Summer 2021
Summer 2021
In this beyond-2020 world, we are applying the lessons we learned from the deep dive we all took—as a business, as a community and as a organization—to redefine our core values and re engage with a renewed vigor. Given the ingenuity that festivals, distributors and exhibitors exuded in reimagining their respective delivery systems, we sought to poll the field about what worked well enough to continue in a hybrid form. Closer to home, we at IDA are sequing into our next chapter. Jina Chung, our Senior Director, Development & Partnerships, offers a vision for values-based fundraising as a means to build on the work she already started to support the grassroots community. We also speak to new IDA Executive Director Rick Pérez about his goals for continuing to position IDA as a field leader and a field builder.
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Features
![An abstract rendering of an artificial intelligence entity amidst a gray composite of horizontal lines. From Tonje Hessen Schei’s 'iHuman,' produced by UpNorth Film.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_summer2021_distributioneurope1.jpg?itok=U8U4MtN3)
![Activist Lois Gibbs is a white woman with short dark hair seen shouting to a crowd in an archival image. From Mark Kitchell’s 2012 film 'A Fierce Green Fire'. Courtesy of Mark Kitchell](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_summer_2021_a_fierce_green_fire.jpg?itok=fFkDfX-g)
![IDFA Artistic Director and filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia is a Syrian man with a beard and short hair. He is wearing a black jacket and a sweater while addressing the in-person and virtual audience at IDFA 2020. There is a screen behind him. Photo: Coen Dijkstra. Courtesy of IDFA](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentarymagazine_futureishybrid_idfa.jpg?itok=69V9xP05)
![paper cutout of a hand holding a light bulb from the left, a hand holding money from the right; they are flanked by simple plane origamis at the diagonal corners.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_jina_chung_1451104175.jpg?itok=CJjzREV3)
![Richard "Rick" Ray Perez is a brown skinned-toned man, wearing a dark blue blazer, behind a patterned orange wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/ida_rick_richard_ray_perez_documentary_magazine_web.jpg?itok=nwFjdTlZ)