Legends

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  • Ambroise Ruzidana as Joe in Ibrahim Shaddad’s ‘Hunting Party.’ He is wearing a t-shirt and trousers, and is lying on the ground. Courtesy of Flaherty Seminar.
    Online Feature
    By Ashley Omoma

    The 2021 Flaherty Seminar Explores 'Opacity'

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  • A Black woman farmworker stands against a sugarcane plant with a sickle in her hand in Haile Gerima’s ‘Sankofa’
    Online Feature
    By Aaron E Hunt

    Transmitting Unrecorded Black Histories: The Documentaries of Haile Gerima

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  • A graphic that reads "fast forward, The Editor's Column."
    Column
    By Tom White

    Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Summer 2021

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  • Notes from the reel world
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    By Rick Pérez

    Notes from the Reel World, Summer 2021

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  • Vivian Anderson is a Black woman sitting on a stoop in Columbia, South Carolina, with her hands folded against her chin. She is the founder of EveryBlackGirl, and is seen in Garrett Zevgetis’ ‘On These Grounds.’
    Column
    By Lauren Wissot

    Doc Star of the Month: Vivian Anderson, 'On These Grounds'

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  • Boxer Muhammad Ali is a Black man in a blue shirt with a denim jacket . He is being arrested by a white policeman.From Leon Gast’s 'When We Were Kings.' Courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
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    By Shalini Kantayya

    Playback: Leon Gast's 'When We Were Kings'

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  • Person in a hazmat suit cleaning a seat inside of an empty movie theater.
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    By Steven Beer

    Licenses and Rights in the Post-COVID Festival Landscape

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  • An abstract rendering of an artificial intelligence entity amidst a gray composite of horizontal lines. From Tonje Hessen Schei’s 'iHuman,' produced by UpNorth Film.
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    By Lauren Wissot

    The VOD Effect on Distribution: A Nordic-European View

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