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Don’t Consider It Cheating, It Bears Repeating

Otto Bell on paying homage to cinematic greats in his new documentary short, The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, premiering this weekend on Vice TV.

January 29, 2021

The Myth of Choice

Angela Tucker on why producing Belly of the Beast, a documentary on race and forced sterilizations, was so personally resonant for her.

January 25, 2021

Life in Ever-Widening Loops: On Michael Apted’s Up Series

Julia Marchese pays tribute to the late director with this personal appreciation of his towering, half-century-long documentary project.

January 20, 2021

What I Learned Working on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Director Matthew Hamachek, whose new HBO documentary Tiger airs this weekend, on his first formative experience of filmmaking.

January 8, 2021

Industry Secrets: John Wilson in Conversation with Caveh Zahedi

The breakthrough creator-star of How To With John Wilson has a socially distanced chat with his friend and fellow documentary innovator.

December 16, 2020

On the Road with House of Homeland

Seamus Murphy, director of the new doc A Dog Called Money, on traveling the world with PJ Harvey – and his favorite binge-worthy TV shows.

December 9, 2020

How the 1960s Protest Movements Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

For Deborah Shaffer, director of the new doc Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, the political has always been personal.

November 13, 2020

A World Below the Brine

Hasan Oswald shares the compelling story of how he came to make his Slamdance Grand Jury-winning doc Higher Love, out now on digital.

November 11, 2020

Death, Rebirth and My Personal Journey with My Name is Pedro

Lillian LaSalle, director of the new documentary My Name is Pedro, on her challenging, emotional experiences during the pandemic.

November 4, 2020

Following My Instincts

Documentarian Sabrina Van Tassel on the path that led her to her most significant project to date, the stirring The State of Texas vs. Melissa.

October 26, 2020

“I Was Fascinated By the Way Film Could Represent Reality”: Yung Chang in Conversation with Robert Fisk

The director of This is Not a Movie interviews his subject, Middle East correspondent Fisk, about his abiding love of cinema.

October 16, 2020

A Letter to My Uninspired Self

When you travel all over and play a show a day for a year and make a movie about it, you inevitably learn lessons. But you also have to remember them.

October 13, 2020