One of the IDA's primary goals is to develop a robust community of documentary filmmakers and supporters. To further this effort, each month we'll be spotlighting a group of new(ish) members in the Welcome New Members column. This month, we bring you a special edition featuring the recently appointed new IDA Board Members. ADAM CHAPNICK is a new-model film distribution and marketing specialist known for flipping Hollywood convention on its ear by innovating grassroots, online and digital distribution strategies. He has overseen the theatrical, home video and grassroots distribution of dozens
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Huge storms pound the middle third of the United States. The Mississippi overflows its banks, flooding towns, killing and displacing people, destroying economies and ecosystems. The nation wonders what to do. A man, backed with respectable financing, steps forward to direct a powerful documentary that reveals the essence of this tragedy and brings it stingingly home to the public. The film is greeted with wide acclaim, compassionate outcry and no little shame about the fact that Americans have let this disaster happen to their land and to their own people. In 2006 it was Spike Lee and When the