October 27, 2021 Jihlava Film Festival at 25: A Conversation with Director Marek Hovorka Conceived by a group of high school students in 1997, the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Ji.hlava IDFF) marks its 25th anniversary Read more
September 25, 2021 Licenses and Rights in the Post-COVID Festival Landscape BY Steven C. Beer & Neil J. Rosini Read more
September 16, 2021 The Post-COVID Festival Circuit: The Future Is Hybrid In a time of uncertainty, there is one thing that COVID-19 made clear: hybrid film festivals are the wave of the future. On August 3, Sundance Read more
September 9, 2021 Outfest's Documentary Lineup A Reminder of LGBTQ Resilience Each year, the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ film festival hosts some of the best queer and transgender cinema in the world. It’s a chance to catch films Read more
August 30, 2021 The Healing Power of Black Documentary: Thoughts from the 10th Annual BlackStar Film Festival The 10th Annual BlackStar Film Festival , which took place in Philadelphia and online from August 3-8, could not have been timelier. After nearly 18 Read more
July 31, 2021 Tine Fischer and Niklas Engstrom on CPH:DOX's Past, Present and Future An unapologetically progressive fest since its 2003 inception, CPH:DOX has never been content to merely showcase films. From the start, it set out to Read more
July 29, 2021 A Body of BIPOC Documentaries at Tribeca 2021 On a very hot day earlier in June, I made my way to New York City’s Hudson River Park, one of the many new homes for this year’s Tribeca Festival . Read more
July 17, 2021 AFI Docs 2021: Spotlight on Social Justice */ By ANSELM BEACH and Patricia Aufderheide AFI Docs , held in Washington, DC, but organized out of AFI’s Los Angeles office, strives to create a Read more
July 7, 2021 Full Frame 2021: Something for Everyone, Online Only Full Frame Documentary Film Festival , now in its 24th year, has become a notable stop on the circuit, not least for its homey welcome to filmmakers Read more
June 21, 2021 Sociopolitical Documentaries at CPH:DOX 2021: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? If CPH:DOX is any indication (and it usually is), 2021 seems set to see a transformation in sociopolitical nonfiction cinema. Rather than, say, Read more