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Making my final documentary was quite difficult at times because there were so many things that I wanted to say but couldn’t or else it would have been too long. That being said, it was difficult choosing between which ideas/details I wanted to  include because there are just so many things to be said about…

To document people and their struggles is one thing, but to take action and be involved with what is being documented is what’s actually effective. In Marco Williams’ film Banished, Williams does not just sit behind a camera and ask interviewees questions. Instead, he is in the frame when he interviews white citizens and makes…

My short doc expresses feelings of belonging whenever I eat dinner with my family at home. Ever since I was little, my dad always made sure that we ate dinner together, so every night we sat in our unassigned-assigned seats at our dining room table. I never ate separately in my room, and I found…

Family of Miners. Appalachian Coal Miner, Rogovin Milton, Library of Congress “The documentary task troubled Agee enormously—some, reading him, might say needlessly. He reveals to us in the first pages of his book, the aesthetic, intellectual, and moral struggle he waged as he spent time with those fellow citizens, fellow human beings, then considered what…