February 22, 2020
For our February Member Memo, I had the unique opportunity to interview two of our IDA Members who were both nominated for the 2020 Academy Awards.
Oscars
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February 7, 2020Syrian documentary filmmaker Feras Fayyad has been battling his whole professional life. First, he was battling to keep his family safe (he's still
February 4, 2020When filmmaker Laura Nix walked into a dance studio in the San Gabriel Valley to find 40 people ballroom-dancing in the middle of the day, she
February 3, 2020In the Absence begins with the usual narrative markers of a ship tragedy: a drone camera sweeps over the site, we hear a 911 call, security camera
February 2, 2020John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary short Life Overtakes Me , an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee
February 1, 2020Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an ultra-conservative patriarchal society? If your answer is, "No, it's already depressing
January 31, 2020After the success of her feature documentary A Suitable Girl , Al Jazeera's Witness series asked Smriti Mundhra to make another film. It wasn't long
January 29, 2020Though The Edge of Democracy is Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa's final piece in a personal trilogy, it's the first to nab her an Oscar nomination
January 16, 2020"I take half, and I leave half" is the wise refrain, often repeated by Hatidze Muratova, apiarist and central character in Honeyland , one of the
November 16, 2019For Sama , shot, directed and produced by Waad al-Kateab, is a harrowing love letter to al-Kateab’s daughter Sama, who was born on the last day of