IDA Awards 12/7/07

If anyone lives in the LA area, I think there are still tickets available for tomorrow night's IDA Awards at the Director's Guild. Hop on over to documentary.org for more info.

I've posted about the IDA (International Documentary Association) before - it's a support/advocacy nonprofit dedicated to promoting the art of nonfiction filmmaking, bringing together filmmakers and filmlovers who believe in the form. This year we're honoring Michael Moore, CNN's Christianne Amanpour, Ted Braun, and many others. Yours truly will be the offstage emcee for the event, and also produced a :60 spot in the show.

If you're a doc fan or doc filmmaker and you're not an IDA member, you can also join the organization. (For that, you can live ANYWHERE!) You'll get a bunch o' stuff and discounts. If you're lucky, a starving doc filmmaker will come and live in your basement.

Ha ha.

BTW, I noticed an interesting blog over at http://massmediaisamazzzing.blogspot.com/2007/12/research-activity-ways-i-am-changing-my.html

The writer, a college student, says something very profound: until he saw THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, he thought that films rated harsher than R were "not actually real movies." I think this is a commonly held perception and a sad fact for movies in that category, be they "Henry and June," "A Dirty Shame," or "Lust Caution."

So, again - to suggest that there's no stigma to the NC-17, or to the types of "offenses" that earn an NC_17, is a fallacy.