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Fall 2022

Fall 2022

IDA Grantees raising their hands at the IDA Grantee Reception during Getting Real '22 on September 29, 2022 at the Director's Guild of America, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Urbanite Media LA.

The biennial Getting Real conference has been such a rich and rewarding well of ideas, issues and themes to draw from, as we continually rethink our editorial strategy—so that we are truly serving the documentary community with a robust palette of content from around the world. Getting Real has always spurred us to consider where we need to go deeper and further as a publication. With that, five of the articles we commissioned here complement the spirit of Getting Real, from different angles.

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Features
Four women sit on stage in discussion at a panel on distribution at DOC NYC 2021. Courtesy of DOC NYC.
Feature | Fall 2022
Determining Another Definition: Towards a Subversive, Transparent Distribution System
By Nora Poggi
Distribution
Two medical workers from Yung Chang’s ‘Wuhan Wuhan’ wear masks, bodysuits, and face shields with printed images of themselves on their chests in order to still be recognizable under all their safety wear. Courtesy of Stars Collective Films Entertainment Group Inc.
Feature | Fall 2022
As 'POV' Turns 35, Executive Producer Erika Dilday Speaks about the PBS Nonfiction Showcase
By Patricia Thomson
Getting RealPOVPublic Media
Participants at Filamu Za Kina Dada Uongozini, a film training & production workshop program for female filmmakers courtesy of Media Focus on Africa (MFA) in partnership with Docubox. Photo courtesy of Docubox.
Feature | Fall 2022
Kenya's Docubox Builds a Thriving Doc Community in East Africa
By Wilfred Okiche
Getting RealAfrican MediaFunding
Anand Patwardhan, an Indian man with long white hair, seated atop a van that is moving through the street, is filming 'Jai Bhim Comrade' (2011). Courtesy of Anand Patwardhan. Photo: Priyanka Borpujari
Feature | Fall 2022
Anand Patwardhan Will Not Give Up Hope
By Sudipto Sanyal
Getting RealIndian Media
Getting Real ‘22’s programmers: (from left to right) Chris Boeckmann, Abby Sun, and Jonathan Ali.
Feature
Getting Real '22: The Documentary Surround
By Mariana Sanson
Getting Real
Columns
Column | Fall 2022
Fast Foreword, The Editor's Column, Fall 2022
By Tom White
Fast ForewordGetting Real
A black-and-white photo booth shot of a mother holding her toddler. Images from Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation. Courtesy of Wellspring Media
Column | Fall 2022
Jonathan Caouette's 'Tarnation'
By Paula Eiselt
PlaybackLGBTQ DocsPersonal Docs
Left to Right: Keisha Knight (IDA Director of Funds), Brian J. Davis (IDA Development Director), Maria A. Santos (IDA Funds Program Officer), Grace Lee (IDA Board Co-President), Rick Pérez (IDA Executive Director). Photo Credit: Laura Ann Ahmed.
Column | Fall 2022
Notes from the Reel World, Fall 2022
By Rick Pérez
Notes from the Reel WorldInside the IDA
A red overlay on a mirrored image of David Bowie singing into a mic, from ‘Moonage Daydream.’ Photo courtesy of NEON.
Column
'Moonage Daydream': Brett Morgen Presents The David Bowie Experience
By Tom White
MusicMusic DocumentariesDirecting