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Race and Class at AFI Fest

July 03, 2019

Some of this content is used with permission of Documentary.org. Some of the most moving and thought-provoking documentaries I watched at AFI Fest in June went to the heart of racial and class...

Who’s Looking Out for Social Media Creators?

June 06, 2019
by Atika Alkhallouf

Netflix documentaries. Beauty tutorials. Unboxing videos. Being an audio-visual creator is changing as fast as platforms change their algorithms. Creators face new opportunities and threats in the...

Social change with the ‘aid’ of Twitter

June 05, 2019
by Saif Shahin

The popularity of social networking sites such as Twitter continues to grow, especially among marginalized communities around the world. Can their reach help organizations for international...

At Tribeca Film Festival 2019, Fair Use to the Rescue

May 07, 2019

At Tribeca Film Festival 2019, fair use played a big role in getting the documentary films made. Several filmmakers found fair use an essential tool in making their work. (CMSI co-facilitated, on...

Fave Documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019

May 06, 2019

The Tribeca Film Festival 2019 featured an abundance of extraordinary documentaries, and of course the extraordinary subjects and directors who made them. Stories for change For me, some of the most...

At Tribeca Film Fest 2019, Immersed in Immersive

May 06, 2019

The cutting edge of tech in storytelling is challenging for viewers as much as for makers; they don't call it "bleeding edge" for nothing. At the Tribeca Film Festival 2019, as usual, viewing...

Immersed in Immersive Media at SXSW 2019

March 26, 2019

SXSW 2019 featured plenty of immersive work to sample, whether interactive or VR or installation. Most of the exciting work is neither nonfiction nor storytelling. It’s experiential, and only...

The Walking Dead, Podcasts, Big Data: Tech and Film at SXSW 2019

March 25, 2019

The SXSW 2019 panels offered an unstable mix of flagrant self-promotion, corporate hype and industry insight. Buried in it all were nuggets of news. Synergy. Short-form video is circulating more...

Fair Use-Friendly SXSW 2019

March 23, 2019

The copyright doctrine of fair use, which allows creators to re-use copyrighted material without permission in some circumstances, was the secret ingredient that made many SXSW docs possible. Indeed,...

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