July 7, 2022 Doc Star of the Month: Margaret Byrne, 'Any Given Day' Margaret Byrne’s Any Given Day is a half-decade-long ride on the roller coaster that those living with a mental illness face—on “any given day”— Read more
July 6, 2022 Screen Time: Week of July 4 2022 Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. July is BIPOC Mental Health Read more
December 15, 2021 Staging Resilience with Drama Therapy in 'Procession' Documentary “I think every film, fiction and nonfiction, should have a drama therapist as part of the team.” That’s a bold declaration from documentary filmmaker Read more
December 6, 2021 Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking Nearly six years ago, in 2016, a story out of Rutherford County, Tennessee became something of a national outrage, although many of us missed the Read more
December 3, 2021 Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2021 Dear Readers, What the past 20 months have unleashed upon the world underscores the urgency to center trauma and mental health in our ongoing Read more
December 1, 2021 Preparing the Audience: Creating a Safe Space for Difficult Screenings When Nick Stuart of the nonprofit multimedia company Odyssey Impact thinks back on the 2016 world premiere of Kim A. Snyder’s Peabody Award-winning Read more
November 29, 2021 How to Practice Self-Care When Editing Documentary Footage It was the first day on my new editing gig: a feature documentary about abuse, directed by Amy J. Berg. The AE had delivered the hard drive, the Read more
November 19, 2021 The High-Risk, Low-Return Life of a Fixer in Latin America In July 2021, Mexican "fixer" Miguel Angel Vega was approached by a European television channel. It was the same type of request he was used to Read more
November 12, 2021 A Call for Normalizing Mental Healthcare in the Documentary Space I was originally drawn to a career in film because of the power of storytelling to influence and inspire. But storytelling, I have since realized, is Read more
February 11, 2021 Addressing Trauma in the Documentary Practice I tell myself often, “You can’t cry. You are working.” Read more