Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. November is Native American Heritage Month, and WORLD Channel and Vision Maker Media are commemorating with a rich showcase of work from the Indigenous community, entitled We Are Still Here. Among the films in the showcase include Warrior Women, by Getting Real 2020 Programmer Christina D. King and Elizabeth Castle, which, through the stories of Indigenous rights activists Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcy Gilbert, explores what it means to balance a movement with motherhood as
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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 magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! The New York Times Magazine’s David Marchese profiles teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg, in conjunction with Nathan Grossman’s forthcoming documentary, I Am Greta. I hope it can be a bridge for people to understand that we are in a crisis. I would maybe like it if the movie was less focused on me and more focused on the science. But I understand that it’s
The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the appointment of five new members to its Board of Directors: Hallee Adelman, Grace Lee, Al Perry, Amir Shahkhalili, and Marcia Smith.
Director Zeshawn Ali and producer Aman Ali premiered their first feature-length documentary Two Gods at Hot Docs in June in the midst of a global pandemic and a swath of uprisings for racial justice. The film takes you to Newark, New Jersey, where Hanif, a Muslim casket-maker and ritual body-washer, finds purpose and spiritual grounding in his work. He transforms that purpose into mentoring younger men in the community, specifically his son, as well as two other charges, Naz and Furquan. Together they learn from each other about life and life’s lessons and what the future may hold. Two Gods
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Washington Post presents America’s Pandemic, a three-part documentary series by Whitney Shefte and Jorge Ribas that explores a failed response to the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed the lives of over 225,000 Americans, despite decades of preparation in Washington, DC. Making its broadcast premiere November 8 on National Geographic, Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise takes viewers back to the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, when a devastating firestorm engulfed the
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 magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! On her website shondaland.com, TV superstar showrunner Shonda Rhimes interviews filmmakers Dylann McGee and Sara Wolitzky, the duo behind the new PBS series Not Done: Women Remaking America, about the power of the women’s movement over the past five years. But because this documentary was covering a chunk of recent history, we kind of we knew what we were taking on
PJ Raval is a Filipinx-American filmmaker who has been making waves in the filmmaking industry for two decades.
At Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival, come for the recent festival winners that share a common DNA: investigative journalism. And stay for the conversations about how to do it right. This elegantly curated (by Co-creator/Co-director Sky Sitney) and expertly organized (by Founder/Co-director and former New York Times journalist Diana Schemo) is a rare and much-needed site to discuss journalistic documentary and see its latest exemplars. The Stuff of Nightmares There were nightmare-inducing films, with actionable political revelations here in the US. Erika Cohn’s Belly of the Beast
The feature documentary shortlist includes 30 films from 21 countries. 38% of directors and 55% of producers are women, 30% of directors and 28% identify as BIPOC. Additionally, 8% of directors and 7% of producers are LGBTQ. 5% of directors and 3% of producers are disabled.
There are plenty of films made by creators in the IDA family to catch. Check out the IDA-supported titles at DOC NYC this year, including IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund grantees, fiscally sponsored projects and DocuClub alumnus.