August 22, 2018 Doc Star of the Month: Sergeant Edwin Raymond, Stephen Maing's Crime + Punishment Though heroic activists have been pushing for change in policing across the country in recent years, they've mostly sprung from those communities Read more
July 19, 2018 Doc Stars of the Month: Leah Smith and Joe Stramondo, Rachel Dretzin's 'Far From the Tree' Leah Smith defiantly refuses to believe she needs to be "fixed." A media and entertainment advocate for the Center for Disability Rights, who holds Read more
July 18, 2018 More Money, More Problems: 'Generation Wealth' Looks at the Dark Side of the Dream "Show me the money!" was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s rallying cry in Jerry Maguire back in the '90s. Today everyone seems intent on showing you the money; Read more
May 3, 2018 Teaching Contemporary Documentary in the Context of Democracy When I was a sophomore in college, I saw Roger & Me , Michael Moore's moving and often darkly comedic romp through General Motors' exodus from Read more
April 30, 2018 Ukraine-Based Docudays Offers a Robust Slate of Human Rights Docs The 15th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (March 23-30) presented 62 films from 36 countries, and brought together Read more
April 16, 2018 Breaking the Silence: 'I Am Evidence' Investigates America's Troubling Rape Kit Backlog "I am a box on a shelf," says Ericka. And technically, she was right. Her name was written on a box containing the evidence from a violent sexual Read more
February 21, 2018 Road to Recovery: Director Elaine McMillion Sheldon on 'Heroin(e)' Across America, but most pervasively in small industrial towns across the country, decades of excessive opioid prescriptions have led to a national Read more
February 19, 2018 The Feedback: Lisa F. Jackson and Sarah Teale's 'Patrimonio' Since IDA's DocuClub was relaunched in 2016 as a forum for sharing and soliciting feedback about works-in-progress, many DocuClub alums have Read more
February 16, 2018 Expanding the Overaggressive Cops Conversation in 'Traffic Stop' For decades now, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning team of Kate Davis ( Girltalk ; Southern Comfort ) and her producer and sometime co-director Read more
February 15, 2018 The Feedback: Alina Skrzeszewska's 'Game Girls' Since IDA's DocuClub was relaunched in 2016 as a forum for sharing and soliciting feedback about works-in-progress, many DocuClub alums have Read more