The pursuit of truth is always a topic of great conversation, and often technical debate, for documentarians. While of course we are committed to truthful portrayals in our films, our primary interest at Micro-Documentaries lies in exploring possible truths for the future — shedding light and clarity on the paths to a future that is […]
Perhaps you’ve seen A Place at the Table, the new feature-length documentary film about hunger in America. It comes from the same team that produced Food Inc. and has received positive press for its frank assessment of hunger, childhood obesity, and food assistance in the U.S. If you missed it in theaters, you can now catch it on DVD or Blu-ray, […]
One of the great injustices of growing up in an impoverished, gang-ridden neighborhood is that children are deprived of their youths. Murder, hunger, lost parents … such hardships have a way of hardening children into adults long before their time. So it goes in Sunnydale, at the southern edge of San Francisco. As we learn […]
Allison Wolff, Micro-Documentaries colleague and co-founder of Frack Free Colorado, sent me the message below with a note: “for our daughters.” Thank you Allison for finding the time and energy to do this important work for our daughters and for all of us. We are most grateful for the way you are helping to change the […]