Abbie Algar, the director of programming at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, always has a lot of choices to make. Ultimately, she decides what the nonprofit film center screens—whether it’s ...

To all the aspiring documentary filmmakers with cameras in your hand, passion in your heart, and a brain screaming, “God! Where do I start!” Take a deep breath, because it only gets better from here.

Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev only met in person at the Sundance premiere of the Ukraine war documentary. By Brendan Bellomo From the start, Slava Leontyev and I, as co-directors of the ...