Join us Wed., January 28, 10 AM PT for an IDA virtual seminar where two critically acclaimed filmmaking teams will share the granular details of their working relationship, walking through scenes from meaningful recent films. Followed by an audience Q&A. documentary.org/event/edit-r...

On December 18, 2025, we held a risk assessment seminar with Colin Pereira, an experienced risk and journalist-safety expert with more than 20 years in the field. Watch the complete seminar on the IDA YouTube channel or documentary.org/public/creat....

In this interview by @amarsanaa.bsky.social, Srđan Kovačević discusses his Ljubljana-set observational documentary, ‘The Thing to Be Done,’ about an office fighting for workers’ rights. Read more at #DocumentaryMag. documentary.org/online-featu...

For @documentary.org, I spoke with Rebecca Miller about her big ol' five-part look at everyone's favorite short king filmmaker

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! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

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! www.documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

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! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

IDA is hiring a full-time assistant editor for Documentary Magazine. The role is based in Los Angeles.

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! documentary.org/feature/mirr...

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! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

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! www.documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

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.” Read on! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

#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. www.documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

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! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

Bitchitra Collective Selects Seven Filmmakers for 2025 Fellowship and Sriyanka Ray Grant Awardee in partnership with BGDM. Read the exclusive on #DocumentaryMag! www.documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

Learn more and apply at documentary.org/assistant-ed...

In this interview on his collage film 'Holofiction,' Michal Kosakowski discusses Holocaust cinema symbols in the present day. Read more on #DocumentaryMag! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

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

Exclusive News on #DocumentaryMag: BAVC @bavcmedia.bsky.social Launches Results of Study on Magnetic Media Preservation Efforts www.documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

'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. www.documentary.org/online-featu...

In this expansive interview, Robb Moss discusses longitudinal personal filmmaking, his influence as a teacher, and 'The Bend in the River.' Read on #DocumentaryMag! documentary.org/online-featu...

Exclusive on #DocumentaryMag: Clip from Robb Moss’s Telluride-Premiering The Bend in the River www.documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success. www.documentary.org/feature/maki...

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. documentary.org/online-featu...

" 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 www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

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. www.documentary.org/online-featu...

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. www.documentary.org/online-featu...

"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." www.documentary.org/online_featu...

"In 'Everything You Have Is Yours,' we see dancer Hadar Ahuvia as she develops her performance by the same name, the culmination of years spent celebrating her own Jewish identity while also challenging Israeli tradition." www.documentary.org/online-featu...

For @documentary.org, I talked with filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky about his new film Architecton, creating empathy for rocks, and "the age of cement and sugar." www.documentary.org/my-films-do-...

“My Films Do Not Talk With Words” Read our interview with Viktor Kossakovsky discussing leaving no stone unturned in 'Architecton' on #DocumentaryMag! www.documentary.org/my-films-do-...

'Songs from the Hole,' directed by IDA member and grantee Contessa Gayles, premiered at Blackstar Film Festival 2024, and will be streaming on @netflix.com starting on August 13! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

Detail Versus Fidelity: CEO of AI Video Footage Enhancer Topaz Labs Strongly Advises “Against Forensic and Medical Uses” www.documentary.org/online-featu...

"We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way." An important read from Carrie Lozano, ITVS CEO and former IDA Funds Director. Thank you, Carrie! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The time is now! ⏰ Share your work by 11:59 PM PT today for IDA Documentary Awards consideration at documentary.org/awards/enter

For @documentary.org, I took the measure of last month's @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, its platforming of deplatformed political filmmakers, visions of Palestine and more from Ukraine, and four great finds (including my favourites, A Simple Soldier and The Gas Station Attendant)

Longtime Sheffield DocFest attendee Nick Bradshaw reported on the UK festival’s steady hold within a rapidly changing world for #DocumentaryMag! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

“You Can Cheat on Reality”: Emeline Courcier on Her Immersive Artwork ‘Burn From Absence’. Read on #DocumentaryMag! www.documentary.org/online-featu...

This week’s #DocOfTheWeek is ‘The Space Less Traveled’ by co-directors/producers Antares Davis and Cameron Jutte. Learn more about the project and show support at www.documentary.org/project/spac...

For @documentary.org I explored the growing sphere of "ambient entertainment." Read it in the most calming, soothing voice you can imagine documentary.org/column/expla...

We’re live! Introducing Disability Media Alliance, a global nonprofit building infrastructure to resource disabled nonfiction media makers!Learn more about our work to support disabled perspectives in nonfiction media making: disabilitymedia.org Image ID next post #DisabilityMedia #DisabilityJustice

Incubated through IDA’s Nonfiction Access Initiative (NAI), the Disability Media Alliance (DMA) came about after research to address enduring inequities in the documentary community. @disabilitymedia.bsky.social documentary.org/exclusive-ne...

“Of all the film festivals, Giffoni is the most necessary.” - François Truffaut www.documentary.org/online-featu...

Legal FAQ: AI Tips for U.S. Documentary Filmmakers, read on #DocumentaryMag! www.documentary.org/column/legal...

This week's #DocOfTheWeek is 'Prayer Horse' by co-directors Tom Laffay and Josh Dini, and producer Juan Devis. Learn more about the project and show support at www.documentary.org/project/pray...

Probing Prosperity: Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan Discuss ‘Made in Ethiopia’ www.documentary.org/online-featu...

Joel DeMott, best known for her films Seventeen (1983), which she co-directed with Jeff Kreines, and Demon Lover Diary (1980), died on June 13. Alongside Kreines, DeMott created a model of intimate cinema vérité filmmaking that has inspired countless filmmakers. www.documentary.org/online-featu...

“Their Story Deserved a Film”: Bipuljit Basu Discusses Collaboration in ‘Red Light to Limelight’ www.documentary.org/online-featu...

Tomorrow is the regular deadline for the 2025 #IDADocAwards Call for Entries. To take advantage of lower entry fees, share your work for consideration by July 15 at 11:59 PM PT. IDA members get discounts on entry fees! Final Deadline: August 1, 2025. Enter now at documentary.org/awards/enter

This week's #DocOfTheWeek is 'Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man' by director/producer Trisha Ziff, producer Ross McDonnell, cinematographers Seamus McGarvey & Jeronimo Goded, editor Jorge Sanchez and EP Bahman Naraghi. Learn more about the project & show support at www.documentary.org/project/adam...