Cosricans follows a close-knit group of friends on their journey to redefine their own lives through their art and the power of their community.
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We award $1.2 million annually in production and development grants directly to documentarians through our IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, IDA Netflix Global Emerging Filmmaker Award, IDA Sarowitz Project Completion Fund, and Logan Elevate Grant.
The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civi
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Some twenty years after crossing the US-Mexico border as a nine-year-old, Poet Javier Zamora has taken it upon himself to revisit his past and retrace his jou
In 2015 the Kurdish guerrillas - both men and women - were praised as heroes by the world.
The arrival of a white supremacist pagan church ignites the struggle for the soul of a small town and compels the townsfolk to face the prejudice sown and cultivated in American soil. What happens when this town says the ‘quiet part’ out loud?
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
At a moment of national reckoning on mass incarceration, what can California's experiment teach the nation?
The River is a vivid, character-driven film about Louisiana’s complicated relationship with the Mississippi River.
The Sacred & The Snake follows several Indigenous women and two-spirit activists as they discover their power in the act of collective resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. But as each returns home empowered to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and abuse, they realize their battle has just begun.
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Before Big Data, there was the Stasi -- East Germany’s secret police that gathered and weaponized the personal information of its citizens to maintain control
A generation of California men endure decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launch a protest to regain their freedom.
A young black fugitive casts his fate to wind and surrenders after a decade on the run.
When a network of Brazilian farmers takes control of a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a conflict erupts at the forest's edge.
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The Untitled 19th* News Film (working title) documents the first years of a revolutionary news startup that is challenging the status quo of the most
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The first line of every Armenian fairy tale, There Was, There Was Not tells the collective myth of a homeland nearly lost to war — and four women’s r
Set in the Canadian Arctic, against the threat of climate change, THOSE THAT BREATHE is the powerful and intimate story of an Inuit community struggling to hold on to their culture and their land.
Through the Night is a verite documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider - whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, NY.
Physics, geology, and democracy collide across the expansive American interior, in a series of vignettes from six candidate sites for a sacrificial nuclear dumping ground.
Trafficked in America tells the story of a group of teenagers from Guatemala who are forced to work against their will at an Ohio egg farm.
Uncharted is an immersive dance performance inspired by 5,000 years of knowledge-generation from the continent of Africa.
An intimate portrait of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), a group of current and former Amazon workers taking on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
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A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russ
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America follows the stories of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East as they flee persecution in their countries of origin to seek better and safer lives in the U.S.
A film about the remaking of America from the voices of a small town divided.
There’s a new drug on the horizon that promises to make little people taller—but it’s threatening to erase the very community it claims to serve.
Themes of culture, diversity, and internet freedom clash in this study of how social media has reshaped our lives and upended decades of technological, journalistic, and political norms.
Untitled Michael Premo Documentary explores issues in contemporary America.
Untitled Policing Documentary is a film like no other, an explosive confessional told from behind the thin blue line, it examines police crime and the personal and political consequences of l
After helping achieve independence for South Sudan in 2011, an activist and military officer left behind the government and its abuses.
Two friends uncover a conflict that divides their already embattled community. Told from all sides, with unprecedented access to courtrooms, anonymous sources and community leaders, this observational film unfolds in real time.
Users (working title) explores the unintended and often dehumanizing consequences of our society's embedded belief that technological progress will lead to the betterment of humanity.
Searing urgency is a guiding force as Welcome to Chechnya shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ pogrom raging in the repressive and c
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic at San Quentin State Prison, What These Walls Won’t Hold chronicles the organizing and relationships of people who came together beyond the separat
When They Were Here is a documentary about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis on the Blackfeet Reservation in northern Montana, told through the eyes of the families a