Funding

October 6, 2021

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Announces 2021 Slate of Journalistic Film Grants Totaling $600,000 to Ten Projects

Meet the latest cohort of 10 films receiving production grants. The Enterprise Fund supports feature-length documentary films telling urgent, revelatory stories underpinned by rigorous journalistic approaches and exemplary artistic achievement.

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May 10, 2021

IDA and XRM Media Launch New Incubator for Short Vérité Documentaries; IDA Awards $150,000 in Development Grants to Ten Projects

Los Angeles, CA (May 10, 2021) - The International Documentary Association (IDA) and XRM Media announced the launch of a new...
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May 5, 2021

Why Challenging White Supremacy Matters

This past year was challenging and full of despair. The names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and numerous others lost to police

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May 3, 2021

From Funder to Producer to Funder: The Learning Journey Continues

Over three years ago, I wrote in this magazine about my entry into the documentary film industry, some funding strategies I'd employed, and key

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April 22, 2021

Poh Si Teng Reflects on Her Long Road to IDA

Newly appointed IDA Funds and Enterprise Program Director Poh Si Teng is no stranger to challenges in nonfiction storytelling. From her childhood as

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April 5, 2021

5 Tips to Perfect Your Grant Proposal

Many filmmakers have a certain anxiety about submitting their films to funders, and with the pandemic shaping our capacities and capabilities in the

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February 17, 2021

The Art of Nonfiction is Flourishing, But Are Its Supporters?

In 2015, the Sundance Institute launched a new initiative to support “inventive artistic practice” in documentary called Art of Nonfiction. After

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February 2, 2021

Building More Equitable Hybrid Financing Models

Following the questions posed by my former Multitude Films producing partner Lisa Valencia-Svensson in her essay “Who's Telling Whose Stories To Whom

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October 23, 2020

20 Trailblazing Years: Firelight Media Lights the Way for Filmmakers of Color

Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith are celebrating 20 years of building Firelight Media into a company that tells eloquent stories about Black people,

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October 22, 2020

Catapult Film Fund Celebrates a Decade of Doc Support

When Bonni Cohen and Lisa Chanoff founded Catapult Film Fund in 2010 to support documentary filmmakers with development funding, “The fundamental

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