João Dumans on choosing people over terrain in The Night and the Days of Miguel Burnier—and what vérité can show that catastrophe images can’t

Nikolaus Geyrhalter on shooting Melt across four continents, his adoption of new imaging technologies, and why he won’t call it a climate film

In this interview, Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival head Artur Liebhart discusses growing the Polish fest into a pan-European hub

In this interview, Xander Robin discusses the intense 12-day shoot in the Everglades that anchors his Florida-set doc, The Python Hunt

In this interview, CPH:DOX’s head of industry Mara Gourd-Mercado discusses expanding the role of industry programs and the metrics of success of a pitch forum

The CEO of Chicken & Egg Films outlines the three principles that anchor successful impact campaigns for documentary films

Dongnan Chen on co-creating her CPH:DOX winner Whispers in May with three Yi girls in Liangshan—and why she wanted cinema to be a gift in the present, instead of waiting for impact later

In this interview, Sam Green talks about keeping pace with the Guiness World Records in his playful doc on aging, The Oldest Person in the World

In this interview, Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana talks about his focus on Guatemalan grooms in his Independent Lens doc, Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing