The Politics of Perspective

With Lana Garland, Laurens Grant, Rafael Samanez and Shola Lynch; moderated by Natalie Bullock Brown

Too often, stories about Black and Brown communities are shaped by production teams from outside their community, raising critical questions about authorship, perspective and representation. But what happens when BIPOC filmmakers find themselves within these teams, advocating to ensure that their film participants are portrayed with dignity? This panel brings together documentary film professionals to discuss the complex realities of navigating teams across lines of race, class and nationality — and the ongoing fight to maintain narrative agency and ethical representation in documentary storytelling.