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Black-and-white image of a young Black girl listening to the radio with her eyes closed. From Garrett Bradley’s ‘America.’ Courtesy of Museum of Modern Art
Screen Time: Week of October, 25 2021
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Allison Hanes, a woman with light skin and long black hair, sits in a small boat on a river. An older man with brown skin and dark hair sits behind her. Image courtesy of Hanes.
IDA Member Spotlight: Allison Carden Hanes
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Dianne Weyermann speaking at a podium at the 2016 IDA Documentary Awards. She is wearing black and has her hair untied.
Documentary's Most Passionate Advocate: Diane Weyermann Remembered
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A screengrab from the BIPOC Doc Editors website showing the faces of its directory members. Courtesy of BIPOC Doc Editors.
BIPOC Doc Editors and Their Fight for Diverse Edit Rooms
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Mama Icha is a senior Colombian woman seen here wistfully lost in thought. From Oscar Molina’s ‘La Casa de Mama Icha.’ Courtesy of Oscar Molina.
Oscar Molina's 'La Casa de Mama Icha': Filming Longing in Documentary
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Filipino-American musician Arnel Pineda performing in a concert. He is wearing a black shirt and leather pants. Image from Ramona Diaz’s ‘Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey.’ Courtesy of Amazon Prime.
Screen Time: Week of October 18, 2021
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Three filmmakers from 'Writing with Fire' standing outdoors, smiling, looking at footage on a camera.
Meet the 2021 IDA Documentary Screening Series Grantees
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Karen Dalton is a white woman in a white sweater and blue jeans. She is playing a guitar and smoking a cigarette. Image from Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz’s ‘Karen Dalton: In My Own Time.’ Courtesy of The 2050 Group.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 11, 2021
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A picture of a person with light skin from chin down moving their hands. Another light skinned hand holding a microphone is facing this person.
6 Tips for Documentary Filmmakers on How to Better Serve Participants with Gender-Based Trauma
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Three members of the Velvet Underground rehearsing in the studio. All are playing guitars. From Todd Haynes' 'The Velvet Underground.' Courtesy of Apple TV.
'The Velvet Underground' Music Documentary Celebrates 60s Avant-garde Rock 'n' Roll Legends
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Ambroise Ruzidana as Joe in Ibrahim Shaddad’s ‘Hunting Party.’ He is wearing a t-shirt and trousers, and is lying on the ground. Courtesy of Flaherty Seminar.
The 2021 Flaherty Seminar Explores 'Opacity'
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David Kato, a Black man with a bald head sits in front of a yellow house. His mother, Lydia Mulumba Nalongo, an older Black woman sits behind him eating. A still from 'Call Me Kutchu,' courtesy of the filmmakers.
LGBTQ Documentaries that Take a Deeper Look at Coming Out
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Animated image of Amin, an Afghan man with a dark beard and short hair. He islieing on a patterned rug. From Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary ‘Flee.’ Image courtesy of TIFF.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of October 4, 2021
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A Black woman farmworker stands against a sugarcane plant with a sickle in her hand in Haile Gerima’s ‘Sankofa’
Transmitting Unrecorded Black Histories: The Documentaries of Haile Gerima
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2021 Open Call for Documentary Magazine Editorial Fellows
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Notebook with the text Sep 15-Oct 15 Hispanic Heritage Month written in black text.
Documentaries to Watch for National Hispanic Heritage Month
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Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Summer 2021
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Notes from the Reel World, Summer 2021
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Vivian Anderson is a Black woman sitting on a stoop in Columbia, South Carolina, with her hands folded against her chin. She is the founder of EveryBlackGirl, and is seen in Garrett Zevgetis’ ‘On These Grounds.’
Doc Star of the Month: Vivian Anderson, 'On These Grounds'
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Boxer Muhammad Ali is a Black man in a blue shirt with a denim jacket . He is being arrested by a white policeman.From Leon Gast’s 'When We Were Kings.' Courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Playback: Leon Gast's 'When We Were Kings'
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Two female laundry workers are wearing floral aprons and standing against a wooden wall. From Lynne Sachs’ ‘The Washing Society.’ Courtesy of The Criterion Channel.
Screen Time: Week of September 27, 2021
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A pair of headphones hanging from a microphone with a pop filter attached to it.
Documentaries to Listen to for International Podcast Day: Recounting History
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Person in a hazmat suit cleaning a seat inside of an empty movie theater.
Licenses and Rights in the Post-COVID Festival Landscape
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An abstract rendering of an artificial intelligence entity amidst a gray composite of horizontal lines. From Tonje Hessen Schei’s 'iHuman,' produced by UpNorth Film.
The VOD Effect on Distribution: A Nordic-European View
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Black and white cover image of the book ‘Flash Flaherty,’ showing the Seminar’s participants smiling at the camera. Courtesy of Indiana University Press.
Dispatches from The Flaherty: A Review of 'Flash Flaherty'
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Activist Lois Gibbs is a white woman with short dark hair seen shouting to a crowd in an archival image. From Mark Kitchell’s 2012 film 'A Fierce Green Fire'. Courtesy of Mark Kitchell
The Long Tail of Self-Distribution
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A cave diver, wearing diving equipment and two headlamps, searches in a flooded cave in Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach. From E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's 'The Rescue' Photo: : National Geographic)
'The Rescue' Recounts the 2018 Thailand Cave Mission
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Chavela Vargas is a queer Latin American singer with grey hair. She is wearing a white shirt and is smiling. She is surrounded by trees and shrubs. Image from Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi’s ‘Chavela.’ Courtesy of Alicia Elena Pérez Duarte, Aubin Pictures.
Screen Time: Week of September 20, 2021
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Mexican-American woman smiling with dark hair, wearing a black and white polka dot dress and teal earrings.
IDA Member Spotlight: Iliana Sosa
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Singer Alanis Morissette, a white woman with long black hair, is performing on stage against a blue lit background; she is holding a microphone, and her eyes are closed, From Alison Kaynman’s ‘Jagged.’ Courtesy of TIFF.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of September 13, 2021
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IDFA Artistic Director and filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia is a Syrian man with a beard and short hair. He is wearing a black jacket and a sweater while addressing the in-person and virtual audience at IDFA 2020. There is a screen behind him. Photo: Coen Dijkstra. Courtesy of IDFA
The Post-COVID Festival Circuit: The Future Is Hybrid
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A woman holding a TV remote control facing a screen displaying the homepage of Prime Video.
Why the Amazon-MGM Merger Is Bad for Indie Film
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Muhammad Ali, a Black boxer, on a visit to his old grammar school in Louisville, KY, in 1977. He is surrounded by young Black children who are hugging him. From ‘Muhammad Ali,’ a four-part documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. Photo by Michael Gaffney. Courtesy of PBS.
Screen Time: Week of September 13, 2021
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Two Black women students look into a video camera screen. Photo credits Marco Marco Poggio.
The Doc Program at CUNY's Newmark J-School: Low Tuition, High Standards
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Julia Child is a white chef with short brown wavy hair. Here she is standing in her kitchen holding a tray of pastry. She is wearing a blue shirt underneath another brown one, and is smiling. Image from Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s ‘Julia.’ Courtesy of TIFF.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of September 6, 2021
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A young Afghan couple pictured in the snow. Image from Elizabeth and Gulistan Mirzaei’s ‘Three Songs for Benazir,’ which is set and filmed in refugee camps in Afghanistan. Courtesy of the filmmakers.
Pathways of Aid for Afghan Refugees: How the Documentary Community can Help
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Alison Bechdel is a white woman with short hair black-rimmed glasses. She is wearing a black suit and is holding a marker to a wall of her comics. Image from Vivian Kleinman's ‘No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics’. Courtesy of Outfest.
Outfest's Documentary Lineup A Reminder of LGBTQ Resilience
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Actor Matthew Modine portrays William ‘Rick’ Singer, a white man in a grey-striped polo shirt, in ‘Operation Varsity Blues,’ a docudrama that was publicized as a documentary. Modine has grey hair and is talking on a cellphone while sitting. Courtesy of Netflix
Center for Media & Social Impact's Report on Journalism Asks, Who's Holding Documentary to Account?
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Survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center, covered in dust and debris. Image from Brian Knappenberger’s ‘Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror’ Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of September 6, 2021
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Bob Ross is white artist with a brown afro and a mostly grey beard. He is riding a bouncy alligator ride in a playground. He is wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. Image from Joshua Rofé’s ‘Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of August 30 2021
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Mohammed Arif, a boy from Ethiopia, lies on his back with eyes looking up at the sky. Image from Jessica Beshir's 'Faya Dayi.' Courtesy of Cinetic Media.
Jessica Beshir's Documentary 'Faya Dayi' Sees Ethiopia In Black and White
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paper cutout of a hand holding a light bulb from the left, a hand holding money from the right; they are flanked by simple plane origamis at the diagonal corners.
Values-Based Fundraising For a More Equitable Documentary Community
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Richard "Rick" Ray Perez is a brown skinned-toned man, wearing a dark blue blazer, behind a patterned orange wall.
New IDA Executive Director Rick Perez Assesses the Global Documentary Narrative
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Soccer player Jessica McDonald is a Black woman in her 30s. Here, she is wearing a white shirt that says “FTBLR” and her hair is tied back. Image from Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine’s ‘LFG.’ Courtesy of HBO Max
Screen Time: Week of August 30, 2021
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Two young Afro-German women photographed in low light. They have white traditional markings drawn on their faces. Image from Anna Zhukovets’ and Kokutekeleza Musebeni’s ‘Door of Return’. Courtesy of BlackStar Film Festival.
The Healing Power of Black Documentary: Thoughts from the 10th Annual BlackStar Film Festival
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Actor Eduardo San Juan Brena is a Mexican man with a beard dressed as the Conquistador, looking at his reflection in a handheld mirror. He has a metallic helmet and armor, and is wearing a red and brown costume. Image from Rodrigo Reyes’ '499.' Photo by Alejandro Mejia, AMC.
Rodrigo Reyes Tours '499' Documentary through Mexico, 500 Years after the Aztec Empire
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A close up shot of a woman with white skin wearing a white face mask.
IDA Fall 2021 COVID-19 Policy
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James, a young activist with Black skin wearing a black tank top, orange pants and gold jewelry, looks off behind him. A still from the film 'The Legend of the Underground.' Courtesy of HBO.
The Kids Are More Than Alright: Documentaries To Watch on Youth Activism
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Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah is a middle-aged man with a moustache. He is waving to someone and is wearing sunglasses, and is wearing a grey jacket with a shirt and trousers. There are passersby and an ATM machine behind him. Image from David Osit’s 'Mayor.' Courtesy of David Osit and POV.
Screen Time: Week of August 23, 2021
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Introducing MyIDA, Our New Membership Portal
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