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Remembering Kevin Rafferty

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi looks back on his encounters with the late director of The Atomic Café and Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.

July 15, 2020

Investigating Jared Kushner in the Golden Age of Documentary Journalism

Directors Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme share the story behind their episode of Netflix's Dirty Money on the president's son-in-law.

On the Ross Brothers’ Second Star to the Right and Straight on ’Til Morning

Director Braden King chats with Bill and Turner Ross about their under-the-radar doc, which captures the making of Benh Zeitlin's Wendy.

June 18, 2020

The Clouds That Touch Us Out of Clear Skies

Through a 20-year-old Lynn Shelton film, viewable here for the first time, Megan Griffiths finds a new way to know her friend and to process her loss.

June 11, 2020

How I Nearly Died Making My New Movie

Director Jason Wise recalls a fateful day shooting his new documentary about sea-urchin divers, The Delicacy.

June 1, 2020

On the Trail with Bernie

Pat McGee, the director of the new documentary Bernie Blackout: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, reflects on his journey making the film.

May 12, 2020

What Happened When Our Election-Hacking Doc Came Out During Coronavirus

Two of the directors of Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections share the important takeaways from their sobering investigative doc.

I Know the Ghosts: Employing Grandmother Wisdom in My Debut Feature

First-time filmmaker Bo McGuire on how he used “skillful will” to make his Tribeca-winning docudrama Socks on Fire.

April 30, 2020

Matt Berninger Talks with Aimee Mann on the Talkhouse Podcast

They celebrate the magic of record stores and the new Other Music documentary.

The Way We Get By: Lightning Bug’s Audrey Kang Found Pina Universally Moving

The frontwoman talks Wim Wenders’s modern dance doc.

April 7, 2020

Alone, Together: A Filmmaker’s Quarantine

Documentarian Rachel Elizabeth Seed scrutinizes the rhythms and emotions of her radically different new life under coronavirus lockdown.

March 27, 2020

Three Great Things: Liz Garbus

The Oscar-nominated director of Lost Girls offers up three things that anchor her in a stressful and increasingly uncertain world.

March 13, 2020