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 week, IDA joined European documentary organizations at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to build stronger, more coordinated support for filmmakers around the world. The need for public investment in documentary — from broadcaster funding to institutional support — was a part of those conversations.
Public media exists to serve the public. Documentary filmmaking is central to how societies document themselves, preserve collective memory, and hold power to account. The decision to displace cultural and documentary content from ERT2 represents a retreat from that mission.
IDA urges ERT's management and relevant institutional bodies to restore meaningful documentary and cultural programming across its channels, in line with the standards of European public broadcasters. Defending the place of documentary in public media — wherever that place is under threat — is central to what IDA stands for.
We encourage the documentary community to sign the petition here.