"Empathy." That's the answer I received the most as I walked through the lobby of the Arlington Hotel during last month's Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (HSDFF). I was curious why documentaries ...

A Lien, written and directed by brothers David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, brings audiences into the fraught and complex experience that a noncitizen can go through in the U.S. legalization process.

It’s a febrile time with the word ‘immigrant’ being weaponised as a source of division. What we need is to bridge the empathy gap. This is one place to start, to watch and to listen.

My blog post In Defense of Empathy mentioned the role of empathy in literature. This role requires a mode of empathy based on non-verbal simulation of the experiences of characters in novels, plays, ...

Jersey City resident Rachel Handler has a lot of experience with short films. Taking part in the annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge has been a regular part of her life for several years in ...

For Matisse Kinney, a ninth-grader at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, creating her acrylic painting, “Reaching In,” was a visual expression of what it feels like to go through ...