It is not surprising that the Tow Center for Digital Journalism's research project, Video Now —which examines current trends of news publications'
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When Silverdocs launched in 2003, Ann Richards and George Plimpton were still alive, Journey was just another '80s rock band, and a small Moroccan
The following Glossary and Key Takeaways, organized as answers to 5 specific questions, were collected from the February 5 IDAinsight titled “Beyond the Distributor: Theatrical Exhibition for Independently-Released Films.”
Documentary editor Abby Sun pays tribute to the renowned filmmaker who championed a vision of uncompromising artistic independence
Interviews with sales agents, sales news, project announcements, and industry trends at DocSalon panels at the 2025 European Film Market (February 13–19). The 2025 edition of the Berlinale has been one of the coldest in recent memory, with the German capital covered in snow for almost ten days and the thermometer occasionally hitting -10°C. The A-list gathering, which ran from 13–23 February this year, saw a brand-new management team take over the festival direction. The festival’s American director Tricia Tuttle appointed German-French executive Tanja Meissner to head the EFM.
“It’s South Africa, it’s Vietnam, it’s Jim Crow—it’s like all of these defining moments,” says filmmaker Razi Jafri by phone from East Jerusalem
Amid industry disruption, filmmakers search for marketing and data solutions in community.
Charlie Shackleton describes “The Afterlight” as “a film that’s designed to be lost.” It deliberately exists as a single 35mm print that will naturally degrade over time and with every showing. But recently, the film was lost in a different way than intended. Documentary spoke with Shackleton about the logistics of the accidental loss of the film and its subsequent recovery.
There’s a scrappiness behind Memory’s sleek exterior and dedicated cult following. The L.A.-based production company has only two full-time employees: its founders Sebastian Pardo and Riel Roch-Decter. The duo sought to create both a low-budget dream factory for passion projects and a sustainable network of filmmakers working in the DIY ethos of the 2000s, but with the stylistic inclinations of tidier, higher-budget productions.
A dizzying, fast-paced, 150-minute montage about American jazz, Western imperialism, European colonization, and the assassination of Congolese