Summer 2009

Matters of Race Summer 2009

Can Obama's "change" be as transformative in the art house and in homes across America?

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Features

Post-Racial Before It Was Cool: LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and Visual Communications Celebrate Milestones

So, Americans elected its first African-American...

ByElizabethBlozan

Their AIM Is True: Native American Filmmakers Look to Define a New Era

Forty years ago, an ebullient civil rights...

ByBeigeAdams

Taking a 'Stand': Tavis Smiley Explores the Black Male Experience

Standing on the shoulders of those who came before...

ByTracieLewis

ROOTS: A 'Good Hair' Day for Chris Rock

'Good Hair' comes to theaters thsi fall through...

ByTamaraKrinsky

Taking Stock of the National Archives: Finding Footage in America's Film Vault

There you are, working hard on your project, and...

ByPhillip W.Stewart

¡Sí Se Puede!: Diez Años de NALIP

National Association of Latino Independent...

ByCheloAlvarez-Stehle

An Obama Nation? One Filmmaker's Journey Since the Historic Election

I watched the historic inauguration of President...

ByThomas AllenHarris

Diagnostic Documentaries: HBO Faces Alzheimer's Disease

'Project,' aims to bring a wider understanding of...

ByTamaraKrinsky

Columns

Notes from the Reel World, The Executive Director's Column, Summer 2009

By MichaelLumpkin

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Summer 2009

By TomWhite

Watching Jewishly: Who Knew?

By CynthiaClose

The Revolution Has Been Digitized: Markers Classic Now on Home Video

By CathleenRountree

New Doc/Reality Conference Launches in Los Angeles

By TamaraKrinsky

João Moreira Salles' 'Santiago'

By NataliaAlmada

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: A New Kind of Geneology

By TamaraKrinsky

Mission of Burma: Getting the Story Is the Story

By KathyMcDonald

Gangtown: Stacy Peralta Takes on the Bloods and Crips

By KathleenFairweather