It was the mid- 1950s and my sociology professor announced to our class one day that he was about to show us a documentary film. Students began to
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A review of Sheila Curran Bernard's 'Documentary Storytelling for Film and Videomakers'
It's April, and the political season is in full swing as Americans explore the ideas, ethics and vision of a field of presidential hopefuls. For those
A review of Michael Donaldson's 'Clearance & Copyright: Everything the Independent Filmmaker Needs to Know,' 2nd Edition
Dear IDA Community, This fall, we debut IDA's new three-day Documentary Film Conference in Los Angeles. Held in conjunction with the Academy of Motion
A review of Jeffrey Ruoff's 'Coming Soon to to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals'
Japanese Documentary Film:The Meiji Era through Hiroshima By Abe Mark Nornes University of Minnesota Press 257 pps. (paperbound) $19.95 ISBN 0-8166
Dear Readers: This past fall, IDA presented a daylong Doc U devoted to sound and music. Over the course of the day, the leading practitioners in all
Dear IDA Community: Every year seems to bring the release of more and more important documentaries, on an ever-wider range of topics, from an
The Farmer's Wife, a documentary by David Sutherland, had a profound effect on me. It inspired me back into producing documentaries. After film school