The David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, introduced to the IDA Documentary Awards in 1987, recognizes exceptional achievement in nonfiction film and video production at the university level...
Blog
Covering the latest quick bites from IDA and the world of documentary.
Latest Posts
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
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...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 22 on PBS is City Hall, the 45th film from the remarkable...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
This year’s virtual gathering of Getting Real ‘20 called for the redistribution of power within documentary practice and the removal of barriers inhibiting the expansion of possibility within the...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
This decade has given us some of the boldest, most informative and timeliest documentaries in film history, and with it coming to an end, many of us here in the IDA staff are looking back on the films...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 16 on HBO and HBO Max, The Art of Political Murder tells the...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
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...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
This month, we’re featuring Maya Zinshtein, one of our international members in our Fiscal Sponsorship Program for her project, ‘Til Kingdom Come. Maya began her work in the documentary filmmaking...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 8 on HBO, 40 Years a Prisoner, from Tommy Oliver, chronicles...
![](/sites/default/files/IDA_logo_black_300x300.jpg)
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...