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06/10/2021

Had a wonderful conversation with Scott Lacy about Left on Purpose for his Talking Documentary podcast. Take a listen...

Justin Schein is a veteran filmmaker who has worked with scores of documentary subjects, but nothing

19/07/2021

By its very nature, documentary film is a construction....the ethical question is how much of that process should be revealed to the the viewer.

The new documentary “Roadrunner” uses A.I.-generated audio without disclosing it to viewers. How should we feel about that?

25/04/2021

Whether or not Crip Camp takes home an Oscar, it has already won an amazing victory by shedding light on the disability rights movement. I am honored to be a part of the Crip Camp team.

Some viewers might balk at the subject matter of “Crip Camp” as too didactic or dour. But that’s the ableism talking.

22/11/2020

Congratulations to directors Margaret Munzer Loeb and Eden Wurmfeld and producer Lisa Eisenpresser on the wonderful reviews that Chasing Childhood is receiving after premiering at Doc NYC. I'm so proud to be part of the team.

CHASING CHILDHOOD is a feature-length documentary exploring the unintended consequences of overparenting, proposing free play as an alternative way forward for kids…

03/10/2019

A beautiful autumn day for one of the final shoots on the amazing Crip Camp documentary.

With Sara Bolder, Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham Malarkey, Judith Heumann

15/09/2019

Found on Reddit. Interesting ebbs and flows.

17/05/2019

FYI—

Tariffs and enhanced tax enforcement are going to raise the price of the gear you use every day to make your films.

01/05/2019

So thrilled that Crip Camp will be one of the first group of films made for the Obama's new production company Higher Ground for Netflix. Congratulations to Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham Malarkey and Sara Bolder for their vision. It is an honor to be on their team.

The Obamas say they “couldn’t be more excited” about the projects they’re announcing Tuesday for their Netflix production company.

16/04/2019

This was the first photo I took that made me feel like I had captured something beyond words.... It is still one of my favorites. Washing Sq Park summer 1988.

03/04/2019

Period. End of Sentence-- A truly wonderful short documentary. On Netflix now.

In rural India, where the stigma of menstruation persists, women make low-cost sanitary pads on a new machine and stride toward financial independence.

02/04/2019

It is all about perspective.... This photo of Muhammad Ali knocking out Cleveland Williams 1966 is thought of as one of the best sports photos of all time.

01/04/2019

This is Christmas time for us gear geeks...

Another new year, another new round of juicy camera conjectures. Here’s your officially unofficial 2019 camera rumor roundup!

28/03/2019

Q&A: What the Reporters Committee’s recent FOIA win means for the public and journalists The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled the Federal Bureau of Investigation must …

05/02/2019

His camera has captured conflict from Northern Ireland to Vietnam. An exhibition at Tate Britain in London shows some of his finest work.

18/12/2018

2018 is the worst year on record for violence and abuse against journalists, with at least 80 killed in connection with their work, a further 348 imprisoned and 60 held hostage, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

12/12/2018

An important victory.

The Boston Police Department actually instructs officers that they may arrest people who secretly record them performing their duties in public.

08/12/2018

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29/11/2018

I'm so proud to be part of the team that helped make Always in Season- a powerful and important film. Congratulations to director Jackie Olive for your tenacity and vision. Sundance 2019!

We are thrilled to share that ALWAYS IN SEASON (directed & produced by Jackie Olive, produced by Jessica Devaney) will have its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival! We’re committed to leveraging this incredible opportunity toward a broader conversation on racial terror, justice, and reconciliation.


A huge thank you and congrats to the whole team! Editor Don Bernier as well as Michaelle Stikich McGaraghan and Jason Pollard; Cinematographers Leo Chiang & Patrick Sheehan, and Rodrigo Dorfman & Justin Schein; Composer Osei Essed; Co-Producers Lisa Valencia-Svensson & Anya Rous; Consulting Producer Ann Bennett; Executive Producers Daniel J. Chalfen, Jim Butterworth, Patty Quillin; Co-Executive Producers Leslie Berriman, Nion McEvoy, Katy Drake Bettner, Nancy Stephens & Rick Rosenthal; and the whole ITVS team especially Michael Ehrenzweig, Noland Walker, Sally Jo Fifer.

We're looking forward to this stellar lineup: http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2019-sundance-film-festival-features

07/11/2018

New York welcomed the French photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont, and he spent the latter half of the 20th century capturing the spirit of his adopted city.

15/10/2018

"The filming process of Free Solo is its own sort of metatextual plotline throughout the movie. What are the ethical responsibilities of a documentary filmmaker when the subject could, at any moment, plummet to the valley floor? Chin and his crew all must come to terms with the looming possibility that the movie they’re making will not have a happy ending. Worse still, Honnold clearly doesn’t feel like himself in front of an array of cameras, and several members of the film crew talk about how gutted they would feel if they were to somehow cause Honnold’s death." (H/t Aaron Naparstek)

Over the first 12,000 or so years after Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan wall was scoured out by glaciers, no human had ever climbed up it without a rope. Then, last year, Alex Honnold scaled the 3,000-foot monolith without assistance of any kind. It is an utterly elemental human achievement, a...

03/10/2018

Proud to have been part of the Saving Capitalism team nominated for a documentary Emmy. With- Eden Wurmfeld Yael Bridge Jacob Kornbluth and Steve Firestone.

30/07/2018

Amazing document of WWI.

After years stranded in Antarctica, Frank Hurley returned to find civilization tearing itself apart.

22/06/2018

Proud to have worked on this with Ferne Pearlstein, Sue Kramer, Mitchell Johnson and Tectonic Theater Project and Matthew Shepard Foundation. We have a lot of work to do... Let's get to work!

12/06/2018

“The picture-story involves a joint operation of the brain, the eye, and the heart. The objective of this joint operation is to depict the content of some event which is in the process of unfolding, and to communicate impressions.” Henri Cartier-Bresson

05/06/2018

That's a cameraperson!

Camera operator is Marston Sawyers (). Event was the 2016 Crossfit games Su***de Sprints final heat (https://www.facebook.com/CrossFitGames/videos/1227901243918398/). Sawyers was filming the neck-and-neck race for 1st/2nd place, and managed to "place" 3rd in the field while carrying a free...

31/05/2018

Celebrating the life of Connie Kurtz who passed away this week and sending love to her life partner Ruth Berman. I had the honor of working on Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House with (and about) them and it changed my life. With- Deborah Dickson, Ferne Pearlstein and Rachel Kittner

25/05/2018

Had the honor of working on a video for the Tectonic Theater Project celebrating the 20th anniversary of their powerful work The Laramie Project that documented the murder of Matthew Shepard. With the talented Ferne Pearlstein and Sue Kramer. (Photo taken on set with Matthew Shepard's parents, Laramie Project author Moises Kaufman, and actors Harvey Fierstein and Michael Urie)

21/05/2018

So honored to be one of the filmmakers working on the documentary Crip Camp. Directed by Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham Malarkey and produced by Sara Bolder it is one of those rare films that has so much heart and soul it keeps me up at night. http://www.cripcamp.com

02/05/2018

Every shoot seems to have a day like this...

11/04/2018

When old-school was new... Jean-Luc Godard pulls cinematographer Raoul Coutard in a wheelchair while directing BREATHLESS (Paris, 1959)

13/03/2018

Before it could publish an issue on race, the magazine first had to look at its own history. "Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless," writes editor Susan Goldberg.

13/03/2018

I don't know what truth is. Truth is something unattainable. We can't think we're creating truth with a camera. But what we can do, is reveal something to viewers that allows them to discover their own truth. —Michel Brault

23/01/2018

After 90 long years, another glass ceiling has finally been broken at the Motion Picture Academy. “Mudbound” cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history Tuesday by becoming the first f…

20/01/2018

"The biggest challenge in a film like this is not a cinematic one. It’s getting access to the right characters in the right situations and then developing trust."

Brooklyn-born DP Bob Richman began his career as a production assistant for Albert and David Maysles. He's since gone on to shoot some of the most widely seen documentaries of the past 20 years: An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for 'Superman', the Paradise Lost trilogy and Metallica: Some Kind of Mons...

09/01/2018

January 8, 2018 A Place at the Table: Doc Filmmakers with Disabilities on Building Careers and Disproving Stereotypes By james LeBrechtShare: I think that it's safe to say that most of us love working in documentary film because the work we produce does something to make the world a better place. Sh...