As Michael Donaldson mentions in his column, the Oscars® telecast spotlighted 60 years of Best Documentary honors with a stellar tribute, produced by
Fast Foreword
Let’s reflect on the context for Linda Buzzell and the 75 documentary filmmakers that she compelled to gather in a cafeteria in Los Angeles for the
Post-September 11, we have trained our senses on other corners of the world, and on ourselves. In “ Short Takes” this month, we cite two initiatives
Dear Readers, The end of a year inspires us to reflect on events that have impacted the course of our daily lives and etched themselves indelibly into
Dear Readers, September 11 will be with us for a long time, and we’ll be looking, in this issue and future issues, at how documentary filmmakers can
Dear Readers, No sooner had we gone to press—on September 11, 2001—when we witnessed a calamity of unspeakable horror and cruelty. By now we have all
Dear Readers, Welcome to nature, or the world of nature and wildlife documentaries, a genre that has seen a surge in popularity on the international
Dear Readers, In concert with IDA’s much-anticipated summertime event, we look back on the making of one of the great rock’n’roll docs, D.A
Dear Readers, It is never an easy task to salute the passings, in each issue of ID, of so many dignified members of the documentary community. But
Dear Readers, In this issue and next, we will look at some of the specific ingredients that go into documentary filmmaking—shooting, editing, writing