November 15, 2022
Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen’s In Her Hands follow the unlikeliest of protagonists, with a backstory that practically begs for Hollywood to
Docs about Women
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May 3, 2022Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. At IDA, we believe in
March 22, 2021Director/producer Maria Finitzo finished editing The Dilemma of Desire in winter 2019—just before COVID-19 entered our vocabularies. The film
March 15, 2021While the documentary field has only become more and more inclusive over the last few years, the more formative role of women in the documentary
January 27, 2021I am here to provide a China perspective and a feminist point of view, raising some questions about the face of working women, and rather than addressing what we are concerned about as filmmakers, distributors and human beings in a COVID 19 pandemic and politically chaotic era.
September 7, 2020One of filmmaker Judith Helfand’s earliest works, the Peabody Award-winning A Healthy Baby Girl , documents her diagnosis with cervical cancer—the
August 29, 2020The first time an episodic series was programmed on opening day of the Sundance Film Festival happened a lifetime ago—i.e., just this past January.
August 20, 2020Reclaiming and reshaping narrative around Black women by Black women is liberatory work, and is what Oge Egbuonu executes so carefully and lovingly
June 26, 2020And She Could Be Next , directed by Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia, is a two-part docuseries that follows the campaigns of six women of color running
June 15, 2020Belly of the Beast , Erika Cohn's follow-up to her multi-award-winning The Judge , tracks down a previously little-known story about enforced—and