December 16, 2021 Four IDA Documentary Award Nominated Shorts to Watch on Argo In the crowded documentary field, short documentaries don’t always get the love they deserve. Our friends at Argo understand this well and have built Read more
February 4, 2020 Dancing for Their Lives: 'Walk Run Cha-Cha' Finds Joy on the Ballroom Floor When filmmaker Laura Nix walked into a dance studio in the San Gabriel Valley to find 40 people ballroom-dancing in the middle of the day, she Read more
February 3, 2020 'In the Absence' Examines the Sewol Ferry Disaster In the Absence begins with the usual narrative markers of a ship tragedy: a drone camera sweeps over the site, we hear a 911 call, security camera Read more
January 31, 2020 From Ferguson Battle Rapper to 'St. Louis Superman' After the success of her feature documentary A Suitable Girl , Al Jazeera's Witness series asked Smriti Mundhra to make another film. It wasn't long Read more
February 17, 2019 'Lifeboat' Documents the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis Filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald’s upbringing in Oregon defied the norm, even in a state known for alternative lifestyles. Consider the family dog: his name Read more
February 16, 2019 'Period. End of Sentence': Transforming a Taboo into a Cause If 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 Read more
February 15, 2019 'A Night at the Garden': Where Past Meets Present In his third Academy Award-nominated film, Marshall Curry delivers a striking variation on his previous nominees, Street Fight and If a Tree Falls . Read more
February 12, 2019 The Final Passage: 'End Game' Offers a Lesson on Death and Dying What does it mean to die well in the 21st century, and how does it feel? End Game , from longtime collaborators Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ( Read more
February 12, 2019 Friends with Monsters: Matters of Race in 'Black Sheep' “I did whatever I needed to do to fit into a group of people who hated the color of my skin… I wanted love. I wanted to feel love, so yeah, I just Read more
January 4, 2019 From Cancer to Cause: Sandra Lee's Journey After her breast cancer diagnosis in 2015, Emmy Award-winning chef, author and magazine publisher Sandra Lee chose to invite cameras to her medical Read more