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IDA x BADWest: Master Class with Stanley Nelson

Co-presented with BADWest, this two-hour master class offers an up-close-and-personal look at how celebrated director Stanley Nelson has managed to build such an impactful and prolific career in documentary. The Master Class feature clips...
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August 20, 2020

'(In)Visible Portraits': A Love Letter to Black Women & Education for Everyone Else

Reclaiming and reshaping narrative around Black women by Black women is liberatory work, and is what Oge Egbuonu executes so carefully and lovingly

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July 7, 2020

'John Lewis: Good Trouble': 60 Years of Fighting the Fight

Director Dawn Porter ( Gideon's Army , Trapped ) felt equipped for the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble . She had, after all, interviewed the US

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January 31, 2020

From Ferguson Battle Rapper to 'St. Louis Superman'

After the success of her feature documentary A Suitable Girl , Al Jazeera's Witness series asked Smriti Mundhra to make another film. It wasn't long

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November 5, 2019

Roger Ross Williams' 'The Apollo' Is More Than Just Music History

Roger Ross Williams grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania and then moved to New York to, as he has said, escape both racism and homophobia in his hometown

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September 19, 2019

Doc Star of the Month: Claudia Lacy, 'Always in Season'

Jacqueline Olive’s debut feature, Always in Season —its title a nod to the year-round racial terror that African-Americans, especially in the Deep

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July 22, 2019

'The Changing Same' Takes on the Legacy of Lynching

In 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old African-American farm worker was accused of the rape and murder of a young white woman. Eight days later he was

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February 7, 2019

Ways of Seeing: Images and Politics of 'Hale County'

I first saw Hale County This Morning, This Evening , RaMell Ross’s cinematic look at daily life in the Alabama Black Belt, at last year’s CPH:DOX. It

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January 30, 2019

Beyond Inclusion: Building Narratives of Liberation

Transcription of Michele Stephenson's Keynote address from Getting Real '18.

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January 16, 2018

Young, Gifted and Black: A New Documentary Celebrates the Writer/Activist Lorraine Hansberry

When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her

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