July 29, 2020
I am a white female filmmaker, a director of documentary films. Women, especially white women, have traditionally done better in documentaries than
Gender Issues
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March 23, 2020 @In documentaries, women dominate the roster of editors working on the most compelling films and television series. To understand the current landscape in documentary editing, from the perspective of acclaimed female editors, we invited Kate Amend (The Keepers, The Case Against 8);...
March 3, 2020In 2016 documentary filmmaker Senain Kheshgi was approached to make a series of short films in collaboration with Save The Children, Johnson &
June 27, 2019I’ve been thinking a lot about what a unique, strange and unpredictable thing the web series space is, and how working in it after a decade of
March 28, 2019In October 2011, the documentary series Women, War & Peace premiered on PBS. It consisted of five hour-long docs, including Pray the Devil Back
February 16, 2019If you are an urban Indian woman, chances are that you’ve been asked at some point to desist from touching or staining or entering spaces while on
October 4, 2018The #MeToo movement has seen investigations, arrests and convictions across media as the public conversation shifts. For women, things are getting
September 27, 2018As the conference is named Getting Real and this dispatch is of a more personal nature, my job here is to, yes, keep it real. That’s why I must
September 14, 2018As a secular Jew who resided for over a decade in pre- Girls Brooklyn, I'm not sure which Williamsburg community proved more inscrutable to my eyes—
August 21, 2012Over the next month, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary