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AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WHO WILL COME KNOCKING
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ZURAWSKI V TEXAS
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blue light colored a room of three balck women dressed in all white conducting a ritual while a group of people watched
SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
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THE STRIKE | Roxie Theater
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IDA Insight: Creating a Distribution Strategy in a Disrupted World with Jon Reiss President of 8 Above
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THE STRIKE | Grand Lake Theater
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THE LAST OF THE SEA WOMEN
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THE FLATS
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SUGARCANE
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HOLLYWOODGATE
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THE BRINK OF DREAMS
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PORCELAIN WAR
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BLINK
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
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THE STRIKE | Maysles Documentary Center
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BLACK BOX DIARIES
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THE STRIKE | DCTV Firehouse
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FRIDA
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I Am: Celine Dion
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Climate Change Graphic
Shifting Terrains: How Indigenous Women Are Shaping the Climate Justice Conversation
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Working with Broadcasters: Getting Independent Film Voices heard flyer
Working with Broadcasters: Getting Independent Film Voices heard
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IDA Documentary Awards 2024 Call for Entries June 21 to August 5, 2024
IDA Documentary Awards - Call For Entries Q&A
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Storytelling Our Way Filmmakers of Color Forge Their Path flyer
Storytelling Our Way: Filmmakers of Color Forge Their Path
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Amplifying “Small” Stories New wave of Creative Documentaries from India Flyer
Amplifying “Small” Stories: New Wave of Creative Documentaries from India
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IDA Open Call May 29 - June 25, 2025.
Member Office Hours - Open Call “Workshop”
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Black and white image of Jim Henson with a Kermit puppet.
Jim Henson Idea Man
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Audience members from Getting Real '24
IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
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IDA Open Call May 29 - June 25, 2025.
International Office Hours - Open Call Information and Q&A
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Two people outside a government building wearing masks. One person is in a wheelchair.
For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign
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Tyler Perry film still in a white suite.
Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
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Still from "Queens"
Queens
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Amanda Seales film still from "Black Twitter: A People's History"
Black Twitter: A People's History
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Office Hours - Open Call Information and Q&A
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Office Hours
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Getting Real '24
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Office Hours
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IDA staff and board at dinner
Meet IDA’s New Executive Director Dominic Asmall Willsdon
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Three people standing in a brightly lit room, attending Getting Real '22. (left to right) Man is wearing a black and gray shirt and olive green pants, man in middle is wearing a backpack with a gray shirt and black pants, and woman on the right is wearing a pink tank top dress with her brown hair clipped in the back.
Member Hours: Meet the Programmers of Getting Real '24
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Meet & Greet
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
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Member Hours: Storytelling with Stock Media: A Documentary Filmmakers Workshop
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards Member Viewing & Voting
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a woman holding her index finger on top of a screen with finger print illustration implying digital security
Workshop with Spectres: Making Yourself a Ghost
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Member Hours: Intellectual Property Essentials for Documentarians with Getty Images
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The word "Ethics" highlighted with pink marker on a book page
Ethics, Anonymity & Deep Fakes: A Conversation
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IDA members networking at a theater foyer
IDA Member Open House
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Member Hours: California Documentary Project Grant Workshop and Q&A
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An image with a letter that reads Insurance Policy on top of a desk with glasses and a calculator
Member Hours: the Ins & Outs of Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance
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Scrabble letters write Case Study on top of a notebook standing on a table
Workshop with Spectres: Case Studies in Countercultural Democracy
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Two people, surely avid adventurers, stand waist deep in a body of arctic water; maybe they’re in Alaska - gazing upon a vast night sky. Most notably there is a bright, luminescent green aurora borealis shining above them.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Getting Started
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Headshot of Claire Simon
Documentary Presents: Claire Simon in Conversation
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A person wearing a gold shirt is looking at a laptop with six faces on the screen having a virtual meeting.
NAI Presents: Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey Virtual Survey Taking Session
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Map of neurons from a brain scan. Pink and light green lines over a black background.
IDA Member Hours: Show and Tell + Disability Pride Month with thai Lu
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IDA Teach Out: Distribution 101 with Rachel Gordon
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Five women stand with their backs to the camera embracing each other in a line with the gray sky in front of them. They all have long brown hair and are wearing traditional Native Hawaiian kihei dyed with olena (turmeric) that are tied around their shoulders.
DocuClub LA: Standing Above the Clouds
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Experimental Realities: An Inquiry
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Rectangular computer graphic of a white and black Oculus quest 2 VR headset over a blue background with crystalline star objects scattered in the frame. Superimposed over the image is a white curb cut diagram. The whole image is treated with artificial grain.
NAI Presents: Embodied Infrastructure: Disabled Immersive Nonfiction
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A mom and her daughter embrace in a close up of their faces, the little girl wearing a black and white polka dot dress.
DocuClub Chi: Traces of Home
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A globe sits on top of a computer keyboard with a blue key that reads "Accessibility"
IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 2
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Rolls of film lay out on a table.
IDA Teach Out: Archival Houses
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A man sits in a beige button up in a chair in front of greenery. In front of him hands and arms clasping, as if they are slating on a movie set.
Here's What Really Happened: 'El Silencio del Topo'
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People in a circle. Their hands raised, touching in the center.
IDA Teach Out: Black Women's Wellness
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IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
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Graphic with yellow background featuring a yellow pen, yellow pencils, yellow paperclips, a yellow magnify glass, a yellow cellphone, and a stack of white note cards. The top note card has the word Accessibility written in black.
IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 1
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A news anchor stands in the middle of the desert, in front of a sign that says, “ELY STATE PRISON”. A production light shines on them, and a camera person with a tripod films them.
DocuClub NY: Untitled Death Row Memory Film
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Workshop: Understanding Fair Use
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Flyer blue and light green background with white and gold text: ida office hours Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey. Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 9AM PT via Zoom.
IDA Office Hours: Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey
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A lightbulb sits on the left side of a soft orange backdrop. Little rays pop out of it, as if they were drawn onto the backdrop.
IDA Member Hours: How to Position Your Project (Beyond Grant Writing)
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Four paper airplanes fly across a sky blue backdrop. The bottom three are white and the top one is yellow and going off course.
Crossing Time Zones: Negotiating International Expectations So I Can Finish My Documentary
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A protesting man wearing a dark blue sweater and match baseball cap thrusting his right arm during a protest in Times Square NYC.
DocuClub NY: Dissidents
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A person in an inner city raises their arms and enthusiastically yells in protest.
DocuClub NY: Dissidents
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Maya E. Rudolph
Workshop: Mythbusting Post (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Post-Production)
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Blue background with white and gold text. IDA member hours. Ask questions, get answers about the Enterprise Documentary Fund, March 29, 2023, 9 am on Zoom.
IDA Member Hours: Enterprise Documentary Fund
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Workshop: Navigating Archival Sources
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Flyer with blue background with white and gold text highlighting ida office hours, international info session, March 14, 2023, 9:00 AM PT.
Enterprise Production Office Hours: International Applicants
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Documentary Journalism Summit Event Banner
Documentary Journalism Summit 2023
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IDA Workshop: Developing Engaging Stories 
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A young woman practices the movement of falling - her eyes gaze upward and hands are up in the air.
DocuClub NY: Roleplay
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Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant Public Info Session
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ida teach out: narrative justice. blue gradient background with yellow text and color. the description says How do you make a film about the experience of incarceration? Given the complexities of consent and power, what are the ethics this work requires? What is an ethic of narrative reparation?
IDA Teach Out: Narrative Justice
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IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
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IDA Teach Out: The Cost of Docs with The Whickers
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A young guy plays a record player in a small, cramped bedroom.
DocuClub LA: NEW WAVE
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A Black femme in a white dress looks tranquilly toward the camera, as in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the bank of a river.
DocuClub NY: Holding Back The Tide
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Festival Strategy Workshop
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A young boy in shark slippers standing on a dirt road with the title of the film.
DocuClub NY: Happy Campers
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Wildcat
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[Theater Screening] Wildcat
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Good Night Oppy
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I Didn't See You There
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Sidney
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[Theater Screening] Sidney
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Nothing Lasts Forever
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[Theater Screening] Nothing Lasts Forever
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Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
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[Theater Screening] Moonage Daydream
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Moonage Daydream
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
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Black Notebooks: Ronit
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752 Is Not A Number
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[Theater Screening] 752 Is Not A Number
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What We Leave Behind
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Let the Little Light Shine
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The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
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Sansón and Me
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IDA Teach Out: The Shapes of Distribution with Distribution Advocates
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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Mija
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[Theater Screening] Mija
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Sirens
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In Her Hands
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[Theater Screening] All That Breathes
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All That Breathes
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The Janes
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[Theater Screening] Free Chol Soo Lee
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Free Chol Soo Lee
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Lakota Nation vs. the United States
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DocuClub LA: Break the Game
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Teddy Katz, still image from the film: Tantura
Tantura
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DocuClub Chi: Finding Your Laughter
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Picture One-Group shot of African-American women. Picture two- Young woman sitting on a bed, wearing casual clothes, pink background with a stuffed bear beside her. African-American woman, outside in the foreground of trees.
DocuClub Memphis: I AM
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The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
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Bad Axe
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Fire of Love
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[Theater Screening] Fire of Love
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Last Flight Home
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[Theater Screening] Last Flight Home
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A still image from Descendant, a Black man wearing glasses and a colorful shirt standing in front of a wall inside a house.
Descendant
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Hidden Letters
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Let Me Be Me
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[Theater Screening] Let Me Be Me
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A woman wearing a cowboy hat and vest sitting on a washtub outside in a garden.
DocuClub HI: Girlie
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Aftershock
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[Theater Screening] Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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2nd Chance
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[Theater Screening] The Territory
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The Territory
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening
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Civil: Ben Crump
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The Princess
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Beba
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[Theater Screening] Retrograde
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Retrograde
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Green and blue banner for Getting Real conference with dates September 27-29. 2022.
Getting Real '22 Documentary Film Conference
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[Theater Screening] Navalny
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Katrina Babies
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Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
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[Theater Screening] Riotsville, U.S.A.
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Riotsville, U.S.A.
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Sinéad O’Connor in a black and white photo.
Nothing Compares
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Harold Washington address over 10,000 supporters at the UIC Pavilion in February, 1983. Photo credit: Marc PoKempner.
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
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A still image from Descendant, a Black man wearing glasses and a colorful shirt standing in front of a wall inside a house.
[Theater Screening] Descendant
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An image from Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, Leonard Cohen is wearing a fedora and holding a guitar in a black & white photo.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
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IDA Teach Out: Tax Incentives for Doc Makers 101
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Dr. Orna Guralnik, PsyD is a white woman with dark hair sitting across from her patients in a couples therapy session. Film still from 'Couples Therapy' courtesy of Showtime.
Awards Spotlight: Couples Therapy
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Sheryl Crow, a white female American musician with blonde hair, plays guitar and sings on a large stage.
Awards Spotlight: Sheryl
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Film still from 'We Need To Talk About Cosby' courtesy of Showtime.
Awards Spotlight: We Need To Talk About Cosby
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'The Big Conn' title in bold black text with a yellow background. Courtesy of Apply TV+.
Awards Spotlight: The Big Conn
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'Our Great National Parks' title in white text with a black background. Image courtesy of Netflix.
Awards Spotlight: Our Great National Parks
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Film still from 'jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy'. Image courtesy of Netflix.
Awards Spotlight: jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
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37th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Virtual Ceremony
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A Latinx woman with black hair and someone off screen hang a poster that reads "MISSING PERSON." It has a picture of a Latinx man with short black hair on it.
Missing in Brooks County
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A black and white portrait of a white man submerged in dirt. David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Face in Dirt), 1991. © Estate of David Wojnarowicz. Courtesy of the Estate and P·P·O·W.
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker
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Three teenage girls sit on top of a car. One is smoking.
Cusp
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An asian woman with black hair holds up a white tennis shoe in front of a camera and ring light.
Ascension
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A black and white picture of a group of men with their firsts raised in the air.
Attica
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Graphic of fire illuminating in layers
Grant Writing Technical Workshop: Firelight Media's Spark Fund
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A black and white photo of an asian man in a patterned button up. He sits in a recording studio.
Like A Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
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An older woman with brown skin and black hair wearing a black outfit sits on the floor.
Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam
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A young Asian student with glasses, wearing a goofy fur hat, motions to a white board with a math formula on it.
Try Harder!
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A man stares out the window at a large statue of a person.
The Neutral Ground
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A black and white picture of a boy with Black skin swimming in water.
Faya Dayi
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A white man with brown hair and facial hair wearing red shades and a Hawaiian shirt and blazer. He smokes a cigarette and watches socks burn.
Socks On Fire
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A collage of stills from two IDA Grantee Shorts.
IDA Grantee Shorts: Elena + Three Songs for Benazir
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A black and white picture of several men with light skin in suits standing around a TV.
No Ordinary Man
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A collage of stills from three Netflix shorts.
Netflix Shorts Program
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A Black man with a long black beard wearing a red baseball cap and shirt holds a framed painting of a Black boy with a crown on his head.
Ferguson Rises
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A group of people all wearing face masks waving the Chinese flag.
In the Same Breath
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A close up shot of a Black woman with long brown hair looking off screen. A still from 'Woman on the Outside.'
DocuClub NY: Woman on the Outside
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A birds eye view of a large mural of two eyes.
Paper & Glue
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A white man with brown hair and facial hair raises his fist in the air. He is in a wheelchair.
Not Going Quietly
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The back of a woman with pink hair's head.
LFG
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Civil rights attorney Paul Zuber being interviewed outside Roosevelt school with parents and children who were refused registration, New Rochelle, 1960.
DocuClub LA: Leveling Lincoln
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A woman with white skin wearing a head scarf and cheetah print top.
Introducing, Selma Blair
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Blue graphic with the text "Doc Grant Writing, How to position your film in a changing funding landscape" with black and white images of Dana Mervin, a light skinned woman with dark hair, and Jeff Seelbach, a light skinned man with blonde hair.
Grant Writing Workshop: How to Position Your Film In A Changing Funding Landscape
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A group of people with brown skin sit in a room. Two women in the front film someone off screen with their phone.
Writing With Fire
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A white man with short brown hair holds a camera up to a mirror.
Val
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A woman in a brown hijab talks to a little girl.
Simple As Water
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A man with brown skin and short hair, wearing a tank top and underwear, traces himself on the floor.
A Cop Movie
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A woman with white skin and curly brown hair. She holds a pan with food on it.
Julia
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A man with Black skin and a patterned shirt addresses a large crowd.
President
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A black and white portrait of two white men both with dark hair. The man on the left has round black glasses and a pencil mustache.
The Sparks Brothers
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A black and white portrait of two white men both with dark hair. The man on the left has round black glasses and a pencil mustache.
[Theater Screening] The Sparks Brothers
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A child with white skin, short hair and wearing a blue shirt and solar viewing glasses. He sits in stadium seating eating a popsicle.
All Light, Everywhere
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A older Black person with gray hair wearing a blue coat.
My Name Is Pauli Murray
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An older white man wearing a red cap, white shirt and sunglasses. He is smoking a pipe.
Becoming Cousteau
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A Black man with black hair wearing pink glasses, a gold necklace and a purple suit. He is playing keyboard to a crowd.
[Theater Screening] Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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A Black man with black hair wearing pink glasses, a gold necklace and a purple suit. He is playing keyboard to a crowd.
Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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An older white woman with gray hair and black glasses. She is pointing to her shirt which reads "Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It."
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
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A black and white dual panel screen with several pictures of white men with dark hair.
The Velvet Underground
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A black and white dual panel screen with several pictures of white men with dark hair.
[Theater Screening] The Velvet Underground
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A colorful graphic with "grant writing workshop for filmmakers" on it and several faces of the panelists.
Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival Grant Writing Workshop
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A collage of stills from the New Yorker Shorts.
New Yorker Documentary Shorts
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An older white man with gray hair holds up a green, scraggly puppet.
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
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An older white man with gray hair holds up a green, scraggly puppet.
[Theater Screening] Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
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A male student in a blue graduation cap and gown and flower neckless sits among a group of people in a living room.
Homeroom
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A collage of stills from four TIME Studios shorts.
TIME Studios Shorts
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A collage of stills from four TIME Studios shorts.
[Theater Screening] TIME Studios Shorts
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A middle-aged woman with very short hair dressed in traditional Samoan warrior clothes and holding a club near her face and standing at the edge of a lake with mountains in the distance.
DocuClub HI: I of the Water: The Unwritten Life of Sia Figiel
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Two animated women in black niqabs.
CANCELLED: Sabaya
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blurry shadow of a person
Documenting Survivors of Trauma: Ethics and Consent
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An animated man with brown skin and dark brown hair scratches his head. A city can be seen behind him.
[Theater Screening] Flee
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An animated man with brown skin and dark brown hair scratches his head. A city can be seen behind him.
Flee
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A collage of stills from four New York Times Op-Docs.
New York Times Op-Docs Shorts
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Three people sit on a ledge and stair at a mountain.
[Theater Screening] Found
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Three people sit on a ledge and stair at a mountain.
Found
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A sepia portrait of a white man with curly light hair.
The Real Charlie Chaplin
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A group of people protesting, including several nuns in black robes.
[Theater Screening] Rebel Hearts
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A group of people protesting, including several nuns in black robes.
Rebel Hearts
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A man with white skin and short blond hair runs down a street.
Changing the Game
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Black and white image of a black man with short dark hair looking into the camera. In the background three dancers strike a pose.
Ailey
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An older white man with black glasses and gray short hair stands next to Salvator Mundi, a painting of a white man with long brown hair pointing upwards.
The Lost Leonardo
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Anthony Bourdain, an older white man with short hair wearing a white chef's coat, stands in a small kitchen.
[Theater Screening] Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain, an older white man with short hair wearing a white chef's coat, stands in a small kitchen.
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
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A group of people inside a dark cave.
The Rescue
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Several people inside a dark cave.
[Outdoor Screening] The Rescue
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