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 IndieWire, Kate Erbland considers how Film Forum's expansion plans could impact indie distribution. The addition of a single new screen will likely have a marginal impact on the overall movie-going scene in the city and beyond, but the specialty market is a different story. A fourth screen doesn't just mean
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Almost a decade ago, a charismatic young candidate for US President, Barack Obama, stirred and inspired the crowds with the phrase "Yes, We Can." But few people are aware that this confident, hopeful slogan started out in the fields of California, as "Sí, Se Puede," and was originally coined by Dolores Huerta. Huerta, together with Cesar Chavez, was the co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. She fought tirelessly to improve the rights of farm laborers, helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965, and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the
Jeffrey Tuchman, filmmaker, educator and former IDA Board member, passed away Saturday night, September 2, following a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was surrounded by friends and family at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Tuchman's career—as documentary director, producer, enabler and mentor—spanned three decades, during which he earned Peabody and Emmy Awards for Voices of Civil Rights, an oral history of the civil rights movement. Other works include the four-part series Mavericks, Miracles & Medicine, about the history of medicine; and The Man from Hope, which he created for
Since its launch in Australia in 2008 as a DVD distributor in the academic market, then as a streaming platform two years later, Kanopy has rapidly secured preeminence in the VOD world. Having gained an early foothold in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, Kanopy set its sights on the US and the UK. The company soon moved its main offices to San Francisco, and just shy of a decade after its birth, Kanopy now streams 26,000 titles to over 3,000 university campuses around the world. And this year, Kanopy staked out another territory: public libraries. Having lured the Los Angeles and New York
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Currently streaming on Netflix is James Keach's Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, a chronicle of the recently departed country music icon, who embarked on a farewell tour after receiving an Alzheimer's diagnosis. The Washington Post calls the film "important and triumphant." Premiering September 8 on Filmstruck is Barbet Schroeder's General Idi Amin Dada, in which the filmmaker turns his cameras on the infamous tyrant, revealing the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous man
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In this special Labor Day weekend edition, we focus on docs about work and workers. Streaming at Kanopy is George C. Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Susanne Rostock's The Uprising of '34, which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. On YouTube, you can find The Take, Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's 2004 film in which 30 unemployed Buenos Aires auto-parts
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 The New Yorker, Ian Parker profiles Ken Burns, who sees his documentaries as acts of "emotional archeology." He listed, in descending order, the films that members of the public most press him to make: "Railroads, labor, immigration. And then: 'My great-great-grandfather wrote four volumes about the Civil War
Los Angeles, CA – August 29, 2017 – The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced today the lineup of their annual screening series to begin September 13th with a screening of Yance Ford’s Sundance Award winning cinematic memoir Strong Island. Additional Series highlights include Icarus (September 18), Cries from Syria (Oct 3), JANE (October 4), LA 92 (October 25), Dolores (November 1) and Kedi (November 6). Films selected for the IDA Documentary Screening Series receive exclusive access to an audience of tastemakers and documentary lovers. In addition to reaching the general
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tomorrow, Tuesday, August 29 on OWN is Black Love, which highlights love stories from the black community and seeks to answer the burning question, What is the secret to making a marriage work? Premiering September 6 on Topic.com is Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry's Death In The Terminal, which presents a real-time account of a 2015 terrorist attack that took place in a bus terminal in Beersheba, Israel. The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary
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 The Outline, Adrianne Jeffries reports on how the media platform Mic exploited social justice for clicks. In retrospect, it looks like Mic's commitment to social justice was never that deep — which surprised and disappointed many of the young ideologues who went to work there. ( The Outline spoke to 17 current