Summer 2011

Into the Wild Summer 2011

We look at the dynamic between human beings and the natural world and explore the superficial commonalties and the deeply rooted differences between them.

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Features

The Feeling of Having Been There: Memories of Richard Leacock 1921-2011

Richard "Ricky" Leacock, who, with Robert Drew...

By IDA Editorial Staff

Nature U: Science and Wildlife Filmmaking Goes to School

Looking at nature/wildlife filmmaking programs in...

By Belinda Baldwin

Taking IMAX to the Max: Greg MacGillivray Is the Grandmaster of the Giant Screen

Editor's Note: To the Arctic 3D , the latest from...

By Michael Rose

When Animals Attract: Docmakers Study Relationships between Man and Beast

The late philosopher/deconstructionist Jacques...

By Daniel James Scott

Size Still Matters: Nature Films Most at Home on Giant Screen

One can choose from a myriad of entertainment...

By Valentina Valentini

Bridging the Great Documentary Divide

Why Can’t Factual and Nature Filmmakers Find...

By Barry Clark

Into the Wild, Ethically: Nature Filmmakers Need a Code of Conduct

As an 11-year old in 1958, I watched the Disney...

By Chris Palmer

Columns

Notes from the Reel World: The Executive Director's Column, Summer 2011

By Michael Lumpkin

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Summer 2011

By Tom White

Mountaintop Massacre: New Doc Finds Collateral Damage in the Coal Wars

By Michael Rose

Documercials: Shooting Ad Spots Can Be Boon to Nonfiction Filmmakers

By Tamara Krinsky

The Feeling of Having Been There: Memories of Richard Leacock 1921-2011

By IDA Editorial Staff