There are plenty of films made by creators in the IDA family to catch. Check out the IDA-supported titles at DOC NYC this year, including IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund grantees, fiscally sponsored projects and DocuClub alumnus.
Festivals
Documentaries were out in force at the 58th New York Film Festival. No longer cloistered in a separate section, they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the strangest ever. There were no red carpets, no galas, no film stars. With Canadian
After completing the second of what would be four Q&As at the True/False film festival in March, David Osit, who directed the documentary Mayo r
The world has radically changed over the past four months. Not only has the work of documentary filmmakers been significantly disrupted, but so has
In this new age of physical distancing and social isolation, computer screens and television monitors have become the focal point for our contact with
As a stopgap measure, the AFI Docs festival in Washington, DC was remarkably satisfying. The technology largely worked; most Zoom participants
One of the most jarring aspects of the global pandemic is the rapidity with which every part of life as we know it has been upended, forcing us to
The New Virtual Normal: Covering a Film Festival During COVID-19 Covering CPH:DOX—the first spring fest to respond to COVID-19 by moving entirely
It may sound hyperbolic, but there has never been a worse time in the history of the world to be launching an independent documentary into the