July 12, 2017
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman floored audiences two years ago with his third feature film Cartel Land , an in-the-foxhole, vérité tale of the ongoing
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July 11, 2017
The annual AFI DOCS Filmmaker Forum was held this year from June 15-18 at the AFI DOCS Festival Hub in downtown Washington, DC. The forum opened with
June 15, 2017
From Bernardo Ruiz' Reportero. Photo: Bernardo Ruiz/Quiet Pictures "Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell,"
May 4, 2017
"This exciting game is filled with betrayal, alliances, and surprise attacks. On the battlefield, anything goes! …. The player who completes his or
March 31, 2017
Carrie Lozano recently joined IDA as Director of the Enterprise Documentary Fund, an ambitious new project that supports mid-career filmmakers
March 2, 2017
In the months leading up to the launch of the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund , we couldn't have anticipated the national public debate that would
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Our premiere IDA Conversation Series event spotlights the remarkable directing/producing team of Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. Their most recent documentary feature The Hunting Ground, a monumental exposé about sexual assault on college campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film...
January 18, 2017
Editor's Note: At the IDA Awards last month, we announced that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation would be supporting a major four-
January 18, 2017
By Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker and Paul Stekler Since the election of Donald Trump as president and the triumph of conservative Republicanism in
April 26, 2016
At the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival , enormous creativity was on display, from many angles. Perhaps most interesting was a critical mass of