Chicken & Egg Pictures, which was founded in 2005 by Judith Helfand, Julie Parker Benello, and Wendy Ettinger to support women documentarians, is the recipient of this year’s IDA Amicus Award, which goes to an individual or organization that has been a great supporter, financially or otherwise, of documentary filmmaking. Documentary spoke with Wolfson via email about how she came to Chicken & Egg, the future of the organization, and how Chicken & Egg has impacted the film industry.
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Editor’s note: In celebration of National Native American Heritage Month, we invited Rebekka Herrera-Schlichting, now formerAssistant Director of one of our Organizational Members, Vision Maker Media, to select films that help indigenous filmmakers practice their right to narrative sovereignty. Vision Maker Media envisions a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. Watch and share these great films! List last updated in November 2021. Lake of Betrayal (Paul Lamont, 2017) Lake of Betrayal, from director Paul Lamont, explores the
This year’s Courage Under Fire Award recipients, director Stephen Maing (High Tech, Low Life) and the whistleblowers of the NYPD 12 that he documented in his exquisite doc Crime + Punishment, may not at first glance seem as likely honorees as, say, journalists facing down the daily guns and bombs of the war-torn Middle East.
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 12 on HBO and streaming through the month on HBO Now and HBO Go, The Price of Everything, from two-time Academy Award nominee Nathaniel Kahn, examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, the film exposes deep contradictions as it holds a mirror up to contemporary values and times, coaxing out the dynamics at play in pricing the
Veterans Day and Transgender Awareness Week fall at the same time each year. Despite recent setbacks and debate, over 15,000 transgender people actively serve in the United States military today. We've curated a list of documentaries highlighting extraordinary soldiers who defend the freedoms of all Americans while waging a war at home against forces of fear and bigotry. We hope you enjoy these remarkable stories. TransMilitary (Gabriel Silverman and Fiona Dawson, 2018) Transgender Americans were banned from serving in the United States military until recently. Silverman and Dawson's
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! At long last, the documentary about the making of the late Aretha Franklin’s epochal gospel album Amazing Grace, will come to theaters this month for a qualifying run, following the world premiere on November 12 at DOC NYC. Brooks Barnes reports from The New York Times. “Her fans need to see this film, which is so
The nominees for Best Audio Documentary include 30 for 30 Podcasts: Bikram, ESPN’s deep dive into the complicated world of Bikram yoga; Caliphate, New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi’s quest to understand ISIS; Heavyweight—Episode: Jesse, which follows a man’s attempt to find and thank the driver that hit and nearly killed him; Latino USA—Episode: The Quevedos, producer Sayre Quevedo’s journey to understand what happened to his grandmother, the secrets that his mother kept from him, and the family that he never knew;
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 8 on HBO, We Are Not Done Yet, from Sareen Hairabedian, profiles a group of veterans and active-duty service members as they come together to combat past and current traumas through the written word, sharing their experiences in a United Service Organizations (USO) writing workshop at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Airing this week on Al Jazeera English: WITNESS and streaming on YouTube, Halima, from Mike Shum, Arthur Nazaryan and Eugene Yi
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! The New Yorker’s Richard Brody speculates on the shutting-down in FilmStruck: Consumers have been weaned off disks with the promise of convenience, of weightlessness, spacelessness, infinite portability, and a large (but unstable) library of offerings. In exchange, they’re tethered to the mothership for good. In
With the 2018 midterms on the horizon, we've curated a list of campaign documentaries to get you in the spirit before casting your ballot on Election Day. And if you already voted early or absentee, feel free to wear your "I Voted" sticker with pride as you watch these classic election docs. How to Win An Election (Sarah Klein and Tom Mason, 2016) From The New York Times Op-Docs , How to Win an Election takes us deep into the world of campaigning through the eyes of Mark McKinnon, one of America's most influential political strategists. In a candid conversation, McKinnon pulls back the curtain