May 4, 2017 For Laura Poitras, 'Risk' Is No Game "This exciting game is filled with betrayal, alliances, and surprise attacks. On the battlefield, anything goes! …. The player who completes his or Read more
April 27, 2017 Grace Lee's 'K-TOWN '92' Tells a Different Story of the LA Riots Editor's Note: This article comes to us courtesy of the Center for Asian American Media ( CAAM ). Filmmaker Grace Lee uses the medium of documentary Read more
April 26, 2017 James Longley's 'Iraq in Fragments' As a documentary filmmaker, I see film as a powerful tool for viscerally connecting audiences with subjects, empowering the voiceless, and immersing Read more
April 4, 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Through a Trump Lens The 2009 Sundance Film Festival opened in the Bush Administration and concluded in the Obama Administration. Eight years later, Sundance straddled Read more
March 7, 2017 Dispatches from a Revolution: 'Cries from Syria' Tracks a Six-Year Trail of Devastation The opening of Evgeny Afineevsky's Cries from Syria calls to mind a small, sad poem by the late Bill Knott: The only response to a child's grave is Read more
January 18, 2017 Bursting the Bubble: Covering Political Stories in the Age of Trump By Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker and Paul Stekler Since the election of Donald Trump as president and the triumph of conservative Republicanism in Read more
January 17, 2017 Drew Associates' 'Primary' In October 2010, I attended a screening of Primary at the Paley Center in New York, followed by a conversation with filmmakers Robert Drew, Richard Read more
September 23, 2016 Perfect and Otherwise: Documenting American Politics - A Conversation with R.J. Cutler https://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/articles/perfectc..."> Editor's Note: At the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival last Read more
May 18, 2016 'Weiner': Sexts, Lies & 400 Hours of Footage "Man is by nature a political animal," Aristotle famously wrote, but in reality, it takes a special breed of man to be a politician. This is quite Read more
February 2, 2016 Daring to Disturb the Sound of Silence: Oppenheimer Returns to Indonesia Editor's note: Over the next few weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the films that have been honored by the Academy of Motion Read more