Winter 2010

The 2009 IDA Documentary Awards Winter 2010

We look at how the IDA Awards has expanded to accommodate the dynamics of the form.

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Features

2009 IDA Documentary Awards: Short Documentary Nominees

And the winner is...'Salt.'

By IDA Editorial Staff

2009 IDA Documentary Awards: Feature Documentary Nominees

And the winner is...'Anvil! The Story of Anvil.'

By IDA Editorial Staff

The Awards Process: A Screener's View

Twenty-five long-format documentary films in under...

By Robert Corsini

How Do You Keep the Real in Reality? The Need for a Documentary Code of Ethics

A new report from the Center for Social Media:...

By Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson

2009 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award: Transcending Borders: Natalia Almada

Natalia Almada was born in Sinaola, Mexico, to a...

By Tom White

2009 Amicus Award--Fair Use's Best Friend: Michael C. Donaldson

There was a time, not long ago, when the thought...

By Agnes Varnum

2009 IDA Pioneer Award--Bringing Wildlife to the Small Screen: Nicolas Noxon

Nicolas Noxon reflects on his 50 years in...

By Bob Fisher

2009 Career Achievement Award: The Cinematic Investigations of Errol Morris

Read our Q&A with America's most philosophical and...

By Taylor Segrest

Columns

Notes from the Reel World: The Executive Director's Column, Winter 2010

By Michael Lumpkin

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Winter 2010

By Tom White

Playback: Jon Else's 'Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle'

By Megan Mylan

MTV Gets Real: Cabler Sees Future in 'The Buried Life'

By Elizabeth Blozan

A Filmmaker's Filmmaker: Hara Kazuo in His Own Words

By Cynthia Close

Snagging Successfully: Online Portal Helps Filmmakers Find Their Audiences

By Tamara Krinsky

The Tyranny of Memory: 'The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Volume I'

By Cathleen Rountree