Mix of first-timers and established filmmakers receive support.

The minute I opened my hotel room door, I went right to work-on Documentary magazine-related matters back home. Working through a jet-lagged and sleep-deprived fog, I managed to get things done-and being nine hours ahead of my colleagues helped! I went out into a raw and rainy Amsterdam to catch opening night-and I got lost. Many times. After asking three people for directions, I stumbled upon the theater. But the screening had started 15 minutes earlier, and I was in a somnambulant state of mind, so I made my way

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Criterion offers 40 percent off in online store.

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Iranian-American citizen had been conducting interviews with women's rights activists.

Nominees, Career Awards Announced; Morgan Spurlock To Host.

See pictures and more from the IDA "Fear and Loathing on the Online Campaign Trail" panel.

Nonprofit media arts organization to collaborate with Web-based doc distributor.