This issue includes:

Features: Making a Production: Sugar Studios, by Lucia Ahrensdorf Post house Sugar Studios enables projects that might otherwise collapse in the expensive patchwork of L.A. post

Public Records, by Mackenzie Lukenbill How Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor is constructed from police video evidence obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request

Land of One’s Own, by Marya E. Gates Brittany Shyne’s debut feature, Seeds, frames with dignity and grace the lives of Centennial Black farmers

In Order to Change Things, by Jonathan Ali Newly restored documentaries from the 1950s–1980s reveal how Caribbean filmmakers forged a liberation cinema

Atomic Light, by Sudipto Sanyal Seven decades of nuclear documentaries oscillate between state propaganda and radical witness

Staying Power, Kiva Reardon Julie Goldman reflects on building Motto Pictures through the documentary bubble and bust

Buying In, by Jawni Han Coming up on 20 years, Impact Partners is still committed to bridging the divide between investors and doc filmmakers

Festivals:

DOK Leipzig 2025: In for a Penny, by Abby Sun The oldest documentary festival continues its commitment to an equitable world

Ji.hlava 2025: Construction Zone, by Botagoz Koilybayeva The Czech festival’s 29th edition examines extraction, ecology, and reenactment