IDA AWARDS COMPETITION

Enter IDA Awards Competition online now!


Discount Deadline: May 8, 2008
Final Deadline: June 9, 2008

DOCUWEEK™ - AUGUST 22-28, 2008

Enter DocuWeek™ Theatrical Doc Showcase!


Late Deadline: May 9, 2008
Final Deadline Extended to May 21, 2008!

Please read 81st Academy Awards® Rules
for Distinguished Achievements in 2008 here.
Download paper entry form here.

The Pare Lorentz Finishing Fund Grant was funded by The New York Community Trust.

DOCUMENTARY MAG NOM'D FOR MAGGIE!

Attention, Documentary Magazine Readers!

The Western Publications Association, whose members includes print and electronic publications west of the Mississippi, has nominated Documentary Magazine--specifically the November-December 2007 25th Anniversary Issue--for a Maggie Award in the "Communications, Advertising and the Arts" category. wpa-online.org.

Many thanks to all the IDA members, trustees, board and organization and magazine staffs; readers; writers; and the amazing documentary community for keeping this publication alive!

IDA 26th ANNUAL RECEPTION - WRAP UP

IDA congratulates the Oscars® nominees in the Documentary categories!
Wrap up report of IDA's 26th Annual Reception
and view photos of nominees.
Best Documentary Feature: Read more
• No End in Sight
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
• Sicko
• Taxi to the Dark Side - Read filmmaker Q&A
• War/Dance - Read filmmaker Q&A

Best Documentary Short Subject: Read more
• Freeheld - Read filmmaker Q&A
• La Corona (The Crown) - Read filmmaker Q&A
• Salim Baba - Read filmmaker Q&A
• Sari's Mother

LIVE FROM SUNDANCE!

Documentary Editor Tom White and Associate Editor Tamara Krinsky share their festival adventures with you in this up-to-the minute blog!

• TAMARA'S DAY 1: PARK CITY PILGRIMAGE
• TAMARA'S DAY 2: Slingshots & Soldiers
• TAMARA'S DAY 2: The Night the Lights Went Out
• TAMARA'S DAY 3: Polanski and the New Frontier
• TAMARA'S DAY 3: U23D
• TAMARA'S DAY 4: Partyin' Like an American Teen
• TOM'S DAY 1: Three Days Later
• TAMARA'S DAY 6: Oscar interlude with Alex Gibney
• TOM'S DAY 2: Several Days Later
• TOM'S DAY 3: Journeys
• TOM'S DAY 4: Of Poets, Rivers and The Bottom Line
• TOM'S DAY 5: The Park City Winners

ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 15 DOC FEATURES 15 Docs Move Ahead in 2007 Oscar® Race
Read press release

The films below are listed in alphabetical order:

• Autism: The Musical
• Body of War
• For the Bible Tells Me So
    - IDA Fiscal Sponship Program
• Lake of Fire
• Nanking
    - IDA/ABCNews VideoSource Award Nominee
    - IDA Awards Feature Documentary "Short List"
    - DocuWeek™ official selection
• No End in Sight
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
    - IDA Awards Feature Finalist
    - IDA Pare Lorentz Award Nominee
• Please Vote for Me
• The Price of Sugar
    - DocuWeek™ official selection
• A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
    - DocuWeek™ official selection
• The Rape of Europa
• Sicko
    - IDA Awards Feature Finalist
• Taxi to the Dark Side
    - IDA Awards Feature Finalist
    - DocuWeek™ official selection
• War/Dance
    - IDA/Alan Ett Music Award Finalist
    - IDA Awards Feature Documentary "Short List"
    - DocuWeek™ official selection
• White Light/Black Rain
    - IDA/ABCNews VideoSource Award Nominee
    - IDA Pare Lorentz Award Nominee

The 80th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.