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Jay, a Dominican man with a goatee and reading glasses perched on top of his head, sits in a wheelchair holding a digital camera. Alexis, a white woman with dark brown hair stands next to him but a bit behind, holding headphones attached to a large camera on a tripod. They are smiling softly, looking at the camera, and wearing light jackets on a boardwalk in front of a river on a sunny day with clouds in the blue sky.
Producer’s Diary: ‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ (August 2019–October 2023)
In August 2021, in my work as Director of Film Impact and Innovation at Peace is Loud, I had a conversation with Fork Films’ former Chief Creative
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A view of the Sundance Spaceship clicked right before the premiere of Sam Green’s ‘32 Sounds.’ Image courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Creating a New Familiar: Film Festivals in the COVID Era
Swedish filmmakers Maria Loohufvud and Love Martinsen’s children had friends over when they received an email from the Sundance Film Festival
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IDFA Artistic Director and filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia is a Syrian man with a beard and short hair. He is wearing a black jacket and a sweater while addressing the in-person and virtual audience at IDFA 2020. There is a screen behind him. Photo: Coen Dijkstra. Courtesy of IDFA
The Post-COVID Festival Circuit: The Future Is Hybrid
In a time of uncertainty, there is one thing that COVID-19 made clear: hybrid film festivals are the wave of the future. On August 3, Sundance
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Clinical trial samples being prepared for testing in the laboratory at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, UK.
BBC and CNN Team Up On 'Race for the Vaccine'
Like many of us struggling through the pandemic, Kizzy Corbett has turned to guided meditation to help manage her anxiety. But Corbett has more to
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A light-skinned man wearing mask is sitting behind two large cinecameras on tripod, filming a Latino woman in the kitchen.
How Columbia Journalism School Coped with COVID
It is difficult to write about higher education or media studies in 2021, or anything actually, without invoking the C-word: COVID. Although we may
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Arlet is a brown-skinned Latina, and she is posing in front of a staircase.
Doc Star of the Month: Arlet Guallpa, COVID Diaries NYC
An omnibus project from the DCTV Youth Media Program , COVID Diaries NYC , which began airing March 9 on HBO, is exactly what its title implies—a
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From Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoots' 'A Concerto Is a Conversation,' funded in part by Chicago Media Project in partnership with New York Times Op-Docs.
Documentary Producers Find Some Silver Linings Despite COVID Surge
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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Documentary Organization of Canada Releases Guidelines for COVID-Era Production
It’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
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two filmmakers in PPE gear inside a van
Liability Claims in the COVID Era; Legal Protections for Journalists; Precautions against Defamation
By Julie Angell, Steven C. Beer & Neil J. Rosini
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Moving Images in the Zoom Era
In 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
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