Join us for a very special edition of the IDA Conversation Series, as we traverse the trailblazing career of the legendary filmmaker and cinematographer Joan Churchill.
Here's What Really Happened
No tweeting. No press. No industry. Filmmakers-only conversations revealing personal insights into the art and business of documentary filmmaking.
“Here’s What Really Happened” are signature sessions from IDA's biennial Getting Real Conference that began as a filmmaker-led solution to combat the lack of transparency that continues to plague the community. These intimate conversations allow filmmakers to speak openly about what actually happened in the production, sales and distribution life of a film. The rules are, everything said in the room, stays in the room. Our goal is to create a safe space for discussion that allows filmmakers to have frank, meaningful discussions without the influence of industry in the room. We believe that one of the greatest resources for a filmmaker is another filmmaker.
In building a more knowledgeable and transparent community together, IDA tours “Here’s What Really Happened” sessions to various festivals and conferences around the world. These private conversations have focused on security/surveillance, sales agents, festival strategies, fact-finding, ethics, work/family life balance, truth-seeking in production, and other themes.
Learn what really happened behind-the-scenes in an upcoming session. It’s personal, it’s intimate, let’s get into it.
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Join us for another exciting event in the IDA Conversation Series, a journey inside the extraordinary mind of Oscar-winning director Errol Morris. The evening will feature a clips program and lively conversation between Morris and TCM host/interviewer Ben Mankiewicz.
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Join IDA and ITVS in San Francisco for a special Master Class with celebrated Director Dawn Porter on ethical obligations documentary filmmakers have to their subjects.
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Join us for a Master Class with our panel of international co-production and distribution experts who are utilizing their sales experience from production to release.
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Join us and N’Jeri Eaton, Senior Manager of Programming Acquisitions at National Public Radio, for the next installment in our What’s New series, in which prominent industry leaders in documentary present up-to-the-minute information about what’s happening in the documentary landscape and discuss new opportunities in nonfiction content.
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Are you an Indie Doc Filmmaker in need of more sources of funds? Tax Incentive programs are a largely untapped source of potential funding for documentary films as filmmakers believe documentary films are ineligible, or that the minimum spend to be eligible for incentive programs is way out of reach for their budget. Many states do offer lucrative tax incentive programs that can be applied to documentary projects at various budget ranges.
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Join us for free informational workshop on how to apply to the 2017 California Documentary Project grant program with California Humanities Senior Program Officer, John Lightfoot.
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Documentary Now! is a loving send up of some of the world’s best-known documentaries. Join us for a screening of "Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid" (based on Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein's The Kid Stays In The Picture) followed by Q&A with stars Fred Armisen and Bill Hader and directors Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono in conversation with Matt Holzman, producer of The Document on KCRW.