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Headshot of a smiling Black adult man sitting on a bench in a black and red hat, glasses, and an orange button-up shirt.
IDA Member Spotlight: Alex H. Rafi
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Caption: Janaé Bonsu is a young Black woman leading an activist gathering. She and her comrades are in yellow shirts that say “Say Her Name”. Image for Ashley O’Shay’s “Unapologetic”. Courtesy of David Magdael & Associates.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of August 16, 2021
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Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei standing in an Afghanistan desert with a camera, in 2019. Gulistan is carrying their daughter, Maryam. Elizabeth is wearing a headscarf, Gulistan is wearing a black t shirt and glasses, Maryam is wearing a striped shirt and floral pants. Image courtesy of the authors.
The Afghanistan We Know and Fight For: Filmmakers Share Shards of Memories
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A young Afghani girl in a checkered headscarf helps her friend on a skateboarding ramp. Her friend is wearing skateboarding gear. They’re inside a training room with other young skateboarders. Image from Carol Dysinger’s ‘Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl).’ Courtesy of the filmmaking team.
Screen Time: Week of August 16, 2021
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A man with brown skin in a white checkered shirt and white hat standing in front of a crowd. Still from 'An Insignificant Man' by Khushboo Ranka & Vinay Shukla. Courtesy of IFFLA.
Ten Documentaries To Watch for Indian Independence Day
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A group of people on the street holding up signs that read 'Free Britney.' It’s daytime and they are wearing masks. Image from 'Framing Britney Spears.' Courtesy of New York Times Op Docs.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of August 9, 2021
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film still from 'Angels are Made of Light' of Afghan girls in school session in a courtyard.
Save Documentary Translator from Taliban Execution - An Urgent Call to Action
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Denilson Garibo is a young man in a blue graduation gown. He is wearing a graduation hat and has a garland of white plastic flowers around his neck. He is surrounded by family members. From Peter Nicks' ‘Homeroom.’ Courtesy of Hulu
Doc Star of the Month: Denilson Garibo, 'Homeroom'
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Silhouettes of six men against a setting sun. Image from Vittorio de Seta's 'Solfatara.' Courtesy of The Criterion Collection
Screen Time: Week of August 9, 2021
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Side profile of Amanda Knox, a white woman with short brown hair. She is wearing a leather jacket. Image from from Ron Blackhurst and Brian McGinn's 2016 film ‘Amanda Knox.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of August 2, 2021
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Abebe Bikila is a Black Ethiopian marathoner seen here at the 1964 Summer Olympics at Tokyo. He has black hair, a moustache, and is wearing a black vest. Image from Kon Ichikawa’s ‘Tokyo Olympiad.’ Courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Screen Time: Week of August 2, 2021
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Tine Fischer, a white woman with shoulder-length dirty-blond hair in a white shirt with Niklas Engstrøm, a white man with brown hair, beard, and black frame glasses. He is also wearing a white shirt. Courtesy of CPH:DOX.
Tine Fischer and Niklas Engstrom on CPH:DOX's Past, Present and Future
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A woman in a burqa, her face covered, standing with a child on her lap. There are people walking behind her. Image from Hogir Hirori’s 'Sabaya.' Courtesy of Susan Norget Film Promotion.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 28, 2021
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A young Chinese woman recording herself on an iPhone, holding a sneaker. There is a ring light in front of her. Image from Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension.” Courtesy of Tribeca Festival
A Body of BIPOC Documentaries at Tribeca 2021
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Black-and-white image of a young Alvin Ailey. He is a Black man with short hair wearing white t-shirt. Behind him are three dancers. Image from Jamila Wignot’s “Ailey”. Courtesy of NEON.
Alvin Ailey Documentary: A Humanistic Portrait of a Godlike Man
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An image of Betty Carter, a Black female jazz singer. She is smiling, wearing a golden yellow blouse and a headband. From Michelle Parkerson’s “. . . But Then, She’s Betty Carter”. Courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Screen Time: Week of July 26, 2021
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An underwater color photograph from 1982 of Valerie Taylor, a white woman, wearing a chain mail suit being bitten on the arm by a shark. Her pants are red and the top is sparkly. Courtesy of Ron & Valerie Taylor.
Doc Star of the Month: Valerie Taylor, 'Playing with Sharks'
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Hundreds of undistributed plastic bottles of water lying on the ground in Puerto Rico. Image from “Landfall,” directed by Cecilia Aldarondo. Photo by Pablo Alvarez-Mesa. Courtesy of POV
Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 19, 2021
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Collage of previous BIPOC filmmakers to receive IDA Screening Series In-Kind Grants.
In-Kind IDA Documentary Screening Series Grants
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Superimposed image of a pair eyes against sugar fields in an image from “Stateless”. Courtesy of National Film Board, Canada.
'Stateless' Confronts Anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
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Black-and-white image of French feminist filmmaker Carole Roussoupolos, whose films are now streaming on “Another Screen.” In the photo, she is pregnant and is filming using a handheld camera, with people looking on. Courtesy of Another Screen; Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris.
Screen Time: Week of July 19, 2021
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Naomi Osaka, a Black and Asian bi-racial woman, lying on her side and smiling. She is wearing a camo hat. A still from Garrett Bradley’s docu series ‘Naomi Osaka’, which was the opening night film at AFI Docs. Courtesy of Netflix.
AFI Docs 2021: Spotlight on Social Justice
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Profile of Anthony Bourdain, a white man in a jacket, against blue and white stationary airplanes. Still from Morgan Neville’s ‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.’ Courtesy of Cinetic Media.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 12, 2021
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Two underwater cameras amidst seaweeds. An underwater scene from ‘The Loneliest Whale,’ directed by Joshua Zeman. Courtesy of Bleecker Street.
The Challenges of Filming 'The Loneliest Whale' Documentary
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Two people sit in front of an audience. The projection behind them reads "ida documentary screening series." From a 2019 IDA Screening Series conversation with 'The Amazing Johnathan Documentary' team.
Why IDA's Documentary Screening Series Is Changing
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Tennis player Naomi Osaka, an Afro-Japanese female tennis player on a tennis court wearing a multi-colored jacket, and a mask that says “Tamir Rice.” Still from Garrett Bradley’s Netflix series, ‘Naomi Osaka’. Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of July 12, 2021
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Seis monjas con sus hábitos blancos de pie en tierra, el océano a su alrededor. Del filme 'Landfall' por Cecilia Aldarondo. Cortesía de Cecilia Aldarondo
Pa'encima: El cine documental en la Isla de Puerto Rico
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A cameraperson wearing a kilt filming a Bruce Lee statue in Hong Kong. From Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story of Film: An Odyssey’. Courtesy of Music Box Films.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 12, 2021
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Caty Borum Chattoo, a white woman standing behind a podium, presenting the 2018 State of the Documentary Field Report. A presentation screen behind her. Courtesy of CMSI
Center for Media & Social Impact Unveils State of the Documentary Field Report
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Black and white photo of two young Black men lying on a mat. (l. to r.) Mohammed Arif and Ibrahim Mohammed, two boys from Harar, Ethiopia, as seen in Faya Dayi, directed by Jessica Beshir. Courtesy of Merkhana Films.
Full Frame 2021: Something for Everyone, Online Only
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Black and white costumed New Orleanians celebrate Mardi Gras on the pedestal of a now absent confederate monument. From CJ Hunt and Darcy McKinnon’s The Neutral Ground. Photo by Paavo Hanninen. Courtesy of POV.
Screen Time: Week of July 5, 2021
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Lydia Lunch, a white woman with black hair cut in bangs. She is wearing bright blue contact lenses and red lipstick. From Beth B’s ‘Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over’. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 28, 2021
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Two Black women singing a duet at the Harlem Cultural Festival. Mavis Staples (left) is wearing hoop earrings and Mahalia Jackson (right) is in a pink shirt. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
'Summer of Soul': A Conversation with Questlove about Black Joy
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A collage of members of the LGBTQ roundtable with a rainbow gradient on the bottom. From left to right: PJ Raval, Kim Yutani, Yvonne Welbon, Jess Search, Yance Ford, Lindsey Dryden, Set Hernandez Rongkilyo, Viridiana Lieberman, and Sam Feder. Courtesy of those listed
Queering Documentary: An LGBTQ+ Conversation
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A sepia portrait of Jackie Collins, a white woman with permed hair and a leopard print blouse. Still from ‘LADY BOSS: The Jackie Collins Story’ (Directed by Laura Fairrie, Produced by John Battsek, Lizzie Gillett) Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival
Screen Time: Week of June 28, 2021
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Side angle black and white portrait of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Courtesy Criterion Channel.
Uncovering Satyajit Ray's Documentaries
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Elodie Edjang, a Black woman with short hair and a yellow dress stands in a grass field.
IDA Member Spotlight: Elodie Edjang
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Drone shot of many pink plastic ring floats on a water ride. A scene from ‘Ascension’ (Directed by Jessica Kingdon, Produced by Kira Simon-Kennedy, Jessica Kingdon, Nathan Truesdell). Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 21, 2021
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Sarah Rose Huckman, a young transgender woman in skiing gear. Ski resort behind her. She is the protagonist of ‘Changing the Game’ (Directed by Michael Barnett)
Doc Star of the Month: Sarah Rose Huckman, 'Changing the Game'
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A young Black girl in shorts and a t-shirt runs along the seashore. Tai Sheppard in ‘Sisters on Track’ (directors: Corinne van der Borch, Tone Grøttjord-Glenne). Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of June 20, 2021
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A group of policemen in riot gear and on horseback line up across a city street. From David Dufresne’s 'The Monopoly of Violence.' Courtesy of CPH:DOX
Sociopolitical Documentaries at CPH:DOX 2021: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
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A protestor holds up a banner with Nasrin Sotoudeh’s photo. It says “Free Nasrin.” From 'Nasrin' (Director: Jeff Kaufman). Courtesy of David Magdael & Associates
Screen Time: Week of June 13, 2021
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Sly Stone, a Black male musician in violet and black, plays to a huge crowd in Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ (Director: Questlove; Producer: David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel) Courtesy of Cinetic Media.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 13, 2021
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Lewis Erskine (1957-2021) is a middle-aged Black man with short dreads. He is wearing a grey t-shirt and black rimmed glasses. Image courtesy of Jean Tsien
Tributes for the Savant of Swing: Remembering Lewis Erskine (1957-2021)
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A drag performer in a golden dress, wearing a wig, smoking a cigarette. From Frank Simon's 'The Queen' Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Screen Time: Week of June 7, 2021
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A BW photo of four young boys—one Black, three white—sitting on a building ledge
Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 31, 2021
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A group of Indigenous Moroccan school children sit at their desks in a classroom. From Mohamed El Boudi’s 'School of Hope', courtesy of Hot Docs.
Hot Docs 2021: Can You Feel the Digital Heat?
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A Black man, wearing a blue polar fleece, leads a protest calling for reparations for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
Screen Time: Week of May 31, 2021
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African women chefs in white hats and blue and yellow uniforms.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of May 24, 2021
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An outdoor nighttime screening: the audience sits on a grassy hill
True/False: Two for One, or Two Halves Make a Whole?
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