May 2, 2017
By Caty Borum Chattoo & Will Jenkins, Center for Media & Social Impact When Movies Go to Washington: Documentary Films & Public Policy in
Social Issue Docs
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April 26, 2017Things are rarely black and white in the realm of nonfiction, but when it comes to social justice in these United States, events can seem to align
February 21, 2017 @Our premiere IDA Conversation Series event spotlights the remarkable directing/producing team of Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. Their most recent documentary feature The Hunting Ground, a monumental exposé about sexual assault on college campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film...
January 17, 2017For the past several years, America has witnessed almost daily incidents of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police—and these
July 27, 2016http://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/articles/HooliganS..."> Nanfu Wang feels safe in New York. Surveillance, that essential
July 11, 2016Most Americans know about the "War on Drugs," but fewer people are aware of the "War on Sex Crimes." Over the last 25 years, the punishments for
March 30, 2016This year's Berlin International Film Festival presented a special screening of Life on the Border, a gripping project initiated and produced by Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. Over the past years Ghobadi has tirelessly narrated stories of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group without a state; their population spans from southeastern Turkey to northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria.
February 24, 2016Editor's note: Over the next few days, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the films that have been honored by the Academy of Motion
September 1, 2015Set against the backdrop of a country trying to find its footing amidst the still-burning embers of the 1960s' demand for racial equality, Stanley
July 29, 2015Every film tells a story. Bottom line. But some films have a double bottom line, a two-fold mission: to tell a story, and to propel social change. To