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Docs to Watch

Celebrate culture, unpack history and find timely perspectives with these essential, IDA-recommended docs from past to present. 


Doc To Watch

The 25th annual Hot Docs Festival is just one week away. If you are headed to Toronto, you can catch a whopping 20 IDA-supported films on the big screen. Our Executive Director, Simon Kilmurry, Director of Programming and Policy, Claire Aguilar, and Filmmaker Services Manager, Toni Bell, will also be in attendance, make sure to say hello! 93Queen A group of tenacious women are shattering the glass ceiling in their Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood to create the first all-female volunteer EMS corps in NYC. Tickets Amal Adolescence in the time of post-revolution Egypt that’s shifting around an angry
In celebration of the feast of Saint Valentine, we wanted to shine a (heart)light on a handful of our favorite documentaries about love. Here are ten films we recommend watching while cuddled up with your sweetheart, or snuggled up alone on your couch on Valentine's day. Walk Run Cha-Cha (Laura Nix, 2019) Oscar-nominated and IDA fiscally-sponsored short, Walk Run Cha-Cha, tells the story of Paul and Millie Cao who reunited in California after the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor. Watch it: New York Times Op-Docs Meet the Patels (Ravi Patel &
Three features and one short from IDA's FSP program have been selected for the 2012 LA Film Festival.
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