This year marks the fifth edition of Getting Real, IDA’s biennial conference, where documentary filmmakers and industry professionals will meet and
Getting Real
A longstanding prominent aspect of non-fiction storytelling has been the interview, which at its heart is about connection. From a framed face
Filmmakers and stakeholders tackling structural and values-related challenges in the documentary ecosystem report back to the field on their work.
Producers and funders will discuss how filmmakers can make business decisions that support values like creative independence, representation, sustainability, and authorship today, given the limited funding sources available to all.
Documentary editors discuss their editing process and how filmmakers could apply a better understanding of intersectionality and the importance of inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
In this moment of increasing monopolization by commercial networks and distributors, what lessons can today’s filmmakers learn from the economic
Detroit Narrative Agency reflects on the process of transitioning from white to Black organizational leadership and the impact of that shift on their work and their community.
The co-director of Outcry and Whisper, Zeng Jinyan, discusses how women breakthrough systems that erase humanity. She explores the concept that
I am here to provide a China perspective and a feminist point of view, raising some questions about the face of working women, and rather than addressing what we are concerned about as filmmakers, distributors and human beings in a COVID 19 pandemic and politically chaotic era.
Michèle Stephenson is co-founding member of the Rada Film Group. Her work draws from her Panamanian and Haitian roots and international experience as