Chi-hui Yang is program officer at Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative. In this Getting Real keynote, Yang addresses what it means to him to be a
Getting Real
What I’m going to talk about today are three of those unseen practices in documentary filmmaking—compensating protagonists, empowering our crews, and questioning who is in leadership.
When we are fighting a pandemic and on the brink of environmental cataclysm and we can’t breathe and our children are locked in cages, what is our responsibility as artists?
Director Sam Feder discusses how access, power, and possibility shaped Disclosure, and discusses with Laverne Cox how we as a community of storytellers must hold each other accountable in order to shift culture.
Documentary filmmakers discuss the dialogue between their work and the political contexts in which they were made.
While much has been written about the colonial history of documentary filmmaking, far less is known about the canon of oppositional cinema created by Black, Indigenous, and other filmmakers of color.
When we are fighting a pandemic and on the brink of environmental cataclysm and we can’t breathe and our children are locked in cages, what is our responsibility as artists?
This year’s virtual gathering of Getting Real ‘20 called for the redistribution of power within documentary practice and the removal of barriers
“When you are a member of a marginalized community, most film and television is not made with you in mind. And so, if you are a person of color, an
I attended my first conference in yoga pants and a t-shirt with snacks and a coffee mug on my desk, a cat and dog, and stretch breaks whenever I wanted.