January 29, 2021 Power and Visibility: The Unfinished Story of 'The Infiltrators' On the night of November 14, 2018, I was at LAX when my phone rang. Programmer Dilcia Barrera was calling to say that The Infiltrators would premiere Read more
January 23, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Yusuf Abdurahman, 'Accept the Call' 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 Read more
September 4, 2019 The Feedback: Alex Lora and Adan Aliaga's 'The Fourth Kingdom' 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 Read more
May 13, 2019 'Harvest Season': A Year in the Life of Immigrant Workers in Wine Country Bernardo Ruiz has always been interested in stories about borderlands—“In particular, the love/hate relationship between the US and Mexico,” he says Read more
January 12, 2018 Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini's 'Well-Founded Fear' 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 Read more
February 12, 2015 'White Earth' Takes a Meditative Look at a Boom Town Just as California beckoned Americans westward in the mid-19th century and then the Great Depression, with the promise of a better, more prosperous Read more
July 1, 2009 Love 2.0: YouTube Romance Inspires Feature Doc RJ Cutler, Steve Kearney, Chris Adams team up on Internet love story. Read more