ICE watchers with cell phones are just as vital to accountability journalism as old-school whistleblowers. Shooting, killing and otherwise targeting them is an attack on press freedom and transparency.

The government’s arrests of journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social are attacks on freedom of the press. Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down. Read our statement:

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once. Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.

New video shows the man who was killed moments before the shooting. He was peacefully standing in the street observing before ICE agents started pushing him for no reason.

And for the second year in a row, @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social nominees take 4 of 5 slots for Best Documentary Short. Pouring one out for my personal favorite, We Were the Scenery.

Winners at @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social take all 5 slots in Documentary Feature, including Nonfiction Feature winner Come See Me in the Good Light, Direction and Editing winner The Perfect Neighbor, and Production winner The Alabama Solution.

Yeah, I shoulda placed bets.

With Oscar Voting Closed, the Documentary Race Seems too Close to Call: Surveying the candidates in the Academy's most unpredictable branch #Oscars povmagazine.com/with-oscar-v...

Filming the police isn't a crime.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I knew that @npr Up First was nominated for a Golden Globe tonight but I hadn’t really processed @leilafadel.bsky.social @steveinskeep.bsky.social @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social @amartinezla.bsky.social in that room so now I need lots of photos.

From Echo Park Tenants Union, 10 people taken today in Echo Park/Silver Lake. Some were gardners, painters, and workers. All of them my neighbors.

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR lead CinemaEye Honors winners povmagazine.com/cinemaeye-ho...

Entering a third calendar year with this movie promo still flying in DTLA.

In 2025, @pressfreedomtracker.us documented at least 32 instances in which journalists were detained or charged — just for doing their jobs. Nearly 90% of them occurred while journalists were covering demonstrations. Read our annual arrest report:

I didn’t see the movie version of Dear Evan Hansen, but I can only imagine that the discourse around Ben Platt playing a high school kid in that movie is pretty much how I’m feeling about watching the new season of Stranger Things.

Documentaries thrive because viewers know/believe they present the truth. There have been a lot of alarm bells within the documentary world about how AI threatens that at its core. Good piece here from @alissawilkinson.bsky.social getting at the core of the issue.

This week, documentarians Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman discuss The Alabama Solution, a searing exposé made possible by the immense courage of inmates using contraband cellphones. And @lucasshaw.bsky.social and I banter (what else?) the fate of Warners. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This is a crucial thread from @awalkerinla.bsky.social incorporating reporting by @shoton35mm.bsky.social and commentary by @adamrose.bsky.social about the LAPD’s hideous overreach on the night the Dodgers won the World Series.

“Now the city attorney says in a leaked memo the real problem is that ‘anyone can claim they are a Journalist.’ Fine. Maybe those anyones shouldn’t get shot in the head, either.” Perfect editorial. No notes.

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

100 days until pitchers and catchers report.

Baseball remains undefeated.

This is absolutely insane behavior by the LAPD.

Kiké Hernández is a @dodgers.com legend. What a play to end game 6.

Portland, Oregon is one of my favorite US cities. It is safe and beautiful and filled with amazing people. Loved being there last month and taking long walks all about.

I was in the courtroom when a DHS lawyer tried to argue that filming ICE equals encouraging incitement of violence. A) Press didn't do that. B) He denied DHS did things we caught on video. Which ... proves why press needs to film police/ICE/DHS. Thanks for making our point for us, DHS lawyer!

It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence. The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos.

California skies were really putting on a show tonight.

I’ll assume the person who runs the @democracynow.org social account doesn’t know… …that “and others” are Academy Award winning filmmakers Ezra Edelman and Marshall Curry.

I’ll assume the person who runs the @democracynow.org social account doesn’t know… …that Steal This Story, Please actually premiered at @dcdoxfest.bsky.social as the Opening Night film back in June.

Not sure how I got on this woman’s email list to “stop Mamdani”, but they are really barking up the wrong tree.

É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival is open for film submissions to its 31st edition (São Paulo and Rio, Brazil, April 9th ​​to 19th, 2026)! Deadline: November 30th. Regulations and submissions at www.etudoverdade.com.br or www.itsalltrue.com.br.

Tonight, in the second largest city in America, I had dinner outside for several hours, and then, after 10pm, I went for a mile+ walk by myself. I didn’t see a single police officer nor a single thing that caused a moment of concern or fear. This is life in urban America in 2025.

Wild and bad that Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick won’t be released, particularly after Ezra Edelman’s Prince epic was shelved.

One of my absolute favorite clips we licensed for Gigantic. The Carson folks were so easy to deal with. We tried to get some of their early Late Night with David Letterman peformances (including their network tv debut), but those were impossible to get (at the time).

For my money, @patmullen.bsky.social is one of the very best writers about the documentary “trade” today and this is an insightful account of what has been unfolding re: #TIFF50 and its invitation/un-invitation of The Road Between Us.

It’s gonna get messy in Arlington Heights.

Cult Leader Warns Followers Things Need To Get Way More Deranged To Be Made Into HBO Documentary Series theonion.com/cult-le...

New nonfiction from Oscar/Golden Lion winner Laura Poitras, +Werner Herzog and Ross McElwee. And, in competition, Golden Lion winner Gianfranco Rosi & Cannes L'Œil d'or winner Kaouther Ben Hania. + a Marianne Faithfull doc from Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth! Venice! theplaylist.net/luca-guadagn...

Can we get a new Kenneth Lonergan movie? Please?

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Amazing headline. No notes.

This is an escalation of the ongoing effort to criminalize and punish efforts to record, document and hold power accountable. Note that it equates live-streaming to “doxxing”.

JUST IN: Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists covering protests or restricting their movements under most circumstances.. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Federal judge in Calif. granted a temporary restraining order in LA Press Club's suit against the City of Los Angeles over treatment of journalists in protests. Among other things LAPD is barred from using less-lethal munitions against journalists. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Almost got it.