EXCLUSIVE: Four senior staffers who resigned in protest from the International Documentary Association are responding to a public statement from the IDA board dismissing their concerns about how th…
board dismissing their concerns about how the nonprofit organization is being run under new executive director Rick Pérez.on Friday acknowledging “a number of documentary community members have expressed concern about recent changes at the IDA – particularly the resignations of four staff members.”
But in a statement exclusively obtained by Deadline, Bowman , Chung , Halpin and Teng said they had reached out repeatedly to the board, beginning last summer. The email called the women who resigned “trusted peers whose work on behalf of the documentary field should be celebrated,” and called silence about their departures “unacceptable.”
Pérez, who took over as the IDA’s executive director last May, succeeding Simon Kilmurry, wrote his own statement published on the organization’s website. He described himself as “deeply disappointed” by the staffers’ departures and “disappointed that in resigning they relinquished an opportunity to respectfully engage in a constructive dialogue with me, the IDA’s Executive Director, to resolve their concerns.
The IDA was founded 40 years ago by documentarian Linda Buzzell, “as an intimate community of like-minded film professionals, eager to expand the impact, scope and reach of the documentary genre.”
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