Join us for a special event to discover and analyze the qualities that make some documentaries stand above the rest. This three-hour interactive workshop offers an in-depth analysis of recent Academy Award-winning documentaries to reveal what makes them great.
Educational Seminars
Our year-round series of seminars, panels and workshops focusing on the art, craft and business of documentary filmmaking. Become an IDA member to access previous seminars online.
Join us and Showtime Networks’ Vinnie Malhotra, Senior Vice President, Documentaries, Unscripted, and Sports Programming, for the next installment in our What’s New series, in which prominent industry leaders in documentary present up-to-the-minute information about what’s happening in the documentary landscape and discuss new opportunities for filmmakers.
Join us for a very special Virtual Reality (VR) Documentary Workshop that features a hands-on approach to the new world of VR, discussing current tools, emerging techniques and methodologies as well as the ethical concerns of this rapidly evolving medium. This daylong workshop is specifically designed to give nonfiction filmmakers practical knowledge in every major aspect of crafting VR in documentary.
Join us for the first ever public event in Los Angeles to explore the many points of intersection between the documentary and VR worlds. This wide-ranging panel discussion will provoke your curiosity and raise as many questions as it answers about the vast possibilities and possible limitations related to documentary and VR.
Join us for a special presentation featuring John Hoffman, Executive Vice President, Documentaries and Specials for Discovery, who will be discussing Discovery’s exciting new commitment to documentary. This event marks the first of IDA’s What’s New sessions, in which prominent industry leaders in documentary present up-to-the-minute information about what’s happening in the documentary landscape and discuss new opportunities for filmmakers.
Join us for a rare career examination of one of the most influential auteurs in the personal documentary genre, Ross McElwee.
Join us for this essential exploration of the art and craft of directing with Academy Award®-winning director Morgan Neville.
Join us for a unique three-hour journey with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, director of 2012’s ground-breaking, Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, as we explore the issues and ideas at the heart of these two masterpieces .
Free for IDA members on a first come, first served basis. Learn about the latest developments and best practices coming out of the educational distribution and outreach/engagement worlds as, together, we explore these topics with a highly impressive array of panelists.
In partnership with AFI DOCS Join us for a day with keynotes, panels, Q&A, and reception.