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Reid Davenport

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Reid Davenport (Director) makes films about disability from an overtly political perspective. His first feature documentary, I Didn't See You There, won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Davenport was named a 2020 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 Filmmaker, a 2020 Points North Fellow, a 2020 Creative Capital Recipient, and a 2017 TED Fellow. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.

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“I Think Linearity Is a Trap”: Deborah Stratman Discusses ‘Last Things’
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NAI Direct Access Fund Grantees
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An Independent Spirit: Dara Messinger Discusses DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema
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Inside DOC NYC: Power, Profit, and Community at America’s “Largest” Doc Fest
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Reenactments and Reversals: The Plot Twist in Kaouther Ben Hania’s ‘Four Daughters’
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IDA Logan Elevate 2023 Grantees at IDFA
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Reality Ink: A Review of ‘William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission’
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April 15, 2016. In front of Bakirköy Women’s Prison, where my colleague and dear friend Esra Mungan, a professor of psychology at Boğaziçi University, was imprisoned. The writing on my fingers reads: “Freedom for Pens,” meaning freedom for those who express their thoughts in writing, which is a basic right.
Field Recording: We Do Not Accept!
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Notes From the Reel World, Fall 2023
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IDA Member Spotlight: Polina Herman
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Making a Production: Meerkat Media
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Letter from the Editor: Fall 2023
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“Mongolia Felt Very Familiar”: Martina Radwan Discusses ‘Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow’
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Letter from the Editor, November 2023
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A West Coast Perspective With Global Focus: Nani Walker Discusses L.A. Times Short Docs
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“Unflinchingly Brave and Pro-Justice”: Nisha Pahuja Discusses ‘To Kill a Tiger’
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Victoria Islamic Center members gather for the groundbreaking ceremony for their new mosque, in episode two of A Town Called Victoria.
The Feedback: Li Lu’s ‘A Town Called Victoria’
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“I Want You To See My Life”: Mohamed Jabaly Discusses ‘Life Is Beautiful’
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“We Can Nourish Each Other”: A Conversation with the Fall Flaherty NYC 2023 Programmers
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Faith in the Creative Impulse: Nicole Newnham Discusses ‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’
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Back up the Mountains: Yamagata 2023
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Dominique Silver in KOKOMO CITY, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
“The Audacity To Be Loved”: D. Smith Discusses ‘Kokomo City’
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Attendees of the Victoria Islamic Center pray in a temporary building after an arson destroys their mosque.
Exclusive: Clip from Li Lu’s ‘A Town Called Victoria’
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A Brown, badass, butch dyke is shooting a scene with queer rights protesters (offscreen) on the streets of New Delhi, with a video camera on a monopod and headphones covering her ears.
IDA Member Spotlight: Sonali Gulati
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Attendees of the IDA and DAE cocktail party at IDFA 2022. Courtesy of DAE
We Must Address Abuse in the Documentary Industry
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Logan Elevate 2023 Grantees
IDA Announces Logan Elevate 2023 Grantees
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“Who Is an Expert”: Brit Fryer Discusses ‘The Script’
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Image Credit: Wouter Jansen. Film still from 'Malqueridas.'
“We Cannot Underestimate the Collective Power of Those Who Have No Access to Power”: Tana Gilbert Discusses ‘Malqueridas’
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Exclusive: Clip from Amy Nicholson’s ‘Happy Campers’
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Hungry for More: A New Crop of Independent Film Organizations Thrives in the Great Plains
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“Spans on a Bridge” Shorts Program: Lost (and Perhaps Found?) in Translation
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A Year in Review: IDA Getting Real ’22 Fellowship
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Photograph of Sky Hopinka (left) and Jon Sesrie-Goff (right) in conversation, at HSDFF. Image credit: Aaron Brewer. Courtesy of HSDFF
From Sundance to Spa City: Hot Springs 2023
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Letter from the Editor, 2023 October
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Jay, a Dominican man with a goatee and reading glasses perched on top of his head, sits in a wheelchair holding a digital camera. Alexis, a white woman with dark brown hair stands next to him but a bit behind, holding headphones attached to a large camera on a tripod. They are smiling softly, looking at the camera, and wearing light jackets on a boardwalk in front of a river on a sunny day with clouds in the blue sky.
Producer’s Diary: ‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ (August 2019–October 2023)
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Documentary Is Our Public Square: Keynote Address from Hot Springs’ Inaugural Filmmaker Forum
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“Reflected as the Beautiful People That We Are”: Nailah Jefferson Discusses ‘Descended from the Promised Land’
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“We Have to Differentiate Ourselves”: Carrie Lozano Discusses ITVS’s Role in Public Media
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Making a Production: Grain Media
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Exclusive: Clip from Sonia Kennebeck’s ‘Reality Winner’
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Exclusive: Clip from David P. Zucker’s ‘Your Friend, Memphis’
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The Feedback: David P. Zucker’s ‘Your Friend, Memphis’
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Seven Reasons Why Documentaries Go Missing
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Letter from the Editor, September 2023
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A Dedicated Space: Open City 2023
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Photographs of the selected BRIClab 2023–2024 Artists-in-Residence in film + tv and video art cohorts. In the bottom right corner of the image is the green BRIC logo.
BRIC Announces BRIClab 2023–2024 Artists-in-Residence
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Film still from 'Copa 71'. Woman soccer player holding up World Cup trophy in a stadium filled with fans and her team on the field with her.
“One Tiny Little Block”: Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine on ‘Copa 71’
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“Geographies of Survival”: Kumjana Novakova Discusses Her Sarajevo Film Festival Human Rights Award-Winning ‘Silence of Reason’
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Exclusive: Clip from Leslie Buchbinder’s ‘Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea’
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“Cinema is About the Body”: ‘Documentary’ Presents Claire Simon in Conversation
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