Interviewed by Ben Mankiewicz
Join us for the premiere event of the 2016 IDA Conversation Series, spotlighting the brilliant work and extraordinary career of the Academy Award®-winning director Roger Ross Williams.
IDA Conversation Series
Our signature conversation series features a stellar lineup of prominent documentary filmmakers.
Chicago
IL
Join Kartemquin Films for the first IDA Conversation Series event in Chicago, an exploration of the extraordinary work and career of the Academy Award® nominated director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Life Itself).
Los Angeles
CA
Join us for the final IDA Conversation Series event of the Summer/Fall season, an exploration of the extraordinary work and career of the Academy Award® nominated director Renee Tajima-Peña.
Los Angeles
CA
October’s IDA Conversation Series event spotlights the exceptional films and remarkable career of Davis Guggenheim, director of the Academy Award® winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, one of the most influential films of our time.
Oakland
CA
Join us for this special Bay Area edition of the IDA Conversation Series featuring the preeminent documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson in conversation with Orlando Bagwell, Director of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism documentary program.
Los Angeles
CA
IDA’s Summer/Fall Conversation Series continues to dazzle in September with the remarkable Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney in conversation with the engaging Ben Mankiewicz.
Los Angeles
CA
Join us for the second event in our special Summer/Fall Conversation Series as host Ben Mankiewicz interviews Rory Kennedy, one of the preeminent documentary filmmakers of our time, and shows a selection of riveting clips from her extraordinary career.
Los Angeles
CA
Our premiere event, featuring an onstage interview and clips program, spotlights the remarkable directing/producing team of Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. Their most recent documentary feature The Hunting Ground, a monumental exposé about sexual assault on college campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and has focused national attention on this critical issue.
Los Angeles
CA
Join us for a special evening as we go in-depth and behind-the-scenes with LA’s own Morgan Neville, director and producer of the Oscar®-winning, box office-smashing Twenty Feet from Stardom.
Los Angeles
CA
Join KCRW's Matt Holzman (Matt's Movies, The Business) for an in-depth conversation with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.