It all started with the ancient Greeks. Not the scholarly concept of the roots of western civilization, but the first program of Empires, the PBS and
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Dear Readers, It is never an easy task to salute the passings, in each issue of ID, of so many dignified members of the documentary community. But
Dear IDA Members: The big news at the IDA is that we have a new Executive Director: Sandra Ruch. She was selected as the final candidate at a special
Lonely Boy stands alone, teetering on a precipice between everything that came before and everything that came after. When I first saw it in the late
With much regret, I write this farewell to Tim Lyons, dear friend and former editor of International Documentary. I was one of his writers
I was in Los Angeles in 1986 opening my first film, Partisans of Vilna, when I had heard on the radio that Hank Greenberg, the Hall of Fame baseball
Dear Readers, In this issue and next, we will look at some of the specific ingredients that go into documentary filmmaking—shooting, editing, writing
The IDA has been going through lots of changes and the positive manifestations are just beginning to emerge. The IDA party for the Oscar® nominees
If you’d met me at IFFCON 2001, I’d have introduced myself as “Katie Cadigan, documentarian, in development on a film about cultural images of madness
Editor’s Note—James T. Yee, former executive director of Independent Television Service (ITVS) and longtime advocate for independent media producers