Gender Issues

March 23, 2020 @

Women Make The Cut (West Coast Edition)

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, 2020

Majority Rules! Branded Content Company Creates Opportunities for Female Filmmakers

In 2016 documentary filmmaker Senain Kheshgi was approached to make a series of short films in collaboration with Save The Children, Johnson &

June 27, 2019

Making the Most of a Web Series

I’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, 2019

'Women, War & Peace': The #MeToo Edition

In 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, 2019

'Period. End of Sentence': Transforming a Taboo into a Cause

If 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, 2018

Slouching towards Parity? Panelists Discuss Filmmaking in the #MeToo Era

The #MeToo movement has seen investigations, arrests and convictions across media as the public conversation shifts. For women, things are getting

September 27, 2018

Getting Real '18 Day Two: Frederick Wiseman, #MeToo and You

As 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, 2018

Doc Star of the Month: Judge Ruchie Freier, Paula Eiselt's '93Queen'

As 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, 2012

Meet the DocuWeeks Filmmakers: Lindsay Ellis--'The A-Word'

Over the next month, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary

January 3, 2010

'Lake of Fire' Looks at the Abortion Debate: Assessing Tony Kaye's New Film

After watching the news about a Springfield, Missouri abortion clinic that was about to close last week because it finally lost a long legal battle