The GOOD DOCS Blog – Page 29

Sep 03, 2015

Shaun Kadlec on LGBT Human Rights in Cameroon

Why did you choose to make your film BORN THIS WAY about the LGBT experience in Cameroon, and how does it resonate with an American audience?This film is incredibly personal, and it asks the viewer to live in the lives...

Jun 12, 2015

GOOD DOCS Director Sarah Feinbloom is Indiewire's Woman to Watch

Indiewire featured Sarah Feinbloom as a Woman to Watch. See below for a portion of the interview, or click here to read the full article. It was 1992, and the Rodney King riots were being felt across the country,...

May 05, 2015

Linda Goldstein Knowlton on Somewhere Between & Multicultural Identities

Linda Goldstein Knowlton on Asian-American stereotypes, rejecting the term “lucky”, and the politics behind transracial adoption. REQUEST A GOOD TALK WITH LINDA GOLDSTEIN KNOWLTON What was your inspiration and motivation for making SOMEWHERE BETWEEN?After being a filmmaker for almost 15 years, I...

May 05, 2015

Director Julie Wyman on the Strongest Woman in the World

Julie Wyman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and professor of film and technocultural studies at UC Davis. Her 2012 film STRONG! offers an intimate and uplifting portrait of Olympic weight lifter Cheryl Haworth, and serves as a visual investigation of...

Apr 07, 2015

Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe talks debut doc Evolution of a Criminal

Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe talks about his debut doc Evolution of a Criminal, the school to prison pipeline, and why no one ever asks what it’s like for white people to be white filmmakers. Evolution of a Criminal is...