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Spring 2017

Spring 2017

The Bottom Line:
Facing the Future of Film Funding Spring 2017

The documentary community is facing the loss of vital sources of public funding—which, in turn, have spurred further support from foundations, corporations and individuals. That said, we devote the Spring issue to funding, fundraising and sustainability.

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Features
Feature | Spring 2017
Creating a Path for Sustainability in the Documentary World
By IDA Editorial Staff
Career SustainabilityFunding
Feature | Spring 2017
The Messy Truth behind a Day Job as a Documentarian
By Lance Kramer
FundingCareer SustainabilityProducing
Feature | Spring 2017
A Face in the Crowd: Kickstarter's Liz Cook Charts a Sustainable Path for Documentary Crowdfunding
By Akiva Gottlieb
Funding
Feature | Spring 2017
Something's Gotta Give: Documentary Funds Adapt to a New Political Climate
By Lauren Kushner
Funding
Feature | Spring 2017
The IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund: Where Journalism and Filmmaking Meet
By Carrie Lozano
FundingJournalismEthicsIDA Enterprise Documentary Fund
Columns
Column | Spring 2017
Independent Spirit: Milestone's 'Magic Box' Restores Shirley Clarke to the Avant-Garde Pantheon
By Cynthia Close
Docs on Disc
Column | Spring 2017
James Longley's 'Iraq in Fragments'
By Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
PlaybackDocs about WarDocs about Politics
Column | Spring 2017
Notes from the Reel World, Spring 2017
By Simon Kilmurry
Notes from the Reel World
Column | Spring 2017
Letters to the Editor, Spring 2017
By IDA Editorial Staff
SoundTech Gear
Column | Spring 2017
Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Spring 2017
By Tom White
Fast Foreword
Column | Spring 2017
Documentary Sound: Setting up a Wireless System
By alan barker
SoundTech IssuesTech GearDoc Tech
Column | Spring 2017
Ripple Effect: 'The Prison in Twelve Landscapes' Traces the Geography of the Carceral State
By TOM GIANAKOPOULOS
Social Issue DocsActuality on the AirTV DocsIndependent LensPBS
Column | Spring 2017
Drawing the Line: Jedd and Todd Wider Examine Civil Liberties of the Mentally Ill in 'God Knows Where I Am'
By Jane Dubzinski
Docs about HealthEthicsDocs about Mental HealthCinema Real
Column | Spring 2017
Documentary Film, Journalism Intersect in Groundbreaking Academic Program in Missouri
By Alan Goforth
EducationDoc University