With Time Machine Maidan, the Ukrainian film collective Babylon’13 blends the immediacy of its own vast war archive with an artful take on a sci-fi
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Fuera de Campo, a political initiative committed to showcasing Argentine cinema, found a fitting 2025 opener in Lucas Gallo’s televisual archive doc
Three core members of Tikkun Olam Productions on unlearning the conventional model and what the nonprofit collective making movement-aligned work
A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice
In this interview, Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana talks about his focus on Guatemalan grooms in his Independent Lens doc, Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse
The creative disassembly of the Golestan Film Workshop, Iran’s first independent film studio
Newly restored documentaries from the 1950s–1980s reveal how Caribbean filmmakers forged a liberation cinema and why its practices matter now
Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success
Documentary is pleased to announce that the Disability Media Alliance, or DMA, has launched today. Incubated through IDA’s own Nonfiction Access Initiative (NAI), DMA came about after research to address enduring inequities in the documentary community.
In December 2023, as part of the series Making a Production, Documentary profiled Meerkat Media, the New York-based cooperatively owned production company and media arts collective. As a radical experiment in shared authorship and ownership, Meerkat built a sustainable framework for making the kind of films they cared about, while still providing steady paychecks, health insurance, and medical leave to their members. Since the publication of their profile, the group has faced industry-wide challenges, including tightening budgets and shrinking opportunities. At the same time, they’ve experienced major creative high points. Over Zoom, Documentary caught up with Sterrenberg to talk about Meerkat’s recent creative highs, the challenges of balancing freelance work with collective production, and how Emergent City, which opens at DCTV tomorrow and will be broadcast on POV later this year, took shape within the group.