December 18, 2020
Can there be upsides in a global pandemic? COVID-19 has decimated huge swaths of the entertainment industry and led to massive unemployment, food
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October 26, 2020It’s been more than nine months since the deadly movement of COVID-19 from China to North America and Europe—and nearly every other continent—utterly
October 24, 2020Liability Claims in the COVID Era; Legal Protections for Journalists; Precautions against Defamation
By Julie Angell, Steven C. Beer & Neil J. Rosini
October 20, 2020In October 2016, when my first son Gray was born in San Francisco, I became intensely aware of the relationship between children and screens. Would I
August 31, 2020COVID-19 exposed and accentuated long-standing fault lines in our industry: a financial sustainability crisis, the absence of labor protections, and a growing movement to reconcile decades of structural inequities between white and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and communities.
August 24, 2020Britain’s public service broadcaster Channel 4 took an early lead in commissioning fast- turnaround films about how the coronavirus is impacting the
August 23, 2020With a nation in lockdown, documentaries in every form have never been as important to the UK’s rich public-service broadcasting system. As I wrote
July 27, 2020After completing the second of what would be four Q&As at the True/False film festival in March, David Osit, who directed the documentary Mayo r
July 23, 2020The world has radically changed over the past four months. Not only has the work of documentary filmmakers been significantly disrupted, but so has
June 16, 2020How important is streaming media to documentarians in Europe? Really important. At the International Documentary Festival at Amsterdam (IDFA) last