Dear IDA Members, As reported in The New York Times and on National Public Radio, a new media phenomenon has come into being-Video News Releases (VNRs
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Dear IDA Members, In the world of nonfiction filmmaking, January and February brought NATPE, the Sundance Film Festival and the RealScreen Summit, all
Dear Readers, While the past few years have a yielded a bumper crop of box-office successes, the prospects of a brave new utopia for documentarians
Dear Readers, When we were planning an issue devoted to women in documentary, we were prompted first by an article that appeared in the January 2004
Dear IDA Members, As this organization continues to grow, so does our need for more help. You may not be aware that we accomplish our programs and
Dear Readers, Making documentaries, as we all know, is a difficult profession, one with more psychic, spiritual and artistic rewards than monetary
Dear IDA Members: Most of us involved in the nonfiction world must travel to accomplish our goals of production, research or sales. Travel today is
Dear Readers, A few weeks from now, the furious spate of political documentaries that has dominated the big and small screens will come to a crescendo
The quest for freedom and the restraints of race are opposing themes that resonate in almost all of Ken Burns' films, from The Civil War to Baseball