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. Streaming on POV through July 15 are two films that take a ground-level view of...
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The IDA mourns the passing of Claude Lanzmann, who died yesterday at 92. Lanzmann was celebrated for his monumental Shoah, a ten-hour opus on the Holocaust that transformed the global conversation on...
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight on POV, Viktor Jakovleski's Brimstone & Glory captures 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 tonight on HBO, HBO Go and HBO Now, Don Argott's Believer follows...
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Some of you may know me as the Enterprise Documentary Fund’s Project Coordinator. Beginning this funding cycle, I am thrilled to assume the position of Program Officer. In this role, I will be...
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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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June 20 th is World Refugee Day. It has been 18 years since the United Nations General Assembly declaration and 67 years since the 1951 Refugee Convention, and yet the crisis of displaced populations...
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The 2018 FIFA World Cup has already caused a mini earthquake in Mexico City with Mexico’s stunning defeat of defending champion Germany, Iceland shocked the world by tieing Argentina, Brazil failed to...