Submitting your film to festivals is like walking through a minefield of choices. Make the right decisions and you will launch your film successfully into the world and build a solid foundation upon which to establish your film career; make the wrong ones and you will likely cost yourself precious
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.
Presented by the IDA and DOC NYC Tues, 03/31/15 7:30pm-8:45pm and Wed, 04/01/15 10:30am-5:00pm IFC Center - 323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10014 Can't make it to New York? Follow #savedocs and watch the discussion as it unfolds. Tuesday, March 31 at IFC Center 7:30pm-9:00pm
Join master editor Doug Blush ( 20 Feet From Stardom, The Hunting Ground) on a virtual, insider’s tour of his editing suite as he focuses on several key aspects of the editing process: how to make great openings and endings for your films and how to plan for a detailed post production process that
Get any group of documentary filmmakers together and, no doubt, a big topic of conversation will be money: how to get it, how to make it, and how to keep getting and making it. Why? Because making docs is hard enough, but figuring out how to make a living making docs can be downright maddening
Interviewed by Marjan Safinia Join us for the first in a new series of “Conversations With…” as maverick documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield looks back on his incomparable body of work that spans more than 40 years. IDA Board President Marjan Safinia is our guide for this on-stage interview and
Join us for a special Master Class seeking to demystify the scoring process and give directors the tools they need to ensure that when the final mix is done, their films will become music to their — and their audiences’ — ears.
From Citizenfour to Virunga, documentary filmmakers are increasingly breaking important investigative stories, while at the same time employing gripping story-telling techniques and delivering powerful cinematic experiences. What are the artistic and personal challenges of working in both the
Making a successful, long-term career in documentary filmmaking has never been more challenging than it is now. Demand for documentaries is rising, but, simultaneously, so is the number of filmmakers competing for the same grants and jobs. How can you generate the support you need, strengthen your
Join us for a special Master Class with IDA’s 2014 Preservation and Scholarship Award recipient, director Rithy Panh, whose powerful and artful films over the past 25 years have explored the complex nature of memory and tragedy in Cambodian society following the devastating effects of the Khmer
In this Master Class on Producing, Paula will share her insights into what it takes to establish and maintain strategically vital relationships, successfully manage and maximize budgets, and squeeze the full creative potential out of each of her films.