April 30, 2022 Shaping Change in the Documentary "Golden Age": CPH:CONFERENCE 2022 Unfolding over three informative afternoons at the 2022 hybrid CPH:DOX (March 23-April 3), CPH:CONFERENCE ’s “Business as Unusual” was the catchily Read more
February 23, 2022 Curation Is Not Censorship What is the responsibility of programmers when it comes to discerning whether a film deserves the platform and profile of a major festival? In a Read more
December 6, 2021 Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking Nearly six years ago, in 2016, a story out of Rutherford County, Tennessee became something of a national outrage, although many of us missed the Read more
November 22, 2021 Duty of Care: The Filmmaker-Protagonist Relationship “Really… I feel reluctant… coming to receive you… as my interviewers or crew… Because ever since my exposure to the camera…. As an internationally Read more
October 14, 2021 6 Tips for Documentary Filmmakers on How to Better Serve Participants with Gender-Based Trauma It is no secret that documentary filmmaking has a complicated legacy when it comes to supporting the survivors of gender-based violence. Even with Read more
September 8, 2021 Center for Media & Social Impact's Report on Journalism Asks, Who's Holding Documentary to Account? */ By Marissa Woods and Patricia Aufderheide The need for journalism about documentary filmmaking has never been greater. But this work is Read more
May 11, 2021 Fake Filmmakers: When the FBI Impersonates Documentarians Documentary filmmaking, like other forms of investigative journalism, relies on sources and subjects who are willing to speak candidly and provide Read more
April 29, 2021 Practicing What You Preach: Examples of Accountable Documentary Filmmaking A Love Song for Latasha , the Academy Award-nominated short from Sophia Nahli Allison, opens with the rewind of a VCR tape image, a slow breath of Read more
October 21, 2020 On the Path to a New Ethical Framework in the Documentary Practice The issue of ethics has driven the documentary field in various ways and in various degrees of emphases and urgency since the beginnings of the art Read more
October 2, 2020 Counteracting Extractive Storytelling In The American South And In Global Communities Of Color On Day 3 of Getting Real ‘20 , we joined the breakout session “ Counteracting Extractive Storytelling In The American South And In Global Communities Read more