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Movies, Videos and SoundUnited States11-50 Employees
The D-Word is a United States based online community for documentary filmmakers. It began in 1996 as Doug Block's online journal about making and selling his feature, Home Page, and grew into a global forum with more than 14,700 members from 127 countries. The platform offers resources on fundraising, production, camera, sound, distribution, and legal matters, supporting practitioners across the documentary workflow while enabling peer feedback and offline meetups at film festivals. It runs 5-day public topics that invite a wider audience to engage with topics such as distribution, crowdfunding, and pitching. Access to core professional conversations is private and unindexed by search engines, with full benefits available to registered members; the organization is based in the United States and operates as a small to mid-sized entity within the movies, videos and sound sector.