The 40th IDA Documentary Awards Call for Entries are open until August 5, 2024. This year some entry categories, rules, ...
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Shifting Terrains: How Indigenous Women Are Shaping the Climate Justice Conversation
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Join us for a gathering at the IDA office in honor of the first annual LA Climate Week! We are thrilled to be in conversation with Indigenous climate justice activists about how they use media to weave together gender justice, racial justice, and climate justice.
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Summer/Fall 2024
It’s the summer of conferences, conventions, and gatherings of all sorts, in so many different places. In gathering, we create images and reports. Some of them are mundane. And some of them become talismans, like the photographs and videos of a former American president fist-pumping with a bleeding ear. But none of them, alone, are evidence of our togetherness or divisiveness. Because these documents, such as documentary films, are not merely snapshots in time. These images—and all images—are, as stated by cinematographer and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson in her keynote address at Getting Real ’24, “ongoing relationships between the people who made them and the people who see them, as long as they last.” That is, it’s up to us, in the now, to negotiate what happens after gatherings. This issue examines people, films, and filmmaking practices that make crucial decisions about which stories are bestowed with the power of being told and retold.Articles will be published online between August–September 2024.
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Throughout the span of twenty-five years, from 1970 to 1995 and beyond, the cultural environment in the rural town of Ada, Oklahoma produced an extraordinary number of nationally and internationally acclaimed musical artists that have shaped country, rock and roll, jazz, and classical music. Though many of these former residents are now household names, there remains a community of uniquely gifted musicians in the Ada area who continue to share their gifts and help shape the next generation of talent.
Throughout the span of twenty-five years, from 1970 to 1995 and beyond, the cultural environment in the rural town of Ada, Oklahoma produced an extraordinary number of nationally and internationally acclaimed musical artists that have shaped country, rock and roll, jazz, and classical music. Though many of these former residents are now household names, there remains a community of uniquely gifted musicians in the Ada area who continue to share their gifts and help shape the next generation of talent.