March 20, 2020Dear Documentary Community, Everything has changed over the last several weeks. In just filmmaking terms, hundreds of you have had film premieres
December 5, 2019My name is Paul. I enjoy a good movie and consider myself the “George Costanza” of films. Over the years while watching the Oscars, they would name
November 26, 2019Dear Documentary Friends, It seems just yesterday when over 1,000 filmmakers and industry representatives gathered for Getting Real ‘18. It was an
September 24, 2019Thirty-seven years since IDA was launched, the documentary form has soared in popularity, keeping us attuned, informed and endlessly curious. Not
September 10, 2019The podcast space, even with hundreds of thousands of titles proliferating the market, is still emerging and evolving. Like documentary filmmaking,
December 12, 2018My exposure to documentary film was quite limited growing up. Like many, I got my fair share of Ken Burns clips and maybe an episode of PBS FRONTLINE
October 31, 2018As a documentary filmmaker with one project in distribution, one in post and one in development, it felt like a perfect moment to attend IDA’s
September 28, 2018The ArcLight Cinema and its surroundings are not typically crowded at 9:00 a.m. on a weekday morning. But over the past three days, the area was
September 27, 2018As the conference is named Getting Real and this dispatch is of a more personal nature, my job here is to, yes, keep it real. That’s why I must
September 27, 2018I'm Tracie Lewis. I'm a film lover, adjunct film instructor, filmmaker, storyteller and three-time Getting Real attendee. Getting Real '18 is bigger
