Orwa Nyrabia is the artistic director of International Documentary Filmmaker Amsterdam (IDFA). He was born in Syria, where, in 2002, with his partner
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Molly Thompson is Senior Vice President of Feature Films at A&E Networks. In 2005 she launched the network’s feature documentary arm, A&E IndieFilms
Chi-hui Yang is program officer at Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative. In this Getting Real keynote, Yang addresses what it means to him to be a
The IDA is honoring Maria Ressa and the Philippines-based online news network Rappler with the 2020 Truth to Power Award. The honorary award
The 2020 IDA Documentary Award is recognizing Firelight Media with the Pioneer Award, which acknowledges those individuals who have made extraordinary
The 36th Annual IDA Documentary Awards is honoring Regina K. Scully with the Amicus Award, which recognizes individuals or organizations in
Director Sam Feder discusses how access, power, and possibility shaped Disclosure, and discusses with Laverne Cox how we as a community of storytellers must hold each other accountable in order to shift culture.
Documentary filmmakers discuss the dialogue between their work and the political contexts in which they were made.
While much has been written about the colonial history of documentary filmmaking, far less is known about the canon of oppositional cinema created by Black, Indigenous, and other filmmakers of color.
When we are fighting a pandemic and on the brink of environmental cataclysm and we can’t breathe and our children are locked in cages, what is our responsibility as artists?