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Joanna Wright

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Joanna Wright is a Welsh documentary artist and researcher. She is a current research fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab / Co-Creation Studio, where she co-convenes the Access &  Disability Innovation working group and is an advisory committee member for the Non-Fiction Access Initiative Research.

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On a computer editing screen, a man stands in front of a video store.
IFFR 2025: Back on Form
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A star blanket.
Weaving the World: Lisa Jackson Presents ‘Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories’ in XR
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A mother and daughter sit side-by-side. The daughter holds a film slate.
Exclusive: Clip From Beth Lane’s ‘UnBroken’
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In front of a black monolithic statue, a man in a red sweater stands bent over backward.
TIFF 2024: Unleash the Niche
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Film still closeup of a white man's hand hovering behind the stalk of a blade of grass.
NYFF 2024: Independent Means
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A police officer stands in front of a protest.
In ‘The Dialogue Police,’ Susanna Edwards Explores Swedish Police Officers’ Tireless Effort to Protect Freedom of Speech
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Film still from 'The Loving Story'
Docs to Watch for Valentine’s Day
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A white man in a blue shirt stands in the middle of a set. There are four other people, including a cameraperson, surrounding him.
Redundancies, Netflix Global Successes, and Development News: Making a Production Updates From Grain Media
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U.S. Documentary Film Nonprofits Adjust Amid Drastic Changes to NEA Funding Criteria
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In a nondescript office, one woman cries into her hands as another one leans over her desk.
“The Nature of the Institution Will Have Changed”: Frederick Wiseman Describes the 4K Restoration of 33 Features
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Against a dark night sky, the marquee of the Egyptian Theater reads: "Sundance Film Festival."
Sundance May Now Be the World’s Most Important Documentary Launchpad
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Photograph of a group of young men with bare chests and faded green khaki pants and red caps. A single older man in a white jacket stands in the back row.
“A Battle for Storytelling”: Igor Bezinović Explores Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Proto-Fascist Legacy in IFFR-Bound ‘Fiume o Morte!’
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Watch our Q&As with all 2025 Oscar Best Feature Documentary nominees
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The More Things Change: A History of Documentary Film Through the First 40 Years of IDA’s Documentary Awards
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Faded black and white photo of well-dressed documentarians in the lobby of the DGA.
Appreciate in Value: A Short, Critical History of Documentary Film Awards
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Jimmy Goldblum wearing a hazmat suit in the rubble of his Altadena home after the Easton Fires.
A Place of Fleeting Beauty: An Altadenan Filmmaker Sees Echoes of his Films in the Fire
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A woman in a pink jacket holds up a sign that reads: "Assisted Suicide: The World's Cheapest Healthcare."
“Societal Failures Are Dictating What People Do”: Reid Davenport’s ‘Life After’ Connects Assisted Dying With a Fear of Disability
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A wanted poster going up in flames.
“There’s Affection But Also Skepticism”: Charlie Shackleton Takes Apart True Crime in ‘Zodiac Killer Project’
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In a crowd of protestors, a woman in a pink coat speaks into a microphone while raising her right arm.
“Changing, Ebbing, Flowing”: Amber Fares’s ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Features Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi
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Still image of Jeff Buckley, holding a microphone.
“Like a Knife to the Stomach”: Amy Berg on the Singer’s Relationships in ‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley’ 
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Grainy photograph of the singer Selena, standing in front of bright stage lights.
“I Want to Humanize That Symbol”: Isabel Castro on ‘Selena y Los Dinos’
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A son dabs gently at the sweat on his father's brow.
“He Will Do Anything For Me”: Tadashi Nakamura on Filming His Trail-Blazing Father Robert Nakamura in ‘Third Act’
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A blond young woman looks at a howling dog.
“A Dog Really Brings Out the Humanity in a Person”: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady on ’FOLKTALES’
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Lo-res still image of a man in a green jacket being handcuffed by a man wearing a "KBI" shirt. There is another man with a large digital video camera filming the face of the man being arrested, and a sliver of a boom pole in another corner of the image.
“Emotional Ping-Pong”: David Osit’s ‘Predators’ Moves Beyond True Crime Binaries
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A young Chinese man in a colorful button-up shirt sits in front of a mirror in a barbershop, spraying hairspray onto his head.
“Playing Three-Dimensional Chess”: Balancing Personal Lives and the Status Quo in Violet Du Feng’s ‘The Dating Game’
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Aaron Bear
IDA Member Spotlight: Aaron Bear
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Marlee Matlin, dressed in a white shirt and denim overalls, lays down on a couch.
The Preview: Five Documentaries to Catch at Sundance 2025
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An empty room that has been bombed with fabrics, chairs strewn around and windows open.
“Made Out of Necessity”: Oksana Karpovych Discusses the Chronology of ‘Intercepted’
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Hazy photograph of a young Vietnamese woman with large earrings.
The Feedback: Elizabeth Ai Sheds Light on a Vietnamese Subculture and Her Fractured Family Tree in ‘New Wave’
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man reclines on a rock hill with a tank in the background
No Other Distribution: How Film Industry Economics and Politics Are Suppressing Docs Sympathetic to Palestine and Critical of Israel
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A small boat with around a dozen people motors toward shore.
“Comradeship Compels It”: Jason Soo on the Challenges of Making and Releasing ‘Al Awda’
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A Black man in a navy suit sits at a wooden courthouse table.
“Examining Their Eyes, Hands, Hair, Mouths, and Posture”: Darius Clark Monroe on the Intimacies of Docuseries ‘Dallas, 2019’
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Letter from the Editor, Winter 2024/2025
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Notes From the Reel World, Winter 2024/2025
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A Fresh 2025 Introduction to Documentary Budgeting and Scheduling (With New Templates!)
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Congratulations: IDA Grantees on the Oscars 2025 Shortlists
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Backlit by the sun, the silhouette of a man walking down a snowy road.
IDFA 2024: What We Owe
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Inside a van, a man in an elaborate bullfighting outfit sits surrounded by his entourage.
Agony and Ecstasy: The Bullfight in Albert Serra’s ‘Afternoons of Solitude’
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Reed Martin. A man with white skin smiles at the camera. He has short, brown hair, blue eyes and is wearing a blue collared shirt.
Member Spotlight: Reed Martin
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What’s in My Bag: Victor Tadashi Suárez
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Momentary Shelter: Miguel Coyula and Lynn Cruz Discuss the Risks of Making ‘Chronicles of the Absurd’
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In a reflected mirror, a woman with long black hair removes a red hair ribbon.
Paul Leduc’s Alphabet: Notes on a Retrospective at Doclisboa 2024
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Two men in black button-up shirts look at the camera.
The Only Path Forward: ‘No Other Land’
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Two Black women sit on whicker chairs, talking cordially to each other.
“Chronic Dissidence”: IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia on the Revolutionary Films of Sara Gómez (Spotlight on Cuba)
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IDA Open Call 2024 Grantees
IDA Announced 2024 Open Call Grant Recipients Receiving a Total of $525,000
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A bald white man, in a dark uniform, talks to another man with his back facing the camera.
Crimes of Opportunity: Luuk Bouwman on His Portrait of a Nazi Official, ‘The Propagandist’
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“Just Breathing Is Enough”: Shiori Ito on Culture Shock, ‘Black Box Diaries’, and Skinny Dipping
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How Short Production Timelines Ruin Documentaries
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Wearing similarly-colored green shirts, a Black woman and her daughter smile while looking off-screen.
“The Tree Can Still Bear Fruit”: Laurie Townshend Discusses Her Staceyann Chin Doc ‘A Mother Apart’
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Headshot of Berry Hahn. A black and white image of a smiling mixed-race woman with mid-length curly brown hair, wearing a jacket with a houndstooth pattern.
IDA Member Spotlight: Berry Hahn
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