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Shamir on How White People Need to Pass the Mic

Revisiting his review of Chelsea Handler's special Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea.

June 10, 2020

WeTalkAlways in Season

Ondi Timoner is joined by award-winning documentarian Jacqueline Olive in the penultimate episode of WeTalk Sidewalk.

November 19, 2019

How Special Education Led Me to a Career in Filmmaking

Writer-director David Midell outlines how his past work as a teacher and therapist drew him to make The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain.

October 24, 2019

Why Making Documentaries is an Act of Resistance

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? director Roberto Minervini on the profound importance of nonfiction filmmaking, now more than ever.

August 27, 2019

Film is Our Family Business

The writer-director-star of Armed writes about his unconventional upbringing and becoming the filmmaker — and man — he is today.

September 14, 2018

Swimming Upstream

Kusama — Infinity director Heather Lenz details the obstacles she faced during her resilient attempts to get her documentary made.

September 6, 2018

My Awkward Encounters on the Film Festival Circuit

The director of the documentary Of Love & Law discusses constantly having to negotiate being “othered” by well-intentioned audience members.

July 19, 2018

Scared, Angry White Men

Ted Geoghegan on his new film Mohawk, a thriller about America's ugly past and the proto-Trump supporters who shaped the country.

February 27, 2018

Victoria Ruiz (Downtown Boys) on Kendrick Lamar’s Necessary Power

In the face of white supremacy, DAMN. demands respect.

April 20, 2017

Fuck the Police: Victoria Ruiz (Downtown Boys) on Why You Should Protest the Cops This Weekend, Too

When you’re marching against Trump on Saturday, remember who helped him win the presidency.

January 20, 2017

Why Trump’s Victory Made Me Decide to Go Make Movies in Mexico

Filmmaker Jade Porter on why the result of the presidential election prompted her to fulfill a long-held dream to live south of the border.

November 29, 2016

13th Gives America a Much-Needed History Lesson

Adam Bhala Lough on Ava DuVernay's powerful doc on the roots of African-American mass incarceration – and also on what it leaves out.

October 28, 2016