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Notes from the Reel World

Dear IDA Community, February 6, 2022 marked IDA’s 40th anniversary. In 1982, filmmakers-turned-psychotherapists Linda Buzzell and Larry Saltzman
Dear Documentary Community, As the documentary financing business model continues to evolve, so have the strategies that filmmakers must pursue in
Dear Documentary Community, It has been about four months since I assumed the role of Executive Director of IDA. What excites me most about this
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