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Our Grateful Acknowledgments

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all IDA members, donors, and sponsors. Your unwavering support is crucial to our ongoing success, and together, we can continue to break new ground in the world of nonfiction media. The below report is of members, donors, supporters, and sponsors since September 2023.


Institutional Funders
JustFilms/Ford Foundation
Golden Globe Foundation
The Just Trust
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs 
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture 
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York Community Trust
Perspective Fund
Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts
Wyncote Foundation

Sponsors
ABC News VideoSource
Chiledoc
Delta Air Lines
Donaldson, Calif & Perez LLP
Firelight Media
Indiewire
ITVS
KCRW
Mt. St. Mary’s University
National Geographic Documentary Films
Netflix
PBS
University of Miami, School of Cinematic Arts
Variety
Wrapbook

Educational Members
Northwestern University
Occidental College
School of Visual Arts

Organizational Members
Pacific Islanders in Communications
FilmAid
The Film Collaborative

Corporate Members
Front Row Insurance Brokers LLC
National Geographic Documentary Films

Individuals 
$5,000 +
Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Fonda Berosini
Grace Lee
Alfred Perry

$2,500 - $4,999
Maria A. Agui Carter
Melony Lewis

$1,000 - $2,499
Hallee Adelman
Chris Albert
Dee Brown
Lisa Kirk Colburn
Jessie V. Ewing
Scott Glosserman
Peter Nicks
Elias Savada
Dominic Asmall Willsdon
Jamie Wolf

Up to $1,000 
Dan Abrams
Laurel A. Adler
Beau Aguon
Danny Alpert
Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham
James Angelo
Susan Anthony
Maria Gabriella Arcadu
Fenton Bailey
Randy Barbato
Joslyn Barnes
Tom Barrett
Ed Barreveld
Diane Becker
Dana Belcastro
Alexander Bendahan
Josh Bernstein
John Bilas
Din Blankenship
Theodore J Bonus Blasi
Rachel Bozich
Keayr Braxton
Josiah Brownell
Stephen Brucher
Brian Bush
Kenneth Carlson
Carlos Carneiro
Francisco Carrasco
Jim Cathcart
Samson Chan
Dennis Clancey
Alexandra Codina
Andrew M. Cohen
Robert Coleman Jr
Cordero Laura Elena
Ghislaine Couvillat
Jesse Dana
Donna Davis
Maria Delgado
Juan Devis
Shannon Dill
Amy Drewry
Joshua Dreyfus
Sigrid Dyekjær
Tanaz Eshaghian
Jodie Evans
Joel Farran
Robert Fernandez
Ina Fichman
Leslie Fields-Cruz
Joanna Forscher
Alison Fujino
Asako Fujioka
Nial Fulton
Laura W Gabbert
Katie Galloway
Erin Gamble
Ted Gerdes
Mike Gonzalez
Ellen B. Greenleaf
Robin Greenspun
Leo Grillo
Dielson Gustama
Jon Hallberg
Sterling Hampton
David Peter Hansen
Anna Hashmi
Derek Helwig
Priscilla Hensley
Carolyn Hepburn
Hudson Hickman
James Andrew Hogan
Jahmal Holland
Tim Horsburgh
Attique Iqbal
Jeffrey F. Jackson
Yvonne Jimenez
Eric W Johnson
Alykhan Kaba
Chloe Keirsted
Brigid Kelly
David Paul Kiess
Laura C. Kim
Tanner Kling
Patrick Hasso Kohl
Sharon La Cruise
Jacek Laskus
Meredith Lavitt
Katherine Leblond
Kira Leinonen
Amy Letourneau
Ry Levey
Lauren Lexton
Kathleen Lingo
Jasmine Lord
Tim Lott
Michael Lumpkin
Susan Maclaury
Juan Mandelbaum
Elizabeth Marsh
Adrianna Martin
Brendan Mason
Bruno Mastrocolla
Kyeng Mcguirk
Kathleen Mcinnis
Lorena Mendez-Quiorga
Ido Mizrahy
Paul Moakley
Anita Modak-Truran
Kim Moir
Dakota Morton
Sheila Nevins
Tracy Nguyen-Chung
Suzanne Niedland
Mamounata Nikiema
Christopher Noviello
Chris Nylund
Yann Ollivier
Audrey Olsen
Sarah Olson
Tess Ornstein
Jeff Ostenson
Nisha Pahuja
Amanda Paules
Lisa Peters
Aron Phillips
Paul Phillips
Maria Elena P. Piñeda
Dawn Porter
John Potash
Nomi Prins
Virginia Quesada
Michelle Raven
Beth Read
Tracy Rector
Teddy Reeves
Anonymous
Aimara Reques
Joe Rollins
Annie Roney
Serginho Roosblad
Barry Rubinow
Shari Sant
Allison Schatz
Benjamin Selkow
Joaquin M Sena
Alissa Shapiro
Russell Sheaffer
Aniela Sidorska
Andrea Von Siebenthal
Yeshvir Singh
Jennifer Smith
Cheryl Staurulakis
Brittany Stevenson
Colleen Steward
Gretchen Stockdale
Nicholas Stuart
Jennifer Suwak
Mike Syers
Michael Taylor
Rahdi Taylor
Jack Teetor
Flor Tejada
Brian Tessier
Bonnie Thompson
Oli Thompson
Erik Thureson
Josh Tickell
Rebecca Tickell
Howard Tomb
Chezik Tsunoda
Cecily Tyler
David Ulich
Robin Miller Ungar
Susan Vitka
Vibeke Vogel
India Wadsworth
Zijian Wang
Jane Wells
Lauren Wertheimer
Marla Williams
Alex Winter
Meimei Yue
Zixuan Zhang
Joey Zhou
Andrei Zinca

 

 

 
  


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