Summer 2016

#DocsSoWhite: A Personal Reflection Summer 2016

This essay is a personal reflection on diversity and independent filmmaking, what lessons we can learn from the past, and the realities we live with today as filmmakers of color. It is a complicated picture that I'm nowhere close to figuring out.

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Features

Revaluing the Black Body: Changing the Visual Narrative Through Family Photographs

'Mama, Look, A Negro! I'm scared!'— Franz Fanon...

By Thomas Allen Harris

Keep Calm & Carry On the Struggle for Media Diversity: An English Docmaker's Lament

Jalal Nuriddin: The Grandfather of Rap. Photo...

By Mike Todd

Navigating the River: The Hidden Colonialism of Documentary

Crossing the Anacostia River back toward Northwest...

By Edwin Martinez

Columns

Bruce Weber's 'Let's Get Lost'

By Sam Pollard

Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, Summer 2016

By Marjan Safinia

Documentary and the Law

By Jack Lerner

Women Who Shoot: More Cinematography Opportunities in Docs

By Cynthia Close

The Brooks Institute Focuses on Documentary Photography

By Frako Loden

When the Abusers Are Abused: 'Pervert Park' and the Punishment of Sex Offenders

By Michael Galinsky

Autistic License: Disney Animation Treats the Disorder

By Addie Morfoot

Doc Ethics: Let Core Values Drive Your Decisions

By Gordon Quinn