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AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WHO WILL COME KNOCKING
Thursday, October 31
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Thursday, November 7, 2024 | All day
PT
ZURAWSKI V TEXAS
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PT
SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
Sunday, October 27
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Sunday, November 3, 2024 | All day
PT
THE STRIKE | Roxie Theater
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 6:30 pm
PT
IDA Insight: Creating a Distribution Strategy in a Disrupted World with Jon Reiss President of 8 Above
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 5
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6:30 pm
PT
THE STRIKE | Grand Lake Theater
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 6:30 pm
PT
THE LAST OF THE SEA WOMEN
Monday, October 21, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PT
THE FLATS
Sunday, October 20
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Sunday, October 27, 2024 | All day
PT
SUGARCANE
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PT
HOLLYWOODGATE
Tuesday, October 15
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | All day
PT
THE BRINK OF DREAMS
Sunday, October 13
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Sunday, October 20, 2024 | All day
PT
PORCELAIN WAR
Thursday, October 10, 2024 | 7 pm
PT
BLINK
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PT
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
Sunday, October 6
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Sunday, October 13, 2024 | All day
PT
THE STRIKE | Maysles Documentary Center
Thursday, October 3, 2024 | 7 pm
ET
BLACK BOX DIARIES
Thursday, October 3
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Thursday, October 10, 2024 | All day
PT
THE STRIKE | DCTV Firehouse
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 8 pm
ET
FRIDA
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PT
I Am: Celine Dion
Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 7:30 pm
PT
Shifting Terrains: How Indigenous Women Are Shaping the Climate Justice Conversation
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | 5:30
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7 pm
PT
Working with Broadcasters: Getting Independent Film Voices heard
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 | 9 am
PST
IDA Documentary Awards - Call For Entries Q&A
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 | 9
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10 am
PST
Storytelling Our Way: Filmmakers of Color Forge Their Path
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 | 9 am
PST
Amplifying “Small” Stories: New Wave of Creative Documentaries from India
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | 8 am
PST
Member Office Hours - Open Call “Workshop”
Thursday, June 13, 2024 | 10
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11 am
PT
Jim Henson Idea Man
Monday, June 10
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Monday, June 17, 2024 | All day
PT
IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
Thursday, June 6, 2024 | 5
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7 pm
PT
International Office Hours - Open Call Information and Q&A
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 | 7:30
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9 am
PT
For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign
Tuesday, June 4
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | All day
PT
Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
Monday, June 3
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Monday, June 10, 2024 | All day
PT
Queens
Wednesday, May 29
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | All day
PT
Black Twitter: A People's History
Monday, May 20
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Monday, May 27, 2024 | All day
PT
IDA Member Office Hours - Open Call Information and Q&A
Thursday, May 16, 2024 | 10
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11 am
PST
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Office Hours
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 10
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11 am
PST
Getting Real '24
Monday, April 15
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 | All day
PT
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Office Hours
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 10
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11 am
PST
Meet IDA’s New Executive Director Dominic Asmall Willsdon
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 5
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7 pm
Member Hours: Meet the Programmers of Getting Real '24
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | 10
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11 am
PT
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Meet & Greet
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 | 10
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11 am
PST
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
Tuesday, December 12
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | All day
PT
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
Tuesday, December 12
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | All day
PT
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
Tuesday, December 12
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | All day
PT
Member Hours: Storytelling with Stock Media: A Documentary Filmmakers Workshop
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 | 1
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2 pm
PT
IDA Documentary Awards Member Viewing & Voting
Tuesday, November 7
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 | All day
Workshop with Spectres: Making Yourself a Ghost
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | 2
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3:30 pm
PT
Member Hours: Intellectual Property Essentials for Documentarians with Getty Images
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 1
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2:30 pm
PT
Ethics, Anonymity & Deep Fakes: A Conversation
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 9:30
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11 am
PT
IDA Member Open House
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 10 am
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2:30 pm
PT
Member Hours: California Documentary Project Grant Workshop and Q&A
Monday, October 2, 2023 | 11 am
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12 pm
PT
Member Hours: the Ins & Outs of Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance
Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 11 am
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12 pm
PT
Workshop with Spectres: Case Studies in Countercultural Democracy
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 2
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3:30 pm
PT
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Getting Started
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 10 am
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12 pm
PT
Documentary Presents: Claire Simon in Conversation
Tuesday, August 1
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023 | All day
PT
NAI Presents: Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey Virtual Survey Taking Session
Thursday, July 27, 2023 | 1
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2:30 pm
PST
IDA Member Hours: Show and Tell + Disability Pride Month with thai Lu
Thursday, July 20, 2023 | 1
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2 pm
PST
IDA Teach Out: Distribution 101 with Rachel Gordon
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 | 9:30
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11 am
PT
DocuClub LA: Standing Above the Clouds
Monday, July 10, 2023 | 7
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9 pm
PT
Experimental Realities: An Inquiry
Friday, July 7
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Monday, July 10, 2023 | All day
PT
NAI Presents: Embodied Infrastructure: Disabled Immersive Nonfiction
Thursday, June 29, 2023 | 9
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10:30 am
PST
DocuClub Chi: Traces of Home
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | 6
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9 pm
CT
IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 2
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | 10
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11:30 am
PT
IDA Teach Out: Archival Houses
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | 10
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11:30 am
PT
Here's What Really Happened: 'El Silencio del Topo'
Thursday, June 22, 2023 | 10
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11:30 am
PT
IDA Teach Out: Black Women's Wellness
Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 11 am
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12:30 pm
PT
IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
Thursday, June 8, 2023 | 10 am
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12 pm
PT
IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 1
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | 10
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11:30 am
PT
DocuClub NY: Untitled Death Row Memory Film
Monday, June 5, 2023 | 7
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10 pm
Workshop: Understanding Fair Use
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 10 am
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12 pm
PT
IDA Office Hours: Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 9
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10 am
PT
IDA Member Hours: How to Position Your Project (Beyond Grant Writing)
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 | 10 am
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12 pm
PT
Crossing Time Zones: Negotiating International Expectations So I Can Finish My Documentary
Thursday, May 4, 2023 | 9
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10:30 am
ET
DocuClub NY: Dissidents
Monday, April 24, 2023 | 7
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10 pm
ET
DocuClub NY: Dissidents
Monday, April 24, 2023 | 7
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10 pm
ET
Workshop: Mythbusting Post (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Post-Production)
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | 10
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11:30 am
PT
IDA Member Hours: Enterprise Documentary Fund
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 9
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10:30 am
PST
Workshop: Navigating Archival Sources
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 10
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11:30 am
PT
Enterprise Production Office Hours: International Applicants
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 9
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10:30 am
PST
Documentary Journalism Summit 2023
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 | 9 am
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Friday, March 10, 2023 | 10:30 am
PT
IDA Workshop: Developing Engaging Stories
Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 9
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10:30 am
PT
DocuClub NY: Roleplay
Monday, February 27, 2023 | 7 pm
ET
Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant Public Info Session
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | 9
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10:30 am
PT
IDA Teach Out: Narrative Justice
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 9:30
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11 am
PT
IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 10 am
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12 pm
PT
IDA Teach Out: The Cost of Docs with The Whickers
Thursday, December 15, 2022 | 9:30 am
PT
DocuClub LA: NEW WAVE
Monday, December 12, 2022 | 9 pm
PDT
DocuClub NY: Holding Back The Tide
Monday, December 12, 2022 | 11 am
EST
Festival Strategy Workshop
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | 2
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3:30 pm
PT
DocuClub NY: Happy Campers
Monday, November 28, 2022 | 11 am
EST
Wildcat
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
[Theater Screening] Wildcat
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Good Night Oppy
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
I Didn't See You There
Monday, November 21, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
[Theater Screening] Sidney
Friday, November 18, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Sidney
Friday, November 18, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Nothing Lasts Forever
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
[Theater Screening] Nothing Lasts Forever
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Moonage Daydream
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
[Theater Screening] Moonage Daydream
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Monday, November 14, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Black Notebooks: Ronit
Saturday, November 12, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
[Theater Screening] 752 Is Not A Number
Friday, November 11, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
752 Is Not A Number
Friday, November 11, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
What We Leave Behind
Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Let the Little Light Shine
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
Sansón and Me
Monday, November 7, 2022 | 11:30 am
PDT
IDA Teach Out: The Shapes of Distribution with Distribution Advocates
Monday, November 7, 2022 | 9:30 am
PT
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Mija
Thursday, November 3, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Mija
Thursday, November 3, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Sirens
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
In Her Hands
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
All That Breathes
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] All That Breathes
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
The Janes
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Free Chol Soo Lee
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Free Chol Soo Lee
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Lakota Nation vs. the United States
Monday, October 24, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
DocuClub LA: Break the Game
Monday, October 24, 2022 | 12 pm
PDT
Tantura
Sunday, October 23, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
DocuClub Chi: Finding Your Laughter
Sunday, October 23, 2022 | 10:30 am
CDT
DocuClub Memphis: I AM
Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 3 am
CDT
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
Thursday, October 20, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Bad Axe
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Fire of Love
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Fire of Love
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Last Flight Home
Monday, October 17, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Last Flight Home
Monday, October 17, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Descendant
Saturday, October 15, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PT
Hidden Letters
Friday, October 14, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Let Me Be Me
Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Let Me Be Me
Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
DocuClub HI: Girlie
Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 10 am
HST
Aftershock
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
2nd Chance
Monday, October 10, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] The Territory
Thursday, October 6, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
The Territory
Thursday, October 6, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Civil: Ben Crump
Monday, October 3, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
The Princess
Thursday, September 29, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Beba
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Retrograde
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Retrograde
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Getting Real '22 Documentary Film Conference
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | 8 am
PT
[Theater Screening] Navalny
Friday, September 23, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Katrina Babies
Thursday, September 22, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Riotsville, U.S.A.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Riotsville, U.S.A.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Nothing Compares
Thursday, September 15, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
[Theater Screening] Descendant
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 | 1 pm
PT
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
Thursday, September 8, 2022 | 12:30 pm
PDT
IDA Teach Out: Tax Incentives for Doc Makers 101
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 | 2 pm
(12 pm)
CT
Awards Spotlight: Couples Therapy
Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 6 pm
PT
Awards Spotlight: Sheryl
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 | 6 pm
PT
Awards Spotlight: We Need To Talk About Cosby
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 | 6 pm
PT
Awards Spotlight: The Big Conn
Thursday, June 9, 2022 | 6 pm
PT
Awards Spotlight: Our Great National Parks
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 | 6 pm
PT
Awards Spotlight: jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 | 6 pm
PT
37th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Virtual Ceremony
Friday, March 4, 2022 | 5 pm
PT
Missing in Brooks County
Friday, December 10, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker
Thursday, December 9, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Cusp
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Ascension
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Attica
Monday, December 6, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Grant Writing Technical Workshop: Firelight Media's Spark Fund
Monday, December 6, 2021 | 9 am
PT
Like A Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Friday, December 3, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam
Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Try Harder!
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
The Neutral Ground
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Faya Dayi
Monday, November 29, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Socks On Fire
Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
IDA Grantee Shorts: Elena + Three Songs for Benazir
Monday, November 22, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
No Ordinary Man
Thursday, November 18, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Netflix Shorts Program
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Ferguson Rises
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
In the Same Breath
Monday, November 15, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
DocuClub NY: Woman on the Outside
Monday, November 15, 2021 | 11 am
ET
Paper & Glue
Thursday, November 11, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Not Going Quietly
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
LFG
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
DocuClub LA: Leveling Lincoln
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | 11 am
PT
Introducing, Selma Blair
Monday, November 8, 2021 | 11:30 am
PT
Grant Writing Workshop: How to Position Your Film In A Changing Funding Landscape
Thursday, November 4, 2021 | 6 pm
EST
Writing With Fire
Thursday, November 4, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Val
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Simple As Water
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
A Cop Movie
Monday, November 1, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Julia
Thursday, October 28, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
President
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
[Theater Screening] The Sparks Brothers
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
The Sparks Brothers
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
All Light, Everywhere
Monday, October 25, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Thursday, October 21, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Becoming Cousteau
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
[Theater Screening] Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Monday, October 18, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
[Theater Screening] The Velvet Underground
Thursday, October 14, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
The Velvet Underground
Thursday, October 14, 2021 | 12:30 pm
PT
Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival Grant Writing Workshop
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | 3 pm
EST
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