“I’ve watched every single one of us struggle...
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
The Spring 2022 issue takes the temperature of this moment of change, tension and upheaval, and of the potential for the power and spirit of labor movements to take hold in the documentary ecosystem—both in the US and around the world. And just to add an editor’s note here: While it might seem a calculated move on our part to unveil this issue just as our comrades at IDA were launching Documentary Workers Union, we were merely being prescient.
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The last few years have been deemed by many as the...
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Joining the Directors Guild of America nearly 10...
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Let’s face it: documentaries are no longer "niche...
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Sahar Driver and Sonya Childress recently...
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"My name is Ayudh Chatterjee, and I’m slightly...
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Since early 2020, the COVID pandemic has taken a...
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Few media arts centers last 50 years, let alone in...
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By Juan MichaelPorter II