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IDA Board Newsletter | Fall 2022
By GRACE LEE, Chris Pérez, Amir Shahkhalili AND Marcia Smith Dear IDA Community, We hope this note finds you well and enjoying the waning days of summer. It has been a busy few months but we wanted to...
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Archival photo of a Japanese family as they await a train that will take them to an internment camp. From Ken Burns’ ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust.’ Photo by Dorothea Lange. Image courtesy of PBS.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of September 02, 2022
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Black and white image of Habu Abdella, a young Ethiopian woman holding a stem of khat leaves. From Jessica Beshir's 'Faya Dayi.' Courtesy of Feyatey LLC
Screen Time: Week of August 29, 2022
Screen Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. There is no rulebook for documentaries, and the form’s beauty derives...
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Caption: A collage of family photos of the director Edward Buckles Jr. From Edward Buckles Jr.’s ‘Katrina Babies.’ Courtesy of HBO Max
Screen Time: Week of August 22, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Community is a universal necessity often taken for granted. Though lives are...
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Leo Baker, a white person with buzz-cut hair, smiles toward the ground while holding a neon green skateboard deck. From Nicola Marsh and Giovanni Reda’s ‘Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story,. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of August 12, 2022
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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A Black woman with short curly hair stands in front of a red background, bare-shouldered and staring at the camera. From Juliana Kasumu’s Baby Bangz: Black Power in Hair.
Screen Time: Week of August 8, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Frontline’s Afghanistan Undercover, which exposes the reality of women living...
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Kirsten Kleist Petersen is a young woman wearing a gray shirt. She is sitting on a chair by a window and petting her cat. From Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog’s ‘Winter’s Yearning.’ Courtesy of 'POV.'
Screen Time: Week of August 1, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel’s feature documentary Shadow Game shares the...
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Virtual reality avatars DragonHeart, IsYourBoi, DustBunny, Toaster and Jenny sit together on a long wooden bench. From Joe Hunting’s ‘We Met in Virtual Reality.’ Courtesy of HBO.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 25, 2022
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Maryanne Amacher is a white American composer and installation artist. She is wearing a gray jumpsuit and working in a room with musical equipment. From Lisa Rovner’s ‘Sisters with Transistors.’ Courtesy of Metrograph.
Screen Time: Week of July 25, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Mark Moormann’s documentary The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's...
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Teenagers living with disabilities enjoying their afternoon out on a field at Camp Jened. From James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham's 'Crip Camp.' Courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of July 18 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.
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