Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Forum

08/27/2026

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08/20/2026

This week on Next Calling: As Syma Solovitch looked at retirement from a career in education policy for the state of California, she went right back to school. Humbling though it was, she earned credentials to become an educational therapist, teaching children with dyslexia to master reading. She confesses that she never thought about her legacy, but knows a meaningful day through a different measure.

How Syma Solovitch traded a finished career for a harder one, and discovered the real measure of a day

08/03/2026

Dr. Scott Laney spent years studying black lung disease at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. After speaking publicly about the importance of that work as the institute faced sweeping workforce reductions, his position was eliminated.

At the EPA, more than 170 employees signed a public letter arguing the agency was no longer fulfilling its mission. Many feared retaliation. The agency later placed the 139 named signatories on administrative leave while investigating the matter.

At Voice of America, journalists spoke out after more than 1,000 employees were placed on administrative leave during major workforce cuts, raising concerns about the future of independent journalism around the world.

These stories raise a profound question:

What does it take to be the person inside an agency who chooses to speak out about what they believe the public needs to know?

Join us at the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival & Forum for:

CAST OUT AND SPEAKING OUT: VOICES FROM INSIDE GOVERNMENT

📍 Washington, DC
🗓 November 5–8, 2026

Experience four days of investigative films and conversations with journalists, filmmakers, and public servants examining transparency, accountability, and the challenges of speaking truth from inside government.

Early Bird Discount: Save 15% on all festival passes with code EARLYBIRD-DX26 through August 31. https://dxfest.eventive.org/passes/buy

08/03/2026

New from 100Reporters, home of Double Exposure. Speaking on The Long Game podcast, Teresa Ghilarducci, foremost labor economist and author of "Work, Retire, Repeat," notes that just 30 years ago, retirement as an age sanded down inequalities. Today, it calcifies them. Here's how you get a jump on it.

Labor Economist Teresa Ghilarducci on the collapse of America's retirement dream, and how to cover yourself

07/28/2026

In The Long Game's first personal guest essay, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, the noted cultural critic and expert on growing old in America, writes about a terrifying initiation rite for young men among the Asmat people of West Papua New Guinea. Drawing on an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, Gullette's account captures the role of dread in transmitting values from one generation to the next. Where, she asks, does the absence of fear in our modern world leaves us?

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://djschemo.substack.com/p/crawling-the-spirit-canoe?r=ywo1

06/30/2026

Double Exposure announces its theme for 2026:

On the Record: Evidence in an Age of Doubt

Every document suppressed. Every database deleted. Every source silenced. Every film that fought its way to the screen anyway.

Double Exposure 2026 is building the record.

November 5–8, Washington, D.C.

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06/28/2026

More on Monday.

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06/18/2026

The people who care for our aging parents, our disabled neighbors, our most vulnerable — a quarter to a third of them are immigrants. When ICE swept through Minneapolis last fall, many of them stopped coming to work. Not because they were detained. Because they were afraid to leave their homes.

In this first episode of The Long Game podcast, we talk to Ai-jen Poo — the MacArthur Genius Fellow who has spent twenty-five years fighting for those workers — about what's happening on the ground right now, and about the unexpected bet she's making: that Hollywood films can change what organizing alone hasn't been able to.

"Love is the lifeblood of caregiving," she says. "We just haven't been paying attention."

This one will stay with you.

Listen free: djschemo.substack.com

06/03/2026

What would life look like if planets could think? What if they could speak to us? What if they could read our minds?

HYPEROBJECT is a groundbreaking experience that blends live performance, artificial intelligence, wearable neurotechnology, and interactive media to explore the evolving relationship between human intelligence, AI, and planetary intelligence.

Created, written, and directed by award-winning filmmaker and Johns Hopkins University professor Graham Sack in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team from JHU, HYPEROBJECT premieres TOMORROW at 7:00 PM at the JHU Bloomberg Center.

Don't miss this immersive and thought-provoking piece! Free tickets available: https://hyperobject.thundertix.com/events/264846?only_one=true

05/01/2026

NEXT WEEK!

Democracy on Screen returns to DC with a can’t-miss screening of Words of War.

Directed by James Strong and starring Maxine Peake, the film brings to life the story of fearless journalist Anna Politkovskaya who exposed atrocities during the Chechen Wars and fought relentlessly for an independent press.

Stay after the film for an in-person conversation with Mark Maxey, Emmy award-winning producer and executive at Rolling Pictures, and Paul Beckett, senior editor at The Atlantic.

RSVP today! https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/democracy-on-screen-words-of-war