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Logan Elevate Grant provides $30,000 each to three emerging women and non-binary filmmakers of color directing feature-length journalistic documentary films.

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Summer 2025

Our cover is dedicated to Heiny Srour, whose boundary-defying two feature films have been traveling the world after being restored in the last decade. Rintu Thomas goes long and personal on the filmmaking journey that led to her Oscar-nominated Writing With Fire (2023, co-directed with Sushmit Ghosh). Producer Tabs Breese profiles sound designers María Alejandra Rojas and Arturo Salazar. Rachel Pronger details how Katja Raganelli created over a dozen portraits of women filmmakers and artists through a mix of personal conviction and “rucksack” ingenuity. This issue carries three festival reports. Doc’s Kingdom, where writer Victor Guimarães found more questions than satisfying answers regarding how documentary should be listened to, as opposed to merely watched. Vladan Petković once again reports from CPH:DOX. And for the first time in Documentary, we cover Korea’s second-largest film festival, Jeonju. “Making a Production” profile focuses on a grassroots, activist, and membership-funded production company—PINKS. For “Legal FAQ,” we asked attorneys Dale Nelson and Victoria Rosales for tips for documentary filmmakers given the rapidly changing legal landscape for AI privacy and copyright in the U.S. And “Screen Time” continues with capsule-length reviews on notable new releases.Articles featured in the print version will be published online between July and September 2025.
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