Picture this: A gregarious, glad-handing Irish pol finds himself in front of a skeptical class of well off, unsmiling high school students. Asked to
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The life of the documentary, we all hope, extends well beyond the final cut, festival circuit, theatrical run, television broadcast and nontheatrical
Dear IDA Members: I report from the Cannes Film Festival, which this year has to be the best I’ve ever attended. For the first time in 46 years, a
Dear Readers, Monthly publications such as ours are often encumbered by long lead times, and late breaking news can wreak havoc on the production
DearReaders, William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is not dead. It’s not even past” to underscore the ineluctability of history and the looming
Dear IDA Members; When we last left off, we reported on the fact that Discovery Communications planned to eliminate artistic credits on broadcasts of
Before I was a particularly seasoned documentary viewer, I had an epiphany. At the time, I thought it was about documentary in particular, but now I
OK. My desk is clean. Pencils are sharpened. Videotapes are arranged alphabetically. I’m ready to write. Writing a script is hard, especially for
I love working with myth, magic and the unknown. Since the 1960s, we’ve all seen tabloid programs about the unknown, but I wanted to try something
Dear IDA Members: Our Oscars® reception in March was our most successful ever, and thanks are due to Nancy Willen, Michael Rose, Richard Trank, Ann