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IDA supports the vital work of documentary storytellers and champions a thriving and inclusive documentary culture.
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For @documentary.org, I spoke with Rebecca Miller about her big ol' five-part look at everyone's favorite short king filmmaker
“The Art Creates the Man”: Rebecca Miller on Documenting Martin Scorsese’s Life and Work in ‘Mr. Scorsese’
In this interview, Rebecca Miller discusses how radical listening shaped her five-part series Mr. Scorsese, from tracking down childhood gangsters to employing splitscreens
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October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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In this interview, Rebecca Miller discusses how radical listening shaped her five-part series 'Mr. Scorsese,' from tracking down childhood gangsters to employing splitscreens. Read on #DocumentaryMag!

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“The Art Creates the Man”: Rebecca Miller on Documenting Martin Scorsese’s Life and Work in ‘Mr. Scorsese’
In this interview, Rebecca Miller discusses how radical listening shaped her five-part series Mr. Scorsese, from tracking down childhood gangsters to employing splitscreens
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October 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Berkeley Film Foundation has awarded a total of more than $350,000 in its 2025 grant cycle to 29 independent filmmakers, including 5 student filmmakers!

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Berkeley Film Foundation Announces 2025 Grant Recipients
BFF has awarded a total of more than $350,000 in its 2025 grant cycle to 29 independent filmmakers, including 5 student filmmakers
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September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Venice Film Festival’s robust nonfiction selection revealed filmmakers grappling with inheritance—of land, literature, trauma, and the weight of documenting lives in progress. Read on #DocumentaryMag!

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Venice 2025: Empires and Endings
Venice’s robust nonfiction selection revealed filmmakers grappling with inheritance—of land, literature, trauma, and the weight of documenting lives in progress
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September 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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IDA is hiring a full-time assistant editor for Documentary Magazine. The role is based in Los Angeles.
September 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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David Osit discusses how 'Predators,' his house of cards examining Chris Hansen’s controversial sting show and its YouTube imitators, stealthily reflects both true crime and documentary commodification of human suffering. Read on #DocumentaryMag!

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The Mirror’s Edge: David Osit Discusses ‘Predators,’ an Appraisal of ‘To Catch a Predator’
David Osit discusses how Predators, his house of cards examining Chris Hansen’s controversial sting show and its YouTube imitators, stealthily reflects both true crime and documentary commodification ...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Venice Film Festival’s robust nonfiction selection revealed filmmakers grappling with inheritance—of land, literature, trauma, and the weight of documenting lives in progress. Read more at #DocumentaryMag!

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Venice 2025: Empires and Endings
Venice’s robust nonfiction selection revealed filmmakers grappling with inheritance—of land, literature, trauma, and the weight of documenting lives in progress
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September 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Watch an exclusive trailer of 'There Are No Words,' from veteran documentarian Min Sook Lee’s @tiffnet.bsky.social premiering feature, which addresses generational silence and trauma on #DocumentaryMag!

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Exclusive: Trailer From Min Sook Lee’s TIFF Honorable Mention ‘There Are No Words’
Veteran documentarian Min Sook Lee’s TIFF-premiering feature addresses generational silence and trauma
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September 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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An interview in @documentary.org w our hero, Gianfranco Rosi

“The only truthfulness that exists for me in documentaries is the distance you place between your camera and your subject.”

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September 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#BreakingNews: Over 50 Israeli documentary filmmakers have shared an open letter expressing “profound shame” & “helplessness” over Israel’s actions in #Gaza & declaring their support for the international film community’s boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.

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Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Support International Boycott in Open Letter Condemning Gaza War
Over 50 Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Support International Boycott in Open Letter Condemning Gaza War
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September 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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In this interview on 'Under the Flags, the Sun,' Paraguayan director Juanjo Pereira discusses completing his archival excavation of former President Alfredo Stroessner. Read on #DocumentaryMag!

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“Take These Documents and Squeeze Them”: Juanjo Pereira on Reconstructing a Paraguayan Film Archive for ‘Under the Flags, the Sun’
In this interview on Under the Flags, the Sun, Paraguayan director Juanjo Pereira discusses completing his archival excavation of former President Alfredo Stroessner
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September 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Bitchitra Collective Selects Seven Filmmakers for 2025 Fellowship and Sriyanka Ray Grant Awardee in partnership with BGDM. Read the exclusive on #DocumentaryMag!

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Bitchitra Collective Selects Seven Filmmakers for 2025 Fellowship and Sriyanka Ray Grant
Bitchitra Collective Selects Seven Filmmakers for 2025 Fellowship and Sriyanka Ray Grant Awardee
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September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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In this interview on his collage film 'Holofiction,' Michal Kosakowski discusses Holocaust cinema symbols in the present day. Read more on #DocumentaryMag!

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How to Decode Fascist Systems Today: Michal Kosakowski on His Venice-Premiering ‘Holofiction’
In this interview on his collage film Holofiction, Michal Kosakowski discusses Holocaust cinema symbols in the present day
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September 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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GLOBAL OPEN CALL 🎥 Doc Filmmakers + Impact Media Creatives submit your work to #SIMA2026. The 14th Annual Social Impact Media Awards champion storytelling at the intersection of creative excellence and social resonance. Learn More + Submit by Oct 9: www.simaawards.com
SIMA AWARDS
The annual SIMA Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in social impact storytelling from around the globe, honoring the most cutting edge filmmaking that inspires activism, compassion and social t...
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September 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Exclusive News on #DocumentaryMag:

BAVC @bavcmedia.bsky.social Launches Results of Study on Magnetic Media Preservation Efforts

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Exclusive: BAVC Media Launches Results of Study on Magnetic Media Preservation Efforts
BAVC Media Launches Results of Study on Magnetic Media Preservation Efforts
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September 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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'Waking Hours,' in competition at the Venice Critics’ Week, immerses audiences in the hidden world along the Balkan borders, where human lives unfold under the cover of night.

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“True Memory Catalogs”: Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini on their Venice-Premiering Doc Waking Hours
In this interview, Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini discuss their migration-focused Waking Hours and their reasons for filming in darkness
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September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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In this expansive interview, Robb Moss discusses longitudinal personal filmmaking, his influence as a teacher, and 'The Bend in the River.' Read on #DocumentaryMag!

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“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other”: Robb Moss Discusses ‘The Bend in the River’
In this expansive interview, Robb Moss discusses longitudinal personal filmmaking, his influence as a teacher, and The Bend in the River
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August 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Exclusive on #DocumentaryMag: Clip from Robb Moss’s Telluride-Premiering The Bend in the River

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Exclusive: Clip from Robb Moss’s Telluride-Premiering ‘The Bend in the River’
Exclusive: Clip from Robb Moss’s Telluride-Premiering The Bend in the River
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August 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success.

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Making a Production: PINKS
Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success
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August 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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In this interview, Kamal Aljafari discusses how three tapes filmed in 2001 revealed themselves as a new film, 'With Hasan in Gaza'.

Read @nicolasrapold.bsky.social's interview on #DocumentaryMag.

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Objet Trouvé: Kamal Aljafari Discusses ‘With Hasan in Gaza’
In this interview, Kamal Aljafari discusses how three tapes filmed in 2001 revealed themselves as a new film, With Hasan in Gaza
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August 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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" IDA is trying to pursue more strategic litigation to see how we can get the support to challenge some of the actions that have been taken at the federal level," said Dominic Willsdon, IDA's ED." via @npr.org

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'Can't stop. Won't stop': Documentary filmmakers face federal funding shortfall
PBS has been a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. But with the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonfiction storytellers have to figure out a way forward.
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August 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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In this interview, Iranian filmmaker #MaryamTafakory discusses how she abstracts and rewrites post-revolutionary Iranian cinema to reveal the queer bodies and untold stories forced into invisibility. Read more on #DocumentaryMag.

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“What They Had to Conceal”: Maryam Tafakory’s Archival Interventions Highlight the Erased
In this interview, Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory discusses how she abstracts and rewrites post-revolutionary Iranian cinema to reveal the queer bodies and untold stories forced into invisibility
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August 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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In this investigation piece by Anthony Kaufman for #DocumentaryMag, independent documentary filmmakers and public media executives describe the far-reaching effects of federal funding cuts.

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Minding the Gaps: How CPB’s Closure Fragments the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem
In this investigation, independent documentary filmmakers and public media executives describe the far-reaching effects of federal funding cuts
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August 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"For Quinn, this exchange, which continued through the Middle Ages up to the early Modern era, means that Ireland today was informed as much by contact with Africa, the Middle East, and Islam as by Europe and Christendom."

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The Sea Is an Archivist: ‘Atlantean’ and the Communal Cinema of Bob Quinn
Atlantean and the Communal Cinema of Bob Quinn
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August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM