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A young Asian woman and a middle-aged white man take a selfie in front of a large auditorium of spectators.
Exclusive: American Film Showcase Announces 2025 Film Slate
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A woman with brown hair and wearing a black, colored shift leans her chin on one hand.
Exclusive: Leila Abu-saada Joins CAAM as Building Bridges Documentary Fund Manager
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Exclusive: American Documentary Honors PJ Raval With Creative Visionary Award
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A black and white photograph of a smiling Black woman with short hair. She is wearing a dress with striped sleeves.
Exclusive: Catapult Film Fund Names Tabitha Jackson to Board
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A man wearing a t-shirt and a beanie is being interviewed.
Exclusive: Clip from Holly Hardman’s ‘As Prescribed’
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Photograph of five young men holding bowling balls.
Exclusive: Clip from Rebecca and Pete Davis’s ‘Join or Die’
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A man stands in front of paintings with his arms crossed.
Exclusive: Clip from Dan Covert’s ‘Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life’
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Exclusive: Islamic Scholarship Fund Expands Film Industry Partnerships with Major Gift from the Doris Duke Foundation
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Exclusive: A-Doc Announces 2024 Microdocs Series Selection and Impact Fellows
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Image of an announcement of the 2024 Wyncote Fellows, with headshots of the 12 fellows in the upper right hand corner, the Wyncote Foundation logo, and the logos of the 12 partner organizations at the bottom.
Exclusive: PBS Indies Nominate Twelve 2024 Wyncote Fellows, Hosted by AmDoc at PBS Annual Meeting
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Abby Sun (Director of Artist Programs, IDA) and Dominic Asmall Willsdon (Executive Director, IDA) on the stage at the closing night of Getting Real ’24 conference.
Sheffield DocFest and IDA Announce Alternate Realities Collaboration
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Left to Right: Sapana Sakya (Talent Development & Special Projects Director, CAAM), Stephen Gong (Executive Director, CAAM), Zeyba Rahman (Director for the Building Bridges Program, Doris Duke Foundation), Donald Young (Director of Programs, CAAM), Dominic Asmall Willsdon (Executive Director, IDA). Photograph courtesy of Vanessa Skopeo, Urbanite LA.
New Film Fund to Elevate U.S. Muslim Stories Announced by the Center for Asian American Media and the Doris Duke Foundation
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Image with the headshots of the 7 grantees and fellows of Bitchitra Collective's 2024 cohort.
Bitchitra Collective Announces Inaugural Sriyanka Ray Grant Winner and Six 2024 Fellows
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Two women sit at a banquet booth. They are laughing and smiling at each other.
Exclusive: Clip from Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green’s ‘Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s’
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Collage of the IDA 2024 Logan Elevate Grantees
IDA Announces 2024 Logan Elevate Grantees
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Still image from 'No One Asked You,' depicting a white woman with long blond hair in front of a protest holding large cardboard cutout faces of US Supreme Court justices.
Exclusive: Clip from Ruth Leitman’s ‘No One Asked You’
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A woman wearing a patterned red shirt stands in a window, which shows a reflection of a rugged mountainous landscape.
Exclusive: Clip from Emily Mkrtichian’s ‘There Was, There Was Not’
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IDA Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund Supports Three Projects with $75,000
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Notes From the Reel World, Fall 2023
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Attendees of the Victoria Islamic Center pray in a temporary building after an arson destroys their mosque.
Exclusive: Clip from Li Lu’s ‘A Town Called Victoria’
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Logan Elevate 2023 Grantees
IDA Announces Logan Elevate 2023 Grantees
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Film still from ‘Happy Campers.’ Courtesy of Amy Nicholson, Myrtle & Olive
Exclusive: Clip from Amy Nicholson’s ‘Happy Campers’
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Film still from Reality Winner, of Reality Winner reuniting with her family after being released from prison. Image credit: E.J. Enríquez
Exclusive: Clip from Sonia Kennebeck’s ‘Reality Winner’
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Film still from 'Your Friend, Memphis,' depicting a smiling young white man in a checkered shirt, raising his left arm, in a crowded stadium.
Exclusive: Clip from David P. Zucker’s ‘Your Friend, Memphis’
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Photographs of the selected BRIClab 2023–2024 Artists-in-Residence in film + tv and video art cohorts. In the bottom right corner of the image is the green BRIC logo.
BRIC Announces BRIClab 2023–2024 Artists-in-Residence
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Still image from 'Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea,' depicting one of Westermann's wood sculptures against a black background.
Exclusive: Clip from Leslie Buchbinder’s ‘Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea’
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Photograph of Nancy Buirski greeting festival guests, with Laura Poirtras looking on, at Full Frame in 2009. Photo credit: Steve Bognar
Remembering Nancy Buirski: Founder of Full Frame and Award-Winning Filmmaker
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Logos of BPM and The Redford Center over a gray background.
Redford Center and Black Public Media Partner for Climate Stories Open Call
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Berkeley FILM Foundation Announces 2023 Grant Recipients
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Still from 'Richland' depicting a statue of a family walking proudly in front of two columns of American flags, which border a series of manicured lawns. Photo credit: Helki Frantzen
Exclusive: Clip from Irene Lusztig's 'Richland'
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Photograph of a white man holding a microphone, giving a speech in front of a small crowd. Photo courtesy of Doc10
Doc10's 2023 Vanguard Award Recipient Shane Boris Urges Risk-Taking in Producing
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Image featuring the headshots of the seven fellowship winners and mentors of the 2023 Bitchitra Collective Documentary Film & Media Fellowship.
Bitchitra Collective Selects Seven Filmmakers for Inaugural Fellowship
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Photograph of Judy Heumann waving at the camera and smiling.
Remembering Judy Heumann: ‘Changing the Face of Disability in Media’
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Dispatch from the IDA Documentary Awards: Filmmakers of Color Speak Out About Diversity
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Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
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#IDAActionAlert: Preserve Net Neutrality!
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Major Filmmaker Organizations to Defend Fair Use Before US Congress--And They Need Your Help
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Requesting Public Records: What Documentary Filmmakers Should Know
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A Post-Charlottesville Statement from the IDA
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#IDAActionAlert: Help Protect Net Neutrality!
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Creating a Path for Sustainability in the Documentary World
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Letters to the Editor, Spring 2017
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IDA Announces Newly Formed Advisory Committee for Enterprise Documentary Fund to be Comprised of Eighteen Industry Experts
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#IDAActionAlert: Public Broadcasting is Under Attack!
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The IDA Announces Partnership with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to Support Documentary FIlmmakers
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#IDAActionAlert: Preserve Funding for the Arts, Humanities and Public Media!
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Open Letter to Camera Manufacturers Urging Development of Encryption Features
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The IDA Documentary Journalism Project with Major Support from the MacArthur Foundation
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Advancing the Arts to Support National Policy Priorities
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Statement in Support of #RightToRecord
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