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“The Art Creates the Man”: Rebecca Miller on Documenting Martin Scorsese’s Life and Work in ‘Mr. Scorsese’

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International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 4d

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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In this interview, Rebecca Miller discusses how radical listening shaped her five-part series Mr. Scorsese, from tracking down childhood gangsters to employing splitscreens

Berkeley Film Foundation Announces 2025 Grant Recipients

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 17d

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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BFF has awarded a total of more than $350,000 in its 2025 grant cycle to 29 independent filmmakers, including 5 student filmmakers

Venice 2025: Empires and Endings

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 18d

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’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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Robin Berghaus @robinberghaus.bsky.social · 24d

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

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Sep 11

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The Mirror’s Edge: David Osit Discusses ‘Predators,’ an Appraisal of ‘To Catch a Predator’

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 19d

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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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 ...

Venice 2025: Empires and Endings

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International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 23d

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’s robust nonfiction selection revealed filmmakers grappling with inheritance—of land, literature, trauma, and the weight of documenting lives in progress

Exclusive: Trailer From Min Sook Lee’s TIFF Honorable Mention ‘There Are No Words’

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International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 24d

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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Veteran documentarian Min Sook Lee’s TIFF-premiering feature addresses generational silence and trauma

Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Support International Boycott in Open Letter Condemning Gaza War

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Amy Nicholson @filmsbyamy.bsky.social · 24d

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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International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 25d

#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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Over 50 Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Support International Boycott in Open Letter Condemning Gaza War

“Take These Documents and Squeeze Them”: Juanjo Pereira on Reconstructing a Paraguayan Film Archive for ‘Under the Flags, the Sun’

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 26d

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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In this interview on Under the Flags, the Sun, Paraguayan director Juanjo Pereira discusses completing his archival excavation of former President Alfredo Stroessner

Bitchitra Collective Selects Seven Filmmakers for 2025 Fellowship and Sriyanka Ray Grant

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · 29d

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 Awardee

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Sep 11

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How to Decode Fascist Systems Today: Michal Kosakowski on His Venice-Premiering ‘Holofiction’

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Sep 9

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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In this interview on his collage film Holofiction, Michal Kosakowski discusses Holocaust cinema symbols in the present day

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...

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Sep 9

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

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International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Sep 8

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

“True Memory Catalogs”: Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini on their Venice-Premiering Doc Waking Hours

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Sep 4

'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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In this interview, Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini discuss their migration-focused Waking Hours and their reasons for filming in darkness

“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other”: Robb Moss Discusses ‘The Bend in the River’

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 29

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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In this expansive interview, Robb Moss discusses longitudinal personal filmmaking, his influence as a teacher, and The Bend in the River

Exclusive: Clip from Robb Moss’s Telluride-Premiering ‘The Bend in the River’

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 28

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

Making a Production: PINKS

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 28

Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success.

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Formed over two decades ago, a Korean queer feminist collective “putting aesthetics into praxis” considers streaming and festival success

Objet Trouvé: Kamal Aljafari Discusses ‘With Hasan in Gaza’

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 28

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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In this interview, Kamal Aljafari discusses how three tapes filmed in 2001 revealed themselves as a new film, With Hasan in Gaza

'Can't stop. Won't stop': Documentary filmmakers face federal funding shortfall

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 21

" 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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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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International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 21

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

Minding the Gaps: How CPB’s Closure Fragments the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 20

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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In this investigation, independent documentary filmmakers and public media executives describe the far-reaching effects of federal funding cuts

The Sea Is an Archivist: ‘Atlantean’ and the Communal Cinema of Bob Quinn

International Documentary Association (IDA) @documentary.org · Aug 19

"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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Atlantean and the Communal Cinema of Bob Quinn