@lot1films.com
Senior journalism lecturer at @merrillcollege at UMD and a documentary filmmaker. Current documentary is about the Baltimore Banner and journalism. First documentary, Queen of the Capital is on Tubi! linktr.ee/jdavidsburg
This. Is. Just. 🔥🔥!
Maryland's faculty are never going to stop fighting until we all get the collective bargaining rights we deserve.
And our Maryland communities support us!
@senbillferg.bsky.social, @mddems.bsky.social, @mdhousedems.bsky.social, help us get SB6/HB106 passed this session!
“It’s just hard to watch this discourse and the amount of money that [Amazon MGM] poured in while all of our other funding sources are drying up.”
The ‘Melania’ #documentary cost $75 million. It’s made $7 million so far.
www.ms.now/news/melania...
As a doc filmmaker, one of the most frustrating things about the $75 mil #Melaniadocumentary price tag is at the same time, watching the government dismantle normal funding sources for independent docs, especially the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Is Daniel Radcliffe playing me in this show?!
18 years ago, the #Ravens announced a new coach. I was freelancing at WBAL-TV so my photojournalist and I ran out to ESPN Zone to talk to fans. It's crazy to see what the fans said about #Harbaugh then. I just dug up my old story.
Domino sugar sign before sunrise in baltimore
Cranes with lights over water
City scenic sunrise
The Maryland Aquarium before sunrise
Woke up super early for these! These are screengrabs of locator shots for my upcoming documentary about The #Baltimore Banner. A Banner Year is in post production right now. More updates soon! #documentary #filmmaking
How streaming elevated (and ruined) documentaries. Fascinating read:
open.substack.com/pub/statsign...
🎥New Update on my new #documentary “A Banner Year🔥
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life.
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
Reporter typing on a laptop sitting while people stand around her
🎥New Update on my new #documentary🔥
A lot happened this year!
I included a fantastic sound bite from David Simon. He talks about where they got the idea of the policeman’s wake in the bar in “The Wire”. Spoiler: it didn’t originate with the police in real life
open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/a...
This evening, I stood with the hardworking New Yorkers of CWA District 1 and the NewsGuild of New York as they fight for fair treatment from Conde Nast.
I'll always support our unions and our workers.
Reporter holding a notebook
Reporter interviewing a politician on a couch
Three reporters standing on the side of the road
A reporter on the phone
More screenshots! I wanted to do this documentary to highlight the immense dedication journalists have in their quest for truth. From investigative teams to covering city elections, the public often doesn’t see the challenges journalists face just to hit publish.
🎥 One of the most fascinating parts of filming A Banner Year was capturing the incredible skill of reporters as they navigated conversations with sources on and off the record. Watching journalists persuade their sources to share their stories was insightful.
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
🎥I’m still amazed at the incredible access the journalists granted me for A Banner Year. 📰✨ This documentary will show how quintessential journalism comes together and emphasizes the critical importance of the truth.
From the Preakness to the Key Bridge collapse. #journalism #filmmaking
I found some pictures of my dad, Lou Davis, reporting, including one with Walter Cronkite and one me! 📸 This is why my new documentary, A Banner Year, means so much. This project is deeply personal. My dad passed away in 2016 but his legacy lives on! 🎥📽️
#Documentary #Journalism #WalterCronkite
Reporter standing behind a crowd
Reporter sitting at a table interviewing someone
Photographer taking pictures of horses
Reporter interviewing someone with their phone
From late nights crunching out a story after the Key Bridge Collapse, to braving Preakness, our cameras followed The Baltimore Banner reporters on the biggest stories of last year. 🎥 Here are a few more screenshots from our #documentary about #journalism in #Baltimore, "A Banner Year."
Reporter holding her phone next to a car
A reporter holding an umbrella interviewing someone
A reporter interviewing Wes Moore. Both are sitting in chairs
A reporter kneeling down and interviewing a child.
In a week that has been a disaster for the #FirstAmendment, it's important to understand why it's so vital. My new #documentary in post production follows reporters at the Baltimore Banner. It is about how crucial and hard #journalism is. Here are a few screenshots.
Reminder: @propublica.org is still tracking how immigration agents use force when they make arrests.
Do you have video or other documentation of forceful or violent arrests by immigration agents that we should review? Please reach out.
email: nicole.foy@propublica.org
Signal: @nicolefoy.27
A couple of screenshots from my documentary a Banner Year. We just started post production, thanks to the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund.
#documentary #documentaryfilmmaking #filmmaking
Started post production on my #documentary this week! Read all about it. open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
New update on my documentary A Banner Year! We officially started post production!
Read all about It! open.substack.com/pub/lot1/p/s...
Sucked out by Super drag
The thumbnail to and just like that
Scene from bridesmaids showing maya rudolf in the street
I can’t help thinking of Bridesmaids when I see the #andjustlikethat thumbnail.
Investigative reporting has never been more important and AI is not going to file the records request, make all the phone cakks and knock on the door
Index cards that say summer 2023 and act 1
Three men in an edit bay
An edit bay with computers
Big, breaking news! A Banner Year, my new documentary about the Baltimore Banner, was accepted into the Saul Zaent Innovation Fund’s new pilot editor-in-residence program! We start full time in August! #documentary
I didn’t know I needed this reboot, but this looks amazing. And it’s @edgarwright.bsky.social youtu.be/KD18ddeFuyM?...
4/4…we might see what happened to newspapers in 2008 happen to local tv news. Hedge funds already see blood in the water.
3/4… strong as recent as last year (www.axios.com/2024/10/29/p...) but if our next candidates learn and use Mamdami’s campaign techniques, local ad tv buying may not be necessary. Local tv revenues could drop. Local broadcasters need to figure out the evolution soon or…
