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On the Smithsonian's deal with Showtime.
Dear IDA Community: I once read that "A good business or community is a group of people moving together--different genders, ethnicities, strengths, talents--utilizing each other and understanding that if they fall, someone will stop them." You may be a documentarian, a distributor, a broadcaster, hopefully an IDA member and certainly a supporter of our community. If you have time, access to resources, expertise and knowledge in your respected field, we invite you to help shape the future of IDA. Our very small staff--Tracie Lewis, programs and events manager; Stephon Litwinczuk, membership
Can we establish standards for an ethical documentary practice? This is not a purely rhetorical question, as the debate around whether Mighty Times: Volume 2: The Children's March (2004; Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston, dirs./prods.) deserved receiving an Oscar in 2005 indicates. The film apparently merged reenactments and historical footage indistinguishably, and used archival shots of violence in one time and place to represent violence in another. (Disclosure: I have not yet seen the film.) Did this breach an ethical standard? What might such a standard be and who might enforce it? What
On DocuWeeks, DocuDay and the Academy Awards.
A new year, a new president.