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Event Flyer for IDA's upcoming event Getting Ready For Getting Real. Meet the Programmers
Getting Ready for Getting Real: Meet the Programmers
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Event flyer for upcoming IDA virtual event. Greatest Docs of the 21st century
Greatest Docs of the 21st Century List Reveal
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Still image from the film John Candy I Like Me
Exclusive Virtual Screening ‎- John Candy: I Like Me
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Film still, SKATE EMPIRE from ESPN's 30 for 30
Exclusive Virtual Screening ‎- ESPN 30 for 30
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Event Flyer for IDA Screening of ESPN 30 for 30
Exclusive In-Person Screening ‎- ESPN 30 for 30
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IDA Screening information for John Candy: I Like Me
Exclusive In-Person Screening ‎- John Candy: I Like Me
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Dark blue flyer for Ask Me Anything: IDA Awards Submissions virtual member only event
Ask Me Anything: IDA Awards Submission
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Information for screening on 4.23.26 for EDHI ALICE
EDHI ALICE: Screening followed by conversation with filmmakers
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Blue flyer with white text. Core Strength: Virtual IDA Members Workshop
Core Strength: Developing Your Documentary Through Application Writing
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IDA Members Mixer - Hosted by DOCUMENTARY magazine in celebration of the launch of the print Spring 2026 issue
IDA Members Mixer - Hosted by DOCUMENTARY magazine in celebration of the launch of the print Spring 2026 issue
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Dark blue flyer for Between Takes: Guided Reflection to Rejuvenate Your Film. Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Between Takes: Guided Reflection to Rejuvenate Your Film
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AI and the Law: What Documentary Filmmakers Need to Know (in March 2026)
AI and the Law: What Documentary Filmmakers Need to Know (in March 2026)
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Turquoise graphic with multi color half circles. White text. Core Stregnth: Developing Your Documentary Through Application Writing. Headshots of Jin Yoo-Kim and Maria Santos.
Core Strength: Developing Your Documentary Through Application Writing
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Dark blue background with multicolor circles. Protecting Your Vision: Film Insurance Presentation with HUB International, February 18, 2026, 9am
Protecting Your Vision: Film Insurance Presentation with HUB International
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Green and blue flyer for IDA Insight:Beyond the Distributor: Theatrical Exhibition for Independently-Released Films
Beyond the Distributor: Theatrical Exhibition for Independently-Released Films
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Dark blue background with multicolor circles. Edit Room Chronicles: Behind the Director/Editor Collaboration. January 28, 2026, 10 am PT
Edit Room Chronicles: Behind the Director/Editor Collaboration
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Risk Assessment with Colin Pereira
To Create Fearlessly, Assess Risk First: Risk Assessment with Colin Pereira
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New partner updated green and blue flyer for Media Consolidation: a Teach-In December 17, 2025 | 10-11:30 am PT | Online
Media Consolidation: a Teach-In
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IDA 41 Awards
41st IDA Documentary Awards
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IDA 41 Meet the Nominees
IDA Awards: Meet the Nominees
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The Virtual: Pitching to Develop Your Film. November 25, 2025
The Virtual: Pitching to Develop Your Film
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From Island to Island still image
IDA Exclusive Screening: From Island to Island
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IDA Members' Works In Progress. November 13, 10AM ET
IDA Members' Works in Progress
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Pitching to develop your film logo
Pitching to Develop Your Film
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A blue background flyer for the workshop titles Are Your Films Future-Proofed? The flyer includes event details, venue, date information and logos and photos of presenters. All information is on this same event page.
Are Your Films Future-Proofed? Get the Low-Down… Before It’s Too Late
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Audience at IDA conference room at the Getting Real 2024 Mixer
Getting Real ’26 Mixer
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ESPN 30 for 30: For Your Consideration in Non-Fiction Series. Featured titles include I’m Just Here for the Riot, False Positive, American Son, Dude Perfect, Stolen Gold, No Scope, and The New York Sack Exchange.
30 for 30
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ESPN 30 for 30: For Your Consideration in Non-Fiction Series. Featured titles include I’m Just Here for the Riot, False Positive, American Son, Dude Perfect, Stolen Gold, No Scope, and The New York Sack Exchange.
30 for 30
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Green and blue flyer for IDAconnect: May
IDAconnect: May Meeting
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IDAinsight: Protecting Yourself and Your Film in the Age of Increased Scrutiny graphic
IDAinsight: Protecting Yourself and Your Film in the Age of Increased Scrutiny
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Green and blue flyer for IDAinsight: Yet Another Legal Update on Fair Use (2025)
IDAinsight: Yet Another Legal Update on Fair Use (2025)
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IDA Documentary Award 2024 winners
IDA Awards 2025 | Call for Entries Live Q&A
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Green, blue, and white flyer for IDAconnect April Meeting. Features image of filmmakers at IDA Night Before party.
IDAconnect: April Meeting
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Green, blue, and white flyer for IDAconnect March Meeting. Features image of filmmakers at IDA 40th Documentary Awards.
IDAconnect: March Meeting
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IDA Insight: The Ins & Outs of the Producer’s Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance graphic
IDAinsight: The Ins & Outs of the Producer’s Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance
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Festival strategy workshop with Marielle Clentine
IDAinsight: Festival Strategy Workshop
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Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
IDAinsight: Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
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Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
IDAinsight: Budgeting and Scheduling 101 with Robert Bahar
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A pink and blue flyer with the headshots of two musicians.
Listening as Documenting
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hands hold two small pictures of young men side by side
UNTIL HE'S BACK
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black and white image of a white man in a power chair taken in profile
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY
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an asian man sits in the middle of an abandoned warehouse
WHO'S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW?
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man reclines on a rock hill with a tank in the background
NO OTHER LAND
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a large number of colorful moths are pinned to a gray background
NOCTURNES
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Black man in white bucket hat looks over an artifact.
DAHOMEY
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Black man holds a beaded staff and looks over a lush landscape
THE BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA
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Three white men sit in a car looking out from the windshield
THE LAST JOURNEY
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black man shades his face with a paper in front of an amazon logo
UNION
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long shot of a person and a horse silhouetted in a snowy landscape
AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WHO WILL COME KNOCKING
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white woman standing at podium in black dress addressing crowd with people standin behind her
ZURAWSKI V TEXAS
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blue light colored a room of three balck women dressed in all white conducting a ritual while a group of people watched
SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
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The Strike film still
THE STRIKE | Roxie Theater
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Flyer for IDA Insight: Creating a Distribution Strategy in a Disrupted World with Jon Reiss President of 8 Above
IDA Insight: Creating a Distribution Strategy in a Disrupted World with Jon Reiss President of 8 Above
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The Strike film still
THE STRIKE | Grand Lake Theater
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The Last of the Seawomen film still
THE LAST OF THE SEA WOMEN
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The Flats film still
THE FLATS
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Sugarcane film still
SUGARCANE
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Hollywoodgate film still
HOLLYWOODGATE
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The Brink of Dreams film still
THE BRINK OF DREAMS
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Porcelain War film still
PORCELAIN WAR
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Blink film still
BLINK
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
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THE STRIKE | Maysles Documentary Center
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Black Box Diaries film still
BLACK BOX DIARIES
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The Strike film still
THE STRIKE | DCTV Firehouse
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FRIDA film still
FRIDA
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I Am Celine still image
I Am: Celine Dion
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Climate Change Graphic
Shifting Terrains: How Indigenous Women Are Shaping the Climate Justice Conversation
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Working with Broadcasters: Getting Independent Film Voices heard flyer
Working with Broadcasters: Getting Independent Film Voices heard
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IDA Documentary Awards 2024 Call for Entries June 21 to August 5, 2024
IDA Documentary Awards - Call For Entries Q&A
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Storytelling Our Way Filmmakers of Color Forge Their Path flyer
Storytelling Our Way: Filmmakers of Color Forge Their Path
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Amplifying “Small” Stories New wave of Creative Documentaries from India Flyer
Amplifying “Small” Stories: New Wave of Creative Documentaries from India
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IDA Open Call May 29 - June 25, 2025.
Member Office Hours - Open Call “Workshop”
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Black and white image of Jim Henson with a Kermit puppet.
Jim Henson Idea Man
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Audience members from Getting Real '24
IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
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IDA Open Call May 29 - June 25, 2025.
International Office Hours - Open Call Information and Q&A
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Two people outside a government building wearing masks. One person is in a wheelchair.
For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign
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Tyler Perry film still in a white suite.
Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
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Still from "Queens"
Queens
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Amanda Seales film still from "Black Twitter: A People's History"
Black Twitter: A People's History
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Office Hours - Open Call Information and Q&A
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Office Hours
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Geting Real 2024 Banner
Getting Real '24
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Office Hours
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IDA staff and board at dinner
Meet IDA’s New Executive Director Dominic Asmall Willsdon
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Three people standing in a brightly lit room, attending Getting Real '22. (left to right) Man is wearing a black and gray shirt and olive green pants, man in middle is wearing a backpack with a gray shirt and black pants, and woman on the right is wearing a pink tank top dress with her brown hair clipped in the back.
Member Hours: Meet the Programmers of Getting Real '24
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IDA member and staff holding drinks at a FallDocs reception. Left to Right: IDA member, IDA staff Armando Zamudio, IDA staff Keisha Knight, IDA volunteer
IDA Member Hours: Virtual Meet & Greet
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards 2023
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Image of a film reel and a clapperboard
Member Hours: Storytelling with Stock Media: A Documentary Filmmakers Workshop
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IDA Documentary Awards 2023 flyer
IDA Documentary Awards Member Viewing & Voting
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a woman holding her index finger on top of a screen with finger print illustration implying digital security
Workshop with Spectres: Making Yourself a Ghost
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Member Hours: Intellectual Property Essentials for Documentarians with Getty Images
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The word "Ethics" highlighted with pink marker on a book page
Ethics, Anonymity & Deep Fakes: A Conversation
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IDA members networking at a theater foyer
IDA Member Open House
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Image of two binders labeled Applications and Grants
Member Hours: California Documentary Project Grant Workshop and Q&A
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An image with a letter that reads Insurance Policy on top of a desk with glasses and a calculator
Member Hours: the Ins & Outs of Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance
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Scrabble letters write Case Study on top of a notebook standing on a table
Workshop with Spectres: Case Studies in Countercultural Democracy
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Two people, surely avid adventurers, stand waist deep in a body of arctic water; maybe they’re in Alaska - gazing upon a vast night sky. Most notably there is a bright, luminescent green aurora borealis shining above them.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Getting Started
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Headshot of Claire Simon
Documentary Presents: Claire Simon in Conversation
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A person wearing a gold shirt is looking at a laptop with six faces on the screen having a virtual meeting.
NAI Presents: Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey Virtual Survey Taking Session
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Map of neurons from a brain scan. Pink and light green lines over a black background.
IDA Member Hours: Show and Tell + Disability Pride Month with thai Lu
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IDA Teach Out: Distribution 101 with Rachel Gordon
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Five women stand with their backs to the camera embracing each other in a line with the gray sky in front of them. They all have long brown hair and are wearing traditional Native Hawaiian kihei dyed with olena (turmeric) that are tied around their shoulders.
DocuClub LA: Standing Above the Clouds
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Experimental Realities: An Inquiry
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Rectangular computer graphic of a white and black Oculus quest 2 VR headset over a blue background with crystalline star objects scattered in the frame. Superimposed over the image is a white curb cut diagram. The whole image is treated with artificial grain.
NAI Presents: Embodied Infrastructure: Disabled Immersive Nonfiction
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A mom and her daughter embrace in a close up of their faces, the little girl wearing a black and white polka dot dress.
DocuClub Chi: Traces of Home
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A globe sits on top of a computer keyboard with a blue key that reads "Accessibility"
IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 2
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Rolls of film lay out on a table.
IDA Teach Out: Archival Houses
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A man sits in a beige button up in a chair in front of greenery. In front of him hands and arms clasping, as if they are slating on a movie set.
Here's What Really Happened: 'El Silencio del Topo'
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People in a circle. Their hands raised, touching in the center.
IDA Teach Out: Black Women's Wellness
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IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
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Graphic with yellow background featuring a yellow pen, yellow pencils, yellow paperclips, a yellow magnify glass, a yellow cellphone, and a stack of white note cards. The top note card has the word Accessibility written in black.
IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 1
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A news anchor stands in the middle of the desert, in front of a sign that says, “ELY STATE PRISON”. A production light shines on them, and a camera person with a tripod films them.
DocuClub NY: Untitled Death Row Memory Film
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Workshop: Understanding Fair Use
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Flyer blue and light green background with white and gold text: ida office hours Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey. Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 9AM PT via Zoom.
IDA Office Hours: Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey
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A lightbulb sits on the left side of a soft orange backdrop. Little rays pop out of it, as if they were drawn onto the backdrop.
IDA Member Hours: How to Position Your Project (Beyond Grant Writing)
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Four paper airplanes fly across a sky blue backdrop. The bottom three are white and the top one is yellow and going off course.
Crossing Time Zones: Negotiating International Expectations So I Can Finish My Documentary
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A protesting man wearing a dark blue sweater and match baseball cap thrusting his right arm during a protest in Times Square NYC.
DocuClub NY: Dissidents
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A person in an inner city raises their arms and enthusiastically yells in protest.
DocuClub NY: Dissidents
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Maya E. Rudolph
Workshop: Mythbusting Post (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Post-Production)
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Blue background with white and gold text. IDA member hours. Ask questions, get answers about the Enterprise Documentary Fund, March 29, 2023, 9 am on Zoom.
IDA Member Hours: Enterprise Documentary Fund
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Workshop: Navigating Archival Sources
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Flyer with blue background with white and gold text highlighting ida office hours, international info session, March 14, 2023, 9:00 AM PT.
Enterprise Production Office Hours: International Applicants
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Documentary Journalism Summit Event Banner
Documentary Journalism Summit 2023
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IDA Workshop: Developing Engaging Stories 
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A young woman practices the movement of falling - her eyes gaze upward and hands are up in the air.
DocuClub NY: Roleplay
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Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant Public Info Session
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ida teach out: narrative justice. blue gradient background with yellow text and color. the description says How do you make a film about the experience of incarceration? Given the complexities of consent and power, what are the ethics this work requires? What is an ethic of narrative reparation?
IDA Teach Out: Narrative Justice
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IDA Member Hours: Festival Strategy
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IDA Teach Out: The Cost of Docs with The Whickers
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A young guy plays a record player in a small, cramped bedroom.
DocuClub LA: NEW WAVE
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A Black femme in a white dress looks tranquilly toward the camera, as in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the bank of a river.
DocuClub NY: Holding Back The Tide
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Festival Strategy Workshop
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A young boy in shark slippers standing on a dirt road with the title of the film.
DocuClub NY: Happy Campers
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Wildcat
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[Theater Screening] Wildcat
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Good Night Oppy
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I Didn't See You There
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Sidney
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[Theater Screening] Sidney
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[Theater Screening] Nothing Lasts Forever
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Nothing Lasts Forever
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Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
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Moonage Daydream
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[Theater Screening] Moonage Daydream
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
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Black Notebooks: Ronit
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[Theater Screening] 752 Is Not A Number
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752 Is Not A Number
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What We Leave Behind
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Let the Little Light Shine
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The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
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Sansón and Me
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IDA Teach Out: The Shapes of Distribution with Distribution Advocates
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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Mija
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[Theater Screening] Mija
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Sirens
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In Her Hands
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[Theater Screening] All That Breathes
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All That Breathes
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The Janes
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Free Chol Soo Lee
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[Theater Screening] Free Chol Soo Lee
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Lakota Nation vs. the United States
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DocuClub LA: Break the Game
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Teddy Katz, still image from the film: Tantura
Tantura
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DocuClub Chi: Finding Your Laughter
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Picture One-Group shot of African-American women. Picture two- Young woman sitting on a bed, wearing casual clothes, pink background with a stuffed bear beside her. African-American woman, outside in the foreground of trees.
DocuClub Memphis: I AM
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The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
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Bad Axe
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Fire of Love
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[Theater Screening] Fire of Love
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Last Flight Home
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[Theater Screening] Last Flight Home
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A still image from Descendant, a Black man wearing glasses and a colorful shirt standing in front of a wall inside a house.
Descendant
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Hidden Letters
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Let Me Be Me
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[Theater Screening] Let Me Be Me
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A woman wearing a cowboy hat and vest sitting on a washtub outside in a garden.
DocuClub HI: Girlie
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Aftershock
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[Theater Screening] Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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2nd Chance
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[Theater Screening] The Territory
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The Territory
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening
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Civil: Ben Crump
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The Princess
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Beba
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[Theater Screening] Retrograde
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Retrograde
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Green and blue banner for Getting Real conference with dates September 27-29. 2022.
Getting Real '22 Documentary Film Conference
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[Theater Screening] Navalny
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Katrina Babies
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Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
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[Theater Screening] Riotsville, U.S.A.
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Riotsville, U.S.A.
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Sinéad O’Connor in a black and white photo.
Nothing Compares
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Harold Washington address over 10,000 supporters at the UIC Pavilion in February, 1983. Photo credit: Marc PoKempner.
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
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A still image from Descendant, a Black man wearing glasses and a colorful shirt standing in front of a wall inside a house.
[Theater Screening] Descendant
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An image from Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, Leonard Cohen is wearing a fedora and holding a guitar in a black & white photo.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
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IDA Teach Out: Tax Incentives for Doc Makers 101
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