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Black and white costumed New Orleanians celebrate Mardi Gras on the pedestal of a now absent confederate monument. From CJ Hunt and Darcy McKinnon’s The Neutral Ground. Photo by Paavo Hanninen. Courtesy of POV.
Screen Time: Week of July 5, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. For your perfect post-July 4th screening, join comedian/journalist CJ Hunt as he...
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Lydia Lunch, a white woman with black hair cut in bangs. She is wearing bright blue contact lenses and red lipstick. From Beth B’s ‘Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over’. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 28, 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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A sepia portrait of Jackie Collins, a white woman with permed hair and a leopard print blouse. Still from ‘LADY BOSS: The Jackie Collins Story’ (Directed by Laura Fairrie, Produced by John Battsek, Lizzie Gillett) Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival
Screen Time: Week of June 28, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. If you need to transport yourself to somewhere cooler amidst this hot summer we...
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Elodie Edjang, a Black woman with short hair and a yellow dress stands in a grass field.
IDA Member Spotlight: Elodie Edjang
Elodie Edjang is a documentary story consultant and cinematographer from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University and earned a BA in Anthropology and a BAJ...
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Drone shot of many pink plastic ring floats on a water ride. A scene from ‘Ascension’ (Directed by Jessica Kingdon, Produced by Kira Simon-Kennedy, Jessica Kingdon, Nathan Truesdell). Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 21, 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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A young Black girl in shorts and a t-shirt runs along the seashore. Tai Sheppard in ‘Sisters on Track’ (directors: Corinne van der Borch, Tone Grøttjord-Glenne). Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of June 20, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. For those of us who spent our summers poring over the comic strip Peanuts, the...
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A protestor holds up a banner with Nasrin Sotoudeh’s photo. It says “Free Nasrin.” From 'Nasrin' (Director: Jeff Kaufman). Courtesy of David Magdael & Associates
Screen Time: Week of June 13, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. When filmmaker Sean Wang wasn’t sure of the whole adulting thing, he decided to...
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Sly Stone, a Black male musician in violet and black, plays to a huge crowd in Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ (Director: Questlove; Producer: David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel) Courtesy of Cinetic Media.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 13, 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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A drag performer in a golden dress, wearing a wig, smoking a cigarette. From Frank Simon's 'The Queen' Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Screen Time: Week of June 7, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Frederick Bernas and Ana González’s The New Yorker documentary Flamenco Queer...
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A BW photo of four young boys—one Black, three white—sitting on a building ledge
Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 31, 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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