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A photo of filmmaker Justine Armen, a mixed-race woman with dark brown curly hair wearing a blue and red baseball cap and white coat, looking to the side and smiling.
IDA Member Spotlight: Justine Armen
Justine Armen is a documentary film producer based in Oakland, California. She is currently the Executive Coordinator at ITVS and has been working in the documentary field since 2012. Justine is...
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The image shows a close-up profile of a government official, sitting at a desk with his colleagues, examining documents. He has dark hair and glasses and is wearing a white shirt and a dark tie.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 15, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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A woman from the film swings on a swing in the middle of a playground; her head is upside-down as she faces the camera.
Screen Time: Week of March 15, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering March 16 on WORLD Channel as part of America ReFramed, Olga Lvoff’s...
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A collage of Shirley Clarke, Agnès Varda, Cheryl Dunye, Alice Guy-Blaché, Barbara Kopple and Madeline Anderson against a background of a close up leaf, with the words "I Am Somebody" faded into the background.
Documentaries to Watch: Women's History Behind the Camera
While the documentary field has only become more and more inclusive over the last few years, the more formative role of women in the documentary artform has been largely ignored, both in academia and...
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At right, A reporter from an India-based digital platform is kneeling while interviewing an Indian woman who is seated at left, in her living space with her family. The reporter is filming with a smartphone in her right hand , nd is wearing an emerald green sari
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 8, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Justice Ginsburg is pictured here at a press conference, in front of a bank of microphones, and she is wearing a red-and-white striped shirt.
Screen Time: Week of March 8, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Starz, RUTH—Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, from 2019 IDA...
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Dylan is a white woman, with red hair, in her early 30s; she is sitting at a desk next to a window, and she is looking at a photo album.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 1, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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A mother and her daughter embrace in the glare of sunlight.
Screen Time: Week of March 1, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Ondi Timoner’s Coming Clean, streaming through Laemmle Virtual Cinema, explores...
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KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW, Professor, UCLA and Columbia Schools of Law. She is an African-American woman, wearing a red blouse under a navy blue blazer; she is seated against a blue backdrop.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of February 22, 2021
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Yoruba Richen is an African American woman. She has a shaved head and is sporting large abstract dangled metal earrings that reaches her chest. She is wearing a red V-neck top with contrasting black neck band.
IDA Member Spotlight: Yoruba Richen
Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op-Docs, FRONTLINE Digital, New York Magazine’s website - The Cut, The Atlantic, and Field...
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