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Editor’s Note: On September 28 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Los Angeles, IDA will present Alex Gibney in conversation with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz. Catch this blazing documentary star while you can, when he slows down just long enough for a special evening of electrifying clips and engrossing conversation. Learn more and purchase tickets. Like most people, I was a distant observer of the Enron scandal. I had heard about "Kenny Boy" Lay, special purpose entities, stock option—seven mark-to-market accounting. But I never imagined that the story would make a good film. Then I
NBCUniversal and Telemundo, ABC and Univision, Fox and Colombia’s RCN—all of these major networks recognize the opportunities in providing content to the growing U.S. Latino and Hispanic population and the importance of including second-generation viewers who want content in English and Spanish. The demand for content is as diverse as the viewership and includes the full spectrum of non-fiction programming, from news to lifestyle programming to documentary series. As a documentary filmmaker, how can you leverage the opportunities available with this new demand for content? What stories are
A report on the latest in HD technology, circa 2004.
Current IDA members and those who join before November 1 can enter as member judges.
This past year has been a watermark year for documentarians, with documentaries moving more and more into the mainstream of public awareness and interest. While technological advances are making documentary filmmaking easier, less expensive and more accessible to a growing number of aspiring filmmakers, distribution avenues that were once thought impossible, or had yet to come into being, now provide new opportunities for reaching a greater audience. But with the expansion of possible markets comes increasing complexities in licensing ever more expensive popular music for your documentary
PBS moves POV and Independent Lens back to Tuesday; NEA cuts funding for nonficiton programming; Lee Storey wins ruling on IRS.
'Half the Sky,' multi-platform transmedia project, airs October 1 and 2 on PBS' 'Independnet Lens.'
During the waning days of World War II, the Allies launched a horrific aerial assault on Dresden, a city that was known as the Florence of Germany. Nearly 4,000 tons of bombs leveled over 15 square miles of the city, killing upwards of 25,000 people. The devastation has been compared to what was later visited upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many of the ruins remained largely untouched during the Soviet era, but after the Berlin Wall collapsed (along with the Soviet Union), Germany was reunified and a massive effort ensued to rebuild the stunning skyline set off by cathedral spires. Dresden today