International Documentary Association

06/23/2026

Documentary’s “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” lists are filled with documentary portraits that flatter and model a way of looking at the world. By Manuel Betancourt. Read more at .

Documentary’s “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” lists are filled with documentary portraits that flatter and model a way of looking at the world

06/21/2026

Reducing Risk in Documentary: Insurance, Copyright & Defamation Essentials. Join us Friday, June 26, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM PT at Ethos Society in Los Angeles. This multi-part program is designed to provide documentary filmmakers with practical legal tools to identify, assess, and reduce risk throughout the life of a project. Register today!

This multi-part program is designed to provide documentary filmmakers with practical legal tools to identify, assess, and reduce risk throughout the life of a project. The sessions will emphasize best practices that help filmmakers protect their work, secure their rights, strengthen their projects,....

06/20/2026

The Citizenfour cinematographer and Flood director on her “simple and vital” camera bag philosophy. Read more at . https://documentary.org/column/whats-my-bag-katy-scoggin

06/19/2026

Guillaume Massart talks about his new doc, 'Detention,' where he dissects the French carceral system without once stepping foot in a prison. Read more at .

Guillaume Massart talks about his new doc, Detention, where he dissects the French carceral system without once stepping foot in a prison

06/18/2026

We have supported the most urgent cases and are planning to expand IDA Emergency Assistance further. The needs are greater and more varied than many people know. This work is only possible because of our community and because of you.

Every gift, every membership, enables IDA to continue IDA Emergency Assistance, our advocacy for the field, and the simple but important act of making documentary filmmakers know they are not alone.

The filmmakers who reach out to IDA Emergency Assistance are not stopping their work, and we are not stopping ours. If you have been thinking about giving or joining IDA as a member, I would love for you to be part of this work with us.

—Dominic

Learn more at documentary.org. (Link in bio)

06/18/2026

On the occasion of Documentary’s Greatest Docs of the 21st Century list, we ask: What grants someone the authority to assert an opinion on what is the best, or the most important? Read more at .

On the occasion of Documentary’s Greatest Docs of the 21st Century list, we ask: What grants someone the authority to assert an opinion on what is the best, or the most important?

06/17/2026

A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice. Read more at .

A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice

06/12/2026

06/11/2026

The editor of ‘Spermworld’ and ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ on valuing portability and good sound. Read more at .

The editor of Spermworld and How to Blow Up a Pipeline on valuing portability and good sound

06/08/2026

In this essay, filmmaker Everardo González questions the narrative promises of the true crime genre and calls on a new kind of ethics in telling stories with what he dubs a “documentary of loss.” Read more at .

In this essay, filmmaker Everardo González questions the narrative promises of the true crime genre and calls on a new kind of ethics in telling stories with what he dubs a “documentary of loss”