September 27, 2020 Docs for Change: ‘Story Movements’ Celebrates the Power of the Form What was the first documentary film you saw that shifted something within you? That helped you see an issue differently? Changed your behavior? Read more
August 17, 2020 Pamela Cohn's 'Lucid Dreaming' Offers Inspiration and Insight for Nonfiction Storytellers The joy of human-to-human dialogue about the creative process is the heart of Pamela Cohn’s book, Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers . Read more
June 12, 2020 ‘Screening Reality’: A History of American Documentary Film When was the last time you picked up a book—a historical survey on documentary film, to be more exact—and discovered a page-turner? My guess is, you Read more
March 9, 2020 'Documentary Across Platforms' Considers the Places Nonfiction Can Go Through a collection of 20 essays written over two decades, Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College and co-director of the Read more
March 7, 2020 Nick Fraser Tells 'A Story of Documentaries' From cover to cover, Say What Happened: A Story of Documentaries is, just like its author, Nick Fraser, a class act. Fraser is a formidable presence Read more
December 11, 2019 'The Sublimity of Document': Exploring the Space between Docs and the Avant-garde The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama by Scott MacDonald Oxford University Press 2019 In an interview with Austrian documentary filmmaker Read more
October 31, 2019 The Ethnographic Roots of Women in Documentary Film Documentary film historically has provided a more welcoming and accessible environment for women filmmakers compared to theatrical feature filmmaking Read more
August 22, 2019 An Ethic of Curiosity: Assessing the Work of Barbara Kopple ReFocus: The American Directors Series , from Edinburgh University Press, has an admirable mission statement: “The series ignores no director who Read more
July 31, 2019 Tracing the Roots of Ethnographic Cinema in 'Where the Roads All End' Science fiction scholars believe that Murray Leinster’s 1945 short story, “First Contact,” was the original use of “First Contact” to represent the Read more
July 24, 2019 Documenting the Invisible: 'The Undocumented Everyday' Challenges the Idea of The Other At IDA’s 2018 Getting Real Conference, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Firelight Media and A-Docs collaborated on a series of panels entitled #Decolonize Docs Read more