A bold and visually epic documentary feature following the emergence of a new world wonder changing lives on the African continent.
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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.
A unique 150-day trek by horseback across the remaining pristine lands of America, The Great Transamerican Trek is an unprecedented journey reversing the path of Manifest Destiny and shedding light
A group of precocious middle schoolers take on the state of California’s teacher retirement system to save their future from climate catastrophe. Hope and hilarity ensue.
Who are the scientists fighting for our planet, how is their research making an impact, and where do they find hope?
FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND (formerly THE GUT) explores a blue-collar New England town as a complex, partial microcosm of our current national and global reality.
"The Harvard 5" tells the true story of five men – architects and industrial designers, husbands, fathers, lovers.
The Healing Journey is a docuseries that examines the role adverse childhood experiences plays in adult health, and what some are doing to heal.
El Korazon es Espejo (The Heart is a Mirror) is a significant creative endeavor of transcendent lyricism regarding Ladino folklore through the powerful means of preserving an endangered ethnic iden
This 60 minute documentary portrays the little known history of America's second largest immigrant group since 1990 … Filipinos.
"The Hosts" shows the perspective of five different Brazilians who were affected by the 2014 FIFA World Cup in different ways - from a woman selling street food by the stadiums, to a man who was di
The Human Touch, a feature documentary film with Andy Goldsworthy directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, brings together the team that made the commercially and artistically successful, Rivers an
Many visitors to Africa feel like they've stepped into the past. However, Kenyan conservationist and safari guide Alex Hunter is acutely aware of how much has changed on this iconic land.
In the United States, there are over 6.8 million people in prison, jail, on probation or parole. That is 1 in every 35 adults.
The Irritable Heart is a documentary film chronicling the life of Marine Staff Sergeant Travis Twiggs, a decorated Iraq war veteran.
The Jewish 48’ers: is the story of revolution failed and redeemed.
In this follow-up to his internationally acclaimed documentary 51 Birch Street, filmmaker Doug Block once again turns his lens on his family to tell a larger universal story.
The story of fastpitch softball pitching legend Dave Blackburn, the only American Player in the Israel Softball Hall of Fame.
Free speech history unfolds in The Land of Orange Groves & Jails when the director's reluctant aunt Yetta finally tells her tale of teenage activism amidst the free speech and labor battles of
The Last Animals is a story about an extraordinary group of people who go to incredible lengths to save the planet’s last animals.
The elders of Hawaii's last native fishing village struggle to pass on their ancestral knowledge of the ocean.
Metro Teleproductions Inc. is close to final edit on a full-length documentary that tells the far-reaching tale of The Bayou, a legendary Washington, D.C., musical hall.
THE LIVING ICE OF GREENLAND is a feature-length documentary film about the startling discovery of a dark microbial forest melting the Greenland Ice Sheet far faster than any models predict, and the Arctic scientists traversing Greenland to understand it.
“Outstanding! Very entertaining… perfect for PBS” / Bob Swerer / “Alone in the Wilderness”
IN THE SUMMER OF 1969 a group of high school students developed a worldwide sport in a parking lot in Maplewood, NJ.
30 years after a missionary is assassinated in the Philippines, the missionary’s family re-investigate the truth behind the cause of the murder and learn a shocking discovery: the assassin is still
A diverse group of creative older adults share moving, insightful episodes from their very different life stories, some with harrowing war and immigrant experiences, and form a close community as t
Georg is an Austrian retiree whose mother witnessed the crash of an Allied B-17 near their home during World War II.
THE MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT feature documentary was supposed to open in theaters across the US and Canada in late March.
THE MONSTER is a feature documentary about Paige Tolmach's journey to uncover the truth and institute change.
The Music of the Golden Triangle and the Cycles of Life, a one-hour documentary film formatted for public television, bears witness to the ancestral songs and ceremonies of many of the 130 differen
Each year tens of thousands of people are killed, injured or forced from their homes as a result of ongoing conflicts.
As the nation struggles with the systemic history of mass incarceration, four courageous incarcerated youth of color, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, strive to avoid becoming victims of the prison pip
THE OPIOID TRILOGY is a triptych of short, animated documentaries looking at the opioid epidemic through the demand side of addiction.