October 24, 2019
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound is a deftly drawn story about sound and its evolving role in filmmaking, told through the personal histories
Editing
June 14, 2019 @
In the Docs Get Graphic Master Class, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Neil Berkeley explores using graphic design and animation to enhance a documentary's visual grammar and bring characters and narratives to life. Berkeley demystifies simple to complex design elements that bring an artistic and...
October 11, 2018
"Documentary editing is perhaps one of the most challenging intellectual feats on the planet…How does anyone do it?" Author, educator and film editor
June 21, 2018
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 1, 2018
The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicked off for me at the Firelight Media party at the Kickstarter Lodge, with a fired-up crowd anticipating the Women
February 15, 2018
Since IDA's DocuClub was relaunched in 2016 as a forum for sharing and soliciting feedback about works-in-progress, many DocuClub alums have
June 7, 2017 @
In this Master Class presented by Austin Film Society and IDA, Robert Greene (who is also the Filmmaker In Chief at the University of Missouri's Murray Center for Documentary Journalism), discusses documentary storytelling, filmmaking ethics, creating...
May 17, 2016
It's tempting to give the short film short shrift. Is less less ? Is less more ? Or is less the same ? Various mechanisms allow the short to
May 17, 2016
Editor's Note: This article is adapted from the fourth edition of Sheila Curran Bernard's Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen (
April 18, 2016
Following a brief test run in the 1990s, virtual reality has rapidly taken hold over the past few years as a potent tool for exploring the