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  • IDA Documentary Awards Call for Entries Regular Deadline

    Fri. June 28, 2019 @ 11:45pm
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    Mon. July 1, 2019 @ 11:45pm
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  • IDA Conversation Series: Jehane Noujaim

    Tue. July 9, 2019 @ 7:30pm
    Linwood Dunn Theater, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
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    Join us for a summer edition of the IDA Conversation Series, with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and Anne Thompson, IndieWire Editor-at-Large.

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Documentary Magazine

Winter 2019

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The Winter 2019 issue salutes the producer and the many roles they play to keep the production process running.

IDA-Supported Doc of the Week

I Am Not Alone
Directed by
David Gaynes
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We wrap the last week of PRIDE with a short documentary that documents the spiritual awakening of Eric Jurado-Diaz, a 56-year old diagnosised with ALS, as he examines his life growing up gay in Puerto Rico, coming out in the Army, becoming a drag superstar and maturing into domestic life with his husband and three sons.