Field Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

I once considered documentary to be a fallback for filmmakers of color who were shut out of the fiction universe. I was wrong. As it turns out, we may

'Mama, Look, A Negro! I'm scared!'— Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Seven years ago I wrote a piece for Documentary entitled "Obama Nation: One

Crossing the Anacostia River back toward Northwest Washington, DC, tails between our legs, I thought, "Pick-up shoots are supposed to be easy." We'd

The annual AFI DOCS Filmmaker Forum, presented in association with IDA and Women Make Movies, was held this year from June 23-26 at the AFI DOCS

Now nearly two decades old, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is perhaps the closest thing America has to a European doc fest in terms of

It is challenging for female cinematographers. No woman has ever been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and very few have been

Editor’s Note: On October 1 at the Lakeside Theater in Oakland, IDA will present a special Bay Area edition of its Conversation Series, featuring The

I watched the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama on a television set in a Park City condo. I was at the 25th Sundance Film Festival

Let me begin by stating the obvious: images in U.S. media—not just images of Black people, but all images—are highly influenced by the political