By Tom White and Eddie Schmidt In the 2004 film The Five Obstructions, by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, von Trier challenges his mentor Leth to
Directing
Over the next month, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks TM Theatrical
Like many documentarians, Malcolm Leo got his start at David L. Wolper Productions along with Mel Stuart, Jack Haley Jr., William Friedkin, David
IDA Documentary Award honors Agnès Varda with the Pioneer Award.
Cinematic immunity: The false sense of invincibility that you get when you’ve got a camera in your hands in a very dangerous situation. This term is
Although I have produced three live action shorts and two feature films, this is my first documentary, and my first project as a director. Like many
The mantra of 2001 was that the events of September 11 changed the way we see the world. For filmmakers, broadcasters and the viewing public
In many ways, the making of my documentary My Khmer Heart appears to be the classic “success against all odds” story. One can suffer “survivor guilt”
In April 1997 I went to a screening of Claude Lelouch’s Hommes, Femmes: Mode D’Emploi (Men, Women: A User’s Manual). Lelouch introduced the film and
I was in Los Angeles in 1986 opening my first film, Partisans of Vilna, when I had heard on the radio that Hank Greenberg, the Hall of Fame baseball