The worldwide IDA membership consists of professionals from various roles throughout the non-fiction discipline. We’re documentary employees, professionals, thought leaders, and innovators from around the globe, united by our ardour for the non-fiction kind. We have a good time the work of our members in the course of the competition season and day-after-day!
With the upcoming BlackStar Movie Pageant, we’re excited to have a good time our members who’ve movies within the competition as administrators, writers, producers, and in varied different roles.
Our crew gathered the record under; nonetheless, in case you are an IDA member collaborating on this 12 months’s BlackStar Movie Pageant and your work shouldn’t be listed under, please contact memberships@documentary.org.
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Convey Them Residence
Function Documentary
IDA Member: Ivy MacDonald, Director | Ivan MacDonald, Director
Convey Them Residence tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot folks and their mission to ascertain the primary wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory because the species’ near-extinction a century in the past, an act that may restore the land, re-enliven conventional tradition and produce much-needed therapeutic to their neighborhood. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
Our Land, Our Freedom
Function Documentary
IDA Member: Meena Nanji, Director | Zippy Kimundu, Director
Our Land, Our Freedom tells the story of two extraordinary Kenyan girls — a mom and daughter, Mukami and Wanjugu Kimathi. Mukami was a freedom fighter in Kenya’s Nineteen Fifties independence motion, and was married to its iconic chief, Dedan Kimathi. He was hanged by the British in 1957, his physique disposed of anonymously. Since then, Mukami has been looking for Kimathi’s stays, and is joined by her daughter Wanjugu. Alongside her journey, Wanjugu learns of a buried historical past of colonial brutality, together with focus camps and the huge theft of land that left tons of of hundreds of Kenyans destitute. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
Rising Up at Night time (Tongo Saa)
Function Documentary
IDA Member: Nelson Makengo, Director
Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and wrestle to get entry to mild. Between hope, disappointment, and non secular religion, Rising Up at Night time is a refined and fragmented portrait of a inhabitants that, regardless of the challenges, is sublimated by the great thing about Kinshasa’s nights. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
The Strike
Function Documentary
IDA Member: JoeBill Muñoz, Director | Lucas Guilkey, Director
The Strike is a function documentary that tells the story of a technology of California males who endured a long time of solitary confinement and, in opposition to all odds, launched the biggest starvation strike in U.S. historical past. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
Shorts
Black Ag
Quick Documentary
IDA Member: Andy Sarjahani, Director
A Black scientist brings collectively native Black farmers to fight the results of local weather change and create alternatives in Black agriculture for brand spanking new generations within the Arkansas Delta. Produced with Reel South and the Nationwide Multicultural Alliance. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
Increasing Sanctuary
Quick Documentary
IDA Member: Kristal Sotomayor, Director
An immigrant mom emerges as a neighborhood chief in the course of the historic marketing campaign to finish the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Increasing Sanctuary tells a hardly ever advised story a few Latinx immigrant neighborhood’s profitable journey to alter laws and shield households. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
How you can Sue the Klan
Quick Documentary
IDA Member: John Beder, Director
How you can Sue the Klan is the story of how 5 Black girls from Chattanooga used authorized ingenuity to tackle the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case, combating to carry them accountable for his or her crimes and produce justice to their neighborhood. Their victory set a authorized precedent that continues to encourage the continued combat in opposition to organized hate. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
Winding Path
Quick Documentary
IDA Member: Ross Kauffman, Director/Producer
Jenna Murray is an Japanese Shoshone MD/PhD scholar on the College of Utah. Her most formative childhood experiences had been spent on her household’s Wind River Indian Reservation ranch, the place she beloved nothing greater than serving to her grandfather. When her lively, 70-year-old “Papa” all of the sudden dies of a preventable well being subject, Jenna grapples together with her dream of a profession in tribal well being whereas going through her personal psychological well being disaster. Study extra concerning the movie right here.
Wouldn’t Make It Any Different Manner
Quick Documentary
IDA Member: Hao Zhou, Director
Having constructed a colourful queer life in Iowa, an aspiring costume designer visits their homeland of Guam to make costumes for a youngsters’s theater and reconnect with distanced mother and father. Study extra concerning the movie right here.