Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Starting tonight, Monday, August 14, POV will be streaming Whitney Dow and Marco Williams' Two Towns of Jasper, the 2003 film about a modern-day lynching. Two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder of James Byrd, Jr. by following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with the crime. Currently streaming on Netflix is Kasper Collin's I Called Him Morgan, an exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan
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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 T he New York Review of Books, Ian Buruma considers Marcel Ophuls' four-and-a-half-hour documentary about individual and collective responsibility for war crimes. Ophuls does not dilute the monstrosity of Nazi crimes at all. But he refuses to simply regard the perpetrators as monsters. "Belief in the Nazis as
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, August 7 on HBO and HBO Go is Lisanne Skyler's Brillo Box (3¢ Off), following the journey of an iconic Andy Warhol sculpture owned by the filmmaker's parents. The Los Angeles Times calls it "a simple tale of serendipity — of a sculpture that broke an auction record." Streaming beginning Tuesday, August 8 on Filmstruck is Chris Marker's Sunday in Peking, in which the French filmmaker meditates on his experiences traveling through China's capital
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, Paula Kerger of PBS warns people not to get complacent about the future of public broadcasting. Kerger warned that, because public broadcasting has narrowly survived threats to budget cuts in the past, that people might not take this one seriously. But she's not resting on her laurels. "I have to
Bryan Fogel's debut documentary, Icarus, was one of Sundance 2017's undeniable success stories, having sold distribution rights to Netflix for a whopping $5 million. The film is an incendiary, globetrotting investigation into a large-scale Russian Olympic doping scandal, driven by a compromised anti-doping official turned charismatic whistleblower named Grigory Rodchenkov. Fogel, who befriends and supports Rodchenkov over the course of the film, would be first to admit that he's an unlikely candidate to pursue this story. A Malibu-based comedian who made his name with the long-running Off
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.
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).