January 23, 2020
For many years Yusuf Abdurahman, the charismatic protagonist of Eunice Lau's Accept the Call , seemed to be living the American Dream. A refugee who
Docs About Immigration
September 4, 2019
Since IDA's DocuClub was relaunched in 2016 as a forum for sharing and soliciting feedback about works-in-progress, many DocuClub alums have since
May 13, 2019
Bernardo Ruiz has always been interested in stories about borderlands—“In particular, the love/hate relationship between the US and Mexico,” he says
January 12, 2018
In 2000, I was a young filmmaker on my way to my first Sundance Film Festival. If I didn't already know everything there was to know about filmmaking
February 12, 2015
Just as California beckoned Americans westward in the mid-19th century and then the Great Depression, with the promise of a better, more prosperous