Notes from the Reel World

Dear Documentary Community, My hope as the past year came to a close—a year that saw a steady and seemingly unending stream of challenges—was that our

Dear Documentary Community, This past fall, I announced that I would be stepping down from IDA in 2021. Over the past few months we’ve all been living

Dear IDA Community, We are in an extraordinary time. I have been asked many times how one can process what is happening in America at this moment in

Dear IDA Community, It has been a dizzying and discombobulating six months since the coronavirus upended our lives, forcing us to stay at home and

Dear IDA Community, We recognize that we are living in a time of enormous injustice, but also of potentially historic change. The deep injustice on

Dear Documentary Community, In early December 2019, we gathered for the 35th annual IDA Documentary Awards. It was an evening to celebrate the very

Dear IDA Community, Over the past 20 plus years working in this field, I have been very fortunate to travel around the world to various film festivals

Dear Documentary Community, Over the past few months we’ve witnessed an alarming uptick of filmmakers and their protagonists under a range of threats

Dear IDA Community, The theme of the Spring 2019 Documentary focused on “international” storytelling. We covered the innovate work of The Why

Dear Documentary Community, The IDA Documentary Awards, held each December, always feel like the closing of a cycle—a moment to reflect on the past