IMA alum Jess Shane’s podcast series Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative is on The New York Times 2024 top ten best podcast list. The first two episodes were part of her IMA thesis project. The New York Times calls it a “dizzying and dazzling deconstruction of the documentary industrial complex.”

IMA alumni Jess Shane and Chloe Smolarski are part of the 2024–25 Fellows of Social Practice CUNY, a Mellon Foundation – funded initiative based at the CUNY Graduate Center.  

IMA alum Sekiya Dorsett is part of the 2024-2026 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows.

IMA alum Seyi Adebanjo’s documentary Afromystic receives support from Sundance Institute 2024 Documentary Film Program.

IMA alum Nathan Fitch is the recipient of the Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency for Social Justice and Human Rights.

IMA alum Gearóid Dolan is the recipient of MIT RISE Award and MIT Infinite Mile Award. Read about it in The Boston Globe.

IMA graduate Yehui Zhao is awarded an IDA Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund grant for her thesis film, May the Soil Be Everywhere! The Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund awarded three films for the 2023-24 grant cycle out of 56 nominees to receive $75,000 in production and post-production grants. About the film […]

IMA alum Jess Shane is included in the first issue of Sound Fields, an online publication and event series dedicated to the art of audio documentary. And Jess’s thesis, an audio narrative called Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative is being distributed on Radiotopia! Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative started as Jess’s IMA thesis and […]

Congrats to all the artists in the IMA community who have been awarded 2024 New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) Artist Grants! More info: https://arts.ny.gov/ -IMA alum, Walis Johnson received a grant for project, Inheritance/SHACK with sponsorship from The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant […]