Skip to main content

Column

Documentary distributors and producers searching for international partners and foreign buyers may want to consider participating in the two-day
Dear Readers, The end of a year inspires us to reflect on events that have impacted the course of our daily lives and etched themselves indelibly into
Dear IDA Members: As we head into the holiday season, we find reason to rejoice at the simplest of life's pleasures: just the freedom to read this
Dear Readers, September 11 will be with us for a long time, and we’ll be looking, in this issue and future issues, at how documentary filmmakers can
Dear IDA Members, As reports begin to come in from our members around the world, it is clear that everyone is "getting back to work." The pain of loss
I first saw The Plow That Broke the Plains in Canada in 1952, when the 1936 film was already legendary. I had recently arrived in Canada hoping to
Dear Readers, No sooner had we gone to press—on September 11, 2001—when we witnessed a calamity of unspeakable horror and cruelty. By now we have all
Dear IDA Members: My original “Notes from the Reel World” for this October issue addressed the many documentary-related events happening this month in
I came to Maysles Films in the early 1970's—fresh out of college—and I never left. So I guess you could say that, professionally, I'm a child of
Leni Riefenstahl, Five Lives by Leni Riefenstahl Taschen Publishers, 2001 336 pages (hardcover) A huge new book—6 ½ pounds, 19 x 11 inches, with