Full Frame Announces 2026 Festival Slate: 13 World Premieres & Many Of Year’s Most Talked About Documentaries
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https://deadline.com/2026/03/full-frame-2026-lineup-1236751238/

Full Frame Announces 2026 Festival Slate: 13 World Premieres & Many Of Year’s Most Talked About Documentaries

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC has announced its 2026 lineup.

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📢 Paging documentary filmmakers! This Black History Month, we’re celebrating the vibrant creators shaping the future of cinema — like Emmy-nominated filmmaker Dawn Porter, director of John Lewis: Good Trouble. 🖤

Social issue documentaries take on some of our most pressing global concerns and, at the same time, create major challenges for filmmakers in terms of ethics, authorship, and presenting stories as truthfully as possible. Learn how to navigate these waters in order to make your film the most authentic and impactful it can be.in Dawn Porter's Sundance Master Class as she shares real-world examples and reveals a set of questions and tools to help you hone the story you are trying to tell and ensure that it meets the ethical standards necessary to give it credibility and meaning.

https://collab.sundance.org/catalog/Master-Class-Documentary-Filmmaking-Navigating-Truth-and-Ethics-with-Dawn-Porter-Video

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‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: If Justice Arrives 36 Years Too Late, Who Bears the Burden?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/when-a-witness-recants-review-dawn-porter-documentary-1235176283/

'When a Witness Recants' Review: Justice Arrives 36 Years Too Late

Sundance: At its best, Dawn Porter's documentary functions as an act of deep listening & a step toward reckoning with harm done to Harlem Park Three.

IndieWire
‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: Dawn Porter’s Riveting Doc Delves Into a Harrowing Case of Justice Denied

Ta-Nehisi Coates serves as an executive producer and interviewee in this film exploring a high-profile crime in 1983 Baltimore and the prosecutorial misconduct that targeted three innocent teenagers.

The Hollywood Reporter

‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: A Powerful Documentary Uses Animation and New Interviews to Redraw a Decades-Old Injustice

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2026/film/news/when-a-witness-recants-review-1236639259/

‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: A Powerful Documentary Uses Animation and New Interviews to Redraw a Decades-Old Injustice
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https://variety.com/2026/film/news/when-a-witness-recants-review-1236639259/

‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: A Shattering Documentary on Injustice

Dawn Porter and Ta-Nehisi Coates revisit the case of three falsely convicted teens, suggesting what is reveals about the system that railroaded them.

Variety

Roger Ross Williams, Laura Poitras, Dawn Porter, Ally Sheedy Join City College of New York’s First Film Advisory Board (Exclusive)
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ally-sheedy-dawn-porter-laura-poitras-ccny-advisory-board-1236463579/

Roger Ross Williams, Laura Poitras, Dawn Porter, Ally Sheedy Join City College of New York’s First Film Advisory Board (Exclusive)

The group of filmmakers and film professionals — including Stanley Nelson, Kamilah Forbes, Kweighbaye Kotee and Nancy Savoca — will promote and support the college's BFA and MFA programs and offer student master classes each year.

The Hollywood Reporter
Dawn Porter to Receive Full Frame's Tribute Award

Dawn Porter is set to receive the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's 2026 Tribute Award.

Variety
Catapult Film Fund Provides $30,000 in Research Grants

The Catapult Film Fund has awarded $30,000 in research grants to three documentary filmmakers.

Variety