Among the early stakeholders in your documentary career are your teachers—whether at the high school level, to provide that crucial early spark of
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Student interest in college courses focusing on documentary media has never been higher. Why? Certainly, "documenting" their lives via Instagram and
For any young aspiring filmmaker, entering the world of documentary can be a challenging endeavor. And if you're a person of color, or have limited
The line that traditionally separated documentary filmmakers from journalists increasingly is becoming blurred, if not erased. As the disciplines
This past October, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit UnionDocs convened a weekend workshop called "Speculations in the Archive," a sold-out gathering that
Archival images often form part of our collective memories. Whether it be Leni Riefenstahl's footage of the Nuremberg Rallies, Martin Luther King's "I
Matthew White was a founder, first president, and is currently executive director of the Association of Commercial Stock Image Libraries (ACSIL), a
Over the past few years, the documentary form has seen a creative sea change in depictions of history: how it's rendered, what it represents and how
To create a portrait of an individual—movie producer Robert Evans, say, or musician Kurt Cobain—director Brett Morgen abides by an austere tenet. "I
Since American Experience debuted in October 1988, a guiding principle of the PBS series has been a belief that history matters. History can help us