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April 17, 2014How does a documentary filmmaker whose focus is the history of black people’s struggle for equality satisfy the conflicting demands of an audience that lived the history and an audience that needs to learn it?
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April 16, 2014Two new Hollywood films have the same titles as recent documentary films. How is that legal? More > -
March 29, 2014The latest opinion from the Southern District of New York betrays misapprehensions about documentary filmmaking, and, in the process, renders documentary outtakes more vulnerable to subpoena than they should be. More > -
March 8, 2014American Promise documents the education of two middle-class African-American boys in New York City from kindergarten through high school. With the documentary as a springboard, the filmmakers are spearheading a larger social justice campaign to support better educational opportunities for African-American males. More > -
February 26, 2014Documentary guru Thom Powers thinks that organizations that support doc filmmakers need to create a legal defense fund to help filmmakers pay legal bills. More > -
March 14, 2014Moving to China has given guest blogger Michael L. Wong a different perspective on the documentary “Last Train Home” which follows the Zhangs, a migrant worker couple, on their visit home for the Chinese New Year. More > -
February 20, 2014The documentary “Kids for Cash” is as much about the limits of zero tolerance policies and the harms of the school-to-prison pipeline as it is about judicial greed and corruption. Who knew? More > -
February 17, 2014After Justin Thomas, a 29-year-old documentary film student, was arrested and detained for filming the exterior of a NYPD precinct in Brooklyn, the charges were dropped and Thomas won a $15,000 settlement in a civil rights lawsuit. More > -
January 22, 2014A New York appellate court granted summary judgment to HBO and a production company that was developing a reality series about the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit in a case involving excessive use of force. More > -
January 20, 2014A lawsuit reveals details about documentarian Errol Morris’s struggle to get consent forms signed by Joyce McKinney, the subject of the film Tabloid. More >