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Marlon Riggs is a Black male filmmaker seen here in an archival black and white image from his film 'Tongues Untied.' He is wearing a leather vest and a hat. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
Black, Bold and Queer: Celebrating the Legacy of Marlon Riggs
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Iyabo Boyd (left), a Black woman with short hair and glasses, is standing with other women of color documentary professionals—all members of Brown Girls Doc Mafia—during True/False fest. Courtesy of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
Brown Girls Doc Mafia: Working Towards a Future of Thriving
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Participants at the first gathering of FWD-Doc members, at the 2018 Getting Real conference. Photo courtesy of AMPAS
FWD-Doc: Working to Add 'A' for Access onto DEI
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A group of Trump supporters storm the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2022. From The New York Times Visual Investigations’ 'Days of Rage. 'Courtesy of The New York Times
Essential Doc Reads: Week of January 10, 2022
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An outdoor venue for the 2021 Black Star Film Festival; the screen shows the BlackStar Film Festival logo. Photo courtesy of Terrell Halsey
A Kind of Time Travel: BlackStar Film Festival at 10
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MacArthur Foundation's Kathy Im is an Asian American woman with shoulder-length black hair and glasses, wearing a black dress and standing at the podium at the IDA Documentary Awards.
MacArthur Foundation's Kathy Im: Addressing Inequities, and Grateful for the Frank Conversations
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A collage of photographs from past events of the Black Documentary Collective featuring its members. Courtesy of BDC/Sabrina Gordon.
We Been Here: The Black Documentary Collective
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Alvin Ailey is a legendary Black male dancer, photographed on stage, in a ballet pose. From Jamila Wignot’s ‘Ailey.’ Courtesy of Jacob's Pillow / Licensed from Harvard (John Lindquist rights)
Screen Time: Week of January 10, 2022
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Filmmakers Leo Chiang (left) and Jerry Henry filming Connie Young Yu, an Asian American historian, for the PBS documentary series Asian Americans. Courtesy of WETA and CAAM
A-Doc Exerts Its Collective Power
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John Wilson is a white male filmmaker wearing a colorful sun umbrella around his head. He is holding a video camera with palm trees in the background. From ‘How To with John Wilson.’ Image courtesy of Joe Buglewicz/HBO.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of January 3, 2022
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Don Young is an Asian man with short gray hair, speaking into a mic, at an event centering the PBS doc series ‘Asian Americans.’ Courtesy of Don Young/CAAM.
Public Media at a Precipice: A Call for Commitment to Transformative Change
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Headshot of IDA Executive Director Rick Perez, a Latinx man with short back and grey hair, standing outside.
Notes from the Reel World, Winter 2022
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A protagonist looks into a hand-held mirror in Lee Grant's 'What Sex Am I?" Courtesy of Criterion Channel
Screen Time: Week of January 3, 2022
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Poh Si Teng is an Asian woman of Malaysian Chinese origin with shoulder-length black hair. She is wearing a black turtleneck & in front of a brick wall. Photo by Marcus Yam
A Call to All Documentary Gatekeepers
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An image of Claudio Rojas, a latino man with black hair, embracing a family member. Courtesy of Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera.
Update: Deported Infiltrators protagonist Claudio Rojas returns to the U.S.
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Nelson Chamisa is a bald Zimbabwean male politician wearing a patterned brown shirt. He is addressing a crowd of people. Image from Camilla Nielsson’s ‘President.’ Photo by Henrik Bohn Ipsen. Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.
Doc Star of the Month: Nelson Chamisa, 'President'
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Headshot of a woman in her late 20s wearing a baseball cap over short brown hair. She has a camera hanging around her neck and it is golden hour behind her through the trees.
IDA Member Spotlight: Allison Walsh
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Colorful IDFA 2021 flags fluttering against a brownstone building in Amsterdam. Photo by Roos Trommelen. Courtesy of IDFA.
Post-Cold War Films and More at Amsterdam Documentary Festival
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Two Black teenage boys run across a green field holding sticks. Smoke bellows behind them. Still from Patrick Bresnan's 'The Rabbit Hunt'. Courtesy of Argo
Four IDA Documentary Award Nominated Shorts to Watch on Argo
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Michael Sandridge is a white man in a grey suit sitting alone inside a church. From Robert Greene’s “Procession.” Courtesy of Netflix.
Staging Resilience with Drama Therapy in 'Procession' Documentary
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Abu Osama is a bald Syrian man with a beard, sitting with his children at his home in Syria. From Talal Derki’s Academy Award-nominated ‘Of Fathers and Sons.’ Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Is an Oscar Campaign Worth the Cost for an Independent Documentary?
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Film still of Jacques Costeau underwater in scuba diving gear. Courtesy of National Geographic
Essential Doc Reads: Week of December 6, 2021
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Participants on stage speaking at DOC NYC’s ‘Impact Producing: Case Studies’ panel. Courtesy of DOC NYC.
DOC NYC Films and Panels Signal Rising Standards for Docs, on and off Screen
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Two Guadeloupean factory workers working in their blue uniforms. From Sylvaine Dampierre’s ‘Words of Negroes.’ Courtesy of DOK Leipzig.
Bringing the Colonialist Past and Present into Dialogue at DOK Leipzig
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An animated still from Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’ showing the Afghan male protagonist Amin and the white, Danish filmmaker. Courtesy of NEON.
'Flee' Documentary Deploys Animation to Address Traumatic Memories
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Cast members of the Broadway musical 'Company' recording their album. From DA Pennebaker's ‘Original Cast Album: “Company"’. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection
Screen Time: Week of December 6, 2021
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Silhouettes of children running in a group, against a yellow background. Courtesy of the artist, Arak Rattanawijittakorn/Shutterstock.
Considering a Trauma-Informed Process In Documentary Filmmaking
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Blue image with text that reads fast foreword The Editor's Column.
Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2021
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Beige image with white text reading notes from the reel world.
Notes from the Reel World, Fall 2021
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A BTS photo of a female participant, wearing a purple headscarf, being filmed for 'Healing the Healers.' Courtesy of Transform Films.
Preparing the Audience: Creating a Safe Space for Difficult Screenings
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Tsanavi Spoonhunter scouting with Prinz Three Irons, of the Crow Tribe of Montana, at the Wyoming/Montana border for ‘Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty.’ Photo courtesy of Tsavani Spoonhunter.
Honoring Indigenous Stories for Native American Heritage Month
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An image of Miranda Yousef’s editing suite: mental health resources creating a much-needed work-wellness balance for the editor. Image courtesy of the author.
How to Practice Self-Care When Editing Documentary Footage
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JP Jayasankar is an Indian male filmmaker photographed on the sets of his documentary, ‘So Heddan So Hoddan.’ Photo by Mangesh Gudekar
Duty of Care: The Filmmaker-Protagonist Relationship
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Rebecca is a elderly white woman flying a kite in Detroit, on a bucket list adventure. Image from Sian-Pierre Regis’ ‘Duty Free.’ Courtesy of PBS, Independent Lens.
Screen Time: Week of November 22, 2021
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Terrick Trobough is a young white male actor wearing a white shirt, sitting on a church bench. He is wearing a cross. Image from Robert Greene’s ‘Procession.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 15, 2021
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Carteles Unidos in Michoacan, getting ready to fight against their main enemy: Cartel Jalisco New Generation. Photo courtesy of Miguel Angel Vega
The High-Risk, Low-Return Life of a Fixer in Latin America
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Two colleagues, a transgender woman and a non-binary person, laughing in a meeting at work. Photo taken by Zackary Drucker. Courtsey of The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Four Ways To Be A Better Trans Ally in your Documentary Filmmaking
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Two colleagues, a transgender woman and a non-binary person, laughing in a meeting at work. Photo taken by Zackary Drucker. Courtsey of The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Four Ways To Be A Better Trans Ally in your Documentary Filmmaking
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A red filtered image of a Hindu South Asian bride. She is wearing a veil. From Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing.’ Courtesy of TIFF
The Fractured World of Lovers in Payal Kapadia's Documentary 'A Night of Knowing Nothing'
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Headshot of a Mohawk woman with medium skin tone, brown hair worn up, wearing a black shirt and a pink beaded floral necklace
IDA Member Spotlight: Katsitsionni Fox
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Meera and Shyamkali are two South Asian journalists looking at filmed footage on a cellphone. From Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s ‘Writing With Fire.’ Courtesy of Music Box Films
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 8, 2021
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Stock image of a brownstone building with the words ‘How Are You, Really?’ painted on its side wall. Courtesy of Finn/Unsplash
A Call for Normalizing Mental Healthcare in the Documentary Space
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Filmmaker Nico Opper and their baby, Jonah making faces at the camera. Opper is wearing black-rimmed glasses and Jonah, an orange shirt. Courtesy of Nico Opper.
New Parenthood and Documentary Inequity
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Brothers John and Art Cullen are two white men standing in a printing press, reviewing a hot-off-the-presses copy of 'The Storm Lake Times.' Image from Beth Levison and Jerry Risius’ ‘Storm Lake.’ Courtesy of 'Independent Lens'/PBS.
Screen Time: Week of November 8, 2021
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Black-and-white archival footage of the Attica uprising. Image from Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry’s ‘Attica.’ Courtesy of Showtime.
Doc Star of the Month: Al Victory, 'Attica'
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A masked Black woman funeral worker at a funeral at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, New Orleans. She is standing next to a casket. From the 'Frontline' documentary ‘Death Is Our Business,’ directed by Jacqueline Olive. Courtesy of PBS Frontline.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of November 1, 2021
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Monica Del Carmen is a Mexican woman dressed as a cop sitting in a police car. From Alonso Ruizpalacios’ ‘A Cop Movie.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of November 1, 2021
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An image of a pair of eyes displayed on a screen atop a skyscraper. From Todd Chandler’s 'Bulletproof.' Courtesy of Grasshopper Film.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 25, 2021
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A close-up photo of Jin Zhou, a young Chinese woman, and her infant son Chenxi Huang. From Wang Qiong’s ‘All About My Sisters.’ Courtesy of the dGenerate Collection at Icarus Films.
The Many Stories Around Us: A Report on New York Film Festival 2021
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A silhouette of two people against a screen at Jihlava IDFF's opening ceremony. Photo by Štefan Berec
Jihlava Film Festival at 25: A Conversation with Director Marek Hovorka
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