April 27, 2020
As a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, I was required to take a class on law and ethics (students still are). As a
Ethics
March 29, 2019
If news media is to be believed, America is currently besieged by a state of nearly intractable divisiveness that some believe may be signaling the
January 31, 2019
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
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A thirty-year veteran in the documentary field, Kirsten Johnson has received numerous accolades for her documentary films, Derrida, Darfur Now, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, and the widely acclaimed film Cameraperson. Johnson has worked with a wide range of...
January 26, 2018
For this column at least, January has become what I'll call "mental differentness" (as opposed to "illness" or "disability") month—a chance to
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In this Master Class presented by Austin Film Society and IDA, Robert Greene (who is also the Filmmaker In Chief at the University of Missouri's Murray Center for Documentary Journalism), discusses documentary storytelling, filmmaking ethics, creating...
March 30, 2017
For over 16 years, veteran producers Jedd and Todd Wider have proven their mettle in the documentary film community. Together, the brothers have
March 7, 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) might not be the obvious place to go in search of documentary filmmaking. Doc-focused cousin
March 2, 2017
In the months leading up to the launch of the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund , we couldn't have anticipated the national public debate that would
February 10, 2017
When director Justin Schein began making a film about the aging political activist and colorful Greenwich Village mainstay Mayer Vishner, he was