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The Short Docs Pathway--Long on Visibility and Virality, Slim on Sustainability

Wed, 12/14/2022

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Bob the Drag Queen poses in drag, dressed in a red, white and blue cowgirl outfit. From “We’re Here.” Photo courtesy of Greg Endries/HBO.

Screen Time: Week of November 28, 2022

Mon, 11/28/2022

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IDFA Artistic Dierctor Orwa Nyrabia, shown delivering a keynote address on a large screen at the 2018 Getting Real conference, is a Syrian man with a beard, wearing a dark sweater. Photo courtesy of AMPAS

Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 11, 2022

Fri, 11/11/2022

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Protestors of gerrymandering gather outside of the Supreme Court, from Chris Durrance and Barak Goodman's ‘Slay the Dragon’. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

Screen Time: Week of November 7, 2022

Tue, 11/08/2022

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Heavily armed troops, wearing body armor, face shields and helmets, march through the streets of Moscow at night. From Gesbeen Mohammed’s ‘Putin’s War at Home,’ a ‘Frontline’ production currently streaming on PBS.org. Courtesy of ‘Frontline’.

Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 31, 2022

Fri, 11/04/2022

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Dilma Rousseff, the former president of Brazil, is applauded while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, her predecessor, who was just elected president for the second time, on October 30, 2022, raises her hand in the air. From Petra Costa’s ‘The Edge of Democracy.’ Photo courtesy of Netflix.

Screen Time: Week of October 31, 2022

Mon, 10/31/2022

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Harry Belafonte is a Black man, bald, smiling, wearing a grey hoodie and sitting on a chair, in front of a bookshelf. From Elvis Mitchell’s ‘Is That Black Enough For You?!?’ Courtesy of netflix

Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 24, 2022

Fri, 10/28/2022

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Two women, both with long brown hair and wearing sleeveless vests, perform on their electric guitars in a field of uncut wheat and grass. From Rita Baghdadi's 'Sirens," which is showing in theaters through Oscilloscope Laboratories. Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories .

Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 21, 2022

Fri, 10/21/2022

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A woman wearing a hijab stands on a podium looking out at a crowd. Photo: Capital-K Pictures. Courtesy of POV.

Screen Time: Week of October 17, 2022

Mon, 10/17/2022

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A woman in a white dress dances while people clap around her. From Mathew Ramirez Warren’s 'We Like It Like That.' Courtesy of 'We Like It Like That' and 'America ReFramed.'

Screen Time: Week of October 3, 2022

Mon, 10/03/2022

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The Logan Elevate Grantees for 2022: (left to right) Paige Bethmann, an Indigneous woman with shoulder-length black hair, wearing a floral-print sweatshirt; Zippy Kimundu, an African woman with dreads, wearing a short-sleeved button-down white shirt; and Chelsea Hernandez, a Latinx woman with short dark hair, wearing a black shirt. .

Meet the Logan Elevate Grantees

Fri, 09/23/2022

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A black-and-white photo shows Chol Soo Lee, an Asian American man, smiling outside of a car after being released from prison, From Julia Ha and Eugene Yi's ‘Free Chol Soo Lee.’ Photo courtesy of Grant Din/ITVS.

Essential Doc Reads: Week of September 09, 2022

Fri, 09/09/2022

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Archival photo of a Japanese family as they await a train that will take them to an internment camp. From Ken Burns’ ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust.’ Photo by Dorothea Lange. Image courtesy of PBS.

Essential Doc Reads: Week of September 02, 2022

Fri, 09/02/2022

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Black and white image of Habu Abdella, a young Ethiopian woman holding a stem of khat leaves. From Jessica Beshir's 'Faya Dayi.' Courtesy of Feyatey LLC

Screen Time: Week of August 29, 2022

Mon, 08/29/2022

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Caption: A collage of family photos of the director Edward Buckles Jr. From Edward Buckles Jr.’s ‘Katrina Babies.’ Courtesy of HBO Max

Screen Time: Week of August 22, 2022

Mon, 08/22/2022

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Leo Baker, a white person with buzz-cut hair, smiles toward the ground while holding a neon green skateboard deck. From Nicola Marsh and Giovanni Reda’s ‘Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story,. Photo courtesy of Netflix.

Essential Doc Reads: Week of August 12, 2022

Fri, 08/12/2022

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A Black woman with short curly hair stands in front of a red background, bare-shouldered and staring at the camera. From Juliana Kasumu’s Baby Bangz: Black Power in Hair.

Screen Time: Week of August 8, 2022

Mon, 08/08/2022

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Kirsten Kleist Petersen is a young woman wearing a gray shirt. She is sitting on a chair by a window and petting her cat. From Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog’s ‘Winter’s Yearning.’ Courtesy of 'POV.'

Screen Time: Week of August 1, 2022

Mon, 08/01/2022

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Virtual reality avatars DragonHeart, IsYourBoi, DustBunny, Toaster and Jenny sit together on a long wooden bench. From Joe Hunting’s ‘We Met in Virtual Reality.’ Courtesy of HBO.

Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 25, 2022

Fri, 07/29/2022

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