Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. One of the first documentaries to stream on Apple TV, The Elephant Queen premieres November 1. The film, directed by Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, follows an elephant herd, led by their matriarch, Athena, as they cross an unforgiving African landscape in an epic journey of family, courage and coming home. "There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. So said Robert Evans, the legendary Hollywood mogul who passed away this
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Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! Amy Kaufman of the Los Angeles Times talks to filmmaker Ed Perkins and Marcus and Alex Lewis, protagonists in Perkins' Tell Me Who I Am, about coming to terms on camera with the brothers' dark, hidden history as victims of childhood sex abuse. "In everything they do, they steadfastly refuse to be victims," Perkins
"Loves being pregnant" is not usually a statement found on one’s bio, but it’s certainly relevant information when it comes to Nicole Williamson. The president and CEO of A Host of Possibilities, Idaho's largest surrogacy agency (located in Boise, the "unofficial surrogacy capital" of the US), Williamson is also one of the breakout stars of award-winning filmmaker Beth Aala's surprisingly uplifting Made in Boise. Aala's doc follows four gestational surrogates, including this indefatigable businesswoman, who smoothly runs her agency alongside her husband while also raising their two young kids
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound is a deftly drawn story about sound and its evolving role in filmmaking, told through the personal histories, experiences and expertise of many renowned sound pioneers and the directors they work with. It’s the brainchild of Midge Costin, MPSE (and MPEG), a Academy Award-nominated editor with 20 years of experience, who’s worked on films by John Waters, Kenneth Branagh, David Wolper, Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer. She’s also the inaugural Kay Rose Professor in the Art of Dialogue & Sound Editing and Head of Sound at USC's School of Cinematic Arts
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! Writing for Salon, Sophia A. McLennan argues why Michael Moore’s 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine matters more today 17 years--and hundreds of mass shootings--later. But now, 17 years later, the film has another message. Watching the film today it becomes abundantly clear that our problem isn't gun culture
Los Angeles, C.A. (October 23, 2019) – The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced the 35th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Nominees. The IDA also announced the Courage Under Fire Award honoree Waad Al-Kateab, director and producer of For Sama. For the first time, the IDA will present an award for Best Director and, notably, all of the nominated films have female directors. “The IDA Documentary Awards recognizes excellence in nonfiction storytelling across a range of forms, and all of this year’s nominees and winners illustrate that documentary storytelling is one of the most
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Saudi Women’s Driving School, which premieres October 24 on HBO and will stream on HBO NOW, HBO GO and HBO On Demand, tracks the year since Saudi Arabian women were first legally permitted to drive. Directed by Erica Gornall, the film takes viewers inside The Saudi Women’s Driving School, the largest such complex in the world, as well inside the lives of Saudi women who are actively challenging their country’s gender dynamics, despite the ongoing risk of censure and jail time
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering October 14 on POV and streaming through the month on POV.org Assia Boundaoui's The Feeling of Being Watched, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, takes viewers to the Chicago neighborhood where Boundaoui grew up, where most residents in her Muslim immigrant neighborhood believe they are under surveillance. Boundaoui investigates and uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," one of the largest pre-9/11 counterterrorism probes conducted on
For the hundreds of delegates who attend the six-day event in Malmo, Sweden, from the five Nordisk countries—Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland—the Nordisk Panorama is the most important of the year. Its impact can be seen on screens and in global festivals throughout the year in the abundance of generously supported and carefully nurtured quality documentaries that have made their way through Nordisk Panorama’s range of industry events. In addition to its film program, the festival runs a pitching forum, a marketplace, and a number of other industry-focused events. Each year the
For over 50 years, Chicago-based Kartemquin Films has been a leading voice for social justice in the documentary field. Founder/Artistic Director Gordon Quinn works to develop filmmakers, produce films and advocate for the field of documentary. This collaborative group of socially responsible filmmakers is dedicated to promoting dialogue and seeking justice as they examine and critique society through stories of real people. Kartemquin has earned four Academy Award nominations, six Emmy awards and four Peabody Awards, among many other accolades. Their films include the iconic 1994 film Hoop