TheWrap.com, NPR, and several other news outlets have announced that Syrian documentary filmmaker and festival director Orwa Nyrabia has been released from custody after it was announced he was...
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Arnold Shapiro to receive IDA Career Achievement Award; Sundance Institute to receive IDA's Pioneer Award.
Veteran filmmaker Amanda Pope asks a panel of filmmakers about their experiences watching stories unfold in front of a camera.
Bring Your Own Doc's co-host Ondi Timoner speaks with some of this year's DocuWeeks participants.
Syrian filmmaker and festival director Orwa Nyrabia has been missing since Thursday, August 23 after attempting travel from the Damascus International Airport. Nyrabia works as a film producer and is...
The 27th annual IDA Documentary Awards will take place December 7, 2012.
If you're thinking of applying to the Cal Humanities California Documentary Project Grant, it's time to get started! Check out their upcoming informational grant workshops in San Diego, San Francisco...
In an IDA interview with filmmaker Linda Goldstein Knowlton, she discusses the making of her most recent film, Somewhere Between. Like many filmmakers over the past few years, Goldstein Knowlton used...
"Sadly...discrimination still exists in the marketplace towards documentaries" despite how well they are reviewed by critics in a variety of well-respected newspapers and websites. Why do you think...