IDA is a nonprofit that supports documentary makers worldwide through access to knowledge, connections, and advocacy for their rights and interests. Documentary can be practiced anywhere, by anyone. IDA supports it as a public-interest art that enables audiences to encounter other perspectives, traverse differences, and disrupt sameness. IDA champions work that is living and evolving, and defends documentarians’ freedom of expression and audiences’ right to access documentary.
Dominic Asmall Willsdon is Executive Director of the International Documentary Association which has 3,800 members across 100 countries that supports documentary makers and advocates for their rights and interests. An educator, curator and arts leader, he previously founded the film program at Tate Modern and relaunched film at SFMOMA.
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