May 11, 2021
Documentary filmmaking, like other forms of investigative journalism, relies on sources and subjects who are willing to speak candidly and provide
Ethics
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April 29, 2021A 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
October 21, 2020The 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
October 2, 2020On Day 3 of Getting Real ‘20 , we joined the breakout session “ Counteracting Extractive Storytelling In The American South And In Global Communities
April 27, 2020As 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
September 27, 2019Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Lisa Valencia-Svensson was invited to deliver a keynote address at Hot Docs this past spring. What follows is an abbreviated
March 29, 2019If 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, 2019Editor’s Note: Chi-hui Yang is program officer at Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative . What follows is an edited version of his keynote address
December 20, 2018 @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, 2018For this column at least, January has become what I'll call "mental differentness" (as opposed to "illness" or "disability") month—a chance to