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Dear IDA Members, There are a number of excellent conferences worldwide devoted to the documentary. A notable one here in the US is the RealScreen

Dear Readers, Every four years, the American political system is put on bombastic display, in the sprawling epic known as the presidential election

Dear IDA Members, Before I address you as your new president, I would like to say a few words about my predecessor, Michael Donaldson. About four

Dear Readers, When one considers the film festival, one thinks of a happening, ranging in duration from a weekend to a month, in which towns, cities

Dear IDA Members, When I took the helm as IDA President three years ago, I eschewed "pompous pledges and misty projections" and promised to "keep my

Dear Readers, It's been a remarkable year for remarkable documentaries, and theater audiences have helped to keep the art form thriving. We close out

Dear IDA Members, It's the end of an active year of continued changes and growth for the IDA. Our biggest accomplishment was getting InFACT, formerly

Dear Readers, National Geographic's flagship program, Explorer, has gone through as many permutations as it has homes. Now part of MSNBC as Ultimate

Dear IDA Members: As we go to press, it looks like our comrades in the independent film movement are making some headway with the Motion Picture

Dear Readers, DVD—whether it stands for "digital video disc" or the more recent "digital versatile disc" to accommodate the uses of the medium beyond