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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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Ellis Haizlip, sits in the middle of the set of his variety show 'SOUL' surrounded by members of the '70s funk band Mandrill, some members of whom are holding their instruments.
Screen Time: Week of February 22
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering February 22 on Independent Lens is Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. SOUL!, which...
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This image depicts time travel through the evolution of racial violence in the US. Against the backdrop of a dark sky, speckled with stars, is a shack that serves as a portal for time travel, and above the house floats an apparation of a slave.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of February 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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Background image: Director Grace Lee with crew shooting 'And She Could be Next'. IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund logo with a speech bubble noting "New on the application: Authorship"
Why We Are Adding Authorship to the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant Application
Now is the time to act with intentionality; we need to stop meandering in search of the right way forward. Deep introspection and consideration of historically marginalized perspectives are essential...
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Pop star Britney Spears, subject the recnt documentary 'Framing Britney Spears," is pictured performing on stage, wearing an emerald green sequin outfit, singing into a wireless headset, clutching a brown railing, against a mesh, emerald green patterned backdrop.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of February 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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Nina Simone is sitting on the floor with her right arm propping her up. She is wearing a maxi knit dress, large decorative necklace.
Screen Time: Week of February 8, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming through February 16 on American Masters, How It Feels To Be Free, from...
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IDA Member Spotlight: Julie Wyman
Julie Wyman is an award-winning filmmaker, performer, writer, and professor. Her previous works include Buoyant (2005), A Boy Named Sue (2000) and STRONG! (2012), all which have been showcased...
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A couple is staring lovinly at each other
Essential Doc Reads: Week of January 11, 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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Michael Apted, speaking at an IDA Screening Series showing of his final film, '63-UP.' Photo: Laura Ahmed
Essential Doc Reads: Week of January 3, 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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From Michael Apted's 'The UP Series.' Courtesy of First Run Features
Screen Time: Week of January 11, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The documentary world lost Michael Apted last Friday, and the one work that most...
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