Rémi Grellety is a two-time Oscar-nominated producer whose work has been honored with an Emmy, a Peabody, a César, and a BAFTA. For 15 years, he produced Raoul Peck’s films at Velvet Film (Paris, New...
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Updated on July 13, 2026– Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery July 13, 2026 Today, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with a coalition of 12 state attorneys general...
Tessa Louise-Salomé is an award-winning French producer, writer, and director, and co-founder of Petite Maison Production. Her work as a director includes the Sundance-selected Mr. X (2014) and The...

Congratulations to the numerous IDA members who have premieres and presentations at Tribeca and DC/DOX 2026.
International Documentary Association (IDA) announces the initial program for Getting Real ’26, its biennial convening for documentary practitioners, held in-person in Los Angeles and virtually from...
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Tia Lessin is the director and producer, with Carl Deal, of Steal This Story, Please! They made the Hurricane Katrina survival story Trouble the Water, winner of the...
International Documentary Association (IDA) has appointed Rachel Denny as Deputy Executive Director, effective May 11, 2026. The newly created position oversees external affairs and financial strategy...

Updated on June 8, 2026–Safety Planning Training for Documentarians June 8, 2026 Censorship is not always overt. In fact, many democracies that openly espouse values of freedom of speech and...
Deirdre Fishel is a social issue filmmaker whose work focuses on lives that have remained largely invisible.
IDA, in solidarity with our partners at the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), calls on the Turkish authorities to drop the accusations against filmmaker and festival organizer Rojhilat Aksoy, amid a growing crackdown on Kurdish and Armenian films and filmmakers.