IDA Announces DocuDay LA on February 8

Erik Anderson January 27, 2020

Full-Day Marathon Screenings of all Oscar®-Nominated Feature & Short Documentaries

The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced the line-up for DocuDay LA, its annual full-day marathon of all the films nominated in the Best Feature Documentary and the Best Short Documentary categories at the Academy Awards®. Each screening will be presented with either Q&A or an introduction with the filmmaking teams and/or subjects (based on availability).

DocuDay LA will take place at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 8. All-day passes are available at: https://www.documentary.org/docuday-la. Individual tickets go on sale on today Monday, January 27, 2020.

“DocuDay LA celebrates the great documentary films from the past year and is a unique opportunity to hear directly from the filmmakers and their subjects the stories behind these Oscar-nominated films,” said Simon Kilmurry, executive director of IDA
The line-up for DocuDay is below with confirmed attendance (Schedule subject to change):

8:30am	*The Edge of Democracy* (Director Petra Costa)
11:00am	*Honeyland*
1:00pm	Shorts I *Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl)* (Director Carol Dysinger and Producer Elena Andreicheva)*In the Absence*
2:45pm	Shorts II *Life Overtakes Me* (Directors Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas) *St. Louis Superman* (Directors/Producers Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan) *Walk Run Cha-Cha* (Director Laura Nix and Producer Collette Sandstedt)
4:55pm	*The Cave* (Producers Sigrid Dyekjær and Kirstine Barfod)
7:15pm	*For Sama* (Directors Waad al-Kateab & Edward Watts with subject Hamza al-Kateab)
9:20pm	*American Factory*

About the International Documentary Association: Documentary storytelling expands our understanding of shared human experience, fostering an informed, compassionate, and connected world. The International Documentary Association (IDA) is dedicated to building and serving the needs of a thriving documentary culture. Through its programs, the IDA provides resources, creates community, and defends rights and freedoms for documentary artists, activists, and journalists.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.