Since its launch in Australia in 2008 as a DVD distributor in the academic market, then as a streaming platform two years later, Kanopy has rapidly secured preeminence in the VOD world. Having gained an early foothold in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, Kanopy set its sights on the US and the UK. The company soon moved its main offices to San Francisco, and just shy of a decade after its birth, Kanopy now streams 26,000 titles to over 3,000 university campuses around the world. And this year, Kanopy staked out another territory: public libraries. Having lured the Los Angeles and New York
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Currently streaming on Netflix is James Keach's Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, a chronicle of the recently departed country music icon, who embarked on a farewell tour after receiving an Alzheimer's diagnosis. The Washington Post calls the film "important and triumphant." Premiering September 8 on Filmstruck is Barbet Schroeder's General Idi Amin Dada, in which the filmmaker turns his cameras on the infamous tyrant, revealing the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous man
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In this special Labor Day weekend edition, we focus on docs about work and workers. Streaming at Kanopy is George C. Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Susanne Rostock's The Uprising of '34, which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. On YouTube, you can find The Take, Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's 2004 film in which 30 unemployed Buenos Aires auto-parts
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! At The New Yorker, Ian Parker profiles Ken Burns, who sees his documentaries as acts of "emotional archeology." He listed, in descending order, the films that members of the public most press him to make: "Railroads, labor, immigration. And then: 'My great-great-grandfather wrote four volumes about the Civil War
Los Angeles, CA – August 29, 2017 – The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced today the lineup of their annual screening series to begin September 13th with a screening of Yance Ford’s Sundance Award winning cinematic memoir Strong Island. Additional Series highlights include Icarus (September 18), Cries from Syria (Oct 3), JANE (October 4), LA 92 (October 25), Dolores (November 1) and Kedi (November 6). Films selected for the IDA Documentary Screening Series receive exclusive access to an audience of tastemakers and documentary lovers. In addition to reaching the general
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tomorrow, Tuesday, August 29 on OWN is Black Love, which highlights love stories from the black community and seeks to answer the burning question, What is the secret to making a marriage work? Premiering September 6 on Topic.com is Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry's Death In The Terminal, which presents a real-time account of a 2015 terrorist attack that took place in a bus terminal in Beersheba, Israel. The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary
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! At The Outline, Adrianne Jeffries reports on how the media platform Mic exploited social justice for clicks. In retrospect, it looks like Mic's commitment to social justice was never that deep — which surprised and disappointed many of the young ideologues who went to work there. ( The Outline spoke to 17 current
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new column, "Inside Out," in which we ask filmmakers in the field—and in the edit room—What are your essentials tools of the trade, and the essential accessories for doing your best work? In the issues to come, as well as online, we will be spotlighting the worlds inside the bags that help create the stories of our times. To kick off "Inside Out," we turn to esteemed filmmaker/cinematographer Joan Churchill. When shooting the 1973 vérité series An American Family, my crew consisted of a camera assistant, a sound person and me. We needed to have everything with us
You've no doubt seen these before in a documentary: an interviewee sitting just inches in front of a bookcase, with the individual book titles visible and distracting; a house plant invading the frame; an incandescent desk lamp in the background whispering for attention while the interviewee's eye-line is awkwardly off to the side. Or perhaps you've seen this one: the interviewee engulfed by a high-back sofa, an exposed lav mic stealing our attention, while the hum of a house appliance and the jingle of a busy necklace cause us to squint trying to decipher the subject's words. These are the
The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Scott MacDonald. Published by Indiana University Press, 2017." src="http://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/articles/Sum17_TheFlaherty.jpg" style="width: 250px; float: right; margin: 5px;"> While "Robert enjoyed notoriety both in life and in death," it was his wife, Frances, who "crafted the intellectual infrastructure supporting documentary and independent film at the Flaherty film seminars." In this first detailed account of the history of the famed Flaherty Seminars, we discover that they