Celebrating IDA Members' Success at The Academy, Emmys, Gotham Week & CIFF

The Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced its new members recently. We congratulate ten IDA members who joined The Academy this year joining 600+ of our members who were already AMPAS members:

• Moses Bwayo (Bobi Wine: The People’s President)
• Caryn Capotosto (Little Richard: I Am Everything, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?)
• Michael Collins (Almost Sunrise, Give Up Tomorrow)
• Flávia de Souza (Aftershock, Open Heart)
• Jeanie Finlay (Your Fat Friend, Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth)
• Elaine McMillion Sheldon (King Coal, Heroin(e))
• Nisha Pahuja (To Kill a Tiger, The World Before Her)
• Jennifer Tiexiera (Subject, P.S. Burn This Letter Please)
• Hemal Trivedi (Among the Believers, Saving Face)
• Christine Turner (The Barber of Little Rock, Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day)

Documentaries from 8 IDA Members Nominated for Emmys

• Jonathan Silberberg, Executive Producer (Girls State)
• Sara Rodriguez, Executive Producer (The Jinx)
• Aaron Saidman, Executive Producer (Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV)
• Claire Read, Producer (Telemarketers)
• Michèle Stephenson, Producer, and Tommy Oliver, Producer (Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project) 
• Roger Ross Williams, Producer, and Geoff Martz, Producer (Stamped From The Beginning)

34 IDA Members at The Gotham Week Project Market Slate
IDA members join the event with 24 projects in 3 sections

• Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Producer (Arc)
• Ivy MacDonald, Co-Writer and Co-Director, and Ivan McDonald, Producer (Buffalo Stone)
• Guo Guo, Producer (Tenderfoot)
• Rajal Pitroda, Producer (Iris)
• Caryn Capotosto, Producer (Asha Puthli: The Devil Is Loose)
• Samia Khan-Bambrah, Director and Michèle Stephenson, Producer (The Banker’s Daughter)
• Tetiana Khodakivska, Director and Producer (The Blue Sweater with a Yellow Hole)
• James Costa, Producer (The Dating Game)
• Aurora Brachman, Director and Producer (Dear You)
• Cindy Martin, Producer, and Gordon Quinn, Executive Producer (EJ Lee: All American)
• David Felix Sutcliffe, Producer (​​For Venida, For Kalief)
• Hemal Trivedi, Director and Producer; Cynthia Kane, Producer; and Amelia Hanibelsz, Executive Producer (The Half Truths)
• Dawn Porter, Executive Producer (Harvest)
• Barbara Attie, Director and Producer; Janet Goldwater, Director/Producer; and Mike Attie, Director and Producer (Hollywood Does Abortion)
• Sofian Khan, Director and Producer; and Khaula Malik, Producer (Karachi Sky)
• Maya E. Rudolph, Producer, and Joslyn Barnes, Executive Producer (My First Brush With Infinity)
• Suzannah Herbert, Director (Natchez)
• Rajal Pitroda, Producer (Nine)
• Christina Ramirez, Director, Producer (Norma)
• Tamara Dawit, Director, Producer, Writer (The Plot)
• Deann Liem, Director, Producer, Writer (Relative Strangers)
• Anjali Kamat, Director, Producer, Writer (The Return - IDA Fiscal Sponsorship Program Participant)
• Jenny Raskin, Executive Producer (Untitled Feminist Revolution Film)
• Amy Bench, Director, Producer (Walker)

IDA Members at Camden International Film Festival
11 documentaries from 15 IDA members to be showcased

• Noémi Veronika Szakony, Producer (Agent of Happiness)
• Ines Hofmann Kanna, Producer (Driver)
• Jenny Raskin, Executive Producer, and James Costa, Executive Producer (Homegrown)
• Emma D. Miller, Producer; Jenny Raskin, Executive Producer; and Rahdi Taylor, Executive Producer; (Mistress Dispeller)
• Poh Si Teng, Executive Producer (Patrice: The Movie)
• Nelson Makengo, Cinematographer (Rising Up At Night)
• Bonni Cohen, Producer (The White House Effect)
• Lauren Grant, Producer (Wilfred Buck)
• Sam Vinal, Executive Producer, and Daniel Cross, Executive Producer (Yintah)
• Daniela Muñoz Barroso, Cinematographer (Four Holes and History Is Written At Night)