January 18, 2021 'MLK/FBI' Explores the Complexities of the Civil Rights Icon “We are not makers of history. We are made by history” —Martin Luther King Jr. MLK/FBI , currently streaming via IFC Films, is director Sam Pollard’s Read more
November 25, 2020 Alex Winter on Decrypting Frank Zappa Alex Winter has worn many hats in his 55 years. As a youth, he acted on Broadway. After college, he headed out to Los Angeles, where he continued to Read more
June 13, 2020 Copyright and Public Domain: An Updated Primer By Sheila Curran Bernard and Kenn Rabin Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from the second edition of Bernard and Rabin’s Archival Storytelling: Read more
November 12, 2019 Archives as Alter Ego: The Inventiveness of Kim Longinotto's 'Shooting the Mafia' Imagine this: You’ve got a great subject who’s now in her 80s. You want to tell her life story—how she left her stifling marriage at age 40 and Read more
September 30, 2019 How Diego Became Maradona Asif Kapadia’s new documentary about the Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, a player almost as famous for his dubious conduct off the pitch as for Read more
February 15, 2019 'A Night at the Garden': Where Past Meets Present In his third Academy Award-nominated film, Marshall Curry delivers a striking variation on his previous nominees, Street Fight and If a Tree Falls . Read more
July 16, 2018 'Come Inside My Mind' Taps into the Genius of Robin Williams Marina Zenovich is a documentary filmmaker known for her sensitive handling of the life stories of high-profile—some might say, controversial— Read more
April 27, 2018 How Change Happens: Dawn Porter Explores Bobby Kennedy, Politician and Person, 50 Years Later When filmmaker Dawn Porter was approached to produce and direct a new documentary about Robert F. Kennedy and his 1968 presidential campaign, she Read more
February 6, 2018 Archival Research 101: Looking for the Perfect Image My career in documentary film began when I was brought on as a production assistant for Lyn Goldfarb and Alison Sotomayor's Bridging the Divide: Tom Read more
January 10, 2018 The Human Factor: How Makers of Profile Documentaries Shape Their Subject from Archival Footage To create a portrait of an individual—movie producer Robert Evans, say, or musician Kurt Cobain—director Brett Morgen abides by an austere tenet. "I Read more