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IDA Conversation Series: Susan Lacy

In this IDA Conversation Series, we highlight and explore the extraordinary career of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and producer Susan Lacy. Hear how her passion for American cultural history led to the creation of PBS series American Masters and her more recent journeys in telling the stories of...

January 24, 2019

The Kindness of Strangers: A Guide on How to Treat Your Equity Investment Funders

Raising money for a film often feels like a Sysyphean task, constantly pushing a boulder up a hill. But as documentaries have become more popular

January 25, 2019

Skylight's Pamela Yates & Paco de Onis Consider the Nonprofit Model

Over the last several years, as sustainability has become a hot topic in the documentary community, we have seen the issue unfold in a number of ways

January 15, 2019

Documentary Producers Alliance Unveils Crediting Guidelines

Editor’s Note: What follows is a statement from the IDA regarding the Documentary Producers Alliance ’s “ Best Practices in Documentary Crediting.”

January 4, 2019

A (Revised!) Introduction to Documentary Budgeting

This is a fully revised look at documentary budgeting, and updates the 2006 Documentary article “Don’t Fudge on Your Budget: Toeing the Line Items.” At the center of the documentary "business" is the budget, which offers a map of the filmmaking process, expressing both the film you’re planning to make and how you plan to make it. Ideally, it is also a living document that can help get a film to completion.

June 15, 2017

Dispatch from Denmark: A Conversation with Final Cut for Real's Signe Byrge Sørensen

Based in Copenhagen and run jointly by Signe Byrge Sørensen, Anne Köhncke, Monica Hellström and Heidi Elise Christensen, Final Cut for Real is one of

September 21, 2003

21st Century Docs: Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos

A review of Alan Rosenthal's 'Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos' (Third Edition)

October 31, 2004

Lawyers, Deals and Money: An Indie Filmmaker's Checklist

The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide A Business and Legal Sourcebook By Gunnar Erickson, Harris Tulchin and Mark Halloran <Schirmer

August 28, 2013

Takeaways from the Sundance Creative Producing Lab: Prepping Your Doc for the Marketplace

"This is a place where you can breathe deeply," advised Cara Mertes, director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund , during

From Docs to Dollars: When Nonfiction Filmmakers Moonlight in Music Videos and Commercials

Shoestring budgets, borrowed equipment, deferred pay, intermittent and interminable production schedules—these have become the required ingredients

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