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The outlets for original writing on nonfiction cinema are scarce. So the launch of Field of Vision’s Field Notes, its new online journal, makes me want to toss confetti. And speaking of reading materials, there’s plenty to sort through this week with Documentary Organization of Canada’s online guide for filmmakers for production during COVID-19, a new website dedicated […]

I don’t know about you guys, but I feel a bit tuckered out. Maybe it’s the swift shift from the warm summer days to the increasingly dark days of fall. Or more likely, it’s just the lingering instability we’re all feeling in this current moment. I’m thankful I’ll be taking the next few days to rest […]

Monday Memo: Hajooj Kuka Jailed in Khartoum, Documentary Producers Alliance Release Guidelines, ‘Inconvenient Indian’ Wins TIFF Doc Audience Award

Monday Memo: Carrie Lozano Joins Sundance Institute, BFI London Unveils Program & MIT Doc Lab Announces Fall Lecture Series

Monday Memo: PGA Releases COVID Safety Protocols, 41 International Festivals Call For Relief, Kartemquin Leadership Transition & more

Monday Memo: Fall fest news from TIFF, NYFF, IDFA & more

The opening of the Ross brothers’ Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets brought staged documentaries back into the spotlight, the results of the latest edition of the Thumbs Down: Film Critics and Gender study were released, and the New York Film Festival revealed its Revivals program with a handful of key doc classics among its ranks. In wider-ranging industry news, New York’s […]

This past week has been an exceedingly busy one for both documentary news and nonfiction film releases. To help motivate you to catch up, we’ve put together a documentary summer bingo sheet (see below, download and share). Thanks to its debut on Apple+ over the weekend, I’m happy to finally get to cross off Boys State from […]

With the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo facing dire circumstances, along with the suicides of both British filmmaker Richard Bright and documentary subject Daisy Coleman, of Audrie and Daisy, it’s been a fairly grim week in nonfiction cinema news. That said, there have been significant steps made toward diversifying nonfiction production talent, there are a ton […]