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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Independent Lens, Rewind takes a brave and wrenching look at filmmaker Sasha Joseph Neulinger's childhood through home video footage that reveals not only family gatherings and the rituals of growing up, but also a long-kept secret: an unflinching story of abuse, cycled through generations, that triggered a media firestorm, a high-stakes court battle and a family reckoning. Neulinger revisits the footage 20 years later to examine what it means to heal and how
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! Writing for IndieWire, producer/consultant Brian Newman considers the prospects of premiering a film online. But if you are trying to premiere a feature film, and you don't yet have distribution, then as of now you can't consider these online festivals because buyers consider them a conflict with their distribution of your film. They do NOT see it as word-of-mouth
Americans are planning their exit strategy from weeks of coronavirus hibernation, but there's still a compelling reason to stay home on the evenings of May 11 and 12: the new documentary series Asian Americans, a five-episode saga of the fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in American history. Asian Americans is a production of WETA Washington, DC and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) for PBS, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Flash Cuts and Tajima-Peña Productions. It's a vast subject, years in the making, at last realized by the finest Asian American
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, forcing the cancellations of film festivals and transforming the documentary industry as we know it, the formation of a new documentary association in Europe seems urgent and ever more timely. Berlinale, one of the few film festivals that took place before coronavirus restrictions were put in effect, was the official launch site of the Documentary Association of Europe (DAE), on February 22. The new documentary association comes as the European Documentary Network (EDN) finds itself in disarray since a loss of funding from the Danish Film
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 5 on HBO and streaming on HBO NOW and HBO GO, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, by Laurent Bouzereaue, follows the celebrated actress' daughter, producer Natasha Gregson Wagner, as she explores her mother's illustrious filmography and the mother she knew, through personal interviews with, among others, husband Robert Wagner, who speaks on-camera about Wood's tragic death at age 43 in a drowning accident. This intimate documentary goes beyond the story of her
Years in the making, IDA is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with Getty Images and new benefits for IDA members from this new venture! With over 300 million editorial and creative photos and over 11 million video clips, in addition to a full selection of music tracks and sound effects, Getty Images is the most comprehensive multimedia database available online and a valuable resource for filmmakers and artists around the world. With Getty Images celebrating its 25 th anniversary, we are thrilled for IDA members to make use of their new benefits, including: A 15% minimum discount on
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 Los Angeles Times' Amy Kaufman checks in on documentary filmmakers who are persevering through lockdown on their projects. While there are still no clear answers on when and how production could resume on Hollywood's scripted movies, many documentary filmmakers have been able to continue working. Some, like Porter, have been able to forge ahead by equipping their
Most of us find ourselves spending an unprecedented amount of time at home, and cities seem to have come to a standstill. However, thousands of individuals have been waking up and going to work throughout the pandemic, for their loss from the workforce would be devastating for our daily lives. Many of us have the luxury to continue our professional lives from the comfort and safety of our homes, but essential workers are truly at the frontlines of the crisis, ensuring that we remain fed, housed and, if sick, taken care of, during these times. Whether it's medical staff working in emergency
When one thinks of a coming-out story these days, an LGBTQ teenager proudly declaring their identity on Instagram might immediately spring to mind. Which wasn't the case for the two women at the center of Chris Bolan's heartfelt doc A Secret Love (prods.: Ryan Murphy, Beech Hill, Alexa L. Fogel and Brendan Mason; exec. prod.: Jason Blum) streaming on Netflix starting April 29. The film is a decades-spanning portrait of the director's great-aunt Terry Donahue, a member of the women's pro baseball league that inspired the 1992 film A League of Their Own, and Pat Henschel, the hockey player she