Fall 2012

Documentary's Digital Future Fall 2012

We look at the space where gaming, transmedia and HTML5 lead us on the journey to the future of nonfiction storytelling.

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Features

Funds from the Maddening Crowd

Just a few years ago, a Kickstarter campaign was a...

By Michael Galinsky

A New Kind of Popcorn Movie: Documentary Filmmaking Re-Imagined for the Digital Future

Have you seen ¿Más Bébes? or Land of Opportunity...

By Laura Almo

Webisodic Tendencies: Creating Doc Content for the Internet

For many documentary filmmakers, the online world...

By Amanda Lin Costa

In VOD We Trust: Navigating the Minefield of the Ever-Changing Distribution Platform

Plus, a sidebar: Jon Reiss' Top Ten Tips for...

By Valentina Valentini

American Film Showcase: 'Connected' in Cape Town

A screening of Tiffany Shlain's Connected at...

American Film Showcase: Building Bridges in Burundi

On Sunday, June 17, I arrived in Bujumbura, the...

By Lyn Goldfarb

New Social Media: The Web's Latest Film-Slingers

Spotlighting Sparkwise, Slated, Tugg and reddit.

By KJ Relth

Game Change: Documentary's Interactive Future

'Half the Sky,' multi-platform transmedia project...

By Scott Bayer

Panic in Detroit: 'Detropia' Depicts a Dystopian Decline

During the waning days of World War II, the Allies...

By Michael Rose

Brian Gerber, Documentary and Multi-Media Producer and IDA Board Member, Dies at 41

'The Eleventh Hour,''‘The Dungeon Masters’'Among...

By Tom White

Niki Lapenieks, Founding IDA Member, Dies

She served on IDA's Board and contributed greatly...

By Paula Haller

Mel Stuart, Award-Winning Documentarian, Dies at 83

Former IDA Board President earned IDA Pioneer...

By Tom White

Columns

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2012

By Tom White

Notes from the Reel World: The President's Column, Fall 2012

By Marjan Safinia

Heddy Honigmann's 'Crazy'

By Rachel Libert

Rockumentaries' Rennaissance: When Musical Performance Meets Cinema

By Cynthia Close

To Hell with Poverty: Global Broadcast Project to Address Inequality

By Justin Ridgeway

Fables of Reconstruction: 'The Films of Jay Rosenblatt Volume 2'

By Frako Loden