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Career Sustainability

Documentary production, distribution and audience consumption have shifted further into the mainstream than ever before, with original documentary
Editor’s Note: Filmmakers/partners Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert have been racking up the career kudos over the past few months, starting in
IDA’s own Dana Merwin, a native of south Georgia who, as Program Officer, administers the Enterprise Documentary Fund and the Pare Lorentz Documentary
Tuesday morning, the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood buzzed with introductions, reconnections and reunions as Getting Real 2018 attendees settled into
Click Here For Full Report The State of the Documentary Field initiative was shaped by the Center for Media & Social Impact, in collaboration with
Just a few scrolls through the Ford Foundation's JustFilms initiative's collection of funded films since its founding in 2011 reveals some of the most
The majority of American documentary filmmakers do not live in New York or Los Angeles. That may seem difficult to believe, given the large
Conversations about power, ownership and representation in the documentary field are as old as the documentary tradition itself. Ours is a history
Documentary is a challenging art form. It can take you to challenging situations—war zones, harsh climates—and it can introduce you to challenging
Perhaps it is not surprising that in a community so deeply rooted in social issue activism and environmental concerns, the word "sustainability" would