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Since 1998, IDA's fiscal sponsorship program has been helping independent documentary projects of all types get funded, finished and seen.


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Against mounting environmental pressures and the fastest-growing human population on earth, Africa’s lions are losing their place on the continent and facing extinction.

How do you know a community of immigrants has finally established itself in its new home? They build a place of worship, often one that looks like those they left behind.

A SALUTE TO BLACK HOLLYWOOD will assemble African American Academy Award nominees and winners for a generational group portrait.

In South Los Angeles, in one of the most notoriously underserved communities in the country, an unconventional yet overachieving charter school is working with locals to change the narrative for it

To right the wrongs of his all-American sex education, a 36-year-old Alex Liu goes on a quest to uncover naked truths and hard facts - no matter how awkward it gets.

When Hilde Back sponsored a young, impoverished Kenyan student, she thought nothing of it. She paid roughly $15 dollars per term to keep him in primary school.

A TOTAL DISRUPTION is an interactive video portal for innovators and entrepreneurs, documenting the thought leaders and doers who are driving the greatest revolution in the history of mankind with

"A War On Childhood" explores the impact of screen use on early childhood development and its lasting effects into adolescence.

In a tough economy, everyone worries about their job, their home and their children's futures.

"History is biography writ large." The same is true of health care.

Two mothers fight for justice and accountability when their daughters are found dead in a California women's prison.

The Boys of the Lough, the first Celtic folk band to travel the U.S., heads out on their 68th cross-country tour of America.

Everybody Flies

Pursuing the best care for her son, a single mom relocates her three boys to a hotel room two thousand miles from home; a Texas family receives the same devastating diagnosis for their active 5-yea

This documentary tells the transformative story of a unique community called Africatown.

A rich, heartbreaking, first-ever documentary re-telling of the Ambassador, the most legendary hotel in American history, and one of the greatest failures of the historic preservation movement.

Ageless Art is a visionary project spotlighting creative arts programs for people with Alzheimer's.

AI WEIWEI’S TURANDOT follows Chinese revolutionary artist, Ai Weiwei, as he brings his artistic vision and iconoclastic activism to Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House during his directorial operatic debut.

Aiko Ohno leaves her fast-paced life in Tokyo as a food photographer for Japan’s rural coastline, fueled by a desire to help save the last generation of female abalone free divers, known as the ama

Horticulturalist Alan Chadwick was the leading educator and innovator of a movement that combines French Intensive and Biodynamic gardening.

A young man in the Haitian city of Saint-Marc considers his options for the future: should he stay in the community where he grew up, or should he join the exodus abroad in search of other opportun

Alegria is a coming-of-age story about my dad, Michael Lopez-Alegria, an astronaut leading the first all-commercial mission to the International Space Station.

In 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to attempt a cross-country drive.

Alien: American Dream Denied spotlights the emotional journey of high-skilled, documented immigrants as they seek permanence in a country that benefits from their talent, but denies them a home.

Students from different faiths come together in a World Religions class at a public high school in the Midwest.

ALL WE'VE LOST is a feature length documentary film focusing on the human experience within the case of Barry Beach and the movement for criminal justice reform in Montana.

All’s Well and Fair gives a unique perspective on growth and identity, choice and consequence, through portraying three punk rock mothers and their five children.

Dark secrets of poisoned waters in the remote Peruvian Amazon are revealed in this documentary political thriller when indigenous communities take on Big Oil in California Federal Court.

Whether we like it or not, most of us now live within diverse, globalized societies. Cultural homogeny is becoming extinct.

American Love Story: A Community in Search of Freedom is a hybrid documentary-narrative that has been shot over the course of six years.

Throughout the country, the debate on same sex marriage has become a passionate and polarizing issue.

On the Texas border, a civil rights activist battles to defend her immigrant community against threats from the U.S.

American Union follows a group of courageous families in Alabama, from the local coal mines to the new Amazon warehouse, as they build solidarity and push for better labor practices in a part of th

Amidst the Gorges is a documentary capturing the lives of an eccentric group of friends living on the edge of society, set against the rare and striking backdrop of natural gorges and small-town li

Analog Cowboys is a feature documentary that tells the story of the creation of the contemporary art scene in Southern California.

In a polarized America, where the dual forces of white supremacy and patriarchy threaten to further erode our democracy, a game-changing transformation is happening at the grassroots.