documentary filmmakers

EXCLUSIVE: The 21st annual American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase has set its roster of young talent bringing their shorts to the Cannes Film Festival venue this year. The program features 27 short documentary and narrative films by up-and-comers from the U.S. and around the world.

A federal lawsuit accusing music mogul Russell Simmons of raping a documentary filmmaker in 2016 was dismissed Wednesday. The $5-million suit, filed in January by Jennifer Jarosik, was dismissed by agreement from Jarosik and Simmons' attorneys. No reason was given in the court filing for the ...

Footage showing the moment a TV crew member was accidentally shot dead by officers while filming a police documentary has been made public as part of a lawsuit brought by his family. Sound technician Bryce Dion, 38, died after he was struck by a bullet as police fired at a robber in fast-food restaurant ...

Spiro — a visiting professor at UC Berkeley who is teaching a course on documentary production — has made numerous feature-length and short documentaries on various sociopolitical topics, including PBS' “Fixing the Future.” While Spiro initially gained experience with filmmaking technology as a ...

Did you know that Boston has an incredibly rich, cross-pollinating documentary filmmaking community? As with artists' ... Premieres for local documentaries will be jam-packed with the family, friends and colleagues who've supported a filmmaker's process for sometimes more than a decade. That's why ...

There's an implicit agreement between the filmmaker and audience: the audience expects that what is presented is well researched; that the filmmaker is thorough and honest. One of the reasons why documentaries take several years to produce is the care filmmakers take in deciding what content to ...

Tonight, the documentary will premiere as one of the Tribeca Film Festival's buzziest, most anticipated entries: a “fine, nuanced, intimate doc” that ... the company tweeted at pundit and MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid, “To clarify one thing: Like all subjects for our documentaries, Rachel Dolezal did not ...

Lozano then brought up the fact that representatives from IDA's Enterprise Documentary Fund travel all over the country to listen to filmmakers. She also ... (However, later in the conversation she noted that it's “flat-out racist” for a filmmaker to complain they are having trouble diversifying their team. If that's ...

“He has a driving curiosity about other people's lives — a great attribute for a documentary filmmaker — as well as tremendous drive and confidence in himself.” Oppenheim's ... Last December, “No Jail Time: The Movie” focused on defense attorneys who create tear-jerking documentaries to sway the court.