A young mother brings her newborn baby into the city from the countryside. With her last few dollars, she checks into a cheap hotel and asks the
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IDA member Peter Stuart is one of the few American nonfiction producers to have made a successful career in Europe. This article about Stuart was
Human Rights Watch—the largest U.S.-based organization devoted to safeguarding human rights internationally—founded its annual film and video festival
It is 40 degrees, raining and windy, and my wife and I are on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands, sitting on a horsedrawn cart and heading to the Man
Despite hard times in the former Soviet Union, St. Petersburg in spring and summer is getting to be film festival city. This year, Russia's shimmering
It's 9:00 in the morning in the Miramar Palace in San Sebastian in the Basque country on the north coast of Spain. In each of the Miramar's three
The distribution of audiovisual works to educational and individual users, unlike that of printed materials (books), has a relatively short history
We are told that 100 years ago, when our grandparents first saw the films of the Lumiere brothers, they were astounded and came in droves to see more
The first American women to make documentary films back in the 1910s and '20s, Osa Johnson and Frances Hubbard Flaherty, worked mainly as silent
P.O.V. co-executive producer Ellen Schneider calls them "drama[s] that no screenwriter could fabricate." Critic and scholar Pat Aufderheide sees them