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In Theaters Everywhere October 9
See HE NAMED ME MALALA, coming soon
HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of educational activist Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded by Taliban gunmen and has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide. In December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Directed by Academy Award-winner Davis Guggenheim, HE NAMED ME MALALA gives a new, never-before-seen look at the life of a civil rights icon.
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IDA Conversation Series:
Davis Guggenheim
Wednesday, October 21 in Los Angeles
October's Conversation Series event spotlights the exceptional films and remarkable career of Davis Guggenheim, director of the Academy Award® winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, one of the most influential films of our time. Series host/interviewer Ben Mankiewicz and Davis will explore his wide-ranging body of work that includes such culturally significant and brilliantly crafted films as He Named Me Malala(2015), From the Sky Down (2011),Waiting for 'Superman' (2010), and An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Don't miss this illuminating and powerful evening of clips and conversation.
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IDA SCREENING SERIES
Meru
Thurs, Oct. 8 at The Landmark
Conversation after the film with co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Moderated by Steve Greene, Special Projects Editor, Indiewire.
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
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IDA Conversation Series: Stanley Nelson
Thursday, October 1 in Oakland
Reception to follow
Join us for this special Bay Area edition of the IDA Conversation Series featuring the preeminent documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson in conversation with Orlando Bagwell, Director of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism documentary program. One of America's most acclaimed filmmakers and a singularly original chronicler of the African-American experience, Stanley has won an Emmy Award®, been named a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellow, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2014. The list of Stanley's remarkable films includes such penetrating and timeless works as Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple, A Place of Our Own, The Murder of Emmett Till, and his current film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.
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IDA SCREENING SERIES
The Wolfpack
Tues, Oct. 6 at The Landmark
Conversation after the film with director Crystal Moselle. Moderated by Steve Greene, Special Projects Editor, Indiewire.
The Wolfpack charts a fascinating coming of age story and becomes a true example of the power of movies to transform and save lives.
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BADWEST Filmmakers Day of Black Docs
Showcasing Women Filmmakers,October 10 12-5p at AFI
The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West will have poet/activist Sonia Sanchez join the Q&A followingBaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, a documentary by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon. Three other films, Peres Owino's Bound: Africans vs. African Americans; Joyce Guy's Dancing Like Home; and David Massey's When Justice Isn't Just complete the program. Filmmakers Joyce Guy, David Massey, Peres Owino and Producer Dawn Kirk-Alexander will also be present.
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