March 11, 2022 Disability and Film Festivals: The Secret and the Not-So-Secret Complacencies As film festivals start to move from an exclusively virtual space, I was looking forward to moseying over to Austin for South By Southwest after Read more
March 10, 2022 True/False 2022: Revealing Racism True/False Film Fest , nestled in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, isn’t just a film festival. It’s a warmblooded celebration of creativity of 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
February 11, 2022 Sundance 2022: Omicron Drives a Virtual Revival */ By Bedatri D. Choudhury and Tom White The COVID-inspired online edition of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earned universal kudos, and a Read more
January 26, 2022 Creating a New Familiar: Film Festivals in the COVID Era Swedish filmmakers Maria Loohufvud and Love Martinsen’s children had friends over when they received an email from the Sundance Film Festival Read more
January 14, 2022 A Kind of Time Travel: BlackStar Film Festival at 10 BY Maori Holmes & Imran Siddiquee Read more
December 17, 2021 Post-Cold War Films and More at Amsterdam Documentary Festival This year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) was (once again) a hybrid affair. Which left me, like many nonfiction Read more
December 10, 2021 DOC NYC Films and Panels Signal Rising Standards for Docs, on and off Screen DOC NYC 2021 was back in theaters this year, with the in-person festival running from November 10-18, and then virtually through November 28. In a Read more
December 9, 2021 Bringing the Colonialist Past and Present into Dialogue at DOK Leipzig Recent years have seen a surge in documentary productions and a growing popularity of documentary film among audiences worldwide. Despite this Read more
October 28, 2021 The Many Stories Around Us: A Report on New York Film Festival 2021 The 59th New York Film Festival , which ran from September 24 to October 10, was back home at Lincoln Center this year, as in-person screenings and Read more