Dear Readers, When IDA launched the Getting Real conference in 2014, we were intentional in adhering to the tagline, "A Filmmaker to Filmmaker Event."
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Dear Documentary Community, IDA’s biennial Getting Real '18 documentary conference is upon us, and it feels like the right time to look back at what
"Arthur Pratt. Everybody was telling me, if I was looking for a filmmaker in Sierra Leone, go meet with Arthur Pratt," says Banker White from his
As a secular Jew who resided for over a decade in pre- Girls Brooklyn, I'm not sure which Williamsburg community proved more inscrutable to my eyes
Joshua Glick's meticulously researched book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977, melds, as its title states, a
When Tom White invited me chose the film I'd most want to have with me should I be left on a desert island, I found the challenge insurmountable
Dear IDA Community: I recently had the opportunity to lead a seminar on documentary film with high school students at the California State Summer
The First Amendment forbids laws that abridge freedom of the press. For this reason, federal, state and local law in the US can't compel a journalist
Don't let these photos of gear fool you. Over the course of my nearly three-decade-long career, I have almost never brought the same gear on a shoot
Dear Readers, At some point, following the tentative steps we take out of college, with our degrees and diplomas at hand and a daunting mountain of