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DocuFest™, which takes place on the weekend following our IDA Documentary Awards, has been a popular event with an ever-growing audience. Past DocuFests™ have screened such celebrated work as A Walk to Beautiful, Born Into Brothels, Fahrenheit 9/11, We Are Together, Darfur Now, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq in Fragments, Angel’s Fire. Lively and thought provoking discussion sessions with the creators follow each screening at DocuFest™.

Created in 1997, IDA's DOCUWEEKS™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase, presents a public theatrical exhibition of outstanding new films and helps to qualify feature and short documentaries for Academy Award® consideration. 2009 Call for Entries now closed.

IDA also celebrates the Academy Award® nominated films and filmmakers in both the feature and short subject categories with its annual Academy Award® Nominees Reception, held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. This tribute to each year's Academy Award® nominees is followed by DocuDay™ an all-day screening of the Academy Award® nominated documentaries.

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