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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For our February Member Memo, I had the unique opportunity to interview two of our IDA Members who were both nominated for the 2020 Academy Awards. While their films and journeys were vastly different...

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. We Are the Dream, from director Amy Schatz, focuses on the Oakland Unified...

It's been a bit of a hiatus since the last Essential Doc Reads—what with Sundance, the Oscars, DocuDay LA and IDA's impending office move—but we're back with our curated selection of recent features...

When IDA launched the Enterprise Documentary Fund at Sundance 2017, the festival coincided with the Women's March and Trump's inauguration. The blizzard conditions underscored an overall feeling of...

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. As the impeachment trial of President Trump gets underway, and as the US...

Sundance Film Festival is back at Park City this month. In addition to seven IDA-supported film screenings, our Executive Directory, Simon Kilmurry, will be moderating “ Streaming: Next-Generation...

It's been a bit of a hiatus since the last Essential Doc Reads, but we’re back with our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from...

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Ovid.tv, Chez Jolie Coiffure, from Rosine Mbakam, tells the...

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Coming December 19 on Ovid.TV is Bill Morrison's IDA Documentary Award winner...