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At right, A reporter from an India-based digital platform is kneeling while interviewing an Indian woman who is seated at left, in her living space with her family. The reporter is filming with a smartphone in her right hand , nd is wearing an emerald green sari
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 8, 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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Justice Ginsburg is pictured here at a press conference, in front of a bank of microphones, and she is wearing a red-and-white striped shirt.
Screen Time: Week of March 8, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Starz, RUTH—Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, from 2019 IDA...
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Dylan is a white woman, with red hair, in her early 30s; she is sitting at a desk next to a window, and she is looking at a photo album.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of March 1, 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 mother and her daughter embrace in the glare of sunlight.
Screen Time: Week of March 1, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Ondi Timoner’s Coming Clean, streaming through Laemmle Virtual Cinema, explores...
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KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW, Professor, UCLA and Columbia Schools of Law. She is an African-American woman, wearing a red blouse under a navy blue blazer; she is seated against a blue backdrop.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of February 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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Yoruba Richen is an African American woman. She has a shaved head and is sporting large abstract dangled metal earrings that reaches her chest. She is wearing a red V-neck top with contrasting black neck band.
IDA Member Spotlight: Yoruba Richen
Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op-Docs, FRONTLINE Digital, New York Magazine’s website - The Cut, The Atlantic, and Field...
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Ellis Haizlip, sits in the middle of the set of his variety show 'SOUL' surrounded by members of the '70s funk band Mandrill, some members of whom are holding their instruments.
Screen Time: Week of February 22
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering February 22 on Independent Lens is Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. SOUL!, which...
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This image depicts time travel through the evolution of racial violence in the US. Against the backdrop of a dark sky, speckled with stars, is a shack that serves as a portal for time travel, and above the house floats an apparation of a slave.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of February 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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Background image: Director Grace Lee with crew shooting 'And She Could be Next'. IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund logo with a speech bubble noting "New on the application: Authorship"
Why We Are Adding Authorship to the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant Application
Now is the time to act with intentionality; we need to stop meandering in search of the right way forward. Deep introspection and consideration of historically marginalized perspectives are essential...
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Pop star Britney Spears, subject the recnt documentary 'Framing Britney Spears," is pictured performing on stage, wearing an emerald green sequin outfit, singing into a wireless headset, clutching a brown railing, against a mesh, emerald green patterned backdrop.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of February 8, 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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