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An activist, holding a microphone and wearing a black blazer over a blue shirt, addresses a protest in Brooklyn, New York.
Screen Time: Week of April 5, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering April 12 on Independent Lens, Ursula Liang’s Down a Dark Stairwell...
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A screenshot of IDA's Grant Writing workshop with Dana Merwin, Zippy Kimundu, Meena Nanji and ASL Interpreter Mara Bassani-Santamaria
5 Tips to Perfect Your Grant Proposal
Many filmmakers have a certain anxiety about submitting their films to funders, and with the pandemic shaping our capacities and capabilities in the documentary world, that anxiety has only grown...
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PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger at a podium, wearing a white blazer over a black blouse with the PBS logo behind her.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 29, 2021
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 collage of IDA-supported film stills in black and white with a light green overlay, and the IDA and Hot Docs logos placed on top.
IDA-supported Documentaries at Hot Docs 2021
Hot Docs is back for its 2021 festival edition, bringing short and feature-length documentaries from around the world to viewer's home screens between April 29 and May 9. Among the 219 films on the...
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The photo depicts a Black woman standing over an open casket, her right arm raised in praise; she wears a protective face mask, as well as a dark suit.
Screen Time: Week of March 29, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Starting April 4, Eyes on the Prize, the seminal series on the American civil...
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A rally for justice for Vincent Chin. His mother is speaking behind a podium.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 22, 2021
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 photo of filmmaker Justine Armen, a mixed-race woman with dark brown curly hair wearing a blue and red baseball cap and white coat, looking to the side and smiling.
IDA Member Spotlight: Justine Armen
Justine Armen is a documentary film producer based in Oakland, California. She is currently the Executive Coordinator at ITVS and has been working in the documentary field since 2012. Justine is...
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The image shows a close-up profile of a government official, sitting at a desk with his colleagues, examining documents. He has dark hair and glasses and is wearing a white shirt and a dark tie.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 15, 2021
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 woman from the film swings on a swing in the middle of a playground; her head is upside-down as she faces the camera.
Screen Time: Week of March 15, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering March 16 on WORLD Channel as part of America ReFramed, Olga Lvoff’s...
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A collage of Shirley Clarke, Agnès Varda, Cheryl Dunye, Alice Guy-Blaché, Barbara Kopple and Madeline Anderson against a background of a close up leaf, with the words "I Am Somebody" faded into the background.
Documentaries to Watch: Women's History Behind the Camera
While the documentary field has only become more and more inclusive over the last few years, the more formative role of women in the documentary artform has been largely ignored, both in academia and...
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