Passings

Beth Bird—filmmaker, activist, educator, scholar, former IDA Board member, wife, mother—passed away on March 28; she had been struggling with cancer

Editor’s Note: Judy Irola, producer, director, cinematographer and educator, died February 22 due to complications from COVID-19. Irola was a pioneer

On September 7, 2020, Michael Rose, a dear friend of IDA, died of complications from a bone marrow transplant for leukemia. His wife and creative

The news of Daisy Coleman's death last week has left us heartbroken.

The documentary community lost Jonathan Oppenheim last month, at 67, following a long bout with brain cancer. Jonathan was a giant among documentary

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabor Kalman, one of the founding members of IDA and the creator of the IDA David L. Wolper Student Documentary

Matt Holzman, a longtime mainstay at NPR’s flagship Southern California radio station KCRW, passed away on April 12 after a bout with stage-4

By Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar Editor’s Note: José María "Chato" Galante passed away on March 29, 2020, in Madrid, Spain, due to coronavirus

In the week since the passing of DA Pennebaker, we have been honoring the great pioneer with social media posts, repurposed content, and

Editor’s Note: Documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Andrew Berends passed away—just a week after Free Solo , on which he was one of the