November 1, 2019 #DecolonizeDocs: A Check-in a Year after the Getting Real Sessions The team behind Getting Real ’18 made a bold statement on commitment to inclusion and representation by programming three #DecolonizeDocs panels— Read more
September 27, 2019 Who Is Telling Whose Story, To Whom, and Why? Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Lisa Valencia-Svensson was invited to deliver a keynote address at Hot Docs this past spring. What follows is an abbreviated Read more
July 22, 2019 The Spring 2019 ‘Documentary’ Cover: A Teachable Moment Dear IDA Community, The theme of the Spring 2019 Documentary focused on “international” storytelling. We covered the innovate work of The Why Read more
July 8, 2019 The Space for Change Journalism works to hold the powerful accountable, whether it is public officials or private corporations, provoking a public reckoning with Read more
April 18, 2019 "#DocsSoWhite: The Path Forward" at Full Frame's 9th Annual A&E IndieFilms Speakeasy Moderated by “The Woke Coach,” Seena Hodges (who began by acknowledging the Catawba people, onetime inhabitants of the land on which the Durham Hotel Read more
January 31, 2019 DOCUMENTARY POWER: A New Manifesto Editor’s Note: Chi-hui Yang is program officer at Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative . What follows is an edited version of his keynote address Read more
September 27, 2018 Getting Real '18 Day One: Making a New Reality, Decolonizing Docs I'm Tracie Lewis. I'm a film lover, adjunct film instructor, filmmaker, storyteller and three-time Getting Real attendee. Getting Real '18 is bigger Read more
September 26, 2018 The State of the Documentary Field: 2018 Survey of Documentary Professionals Click Here For Full Report The State of the Documentary Field initiative was shaped by the Center for Media & Social Impact , in collaboration Read more
September 20, 2018 Toppling Structures of Inequality in the Documentary Field Conversations about power, ownership and representation in the documentary field are as old as the documentary tradition itself. Ours is a history Read more
June 12, 2018 Thoughts from the Road: Geographic Diversity Matters Following the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of hand-wringing across several industries about “what we missed.” Journalists in Read more