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The Virtual: Pitching to Develop Your Film. November 25, 2025
The Virtual: Pitching to Develop Your Film
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From Island to Island still image
IDA Member Screening: From Island to Island
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IDA Members' Works In Progress. November 13, 10AM ET
IDA Members' Works in Progress
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Pitching to develop your film logo
Pitching to Develop Your Film
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A blue background flyer for the workshop titles Are Your Films Future-Proofed? The flyer includes event details, venue, date information and logos and photos of presenters. All information is on this same event page.
Are Your Films Future-Proofed? Get the Low-Down… Before It’s Too Late
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Audience at IDA conference room at the Getting Real 2024 Mixer
Getting Real ’26 Mixer
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ESPN 30 for 30: For Your Consideration in Non-Fiction Series. Featured titles include I’m Just Here for the Riot, False Positive, American Son, Dude Perfect, Stolen Gold, No Scope, and The New York Sack Exchange.
30 for 30
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ESPN 30 for 30: For Your Consideration in Non-Fiction Series. Featured titles include I’m Just Here for the Riot, False Positive, American Son, Dude Perfect, Stolen Gold, No Scope, and The New York Sack Exchange.
30 for 30
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Green and blue flyer for IDAconnect: May
IDAconnect: May Meeting
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IDAinsight: Protecting Yourself and Your Film in the Age of Increased Scrutiny graphic
IDAinsight: Protecting Yourself and Your Film in the Age of Increased Scrutiny
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Green and blue flyer for IDAinsight: Yet Another Legal Update on Fair Use (2025)
IDAinsight: Yet Another Legal Update on Fair Use (2025)
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IDA Documentary Award 2024 winners
IDA Awards 2025 | Call for Entries Live Q&A
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Green, blue, and white flyer for IDAconnect April Meeting. Features image of filmmakers at IDA Night Before party.
IDAconnect: April Meeting
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Green, blue, and white flyer for IDAconnect March Meeting. Features image of filmmakers at IDA 40th Documentary Awards.
IDAconnect: March Meeting
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IDA Insight: The Ins & Outs of the Producer’s Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance graphic
IDAinsight: The Ins & Outs of the Producer’s Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance
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Festival strategy workshop with Marielle Clentine
IDAinsight: Festival Strategy Workshop
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Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
IDAinsight: Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
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Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
IDAinsight: Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
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A pink and blue flyer with the headshots of two musicians.
Listening as Documenting
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hands hold two small pictures of young men side by side
UNTIL HE'S BACK
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black and white image of a white man in a power chair taken in profile
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY
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an asian man sits in the middle of an abandoned warehouse
WHO'S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW?
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man reclines on a rock hill with a tank in the background
NO OTHER LAND
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a large number of colorful moths are pinned to a gray background
NOCTURNES
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Black man in white bucket hat looks over an artifact.
DAHOMEY
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Black man holds a beaded staff and looks over a lush landscape
THE BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA
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Three white men sit in a car looking out from the windshield
THE LAST JOURNEY
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black man shades his face with a paper in front of an amazon logo
UNION
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long shot of a person and a horse silhouetted in a snowy landscape
AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WHO WILL COME KNOCKING
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white woman standing at podium in black dress addressing crowd with people standin behind her
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 film still
THE STRIKE | Roxie Theater
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Flyer for IDA Insight: Creating a Distribution Strategy in a Disrupted World with Jon Reiss President of 8 Above
IDA Insight: Creating a Distribution Strategy in a Disrupted World with Jon Reiss President of 8 Above
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The Strike film still
THE STRIKE | Grand Lake Theater
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The Last of the Seawomen film still
THE LAST OF THE SEA WOMEN
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The Flats film still
THE FLATS
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Sugarcane film still
SUGARCANE
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Hollywoodgate film still
HOLLYWOODGATE
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The Brink of Dreams film still
THE BRINK OF DREAMS
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Porcelain War film still
PORCELAIN WAR
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Blink film still
BLINK
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
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The Strike film still
THE STRIKE | Maysles Documentary Center
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Black Box Diaries film still
BLACK BOX DIARIES
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The Strike film still
THE STRIKE | DCTV Firehouse
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FRIDA film still
FRIDA
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I Am Celine still image
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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Geting Real 2024 Banner
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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Image of a film reel and a clapperboard
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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getty images logo
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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Image of two binders labeled Applications and Grants
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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a phone and laptop
IDA Teach Out: Distribution 101 with Rachel Gordon
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