January 31, 2019 DOCUMENTARY POWER: A New Manifesto Editor’s Note: Chi-hui Yang is program officer at Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative . What follows is an edited version of his keynote address Read more
September 27, 2018 Getting Real '18 Day One: Making a New Reality, Decolonizing Docs I'm Tracie Lewis. I'm a film lover, adjunct film instructor, filmmaker, storyteller and three-time Getting Real attendee. Getting Real '18 is bigger Read more
September 26, 2018 The State of the Documentary Field: 2018 Survey of Documentary Professionals Click Here For Full Report The State of the Documentary Field initiative was shaped by the Center for Media & Social Impact , in collaboration Read more
September 20, 2018 Toppling Structures of Inequality in the Documentary Field Conversations about power, ownership and representation in the documentary field are as old as the documentary tradition itself. Ours is a history Read more
June 12, 2018 Thoughts from the Road: Geographic Diversity Matters Following the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of hand-wringing across several industries about “what we missed.” Journalists in Read more
March 28, 2018 The Support System: NeXt Doc Boosts Emerging Talent from Marginalized Communities For any young aspiring filmmaker, entering the world of documentary can be a challenging endeavor. And if you're a person of color, or have limited Read more
February 22, 2018 2018 Documentary Film Diversity Report: Journey to the Academy Awards Overview Culture paints a portrait of what we celebrate and who is worthy of our attention. As cultural critic and journalist Mary McNamara stated, " Read more
January 8, 2018 A Place at the Table: Doc Filmmakers with Disabilities on Building Careers and Disproving Stereotypes I think that it's safe to say that most of us love working in documentary film because the work we produce does something to make the world a better Read more
January 3, 2018 Dispatch from the IDA Documentary Awards: Filmmakers of Color Speak Out About Diversity by Meena Nanji and Victoria Chalk A-Doc , a network of Asian American documentary filmmakers, is committed to foregrounding the voices of Asian Read more
December 12, 2017 DOC NYC Stages Eight-Day PRO Confab True to its tagline, "America's largest documentary festival," DOC NYC concluded its eight edition last month, having presented more than 250 films Read more