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A Q&A after a 2017 screening of 'Jewel's Catch One' at QDoc, featuring, from left to right, Deb Kemp, C. Fitz, Jewel Thais Williams and Molly King. Courtesy of QDoc.
Looking Back and Moving Forward: QDoc, America's Only LGBTQ+ Documentary Festival
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A Black woman with a megaphone raises her arm and shouts in a crowd of people. From Sabaah Folayan's 'Whose Streets?', a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Documentaries To Watch on Guns and America
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Akuol de Mabior is a South Sudanese female filmmaker, whose film ‘No Simple Way Home’ played at SFFILM 2022. Courtesy of SFFILM.
New Voices Stand Out at SFFILM, America's Longest-Running Film Festival
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A black and white photo of several women holding signs at a protest. A still from '9to5: The Story of A Movement'. Courtesy of Steve Cagan
Labor Documentaries to Watch for International Workers Day
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A white door with an exit sign above it and an exit symbol beside it.
IDA Names its Top 4 IDAs
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Lusia Harris, a Black woman with short black hair, wearing wearing several Olympic medals. A still from Ben Proudfoot's 'The Queen of Basketball'. Courtesy of NY Times Op-Docs
Documentaries to Watch During March Madness
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An animated bird's-eye view through a tree of a family. Still from Amy Bench's 'More Than I Remember'. Courtesy of Amy Bench
IDA-Supported Documentaries at SXSW 2022
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A collage of stills from 40 IDA supported documentaries with text that reads #40YearsofDocs.
40 for 40: IDA-Supported Docs To Watch For Our Birthday
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Two Black teenage boys run across a green field holding sticks. Smoke bellows behind them. Still from Patrick Bresnan's 'The Rabbit Hunt'. Courtesy of Argo
Four IDA Documentary Award Nominated Shorts to Watch on Argo
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Two colleagues, a transgender woman and a non-binary person, laughing in a meeting at work. Photo taken by Zackary Drucker. Courtsey of The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Four Ways To Be A Better Trans Ally in your Documentary Filmmaking
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Two colleagues, a transgender woman and a non-binary person, laughing in a meeting at work. Photo taken by Zackary Drucker. Courtsey of The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Four Ways To Be A Better Trans Ally in your Documentary Filmmaking
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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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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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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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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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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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