A historical documentary about the Crazy In Style Artists, a graffiti art collective founded in East Chicago, is in the works and is a semi-finalist in an Indiana documentary pitch competition.
“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that’s articulated in the Hulu documentary by Dream Hampton: ...
I like to think of the mythical Netflix Marathon as the process of accumulating inspiration, but it could be more realistically dubbed procrastination. Either way, it has become a talent I’ve honed to ...
Arizona-based artist Mayme Kratz has made it a practice to find art in what some might see as nothing more than barren desert. Her three-dimensional creations highlight the interconnectedness of ...
Barbara Rubin in Barbara Rubin and the Exploding New York Underground (2018) (all images courtesy of Doc NYC) For the past eight years, Doc NYC, the largest documentary film festival in America, has ...
Casting a documentary. Coordinator states: "I’ve been working on this idea for a long time—one that’s very close to my own experience. After graduating from the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan, I ...
"Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)" road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that's articulated in the Hulu documentary by Dream Hampton: ...
Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary. So “Sly Lives!” is a few different things at ...