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Rebecca is a elderly white woman flying a kite in Detroit, on a bucket list adventure. Image from Sian-Pierre Regis’ ‘Duty Free.’ Courtesy of PBS, Independent Lens.
Screen Time: Week of November 22, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Sian-Pierre Regis’ Duty Free is the story of the filmmaker teaming up with his...
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Terrick Trobough is a young white male actor wearing a white shirt, sitting on a church bench. He is wearing a cross. Image from Robert Greene’s ‘Procession.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 15, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Two colleagues, a transgender woman and a non-binary person, laughing in a meeting at work. Photo taken by Zackary Drucker. Courtsey of The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Four Ways To Be A Better Trans Ally in your Documentary Filmmaking
By KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR and HANSEN BURSIC Strong, meaningful allyship is one of the most powerful tools we have to change our industry for the better. Over the last few months, an important discussion...
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Two colleagues, a transgender woman and a non-binary person, laughing in a meeting at work. Photo taken by Zackary Drucker. Courtsey of The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Four Ways To Be A Better Trans Ally in your Documentary Filmmaking
By KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR and HANSEN BURSIC Strong, meaningful allyship is one of the most powerful tools we have to change our industry for the better. Over the last few months, an important discussion...
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Headshot of a Mohawk woman with medium skin tone, brown hair worn up, wearing a black shirt and a pink beaded floral necklace
IDA Member Spotlight: Katsitsionni Fox
Katsitsionni Fox is an artist, filmmaker and educator. She is Bear Clan from the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne. Her debut film was the award-winning Ohero:kon—Under the Husk, a 26-minute documentary that...
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Meera and Shyamkali are two South Asian journalists looking at filmed footage on a cellphone. From Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s ‘Writing With Fire.’ Courtesy of Music Box Films
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 8, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Brothers John and Art Cullen are two white men standing in a printing press, reviewing a hot-off-the-presses copy of 'The Storm Lake Times.' Image from Beth Levison and Jerry Risius’ ‘Storm Lake.’ Courtesy of 'Independent Lens'/PBS.
Screen Time: Week of November 8, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. It’s Noirvember! Kick off your celebrations with the " Film Noir" episode of PBS...
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A masked Black woman funeral worker at a funeral at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, New Orleans. She is standing next to a casket. From the 'Frontline' documentary ‘Death Is Our Business,’ directed by Jacqueline Olive. Courtesy of PBS Frontline.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 1, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Monica Del Carmen is a Mexican woman dressed as a cop sitting in a police car. From Alonso Ruizpalacios’ ‘A Cop Movie.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of November 1, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The National Film Board of Canada’s annual American Indian Film Festival is back...
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An image of a pair of eyes displayed on a screen atop a skyscraper. From Todd Chandler’s 'Bulletproof.' Courtesy of Grasshopper Film.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 25, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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