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Congratulations to all the 40th IDA Award winners, including those honorees announced before the show. Swipe through for all winners. Best Feature: No Other Land Best Short: Instruments of a Beating Heart Best Director: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham, No Other Land Best Music Documentary: Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird Best Episodic Series: We’re Here Best Writing: Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Best Cinematography: Ruslan Fedotov, Queendom Career Achievement Award: Dawn Porter Best Editing: Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Best Original Score: Víctor Hernández Stumpfhauser, Frida Best Curated Series: Independent Lens ABC News VideoSource Award: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Emerging Filmmaker Award: Shiori Ito Best TV Feature: Two American Families: 1991-2024 Best Limited Series: A Town Called Victoria David L Wolper Student Film: Her Name Was Zehava Courage Under Fire Award: Directors of No Other Land, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham Pare Lorentz Award: No Other Land

This week’s #DocOfTheWeek is ‘Monk in Pieces’ by Directors/Producers Billy Shebar and David Roberts. Doc of the Week highlights a documentary project raising funds through IDA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program! Learn more at documentary.org. (Link in bio) Meredith Monk — composer, performer, and multimedia artist — overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great artistic pioneers of her generation. In the midst of her latest creation, Indra’s Net, Monk faces mortality: can such personal work be performed without her? Featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, ‘Monk in Pieces’ is a mosaic that illuminates Monk’s wildly original vocabulary of sound and imagery. This film is currently in post-production.

In October, in partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa, Doclisboa organized a huge retrospective of Mexican director Paul Leduc's work. The Portuguese International Documentary Film Festival showed 25 films, including shorts and features, from half-hour TV shows in video to majestic musicals in rarely seen, lavish 35mm prints assembled from several archives. Curated by Boris Nelepo, it was the most comprehensive retrospective of the Mexican director outside his home country to date. Read Victor Guimarães' notes on Leduc's retrospective at #DocumentaryMag. (Link in bio)

Last week, we celebrated the best nonfiction films and programs of the year at the 40th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. The event was hosted by Adam Conover and took place at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theater, with the ceremony also streamed live on the IDA YouTube. (Link in bio) Swipe through for photos of some of the night’s presenters! IDA Members can still watch the nominees from the Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short categories until December 31. Visit documentary.org for more info. Photos by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images

“As filmmakers, we do not set out in search of definition. We consider that the daily life of these men, their stories, and the culture they have created... are more important.” These words appear close to the beginning of De bateyes, Sara Gómez’s poetic 1971 short about the lives of workers on Cuba’s sugarcane plantations. Spoken in voiceover by the director herself, they serve as a kind of mission statement for a filmmaker whose short but remarkable career was built on empathy and curiosity. Read the full #DocumentaryMag article from Rachel Pronger at documentary.org. (Link in bio)

Congratulations to all the winners at the 40th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. Swipe through for photos from the Winner’s Circle! The ceremony was hosted by Adam Conover and took place at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theater. The awards were also live streamed on the IDA YouTube channel. Watch today via the link in our bio.

🗣 Primer panel en #ChileConecta 2024: “¿Cuál es el costo real de hacer documentales? Desde lo económico a lo emocional”. 📽 Sabemos que hacer documentales es un trabajo difícil y largo, por lo tanto, el fondo británico @whickersawards hizo un estudio llamado “Costs of Docs”, que busca demostrar cualitativa y cuantitativamente los impactos que esta actividad trae en la vida de los documentalistas. 👉 En esta ocasión, la representante de The Whickers Jane Mote estuvo a cargo de moderar el panel, con grandes invitados internacionales como Bruni Burres, consultora senior de Sundance Documentary Film Program; Isabel Arrate, directora ejecutiva del IDFA Bertha Fund; Keisha Knight, directora de Fondos y Promoción de la International Documentary Association; y Sean Flynn, co-fundador y director de Programas de Points North Institute. 📢 Si no pudiste asistir o ver el panel, recuerda que está disponible en nuestro canal de YouTube @ccdocumental 📷 @javi.cantero_photo

Swipe through for photos from the #FallDocs screening of ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.’ All in-person screenings were followed by live Q&As with filmmakers and a reception with food and drinks. You can stream recordings of all Q&As on the IDA YouTube Channel. (Link in bio)

“A must see” 🎥 “Artistic, creative” 🧑🏽‍🎨 “Emotional” 🥹 “A tearjerker!” 😭 The Strike has resonated deeply with thousands of diverse audiences in theaters and classrooms across the country, and now it will be available to millions across the country. 📺 Monday, February 3, 2025 on @independentlens and the PBS Youtube channel! Don’t miss it!

Join us for our next IDA Workshop, Listening As Documenting, on Wednesday, December 18, 2024, from 1 to 2:30 PM PT, both virtual and in person. When documentary filmmakers seek experimental forms of nonfiction storytelling, we often look to experimental films and moving image work. But there are other forms of documentary practice, such as in music. In this hybrid workshop, artists Claire Rousay and Lucy Liyou will talk through and demonstrate their processes of using field recordings, textural found sounds, and ambient music in world-building. Moderated by Jameisha Prescod and Tony Nguyen, this hybrid workshop and sound performance encourages us to broaden our expectations of documentary beyond the visual. This workshop will be free and open to the public. Register using the link in our bio. ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. For other accommodation requests, please email abby@documentary.org. About the Getting Real Fellowship The Getting Real Fellowship seeks to spotlight emerging and mid-career documentary professionals who have inspired visions that will benefit their communities and the field at large. After attending Getting Real, the fellows spend the next year programming workshops and discussions inspired by their time at the conference. The Fellowship is supported by the NEA and Golden Globe Foundation. This event is developed by Getting Real ‘24 Fellows Jameisha Prescod and Tony Nguyen.

On December 5, 2024, we celebrated the best nonfiction films and filmmakers of the year at the 40th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. The event was hosted by Adam Conover and took place at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theater, with the ceremony also streamed live on the IDA YouTube. Swipe through for photos of the night!

This week’s #DocOfTheWeek is ‘Amidst the Gorges’ by Director James LaRocca. Doc of the Week highlights a documentary project raising funds through IDA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program! Learn more at documentary.org. (Link in bio) ‘Amidst the Gorges’ is a documentary capturing the lives of an eccentric group of friends living on the edge of society set against the rare and striking backdrop of natural gorges and small-town life in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Amidst change, tragedy, and inspiration, a profound sacredness emerges at the heart of humanity and nature. This film is currently in production.