July 15, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Michael Martin, 'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets' Though Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets premiered in the US Documentary Competition at pre-pandemic Sundance back in January, I didn’t catch Bill and Read more
June 25, 2020 Doc Stars of the Month: Cheyenne Adriano and Mari Timans, 'Unsettled' Taking Best Documentary Feature Film at last year's Outfest, Tom Shepard's Unsettled , an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, adheres to every Read more
May 21, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Barbora Kysilkova, 'The Painter and the Thief' One of the stranger stranger-than-fiction sagas to premiere at Sundance (where it picked up a Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling) in Read more
April 28, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Pat Henschel, 'A Secret Love' When one thinks of a coming-out story these days, an LGBTQ teenager proudly declaring their identity on Instagram might immediately spring to mind. Read more
March 17, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Cynthia Cooper, 'Women of Troy' It's a crying shame that Cynthia Cooper is not a LeBron-level household name. Having won championships in college, at the Olympics and in the WNBA— Read more
February 15, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Victoria Gonzalez, 'After Parkland' In a relatively sane world—or at least nation—Victoria Gonzalez would never have been one of the guiding lights of Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman's Read more
January 23, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Yusuf Abdurahman, 'Accept the Call' For many years Yusuf Abdurahman, the charismatic protagonist of Eunice Lau's Accept the Call , seemed to be living the American Dream. A refugee who Read more
December 19, 2019 Doc Star of the Month: Victor Rios, 'The Pushouts' Dr. Victor Rios, the lead character of Katie Galloway and co-director Dawn Valadez's The Pushouts , is the first professor to be featured as "Doc Read more
November 19, 2019 Doc Stars of the Month: Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, 'Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops' Though "Doc Star of the Month" has spotlit cops in the past (the NYPD's Sergeant Edwin Raymond of Stephen Maing's Crime + Punishment ; Oakland Police Read more
October 25, 2019 Doc Star of the Month: Nicole Williamson, 'Made in Boise' "Loves being pregnant" is not usually a statement found on one’s bio, but it’s certainly relevant information when it comes to Nicole Williamson. The Read more