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LGBTQ Docs

My queerness is the foundation of my creativity, political orientation and values. Being queer means being free and centering liberation in all
Michael Barnett’s Changing the Game, now streaming on Hulu, is a deep dive into the lives of three teenage athletes—Mack Beggs, Andraya Yearwood and
What I’m going to talk about today are three of those unseen practices in documentary filmmaking—compensating protagonists, empowering our crews, and questioning who is in leadership.
Director Sam Feder discusses how access, power, and possibility shaped Disclosure, and discusses with Laverne Cox how we as a community of storytellers must hold each other accountable in order to shift culture.
“When you are a member of a marginalized community, most film and television is not made with you in mind. And so, if you are a person of color, an
The most nerve-wracking sequence in David France’s Welcome to Chechnya is, without doubt, the rescue of Anya.
Cutting Class is a new column that focuses on a specific aspect of the post-production process—breaking down a scene editorially, and delving into
Taking Best Documentary Feature Film at last year's Outfest, Tom Shepard's Unsettled, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, adheres to every
When one thinks of a coming-out story these days, an LGBTQ teenager proudly declaring their identity on Instagram might immediately spring to mind
Since IDA's DocuClub was relaunched in 2016 as a forum for sharing and soliciting feedback about works-in-progress, many DocuClub alums have since