The Trial
Meet the lawyers tasked with defending a 9/11 suspect at Guantanamo Bay. Follow Alka Pradhan, James Connell, and Lt. Col. Sterling Thomas as they prepare for what is being called “the biggest criminal...
View ArticleScenes from a Dry City
What happens when a major metropolitan area runs out of water? In Cape Town, South Africa, residents fear the arrival of “Day Zero,” when the city’s taps will be shut off.
View ArticleLibre
For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for many, the reality is much more complicated. “Libre”...
View ArticleFrancois Verster and Simon Wood, Directors of Scenes from a Dry City
Directors François Verster and Simon Wood discuss Scenes from a Dry City, a new Field of Vision short examining the water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa.
View ArticleIn the Absence
When the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors...
View ArticleLasting Marks
In 1987, police in England acquired a video of a group of men participating in consensual sadomasochistic sex acts. The tape launched one of the largest vice investigations in British history,...
View ArticleThe Hour of Lynching
Since Narendra Modi first took office in 2014, 47 people have been killed in cow-related hate crimes in India. 76 percent of those who died were Muslim. Asmeena mourns the death of her husband, a...
View ArticleCablestreet
The United States and China are in the midst of a power struggle: a new “Cold War” of technology with companies like Huawei at the center. “Cablestreet” offers viewers an unprecedented look inside the...
View ArticleEaster Snap
With a baited handling of American symbolism, filmmaker RaMell Ross joins five men in Alabama as they resurrect the homestead ritual of hog processing under the guidance of and elder, Johnny Blackmon.
View ArticleField of Vision Documentary Filmmaker Support Guide
This list or resources, guides and deadlines for documentary filmmakers will be live-updated as the situation progresses.
View ArticleElevator Pitch
Shedding light on the subway’s dire accessibility issues, “Elevator Pitch” reveals an unjust system that shuts many out of cities in motion—and the disability advocates who are still fighting to make...
View ArticleThe Panama Papers
In 2016, the Panama Papers story broke in a media firestorm, sending the mighty of the world into a panic, as stolen financial info from offshore companies began to appear in the press. The Panama...
View ArticleThe Fight
Seven days after Trump’s inauguration, his Muslim ban was a stunning assault on civil liberties — but it was even more extraordinary to watch ACLU lawyers fight back. Just thirty hours after the order...
View ArticleThe Hottest August
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over one month: New...
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