Dear Readers: Music fuels a documentary—it punctuates and primes the story, it underscores the emotional current, it dramatizes, it manipulates time
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There are countless ways to use the camera and the editing room to get at the truth. But I like best the nonfiction movies that open up the
Dear IDA Members, I am happy to report on the successes of the Oscars Reception and DocuDay—and want to congratulate the Academy Award winners
Dear Readers, It begins in December with the Best-of-the-Year lists, and, dare I say, the IDA Awards. This is the snappy start of the annual drum roll
Dear IDA Members: Once again, the Oscars Reception turned out to one of the highlights of the crazy awards season. Special thanks go to chair Rick
Dear Readers: Let's say the subject of your documentary has a past that is indelibly connected to American history. Such is the case with Gail Dolgin
Dear IDA members, March is Oscars month. For IDA, the annual Oscars Reception for the nominees in the documentary categories takes place March 19 at
When it comes to the important things in life, there's a "first time" only once. I wish I could say I recall the first film I ever saw, but that event
Dear Readers, Documentary filmmaking takes us to strange places, foreboding places, wondrous places. In the name of the truth we venture behind enemy
Dear IDA Members: It is always tempting to take a look back at the year just completed and bask in the glow of whatever successes can be conjured up