documentary
Why Sports Documentaries Will Always Matter – To Culture, and To Me
Filmmaking is a team sport, says award-winning doc producer Alex Schmider, who’s pitching his latest project, KICK, this week at DOC NYC.
I Went to Film a Parrot. I Discovered a New Language.
Veteran documentary producer Amy Herdy on the epiphanies she had making her directorial debut, Parrot Kindergarten.
Finding Mistress Dispeller
Director Elizabeth Lo shares the backstory to her remarkable new doc, an intimate portrait of the disentangling of a real-life love triangle.
Becoming the Green Door, or How Working in Porn Shaped Me as a Filmmaker
Scott Cummings, whose film Realm of Satan is out now, looks back on his unlikely roots in adult entertainment.
Video Premiere: Samuel Habib’s My Inclusive Life
As his new feature, The Ride Ahead, premieres today on POV, Samuel Habib shares a personal video essay on his backstory.
Kanye West, Shia LaBeouf and What Happens When We Stop Talking About the Art
Producer Greg Stewart takes a clear-eyed look at the current trend of shunning "difficult" art and the problems that stem from that.
Personal Exposure
Karla Murthy shares the experience of turning the camera on herself and her family in her latest feature, The Gas Station Attendant.
My Friends in Ukraine
Emmy winner Ryan Smith, whose film Soldiers of Song is out now, on his experiences making documentaries about and with the people of Ukraine.
What’s Worth Saving
Sally Aitken pens a timely and poignant essay on Los Angeles, the setting for her new documentary, Every Little Thing.
Best of 2024: Asif Kapadia (2073) on No Other Land
The Oscar-winning British filmmaker on a standout documentary from the past year, an Israeli-Palestinian portrait of the West Bank.
The Resonance of Love – A Tale of Successes and Failures
Documentary filmmaker Alison Tavel on her father, her newly released feature, Resynator, and her personal definition of success.
My Journey From China to America, and My Evolving Relationship With America Reflected Through Filmmaking
Night is Not Eternal director Nanfu Wang on what she has learned from living and making work in the U.S. in the past 13 years.











