Multimedia
Blogs
Forum
Affordable HD
Whitepapers
Newsletters
Events
Advertisers
DCP Directory
MillimeterNominees Announced for 18th Annual IDA Awards
Oct 16, 2002 12:00 PM
LOS ANGELES, October 16—The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced that 34 films will vie for top honors in the organization’s annual Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards competition. Winners will be named at the 18th Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Benefit Gala on December 13 at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in Hollywood.
“These nominees have earned the admiration of their peers,” says IDA President Michael Donaldson. “Each has produced a film that leaves an enduring impression. They have established the contemporary standards for excellence in the art of non-fiction filmmaking.”
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards will be presented in four categories, including feature length films, short films, limited series (series of episodes with specific continuing theme, topic or subject) and continuing series (a single program in an on-going series).
IDA will also present the ABCNEWS VideoSource Award to the documentary filmmaker(s) whose work best utilizes television news footage as an integral component of the work and the Pare Lorentz Award will be given to the film that best represents the activist spirit and lyrical vision of Pare Lorentz, who was the first recipient of an IDA Career Achievement Award.
The IDA Awards selection process began with peer group juries who viewed all submissions to select nominees in each category for final review by a blue ribbon panel.
“IDA was founded 20 years ago by a handful of dedicated people who envisioned an organization that could inspire and support the pursuit of excellence in non-fiction filmmaking,” says IDA Executive Director Sandra Ruch. “These IDA Award finalists were chosen by our juries out of many excellent entries, and that in itself is a realization of our founders’ dream.”
In addition to presenting the Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards, the IDA will honor Ken Burns (Civil War, Statue of Liberty, Jazz etc.), who will receive the 2002 Career Achievement Award in recognition of his substantial body of work. The IDA Scholarship and Preservation Award will be given to the Imperial War Museum for archiving some 120,000 feet of historically significant film dating to the 1890s. The IDA Pioneer Award will be presented to Agnès Varda for distinguished lifetime achievements
Kodak has sponsored the IDA Awards since their inception in 1984. “Kodak has been an unfailing friend of IDA and its members for 18 consecutive years,” says Ruch. “We owe them our thanks for their loyalty and commitment to excellence.”
For more information about IDA or to purchase tickets to the 2002 IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards, visit www.documentary.org or call 213-534-3600.
2002 IDA FEATURE LENGTH NOMINEES
- A Child’s Century of War
(Films Transit Int.)
Producer/Writer/Director: Shelley Saywell
Producer: Deborah Parks
- Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
(Artisan Entertainment /HBO/Cinemax Doc. Films/South African Broadcast Corporation)
Executive Producer: Sherry Simpson
Producer/Director: Lee Hirsch
- Blue Vinyl
(HBO/Next Wave Films/Working Films)
Producers/Directors: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand
- Mai’s America
(POV/ITVS/Women Make Movies)
Producer/Director: Marlo Poras
- Senorita Extraviada
(Women Make Movies)
Producer/Director: Lourdes Portillo
- Sister Helen
(HBO/Cinemax)
Producers/Directors: Rebecca Cammisa, Rob Fruchtman
- Small Town Ecstasy
(HBO)
Executive Producer: Arnold Shapiro
Director: Jay Blumenfield
- Spellbound
(THINKFilm/HBO/Cinemax)
Producer/Director: Jeff Blitz
Producer: Sean Welch
- Stealing the Fire
Directors: John S. Friedman, Eric Nadler
- Stone Reader
Producer/Director: Mark Moskowitz
Producer: Robert Goodman
IDA SHORT FILM NOMINEES
- At Journey’s Edge
(Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
Executive Producer/Director: John Murphy
Producer: Lynn Birkett
- The Internationale
(First Run/Icarus Films)
Producer/Director: Peter Miller
- Judy’s Time
(USC Graduate School of Cinema-Television)
Producer/Director/Writer: Erin Flannery
- Smashed
(HBO)
Producers/Directors: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
- Shades of Gray
(Seventh Art Releasing)
Producer: Edward P. Stencel
Director: Tim DePaepe
IDA LIMITED SERIES NOMINEES
- American Experience: Woodrow Wilson
(WGBH Boston)
Director/Writer: Carl Byker
Director/Cinematographer: Mitch Wilson
- Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Executive Producer: Daniel Yergin
Producer/Director: William Cran
- Kindergarten
(HBO)
Producers/Directors: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
- Military Diaries
(VH1)
Executive Producer: R.J. Cutler
Supervising Producer: Laura Zucco Thompson
- The Secret Life of the Brain
(Thirteen/WNET N.Y.)
Executive Producer: Beth Hoppe
Producer/Director/Writer: David Grubin
IDA CONTINUING SERIES NOMINEES
- American Experience: War Letters
(PBS Home Video)
Executive Producer: Margaret Drain
Producer/Director: Robert Kenner
- Blue Planet: Seas of Life
(Discovery/BBC)
Executive Producer: Maureen Lemire
Series Producer: Alastair Fothergill
- Inside Pol Pot’s Secret Prison
(The History Chan.)
Executive Producer: Bill Brummel
Producer: Greg DeHart
- Super Surgery: First Breath
(Discovery Health Channel/LMNO Productions)
Executive Producers: Bill Paolantonio, Eric Schotz
- NOVA: Shackleton’s Voyage of Endurance
(WGBH Boston/PBS)
Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Producers: Sarah Holt, Kelly Tyler
ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD NOMINEES
- Age of Terror
(Discovery Networks International)
Executive Producer: Bettina Hatami
Series Producer: Jon Blair
- Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
(Artisan Entertainment /HBO/Cinemax Doc. Films/South African Broadcast Corporation)
Executive Producer: Sherry Simpson
Producer/Director: Lee Hirsch
- Bringing Down a Dictator
Executive Producer: Peter Ackerman
Producer/Writer/Director: Steve York
- Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Executive Producer: Daniel Yergin
Producer/Director: William Cran
- Hell in the Pacific
(TLC/Carlton Int. Media)
Executive Producer: Polly Bride
Writer/Producer/Director: Jonathan Lewis
- In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01
(HBO)
Producers: Brad Grey, John Hoffman, Sheila Nevins
- Inside Pol Pot’s Secret Prison
(The History Chan.)
Executive Producer: Bill Brummel
Producer: Greg DeHart
- The Internationale
(First Run/Icarus Films)
Producer/Director: Peter Miller
- The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
(HBO/Black Canyon Prod)
Exec. Producers: Ross Greenberg, Rick Bernstein
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger
(BBC)
Producer/Writer: Alex Gibney
Producer/Director: Eugene Jarecki
THE PARE LORENTZ AWARD NOMINEES
- Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
(PBS)
Producer/Director/Writer: Ric Burns
Producer: Marilyn Ness
- Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
(Artisan Entertainment /HBO/Cinemax Doc. Films/South African Broadcast Corporation)
Executive Producer: Sherry Simpson
Producer/Director: Lee Hirsch
- American Experience: War Letters
(PBS Home Video)
Executive Producer: Margaret Drain
Producer/Director: Robert Kenner
- At Journey’s Edge
(Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
Executive Producer/Director: John Murphy
Producer: Lynn Birkett
- Blue Planet: Seas of Life
(Discovery/BBC)
Executive Producer: Maureen Lemire
Series Producer: Alastair Fothergill
- In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01
(HBO)
Producers: Brad Grey, John Hoffman, Sheila Nevins
- The Internationale
(First Run/Icarus Films)
Producer/Director: Peter Miller
- Lost World of the Holy Land
(Thirteen/WNET NY, National Geographic TV)
Producer: Jill Shinefield
Producer/Director/Writer: Gail Willumsen
- Sin Libertad
Director/Writer: Iñaki Arteta
#
2002 / 02m357
