Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Hulu is Adam Bhala Lough's The New Radical. Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape. Premiering tonight on A&E is Divided States, an original documentary series about how racial tensions and hate crimes are impacting communities in the US and
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Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! The Guardian’s Charlie Phillips reflects on the power of short docs. Online distribution has offered a big boost for the visibility of documentaries, and not just feature-length ones. In recent years, the most interesting innovations in the form have often been seen in the less risk-averse short-form length
March 1, 2018 (Los Angeles, CA) - Today, the International Documentary Association and National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri, announced the creation of a resource guide for documentary filmmakers working on journalistic projects. The guide, “Mapping the Documentary-Journalism Landscape,” is now available on University of Missouri’s website. “When the Enterprise Fund was launched, we were committed to creating tangible documentary-journalism resources for all nonfiction storytellers,” said
Journalists and documentary filmmakers often follow parallel paths when stalking their similar prey. They interview witnesses, build stories around characters, dig into the past and compile facts. Along that landscape, they often encounter the same obstacles, and a common path can help get them to their destinations. This guide is designed to help filmmakers find information and make decisions that journalists make every day. Whether it be questions of what rights the First Amendment guarantees, what rights to privacy people can expect or what ethical decisions must be made when telling the
Opening a restaurant is always a challenge, and a Cleveland fine-dining establishment called EDWINS decided to make it extra difficult. The proprietor, Brandon Chrostowski, aimed to open the greatest French restaurant in the United States, while managing a staff composed almost exclusively of untrained cooks transitioning out of prison. Thomas Lennon's clear-eyed, soulful Oscar-nominated documentary short Knife Skills follows the EDWINS staff beginning six weeks prior to opening night; the former inmates' trial-by-fire demonstrates the difficulties of reintegration and the pressures of a
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, February 26 on Independent Lens is Theo Anthony's Rat Film. A unique blend of history, science and sci-fi, poetry and portraiture, the film explores how racial segregation, discriminatory lending practices, and environmental racism built the Baltimore that exists today. Premiering tonight on Smithsonian Channel (and streaming on the website) is The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X. Presented entirely through his speeches, newscasts, and rarely seen archival footage
One of the five films nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at this year's Academy Awards, Frank Stiefel's Heaven Is a Traffic Jam On the 405, takes its title from its protagonist's unusual description of bliss. The 57-year-old artist Mindy Alper perceives her environment differently than those around her, channeling all manner of anxiety, depression and trauma into vivid, intensely human sketch drawings and large-scale papier-mâché sculptures. Stiefel's film is an intimate portrait of a complicated individual, attuned to the ways that art-making can assist the sometimes painful process
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! At The New York Times, Cara Buckley reports on two Oscar doc nominees facing different kinds of Russian meddling. Fayyad said that malignment of his film Last Men in Aleppo began soon after its premiere last year at Sundance, where it won a grand jury prize, and has only intensified since. In the Russian media, Mr
For journalist-turned-filmmaker Laura Checkoway, Edith + Eddie was supposed to be a heartwarming love story. Inspired by a photograph she saw online, Checkoway traveled to Alexandria, Virginia to profile America's oldest interracial newlyweds, aged 96 and 95, who married after ten years together. However, the story took a turn when the happy couple was forcibly separated by a court order, mandating that Edith go live with her daughter in Florida. In the year since the short film's premiere at the 2017 True/False Film Festival, Edith + Eddie has inspired and infuriated audiences, introducing us
Overview Culture paints a portrait of what we celebrate and who is worthy of our attention. As cultural critic and journalist Mary McNamara stated, "When we praise and reward certain stories or images, whether by big box office or gold statuary, we reveal what we as a society value, the kinds of people we find interesting, the characteristics we revere and revile. We show the paths we hope to choose or avoid and the lessons we have learned, or not learned, from history." Through artistic expression, documentary films provide a portal into real lives, stories and social challenges. It is not