The Black Documentary Collective (BDC) was founded by the late, great documentarian St. Clair Bourne to support the artistic development and professional advancement of documentary media makers of African descent.
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The idea of change looks different for different people. For independent filmmakers, especially those who are struggling, a constructive change means more funds and opportunities for those who have been historically left out. To those previously and currently in positions of power, change could mean reform, or making minor structural tweaks rather than building foundations from scratch. It could also mean projecting a semblance of change, because real change would be far too risky for the status quo.
A poetic look at reconciliation and belonging through the eyes of a young Haitian-born Indigenous adoptee in Canada.
We will now be requiring all applicants to tell us about their connection to the story and to the specific communities of their projects. We are curious to learn about the type of collaboration that will happen between the creative team and the protagonist and are foregrounding questions around authorship and representation in our reviews.
IDFA is partnering on an ongoing industry discussion about “decolonising documentary and shaping new perspectives on its cultural ethics”.
A l’occasion de la 39ème édition du festival Jean Rouch, grand rendez-vous du film ethnographique du 13 novembre au 6 décembre, l’anthropologue Jean-Paul Colleyn nous explique les évolutions intrinsèques à ce cinéma de l’observation.
A growing number of filmmakers, writers, musicians and journalists now argue that certain truths can only be understood by those who have experienced them. Even though I am a Mexican-Egyptian female documentarian and am sympathetic to the reasoning behind such ideas, I cannot accept this new approach, which has created an increasingly difficult professional environment for those of us who do not agree.
For many in the documentary industry, 2020 dawned with hope on the horizon. The festival season promised premieres for many filmmakers, including first-time makers and filmmakers of color who had overcome significant barriers to complete their films. All of that changed in a matter of days in early March, as the reality of the COVID-19 crisis set in, as well as the dawn of a new “normal” that has upended the field and everyone’s lives.
In an increasingly data-driven, automated world, the question of how to protect individuals’ civil liberties in the face of artificial intelligence looms larger by the day. Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
The colonial era never really ended – from the borders that restrict our movement to the languages we speak, the imperial conquests of bygone centuries are hard-coded into our lives. Here we encounter powerful films that provoke change to outdated power relations in our societies, culture and minds.
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