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After over two decades of living in New York City (half in the Village, when "no-man's land" began east of Avenue B; half in Greenpoint, when it was
The comments—and the fetishizing perspectives—were naively unexpected: "What is he?" "Where is she from?" "Are they adopted?" "So exotic." These are
The international documentary field has never been harder to navigate, with thousands of worthwhile films vying for the limited attention of audiences
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The three-day agenda of IDA's Getting Real '16 conference contains as many strands: art, diversity and sustainability braid together to form a rope
I once considered documentary to be a fallback for filmmakers of color who were shut out of the fiction universe. I was wrong. As it turns out, we may
'Mama, Look, A Negro! I'm scared!'— Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Seven years ago I wrote a piece for Documentary entitled "Obama Nation: One
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Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine, which nabbed this year’s Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing, continues the
Crossing the Anacostia River back toward Northwest Washington, DC, tails between our legs, I thought, "Pick-up shoots are supposed to be easy." We'd