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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
January 30, 2019 Beyond Inclusion: Building Narratives of Liberation Transcription of Michele Stephenson's Keynote address from Getting Real '18. Read more
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 Read more
December 19, 2017 Doc Stars of the Month: Christopher 'Quest' and Christine'a 'Ma Quest' Rainey, Jonathan Olshefski's 'Quest' Premiering at Sundance—and subsequently going on to win top honors at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, among other high-caliber fests, and Read more
November 7, 2017 IDA Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award: From Gatekeeper to Storyteller - Yance Ford Strong Island is Yance Ford's cinematic nonfiction exploration of racial injustice in the Long Island suburbs, told through the murder of the Read more
June 6, 2017 Doc Stars of the Month: Davonte 'Dada' Harrell, Reginald 'Junior' Askew, David 'Bud' Perry, 'Raising Bertie' Margaret Byrne's Raising Bertie (executive produced by J. Cole) is an intimate, six-year journey into the lives of three young, African-American men Read more
December 1, 2016 IDA Career Achievement Award: Stanley Nelson Makes History Sing Stanley Nelson has, for the past quarter-century, established himself as an indefatigable chronicler of the African-American experience, bringing to Read more