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I introduced Barbara Kopple at the Cinema Eye Awards in New York this past January, where she received the Legacy Award for her 1976 film Harlan

For a reason that has since been lost to me, during my last year of college in 1990, I volunteered to write a thesis on something called "reader

The summer of 1969. Clearly the world was about to change––or end––and at the age of 13, I was not going to miss it by going away to summer camp. So

My brother Roko and I grew up on late-night dinner conversations with interesting guests, and summer trips to Eastern Europe to see family. But it was

In My Father's House is a fascinating film because filmmaker Fatima Jebli Ouazzani shows us all her confusions, dreams and regrets, while remaining

Midway through Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol, I was sitting on the edge of my seat. My chin was in my hand and my mouth was slightly open. Also, I

It was the mid- 1950s and my sociology professor announced to our class one day that he was about to show us a documentary film. Students began to

The Farmer's Wife, a documentary by David Sutherland, had a profound effect on me. It inspired me back into producing documentaries. After film school

Back in 1983 I was living in San Francisco, and I read in the newspaper one day about a new documentary called The Atomic Café that had just opened. I

" To Be and To Have isn't a documentary in the traditional sense, with a demonstrative and didactic approach," says its maker, Nicolas Philibert. "I