Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering January 27 on CNN is Tim Wardle’s Three Identical Strangers, the...
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Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering January 14 on Independent Lens is Rodents of Unusual Size, from Quinn...
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Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering January 7 on Independent Lens and streaming here , Rita Baghdadi and...
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Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
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From DocuDay in February through Getting Real, the IDA Screening Series, and the IDA Documentary Awards, 2018 has been a remarkable year for IDA and nonfiction storytelling as a whole. The compassion...
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 17 on Independent Lens is Joel Fendelman’s Man on Fire...
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Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
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My exposure to documentary film was quite limited growing up. Like many, I got my fair share of Ken Burns clips and maybe an episode of PBS FRONTLINE in high school, but for the most part, I knew very...