Winter 2022
Winter 2022
As IDA commemorates 40 years in the documentary space, we’ve witnessed a tsunami of change around us, from the art to the business, to the transformation of the community to a front-and-center manifestation of what democracy truly looks like. And we’ve done our best to morph accordingly—and hopefully by riding the tsunami, rather than by chasing it. Looking back, we spotlight two of our most cherished programs. The IDA Documentary Awards has, for most of our history, honored the game-changers of the form, while expanding our swath of categories to accommodate the many manifestations this form has taken. The IDA funding program is noting a little anniversary of its own. Well, two. In 2011, we started providing grants, courtesy of our Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, and in 2017, we launched the Enterprise Documentary Fund. The biggest sea change over the past four decades has been the evolution of the gear and how it has facilitated the practice, access and cost. We asked our members to dig into their archives for images of their younger selves with their vintage cameras. And in looking ahead, we tapped into some of the best minds of our generation to deliver a collection of provocative essays about the form and our community—where we are now and where we’re headed.
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Features
![Alex Long of East Baltimore speaks at a community gathering about the need to stop gun violence. Photo courtesy of Andre Lambertson.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_wherearetheynow_grantees_charmcity2.jpg?itok=7MiHw-WP)
![An Association of Professional Camerawomen member in the mid-1980s using a 1982 Ikegami HL-79D portable electronic camera.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_through_the_viewfinder_association_of_professional_camerawomen.jpg?itok=vbFVdMrm)
![Lourdes Portillo, a Latinx woman with white hair, glasses and a black top, accepting the IDA Career Achievement Award in 2017; Portillo is the only filmmaker to have earned IDA Documentary Award in four different decades. Photo: Susan Yin](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter22_idadocumentaryawards_awardees_lourdesportillo.jpg?itok=Pe4O2O9x)
![Kisrten Johnson speaking at a session at the 2016 Getting Real conference. Photo: Susan Yin](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter22_kisrtenjohnson_gettingrealconference_0.jpg?itok=x8KW-a2Q)
![Iyabo Boyd (left), a Black woman with short hair and glasses, is standing with other women of color documentary professionals—all members of Brown Girls Doc Mafia—during True/False fest. Courtesy of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter_2022_brown_girls_doc_mafia_true_false.jpg?itok=b0djsZYI)
![Participants at the first gathering of FWD-Doc members, at the 2018 Getting Real conference. Photo courtesy of AMPAS](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter_2022_fwd_doc_2.jpg?itok=cZbChFKF)
![An outdoor venue for the 2021 Black Star Film Festival; the screen shows the BlackStar Film Festival logo. Photo courtesy of Terrell Halsey](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter22_thefestivalcircuit.jpg?itok=17f0rHbF)
![MacArthur Foundation's Kathy Im is an Asian American woman with shoulder-length black hair and glasses, wearing a black dress and standing at the podium at the IDA Documentary Awards.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter22_fundingecosystem_0.jpg?itok=2KZijOrM)
![A collage of photographs from past events of the Black Documentary Collective featuring its members. Courtesy of BDC/Sabrina Gordon.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter_2022_bdc.jpg?itok=h1GHEd5s)
![Filmmakers Leo Chiang (left) and Jerry Henry filming Connie Young Yu, an Asian American historian, for the PBS documentary series Asian Americans. Courtesy of WETA and CAAM](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_winter_2022_adoc_connie_1.jpg?itok=0dTr0fFi)
![Don Young is an Asian man with short gray hair, speaking into a mic, at an event centering the PBS doc series ‘Asian Americans.’ Courtesy of Don Young/CAAM.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/feature-_documentary_magazine_winter2022_publicmedia1.jpg?itok=QCiO5cYj)
![Poh Si Teng is an Asian woman of Malaysian Chinese origin with shoulder-length black hair. She is wearing a black turtleneck & in front of a brick wall. Photo by Marcus Yam](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/articles/documentary_magazine_documentary_gatekeepers_poh_si_teng.jpg?itok=NShUiBhG)