March 5, 2019 Letter in Support of 'The Infiltrators' Protagonist Claudio Rojas Dear Documentary Community: On the eve of the East Coast premiere of Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra's Sundance Film Festival Award-winning The Read more
February 17, 2019 Letter in Support of 'Of Fathers and Sons' Producer Hans-Robert Eisenhauer Editor's Note: Hans-Robert Eisenhauer, the longtime documentary commissioning editor at ZDF-Arte and a documentary producer for Ventana-Film, Germany Read more
January 11, 2019 Statement In Support of Talal Derki To my friends and compatriots in the documentary community - This is Talal Derki. Over the past few years, I have become very close to this Read more
March 23, 2016 Anatomy of “The Blackfish Effect” The final chord of "the Blackfish effect" has finally resounded, with a stunning and unprecedented corporate policy announcement from SeaWorld. In Read more
August 14, 2015 WTF! Will '(T)ERROR' Be Seen? (T)ERROR is a jaw-dropping film. From the first frame, it is hard to believe what you are seeing on the screen. That feeling does not diminish as the Read more
April 23, 2015 The Outcome of the PBS Listening Tour Independent Lens and POV to stay on Mondays at 10pm On the tail of a several-month, multi-city listening tour during which leaders from PBS, ITVS, Read more
March 16, 2015 The DMCA Exemption Process - What We've Learned Thus Far Last month, with the help of the UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic and Donaldson + Callif LLP, the IDA filed a lengthy comment Read more
February 10, 2015 Tell the FCC to Vote 'Yes' on an Open Internet Recently, net neutrality has been front and center in an ongoing fight over free and open access to information online. Over the past year, more than Read more
April 22, 2014 IDA and FIND File Amicus Brief in Closely-Watched Ninth Circuit Copyright Case Guest post by recent USC Law grad Rom Bar-Nissim ’13, who was on the legal team on the brief. Read more
June 5, 2012 Doc Diplomacy: American Film Showcase Presents Democracy to the World Nearly a hundred years ago, William Allen White, the iconic writer and spokesperson for small-town America, wrote, "If each man or woman could Read more