New report issued by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with the International Documentary Association (IDA), seeks to chart a course towards a sustainable future by calling out key challenges, illuminating those challenges through case studies, and offering actions that can strengthen the field and support filmmakers.
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This year's IDA Documentary Awards will honor five outstanding individuals: Lyn and Norman Lear will receive the Amicus Award; Stanley Nelson will receive the Career Achievement Award; Ally Derks will receive the Pioneer Award; and Nanfu Wang will receive the Emerging Documentary Filmmaker. Awards will also be given in several categories including Best Feature Documentary, Best Short Documentary, David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, Best Limited Series, and more.
IDA announces the lineup and additional keynote presentations for Getting Real ‘16, a biennial filmmaker-tofilmmaker conference inaugurated by the IDA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2014.
The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced today that award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger will join its Board of Directors.
The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced today the lineup of their ongoing screening series to begin September 7th with a screening of Otto Bell’s The Eagle Huntress. Additional Series highlights include OJ: Made in America (September 13), Zero Days (October 6), Jim: The James Foley Story (October 26), and Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (November 3).
On February 10, 2017, the National Endowment for the Arts and the International Documentary Association hosted a one-day Documentary Sustainability Summit featuring 80 filmmakers, producers, distributors, film festival representatives, funders, and other stakeholders in the documentary community, as well as leaders from the federal, state, and local governments (including representatives from nine federal agencies). Through panel presentations and small group activities, conference participants shared their perspectives on the issues facing the community with a goal of articulating tangible
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, July 31 on POV (and streaming at POV's website) is Cecilia Aldarondo's Memories of a Penitent Heart, an investigation into the life of the filmmaker's uncle, who died of AIDS-related complications in the Eighties. The Village Voice calls it "exceptional" and "profoundly affecting." Available on DVD vua Kino Lorber and all streaming platforms beginning August 1 is Vanessa Gould's Obit, a documentary about the obituary team at The New York Times. NPR
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 Vanity Fair, David Kamp writes that the forthcoming The Vietnam War is Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's most ambitious project yet. Now, at long last, comes The Vietnam War, more than 10 years in the making. The series premieres on PBS on September 17, its 10 episodes totaling a whopping 18 hours. Burns first rose
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, July 24 on POV is Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen's Oscar-nominated short Joe's Violin, in which a donated instrument forges an improbable friendship. Huffington Post calls it "a powerful testament to our potential as human beings to have a lasting impact for good." Available to stream this week at Le Cinema Club is Albert and David Maysles' 1966 doc Meet Marlon Brando. The New Yorker's Richard Brody calls it "rare and essential." Streaming
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! From the Sundance Institute blog, Jess Fuselier asks, Why is data important for independent filmmakers? In today’s independent film industry, data analysis is the unknown for many and a superpower for the elite few. For giants like Netflix and Amazon, data analysis permeates their overall strategy and acts as a