July 30, 2004 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, July 2004 Dear IDA Members: Giving your time.... As many of us punch through our day-to-day routines of phone calls, emails and FedEx deliveries, once in while Read more
May 31, 2004 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, May 2004 Dear IDA Members, There are a number of excellent conferences worldwide devoted to the documentary. A notable one here in the US is the RealScreen Read more
April 30, 2004 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, April 2004 Dear IDA Members, Before I address you as your new president, I would like to say a few words about my predecessor, Michael Donaldson. About four Read more
April 30, 2004 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, June 2004 Dear IDA Members: I have just returned from MIP and MIPDOC in Cannes. These two events really are the center of the international broadcast Read more
March 31, 2004 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, February-March 2004 Dear IDA Members, When I took the helm as IDA President three years ago, I eschewed "pompous pledges and misty projections" and promised to "keep my Read more
January 1, 2004 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, January 2004 Dear IDA Members, It's the end of an active year of continued changes and growth for the IDA. Our biggest accomplishment was getting InFACT, formerly Read more
November 1, 2003 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, November 2003 Dear IDA Members, This fall IDA launched a four-city theatrical exhibition tour—to commercial theaters in Del Mar, California; Little Rock, Arkansas Read more
August 30, 2003 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, August-September 2003 Dear IDA Members: The International Documentary Association has many objectives, but none is more important than encouraging the theatrical Read more
July 2, 2003 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, July 2003 Dear IDA Members: I report to you, as I have during the past few springs, from the Cannes Film Festival—and a very different Cannes it is for the Read more
June 2, 2003 Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, June 2003 Dear IDA Members, Writing for the media arts industry can be a noble and ennobling profession, and can be a lucrative one as well. But when writing Read more