November 10, 2021
Last June my debut feature film Pray Away premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is a career milestone I am grateful for, and one I’ll never
Gender Issues
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March 15, 2021While the documentary field has only become more and more inclusive over the last few years, the more formative role of women in the documentary
October 28, 2020 @The co-director of Outcry and Whisper, Zeng Jinyan, discusses how women breakthrough systems that erase humanity. She explores the concept that dignity shines in vulnerability. Zeng wrote the script for the animation short A Poem to Liu Xia (Trish McAdam 2015), and...
July 29, 2020I am a white female filmmaker, a director of documentary films. Women, especially white women, have traditionally done better in documentaries than
March 23, 2020 @In documentaries, women dominate the roster of editors working on the most compelling films and television series. To understand the current landscape in documentary editing, from the perspective of acclaimed female editors, we invited Kate Amend (The Keepers, The Case Against 8);...
March 3, 2020In 2016 documentary filmmaker Senain Kheshgi was approached to make a series of short films in collaboration with Save The Children, Johnson &
June 27, 2019I’ve been thinking a lot about what a unique, strange and unpredictable thing the web series space is, and how working in it after a decade of
March 28, 2019In October 2011, the documentary series Women, War & Peace premiered on PBS. It consisted of five hour-long docs, including Pray the Devil Back
February 16, 2019If you are an urban Indian woman, chances are that you’ve been asked at some point to desist from touching or staining or entering spaces while on
October 4, 2018The #MeToo movement has seen investigations, arrests and convictions across media as the public conversation shifts. For women, things are getting