International Documentary Association
As AI-Created Photorealistic Images Proliferate, Documentary Producers Draw Up Guidelines
As filmmakers start to incorporate more generative artificial intelligence into documentary production, leading to mounting concern over the use of “fake archival” materials, a group of producers is pushing ahead in their efforts to establish guardrails around the use of the technology in fact-based storytelling. On Tuesday, leaders of the Archival Producers Alliance — a […]
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IDA Documentary Awards: ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Wins Best Feature
Bobi Wine: The People’s President won the top prize of best feature documentary at the 2023 International Documentary Awards on Tuesday night. The film follows music star, activist and opposition leader Bobi Wine amid Uganda’s 2021 presidential election. Accepting the award during the International Documentary Association’s virtual awards show, co-director Moses Bwayo said, “The awareness […]
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International Documentary Association Appoints Dominic Asmall Willsdon as New Executive Director
The International Documentary Association has appointed Dominic Asmall Willsdon as the organization’s new executive editor, effective Jan. 8, 2024. Willsdon will take over the position from Ken Ikeda, who has served in the position since January 2023. Following the ratification of the organization’s first collective bargaining agreement, Willsdon will be “responsible for setting organizational strategies, […]
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International Documentary Association Union Ratifies First Contract
Over a year since their group was voluntarily recognized, the unionized staffers at the International Documentary Association have ratified their first two-year contract. The members of the Communications Workers of America Local 9003-affiliated union unanimously voted to greenlight the contract on Friday. The contract will increase IDA’s 401(k) matching program from 4 percent to 5 […]
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IDA Documentary Awards: ‘All That Breathes’ Tops Winners
All that Breathes topped the 2022 IDA Documentary Awards, winning best feature and two other competitive awards. The film was previously selected as the winner of the Pare Lorentz Award. In addition to the top prize, the HBO title, which follows two brothers who run a bird hospital dedicated to rescuing injured black kites that […]
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IDA Executive Director Rick Pérez to Step Down
International Documentary Association executive director Rick Pérez has decided to step down from the role after about one a half years, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The leader of the nonfiction-focused nonprofit, its first executive director of color, told staff at a meeting late on Monday that he was planning to resign from the post, […]
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International Documentary Association Staffers File for Union Election
Staffers at the International Documentary Association have filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board after management told them their group was voluntarily recognized, but they say no official paperwork was signed. Members of the Documentary Workers United group filed on Friday, after a deadline that they had given management […]
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International Documentary Association Voluntarily Recognizes Staffer Union
Just two days after its workers announced they were attempting to form a union, the International Documentary Association says it has voluntarily recognized the bargaining unit allied with the Communications Workers of America. Still, those workers say the IDA hasn’t yet signed a formal document that would make it official. The IDA board announced their […]
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IDA Staff Form Documentary Workers United, Reveal Plans to Organize
After the departure of nine colleagues in the past few months, staff members at the International Documentary Association have announced their intention to unionize with the Communications Workers of America. The group of workers, who are organizing under the group name Documentary Workers United, shared their plans and asked for voluntary recognition in a message […]
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‘Flee,’ ‘Summer of Soul’ Top IDA Documentary Awards
Flee and Summer of Soul topped the 2022 IDA Documentary Awards on Friday night. Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee, which is also nominated for the best documentary Oscar, won the top prize of best feature. Meanwhile, fellow Oscar nominated documentary Summer of Soul won three awards: best director for Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, best music documentary and […]
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IDA Awards: Feature Shortlist Includes ‘Flee’ and ‘Summer of Soul,’ Leaves Off Other High-Profile Titles
Out of 314 documentary feature submissions hailing from 58 countries, Neon and Participant’s Flee and Searchlight’s Summer of Soul were the highest-profile titles that made the International Documentary Association’s shortlist, which was announced on Monday. But a considerable number of other much-discussed Oscar hopefuls were shockingly MIA, including Apple’s The Velvet Underground, Nat Geo’s The […]
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