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  • Two Guadeloupean factory workers working in their blue uniforms. From Sylvaine Dampierre’s ‘Words of Negroes.’ Courtesy of DOK Leipzig.
    Online Feature
    By Sevara Pan

    Bringing the Colonialist Past and Present into Dialogue at DOK Leipzig

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  • An animated still from Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’ showing the Afghan male protagonist Amin and the white, Danish filmmaker. Courtesy of NEON.
    Online Feature
    By Darianna Cardilli

    'Flee' Documentary Deploys Animation to Address Traumatic Memories

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  • Silhouettes of children running in a group, against a yellow background. Courtesy of the artist, Arak Rattanawijittakorn/Shutterstock.
    Online Feature
    By Natalie Bullock Brown

    Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking

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  • Blue image with text that reads fast foreword The Editor's Column.
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    By Tom White

    Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2021

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    By Brenda Robinson

    Notes from the Reel World, Fall 2021

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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.
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    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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  • A red filtered image of a Hindu South Asian bride. She is wearing a veil. From Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing.’ Courtesy of TIFF
    Online Feature
    By Nilosree Biswas

    The Fractured World of Lovers in Payal Kapadia's Documentary 'A Night of Knowing Nothing'

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  • Stock image of a brownstone building with the words ‘How Are You, Really?’ painted on its side wall. Courtesy of Finn/Unsplash
    Feature
    By Rebecca Sosa

    A Call for Normalizing Mental Healthcare in the Documentary Space

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  • Filmmaker Nico Opper and their baby, Jonah making faces at the camera. Opper is wearing black-rimmed glasses and Jonah, an orange shirt. Courtesy of Nico Opper.
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    By Kristine Stolakis

    New Parenthood and Documentary Inequity

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