Dear Readers, Please allow me to introduce myself. While I have produced five issues of International Documentary as Acting Editor, and I had served
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Dear IDA Members: IDA 2001 is up and running. In January and February we held our annual seminar series, Documentaries from A to Z: Putting It All

When I was a college student in the early ‘60s and first discovering feature films, documentaries meant next to nothing to me. I connected them with

On January 27, Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz died at age 87, in hospital at Mt. Kisco, New York, following a long illness. The New York Times ran an

HAPPY NEW YEAR! And what an exciting 12 months it is going to be for IDA. By this time next year, the new Executive Director will be well ensconced

Nineteen seventy-seven was a watershed year: Anita Bryant launched the nation's first widespread offensive against gays rights legislation; Harvey

Editor’s Note—Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely sources—a plastic bag floating through a plaza, a little girl climbing up a tree to

Editor's Note: Welcome to "Playback," a new feature in which we invite a documentary filmmaker to reflect on one documentary that had special meaning

It’s that time of year again when an envelope arrives reminding us that this magazine is going to disappear from our mailboxes if we don’t renew our

Editor's Note: What are you doing New Year's Eve? Well, if you're Daniel Kaven, you do the sensible thing: Contact, via e-mail, seven filmmakers from