We are excited to announce today that Carol Leifer will host the 30th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, to be held on Friday, December 5, 2014 in the
IDA Documentary Awards
Winner of the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the honorary awards to be presented at the 41 st annual IDA Documentary Awards, which will be
39th IDA Documentary Award Show, December 2023. IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees are selected by independent committees of 280
The 38th IDA Documentary Awards, December 10 2022, at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. Watch the Awards Ceremony live on YouTube. Learn more
The 40th annual IDA Documentary Awards, December 5, at The Orpheum Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, hosted by comedian, actor, and writer Adam Conover.
The IDA Documentary Awards is the world's most prestigious event dedicated to the documentary genre. It celebrates the best nonfiction films and
This piece was first published in Documentary ’s Winter 2024/2025 issue, with the following subheading: What does the makeup of films awarded at IDA’s
Sometimes, when I'm not crying, I joke that my life has become its own nightmarish version of The Twilight Zone: the ostensibly well-intentioned documentary filmmaker gets a dark cosmic reality check when he becomes the subject of one of his own films. In the twenty years I've worked in documentary, nearly every independent film I've made was about people losing their homes and their sense of community. And now that my home, my neighborhood, and my community were engulfed in the Eaton Fires, everything feels both horribly new and strangely familiar.
For the past eight years, the making of Shiori Ito’s feature debut, Black Box Diaries, has consumed the majority of her life. A riveting portrait of