May 07, 2019
Bernardo Ruiz Tells Story of the Central Role Latinos Play in California Wine Industry
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Two-time Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz, who was born in Guanajuato, Mexico and grew up in Brooklyn, made his directorial feature debut with the PBS film Reportero, about attacks on the press…...
April 30, 2019
Filmmaker Follows Incarcerated Native Hawaiians Discovering Their Indigenous Traditions
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Native Hawaiian filmmaker Ciara Lacy has had her work aired on PBS, ABC, TLC, Discovery, Bravo and A&E, and was an inaugural Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellow for Indigenous Artists.…...
April 17, 2019
Filmmaker Spotlights Unsung Neighbors Lifting Up Baltimore
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Marilyn Ness is a two-time Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont Award-winning filmmaker, who has produced films like the acclaimed Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson), which was released by the Criterion Collection and…...
April 12, 2019
Acclaimed Filmmaker David Sutherland Tells the Story of a Family Torn Apart by Deportation
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David Sutherland takes his time to tell a story, both in the years he spends with his subject, the amount of footage he shoots, and the ultimate running time --…...
March 27, 2019
How a Lifelong Fascination with Medicine Turned into a Film About the Rural Healthcare Crisis
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[UPDATED April 6, 2019: We reached out to filmmakers Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin to gather their thoughts on why they titled their film The Providers.] The filmmaking team behind the…...
March 25, 2019
Children Own Their Stories in Tre Maison Dasan
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Denali Tiller has been an artist, a teacher, a world traveler, and was named one of 110 “Filmmakers to Watch” by Variety, but Tre Maison Dasan happens to be her…...
February 20, 2019
Director Explores Live Streaming Revolution and How Technology Affects Human Happiness
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Technology executive-turned-filmmaker Hao Wu takes a raw and human approach to storytelling in an era when culture evolves online, and for his very first feature film, People's Republic of Desire…...
February 07, 2019
RaMell Ross Charts “the Visual Story of Blackness” in Oscar-Nominated Doc
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Just one year after RaMell Ross' Hale County This Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the filmmaker will follow his film's television debut…...
February 01, 2019
Five Questions About Fred Rogers with Morgan Neville
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"When I met Joanne Rogers, I told her I wanted to make a film not about Fred Rogers’ story but about his ideas," filmmaker Morgan Neville wrote about Won't You Be…...
January 30, 2019
The Challenge of Making a Film About Racist Relics
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Filmmaker and teacher Chico Colvard's first feature doc, Family Affair, premiered at Sundance and was the first film acquired by Oprah Winfrey for her cable channel, OWN. The searingly personal documentary explored…...
January 24, 2019
Three Things About “The King,” with Eugene Jarecki and Steven Soderbergh
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Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's pedigree is impressive. He has twice won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Peabody Award for: The House I Live In, his 2013 film…...
January 11, 2019
RUMBLE Filmmakers Go Deep into the Indigenous Foundations of Rock
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The making of RUMBLE was a team effort, all of them passionate about bringing an important story to the world. Director-producer Catherine Bainbridge and co-director Alfonso Maiorana worked with Executive Producer…...