More than 1,000 film and television professionals—among them prominent documentarians Alex Gibney, Davis Guggenheim, Laura Poitras, Liz Garbus, and
Advocacy
IDA, in solidarity with our partners at the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), calls on the Turkish authorities to drop the accusations against filmmaker and festival organizer Rojhilat Aksoy, amid a growing crackdown on Kurdish and Armenian films and filmmakers.
The Hellenic Documentary Association (Hellas Docs) has asked IDA to add our voice to their "Culture Absent" initiative, and we are glad to do so. This
Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery jeopardizes the future of documentary filmmaking.
Yesterday, October 30, documentary filmmaker Giorgi Mrevlishvili was detained by authorities in Georgia. This news was reported in social media posts published by Documentary Association Georgia, one of IDA’s peer organizations.
We received yet another threat to free speech and expression by documentary filmmakers, this time, the call comes from Hungary. Our friends at the Hungarian Documentary Association have published the statement below on May 15.
This article will be updated regularly as the situation unfolds with news and calls to action. July 30, 2025 The recent vote to eliminate federal
The International Documentary Association (IDA) and five other venerable filmmaker support organizations are deeply concerned by the news that DOGE is immediately cutting U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities grant programs. The NEH’s vital support of documentaries in the U.S. includes the NEH Media Projects grant program and documentary funding grants from many U.S. state humanities councils. For decades, they provided meaningful arts programming for general audiences, bridging scholarly research, documentary-making, and the public. Since Wednesday, we have received reports of dozens of grant terminations from filmmakers, affecting their ability to pay contracted crew and deliver quality programs for audiences all over the U.S.
Earlier today, March 24, No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked and kidnapped in the West Bank. This news was reported in social media posts published by Ballal’s No Other Land collaborators Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham.
As representatives of the Art House Convergence and International Documentary Association (IDA), we find the threat made by the mayor of Miami Beach to pull the funding and lease of O Cinema gravely concerning.