The GOOD DOCS Blog – Page 21

Jun 24, 2020

Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar on the journey toward justice and the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under Franco to organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit in their Peabody Award Winning film THE SILENCE OF OTHERS

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. A...

Mar 28, 2020

ALWAYS IN SEASON filmmaker Jacqueline Olive on promoting justice and reconciliation through documentary film

GOOD DOCS spoke to Jacqueline Olive, director of Always in Season. The film was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency at Sundance, and explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans. Interview conducted...

Mar 23, 2020

Soledad O’Brien addresses the food insecurity crisis on college campuses in new film HUNGRY TO LEARN

Soledad O’Brien is an accomplished American broadcast journalist and documentarian. Her new film HUNGRY TO LEARN introduces the faces behind an American crisis — college students so strapped to pay tuition that they don’t have enough money to eat or...

Mar 09, 2020

Paul Espinosa discusses the impact of Ramon “Chunky” Sánchez on the Chicano/a Movement in his latest film SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM

GOOD DOCS sat down with Paul Espinosa, an award-winning filmmaker who specializes in Latino films focused on the U.S.-Mexico border region. He has been producing films for over 40 years. His latest film SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM chronicles the life and music...

Mar 04, 2020

Filmmaker Catharine Axely embraces the challenges of shooting in Alaska and dogsled racing for her film ATTLA

GOOD DOCS sat with down with director Catharine Axely to discuss her latest film ATTLA, which tells the gripping but little-known story of George Attla, an Alaska Native dogsled racer who, with one good leg and fierce determination, rose to...