June 16, 2016
Over the past five years or so, the Los Angeles Film Festival called Downtown LA its home, after decamping from its previous digs in Westwood Village
Festivals
May 26, 2016
The Cannes Film Festival isn't particularly known for its devotion to the documentary form. Only twice in the festival's history has the Palme d'Or
May 17, 2016
Dear IDA Community, In January I had the honor of serving on the US Feature Documentary Jury at the Sundance Film Festival. While the 16 films we saw
May 16, 2016
This year's San Francisco International Film Festival was all about transformation. The festival left its longtime home base at the Sundance Kabuki
May 13, 2016
By Marc Glassman and Patrick Mullen Toronto's Hot Docs festival wrapped its 23rd edition on Sunday, May 8, with its usual record-breaking set of
April 26, 2016
At the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival , enormous creativity was on display, from many angles. Perhaps most interesting was a critical mass of
April 19, 2016
Now nearly two decades old, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is perhaps the closest thing America has to a European doc fest in terms of
April 12, 2016
By shining a light on what is becoming an increasingly dynamic relationship between the documentary filmmaking and journalism worlds, two recent
April 1, 2016
The 34th annual CAAMFest, produced and presented by the San Francisco-based Center for Asian American Media, blew into the Bay Area, along with some long-awaited rainstorms that tossed our umbrellas up and down the streets of Chinatown, the Mission and Oakland. And in the warm and dry screening venues around town, CAAMFest proved what it does best: showcasing documentaries about Asians and Asian Americans.
March 24, 2016
I knew I had found a place in the documentary world that I could call home when, on the Friday night of the True/False Film Fest (March 3 – 6) in