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'Food, Inc.' airs April 21 on PBS' 'POV.'
Dear IDA Community: As a nation, we recently lived through a historical moment. The 2008 US elections demonstrated that when diverse voices band together and fight, change happens. The ripple effect of our actions as individuals and as a people has resonated throughout the world. The IDA community is no exception. I invite you to unite in celebrating IDA’s many accomplishments. The terrain and business of filmmaking is once again changing and opportunities are on the horizon for all. It is a time of limitless possibilities for art and artists, and we must seize it! We have witnessed IDA
Dear Readers, As we usher out the Bush Administration and welcome the Obama Era, the documentary community can look back on these eight years as a thriving period in which box office records were broken, the Web continued to offer up a plethora of alternatives, and the documentary form took on many exciting permutations, mixing and mashing genres in concert with rapidly evolving technological possibilities. Werner Herzog, the 2008 Career Achievement honoree, is not one to confine himself to genres or define himself by documentary tropes. Yet he’s a giant in the community, inspiring scores of
A non-comprehensive, non-definitive list of docs about the US economy, from the Industrial Revolution ot the Digital Age.
Highlights from the festival's 25th anniversary edition.
She has headed the New York-based nonprofit for over 12 years.
Michael Lumpkin recently took the reins as IDA’s new executive director, following a distinguished 25-year tenure at Frameline, the well-regarded San Francisco-based LGBT media arts organization. Documentary spoke with Lumpkin, just after his first week at IDA and just before he took off for Sundance, about his tenure at Frameline, his aims and objectives for IDA and the challenges that lie ahead. Looking back over your time at Frameline, what are some of the projects and/or accomplishments of which you’re especially proud? Michael Lumpkin: I am especially proud of being able to establish