Our March newsletter honors the power of women filmmakers, journalists, and union leaders. We celebrate the centenary of legendary documentary filmmaker Haskell Wexler, and provide ways to support Ukrainian artists during this horrific war....
A conversation with filmmaker Rintu Thomas. "Writing with Fire," co-directed with her husband Sushmit Ghosh, is the first Indian film to be nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar. This interview is part of our "On the Horizon" series. ...
In honor of Black History Month we revisit the story of Black union leader Gloria Jordan, featured in our first film, "Resurgence" Also: an update on our lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security, and a tribute to Irwin Young, founder of DuArt....
The VIVX Leadership Team. Photo: Skylight At Skylight, human rights is not something we observe once a year on International Human Rights Day. The promotion of human rights and the defense of those who uphold those rights is at the very core of who we are. Today,...
We are pleased to share our new short "Tiichajil_Good Life" which imagines an indigenous future and is part of the film series "Futures We Dream," a co-production commissioned by the Smithsonian and The Alliance for Media Arts and Culture....
Filmmaker Anaïs Taracena discusses her documentary "The Silence of the Mole". ...
featured image: Protestors in Guatemala City try to tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus on Avenida de las Americas on Oct. 12, 2021. Working to forge indigenous solidarity south and north regardless of borders, two Maya leaders seeking asylum in the US, Kaxh Mura’l...
"On the Horizon: Outspoken Women Making Documentaries" is a Skylight series of interviews with emerging filmmakers, artists, documentarians focused on collaborative, ethical storytelling with historically disenfranchised communities around the world. Read more in the series here. I met Brooke during the inaugural Woodstock Film Festival Filmmaker’s...
“It’s not about immigrant rights, it’s about human rights. We are all human.” So began a transformative weekend of leadership training by Gabriela Castañeda of the Movement for Immigrant Rights in Pennsylvania (MILPA), part of our upcoming documentary film Borderland. The core idea at the...
The U.S. government must urgently prioritize the fight against corruption and assume the consequences Originally published in El Periodico on September 4, 2021 One of the objectives of Joe Biden's administration is to reduce migration and try to stop the unstoppable waves of migrants leaving Guatemala and other Central...
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