IDA Documentary Awards 2010

Morgan Spurlock to Host 2010 IDA Documentary Awards

Morgan Spurlock Returns to Host 2010 IDA Documentary Awards IDA welcomes back documentary producer, director Morgan Spurlock as host of the 2010 IDA Documentary Awards. Host of the Awards in 2008, the Academy Award® and Emmy® Award-nominated Spurlock directed Super Size Me (2004), Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008), The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice! (2010), Freakonomics (2010) and Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope, set for release in 2011.

Join Morgan and IDA as we honor the best documentaries of the year!

Barbara Kopple to Receive Career Achievement Award

Barbara Kopple to Receive Career Achievement Award The IDA will award its prestigious 2010 Career Achievement Award to legendary documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. This award is given to a filmmaker who has made a major impact on the documentary genre through a long and distinguished body of work. Kopple’s 1976 documentary, Harlan County USA, about a coal miners’ strike in Kentucky, earned an Academy Award® as well as a place in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Her 1991 film American Dream also won an Academy Award®, as well as the Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Filmmaker’s Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. In previous years, IDA has bestowed its Career Achievement Award on documentary luminaries such as Sheila Nevins, Michael Apted, Ken Burns, Albert Maysles, Haskell Wexler, Michael Moore, Werner Herzog, and last year’s recipient, Errol Morris.

IDA to Honor Alan and Susan Raymond with 2010 Pioneer Award

IDA to Honor Alan and Susan Raymond with 2010 Pioneer Award The 2010 IDA Pioneer Award honors Alan and Susan Raymond, the filmmakers behind the seminal nonfiction series prototype, An American Family (1973). After An American Family, the Raymonds formed their own company, Video Verite, and produced The Police Tapes (1977), which captures the life and times of a precinct in the South Bronx, and which inspired numerous fiction and nonfiction law enforcement series. The couple received an Oscar® nomination for Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991) and an Oscar® for I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993).

Award-winning filmmaker and Film Professor Mark Jonathan Harris to Receive IDA's Preservation and Scholarship Award

Award-winning filmmaker and Film Professor Mark Jonathan Harris to Receive IDA's Preservation and Scholarship Award Academy Award® winner and longtime USC film professor Mark Jonathan Harris will be honored with the IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award. Harris received his Oscars® for the documentaries The Redwoods (1968) and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) and directed the Oscar winning feature documentary, The Long Way Home (1997). Chair of the documentary film program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Harris has taught at USC for over 25 years. Many of his students have gone on to award-winning careers in documentary filmmaking and have also returned to USC to teach.

Jeff Malmberg to Receive Jacqueline Donnet Award

Jeff Malmberg IDA acknowledges exemplary creative contributions to the field at large. Jeff Malmberg, director of the one of the year's most celebrated films, MARWENCOL, will receive the 2010 IDA/Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.

2010 IDA Documentary Awards

Click the film titles below for info on how to watch each film.

DISTINGUISHED FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AWARD

WASTE LAND (Winner)
Director/Writer: Lucy Walker
Producers: Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine
Executive Producers: Jackie De Botton, Miel De Botton, Fernando Meirelles, Andrea Barata Riberio
Almega Projects, O2 Filmes, E1 Films Canada, Arthouse Films

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Director: Banksy
Producer: Jaimie D'Cruz
Executive Producers: Holly Cushing, James Gay-Rees
Paranoid Pictures, Cinetic Media, A-Film Distribution, Alamode Film, Avalon Distribución Audiovisual, Mongrel
Media, Producers Distribution Agency, Revolver Entertainment, Madman Entertainment

THE OATH
Director: Laura Poitras
Producers: Laura Poitras
Co-Producer: Nasser Arrabyee, Aliza Kaplan, Jonathan Oppenheim
Associate Producer: Robert Hatch-Miller, Katy Scoggin, Pandora Zolotor
ITVS, POV/American Documentary, Praxis Films, Zeitgeist Films

STEAM OF LIFE
Directors: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen
Producer: Joonas Berghäll
Associate Producers: Adel Kjellström, Petri Rossi
Oktober, Nordisk Film Theatrical Distribution

SWEETGRASS
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producers: Ilisa Barbash
Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, Cinema Guild

DISTINGUISHED SHORT DOCUMENTARY AWARD

WOMAN REBEL (Winner)
Director/Producer: Kiran Deol
Executive Producer: Robert Richter
Women Rebel Films, HBO Documentary Films

KEEP DANCING
Director: Greg Vanderveer
Producer: Douglas Blair Turnbaugh
Turnbaugh/Vander Veer Productions

THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER
Director: Daniel Junge
Producer: Henry Ansbacher, Davis Coombe, Andy Schocken
Home Box Office (HBO)

THE FENCE
Director/Producer: Rory Kennedy
Producers: Liz Garbus, Keven McAlester, Nancy Abraham
Associate Producer: Lauren Barker
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Writer: Mark Bailey
Moxie Firecracker Films, Home Box Office (HBO)

THE LAST TRUCK
Directors/Writers/Producers: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Producer: Lisa Heller
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Home Box Office (HBO)

CONTINUING SERIES AWARD

30 FOR 30 (Winner)
Executive Producers: Keith Clinkscales, John Dahl, Joan Lynch, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons, John Skipper, John Walsh
ESPN

Episodes Submitted:

The Band That Wouldn't Die (Dir./Exec Prod.: Barry Levinson; Prods.: Lee Bonner, Stan Flint, Jason Sosnoff)
Muhammad and Larry (Dirs.: Albert Maysles, Bradley Kaplan; Prods.: Laura Coxson, Bradley Kaplan, Mark Durand)
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (Dir./Prod.:Dan Klores; Prods.: David Zieff, Charles C. Stuart, Gale D'Agostino)
Run Ricky Run (Dirs.: Sean Pamphilon & Royce Toni; Co-Prod.: Royce Toni, Louise Story, Derek Hastings)

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Senior Producer: Sharon Grimberg
Coordinating Producer: Susan Mottau
Series Manager: James E. Dunford
Series Producer: Susan Bellows
WGBH; PBS

Episodes Submitted:

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World (Dir./Writer: Ric Burns; Prods.: Bonnie Lafave, Mary Recine, Robin Espinola, Ric Burns)
My Lai (Dir./Prod./Writer: Barak Goodman)
Roads to Memphis (Dir.: Stephen Ives; Writer: Michelle Ferrari, Prod.: Amanda Pollak)

ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Executive Producer: Susan Sollins
Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega
PBS

Episodes Submitted:

Compassion (Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge)
Fantasy (Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge)
Transformation (Consulting Director: Charles Atlas)
Systems (Consulting Director: Charles Atlas)

BRICK CITY
Executive Producer: Evan Shapiro, Forest Whitaker, Lynne Kirby, Mala Chapple, Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin,
Sarah Barnett
Sundance Channel

Episodes Submitted:

Summer Is Ours (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Struggle (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Central (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Circus (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Red October (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)

WIDE ANGLE
Executive Producer: Tom Casciato
Senior Producer: Nina Chaudry
PBS

Episodes Submitted:

Contestant No.2 (Dir.: Ibtisam Salah Mara’ ana; Prods.: Timna Goldstein Hattav,
Barak Heymann)
Heart of Jenin (Dirs./Writers: Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter; Prods.: Ernst Ludwig Ganzert, Ulli Pfau)
Crossing Heaven’ s Border (Director for Chosun Ilbo: Jung In Taek; Producer for Chosun Ilbo: Lee Hark Joon )
Once Upon a Coup (Dir.: Christopher Olgiati; Executive Producer: Roy Ackerman)

LIMITED SERIES AWARD

HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG (Winner)
Directors/Producers: Connie Field
Writers: Jon Else, Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen, Ken Chowder
Clarity Films

AFFLICTIONS: CULTURE AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN INDONESIA
Director, Producer: Robert Lemelson
Elemental Productions

LATIN MUSIC USA
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Deane (WGBH), Mark Cooper (BBC)
Series Producers: Adriana Bosch (WGBH), Jeremy Marre (BBC)
Director/Producers: Adriana Bosch, Daniel McCabe, John J. Valadez, Jeremy Marre
Producer: Pamela A. Aguilar
Writers: Adriana Bosch, Daniel McCabe, David Espar, John J. Valadez, Jeremy Marre
WGBH, BBC

MASTERCLASS
Executive Producer: Lin Arison
Director/Producer: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Writers: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Simon and Goodman Picture Co

THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE
Executive Producer: Dyllan McGree, Peter W. Kunhardt
Executives-in-Charge: Jody Allen, Paul G. Allen
Senior Executive Producers: Richard Hutton, Paula S. Apsell
Supervising Producers: Lisa Mirowitz, Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss
Writer: Jesse Sweet
Writer/Host: Daniel Gilbert
Vulcan Productions, NOVA/WGBH Science Unit, Kunhardt McGee Productions

IDA SPECIAL AWARDS:

IDA HUMANITAS AWARD (Tie)

PRESUMED GUILTY (Winner)
Directors: Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith
Producers: Layda Negrete, Roberto Hernandez, Martha Sosa, Yissel Ibarra
Executive Producers: Ernesto Canales, Ana Laura Magaloni, Layda
Sansores & Luciana Kaplan

THE OATH (Winner)
Director/Producer/Director of Photography: Laura Poitras
ITVS, POV/American Documentary, Praxis Films, Zeitgeist Films

IDA MUSIC DOCUMENTARY AWARD

FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE (Winner)
Directors: Mark Moormann, Jim Bigham
Producer: Jim Bigham
Executive Producer: Lourdes Little
OPS Inc

GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD
Directors/Producers: Michele Hozer, Peter Raymont
White Pine Pictures, Lorber Films, Union Pictures

THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS
Director: Leanne Pooley
Producer: Arani Cuthbert
Diva Productions, New Zealand Film Commission

THUNDER SOUL
Director/Producer: Mark Landsman
Producer: Keith Calder, Jessica Wu
Snoot Entertainment

WHEN I RISE
Director: Mat Hames
Producers: James Moll, Michael Rosen,
Executive Producer: Don Carleton
Briscoe Centers, Allentown Productions, Alpheus Media, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

IDA/DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD

WAITING FOR A TRAIN: THE TOSHIO HIRANO STORY (Winner)
Director/Producer: Oscar Bucher
OB3 Studios, San Francisco State University

THE STINKING SHIP (Honorable Mention)
Director/Producer: Bagassi Koura
University of California Berkeley

LITTLE MOM
Director/Producer: Maria Fortiz-Morse
Stanford University, MFA Documentary Film and Video

PERRY COUNTY
Directors/Producers: Matt Durning, N’ Jeri Eaton
University of California Berkeley

WHALES OF GOLD
Director/Producer: Lucia Duncan
University of Texas at Austin

ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

BHUTTO (Winner)
Director/Producer: Duane Baughman
Director/Writer: Johnny O’Hara
Producers: Arleen Sorkin, Mark Siegel
Executive Producers: Glenn Aveni
Yellow Pad Productions in association with ICON TMI

FINALISTS:
BLOODY SUNDAY: A DERRY DIARY 
BREAKING THROUGH THE CLOUDS 
FREEDOM RIDERS 
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: EPISODE #7 
JFK 3: SHOTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA 
THE LOST JFK TAPES 
WW II IN HD: EPISODE #3

IDA PARE LORENTZ AWARD

WASTE LAND (Winner)
Director/Writer: Lucy Walker
Producers: Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine
Executive Producers: Fernando Meirelles, Miel de Botton Aynsley, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Jackie De Botton
Arthouse Films, Almega Projects Ltd., O2 Filmes, Entertainment One Films International

QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US? (Honorable Mention)
Director: Taggart Siegel
Producers: Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel
A Collective Eye Production

FINALISTS:
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, EPISODE: MY LAI 
FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE 
GASLAND
MY PERESTROIKA 
A SMALL ACT 
SUN COME UP 
THE DARKNESS OF DAY 
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND 
VOCES-SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
 

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