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Rehabilitation Through Art

Out on probation, they photograph their lives to counter stereotypes

The documentary In a Whole New Way: Undoing Mass Incarceration by a Path Untraveled clears up the confusion and misconceptions about probation, and counters negative stereotypes. Creators Jonathan Fisher and George Carrano do so in a truly innovative way—they hand out cameras to people in the New York City probation system, as well as their neighbors and other allies, and have them capture images of their everyday lives.

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Mark Saxenmeyer
September 18, 2023
Experiment: Gay and Straight DocumentariesLGBTQ+

Experiment: Gay and Straight

Twenty years later, groundbreaking project is re-released in midst of growing LGBTQ+ attacks

The Reporters Inc. celebrates the 20-year anniversary of Experiment: Gay and Straight, a documentary that invited five gay and five straight Chicago-area residents, all strangers to one another, to live together for one week. The participants discussed a multitude of issues and subjects in hopes of fostering understanding, countering misconceptions, and promoting tolerance--if not acceptance--of the differences between homosexual and heterosexual Americans.

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Mark Saxenmeyer
June 15, 2023
Who Will Wear The Crown? DocumentariesLGBTQ+

Who Will Wear The Crown?

The Queens now streaming on demand

No one involved ever imagined it would take nine years to release this documentary when The Reporters Inc. began shooting The Queens in the spring of 2011. But that's what happened! In a Q&A with reporter Kim Whiting, Executive Producer Mark Saxenmeyer shares in detail how the film, an exploration of the transgender subculture of drag performance through a prestigious pageant, came to be.

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Mark Saxenmeyer
April 30, 2020
Malcolm is A Little Unwell DocumentariesHealth

Malcolm is A Little Unwell

Prominent PBS journalist documents his descent into mental illness

After a routine yellow fever vaccine required for an assignment in Africa, BBC (and later PBS) foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabant suddenly descended into madness--literally. Following a near-fatal fever, he spent months in and out of hospitals and psychiatric wards, convinced he was either God or Satan. He came perilously close to harming himself and his family. All the while, he recorded some of his bizarre unraveling on camera, and he has now turned this alarming journey into a fascinating new documentary, Malcolm is a Little Unwell. The Reporters Inc. engaged in a recent Q&A with Brabant to find out more.

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February 11, 2020
Struggling with Seizures DiseasesDocumentariesHealth

Struggling with Seizures

Former journalist shares how her epilepsy diagnosis turned her world upside-down

"Making a documentary about my experiences with epileptic seizures seemed like a natural segue--a bridge--to link my TV reporting career and health issues," Stacia Kalinoski says. After losing her job and undergoing brain surgery, Kalinoski has turned the painful yet uplifting story of her epileptic seizures into a powerful documentary, Brainstorm.

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Stacia Kalinoksi
April 20, 2017
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