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Dec 02, 2021

An Interview with MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY Co-Director Jeff Bemiss on the dehumanization of immigrants and the families searching for their missing loved ones

MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY gives insight to the U.S./Mexico border and the families who seek to find their loved ones. GOOD DOCS intern Amber Stokes met with Co-Director Jeff Bemiss to learn more about the film and his experience in...

Dec 01, 2021

Elizabeth A. Castle talks about Indigenous filmmaking and the radical history of Native women activists featured in WARRIOR WOMEN

GOOD DOCS spoke to Elizabeth A. Castle, a historian, educator, filmmaker and Executive Director of The Warrior Women Oral History Project. Co-directed with Christina D. King, WARRIOR WOMEN is the Peabody Award-nominated story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, a leader of the 1970s...

Nov 02, 2021

Kim A. Snyder’s new film US KIDS follows March For Our Lives activists on their journeys to reform gun policy and process the trauma of a nation

US KIDS is the newest and final film in what has become a trilogy of Kim A. Snyder’s urgent work on Gun Violence. GOOD DOCS intern Chloe Hanna sat down with Snyder to get an in-depth understanding of everything...

Oct 21, 2021

UNADOPTED Producer & Featured Subject Noel Anaya on his personal experience in foster care and the work he's doing for those in the system

Of the 440,000 kids in foster care in the U.S., more than a quarter are over age 12. Adoption rates for these older kids are abysmally low. What happens when you're “too old” to get adopted? After 20 years in foster care,...

Oct 21, 2021

'TIL KINGDOM COME filmmakers Maya Zinshtein & Abie Troen on creating a film about the complex and powerful alliance between American Evangelicals and Israel

'TIL KINGDOM COME exposes the unusual relationship between American Evangelicals and the State of Israel. Filmmakers Maya Zinshtein and Abie Troen speak on their backgrounds as an Israeli filmmakers and what they hope audiences will take away from the film. Interview Questions by Madalyn Harris Can...