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Screen Time: Week of December 12, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Well, the juries and the people have spoken. The 38th edition of the IDA...
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collage of film stills: woman in pink dress with man in white and black shirt, teens holding plastic guns with bullet proof vests on, man in african garb holding up his hands in praise in the middle of a crowd, tall plastic figure of a man in a black suit, woman sitting down with hand to head, man and woman sitting next to each other wearing suits, disabled person in a wheelchair holding a big Q block, man in all black turning around in a chair, man in blue checkered short with a white cowboy hat.
Ten IDA-Supported Films You Should Watch Before the New Year
As we get ready to say goodbye to 2022 and welcome 2023, we thought you could spend the holidays watching and learning about some wonderful films and series that are available to stream from the...
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Bob the Drag Queen poses in drag, dressed in a red, white and blue cowgirl outfit. From “We’re Here.” Photo courtesy of Greg Endries/HBO.
Screen Time: Week of November 28, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Older Than the Crown, from Derrick Lemere, investigates the trial of Rick...
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Headshot depicts Miroslava Gonzalez, a storyteller, community advocate, Producer, Writer and Director. She has long brown hair, green eyes and is wearing a teal-colored sweater.
IDA Member Spotlight: Miroslava Gonzalez Coronado
Miroslava is an indigenous, Mexican-American mother and storyteller on a journey to reclaim her indigeneity. Throughout her life, Miros’ insatiable curiosity was nurtured by the wealth of oral culture...
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IDFA Artistic Dierctor Orwa Nyrabia, shown delivering a keynote address on a large screen at the 2018 Getting Real conference, is a Syrian man with a beard, wearing a dark sweater. Photo courtesy of AMPAS
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 11, 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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Protestors of gerrymandering gather outside of the Supreme Court, from Chris Durrance and Barak Goodman's ‘Slay the Dragon’. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Screen Time: Week of November 7, 2022
Screen Time Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. It’s Election Day in the US, so in the voting spirit, most of these...
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Heavily armed troops, wearing body armor, face shields and helmets, march through the streets of Moscow at night. From Gesbeen Mohammed’s ‘Putin’s War at Home,’ a ‘Frontline’ production currently streaming on PBS.org. Courtesy of ‘Frontline’.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 31, 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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Dilma Rousseff, the former president of Brazil, is applauded while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, her predecessor, who was just elected president for the second time, on October 30, 2022, raises her hand in the air. From Petra Costa’s ‘The Edge of Democracy.’ Photo courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of October 31, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In observance of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential win in Brazil, Petra...
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Harry Belafonte is a Black man, bald, smiling, wearing a grey hoodie and sitting on a chair, in front of a bookshelf. From Elvis Mitchell’s ‘Is That Black Enough For You?!?’ Courtesy of netflix
Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 24, 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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Headshot of a young white woman with long black hair and a black top in front of a purple wall. On the left side of the picture, we see Woman (in green), Life (in white), and Freedom (in red).
IDA Member Spotlight: Nazanin Nematollahi
IDA: Tell us about yourself. What is your profession (or passion)? Nazanin Nematollahi: Born and raised in Iran after the Islamic revolution of 1979, which was already engaged in a war, I always felt...
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