40th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Judging Committee Chairs and Members
This year, the IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees are selected by independent committees of 300 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40+ countries. We thank all chairs, jurors, and pre-screeners for their diligent contributions to the 40th IDA Documentary Awards.
Best Feature Documentary*
Chairs: Koval Bhatia, Marouan Omara, James Costa, Patrizia Roletti, Kristina Motwani, Winnie Wang, Addie Davidson, Victor Buhler, Marángeli Mejía-Rabell
Jurors: Julian Cautherley, Soleil Gharbieh, Sara Kaddouri, Rumbi Katedza, Kim Longinotto, Blair McClendon, M'Daya Meliani, Soheil Rezayazdi, M Siam, Harry Vaughn, Rishika Advani, Mathilde Bittner, Maggie Contreras, Lauren Lexton, Julie Morris, Lee Rosch, Vanessa Tsehaye, Shirley Abraham, Tazeen Bari, Joseph Fahim, Ed Gerrard, Ida Grøn, Paul Lee, Rick Minnich, Jean Rheem, Youssef Sanheji, Michael Abitz, Hina Ali, Claire Ave’Lallemant, Andrew Garbus, Victor Ribeiro Guimarães, Leslie Lee, Clare Major, Alexandra Markovic, Michaelle McGaraghan, Khalid Shamis, Susannah Smith, Mayye Zayed, Pulkit Datta, Marc Serpa Francoeur, David Knipe, Javier Lovera, Shasha Nakhai, Polina Teif, Joële Walinga, Amanda Wong, Juyeon Yang, Carol Acutt, Sandra Alvarez, Eva Aridjis, Stephen Bailey, Michael Hamilton, Omri Kruvi, Noah Levy, Yuki Noguchi, Bianca Valencia, Helen Werner, Stephanie Yang, Abner Benaim, Sinhué F Benavides, Sannii Crespinaflores, Felipe Holguin, Mateus Hueb, Vadim Lasca, Erik Alfredo Martinez, Pablo Dewin, Oscar Molina, Iliana PagánTeitelbaum, Diaspora Productions, Medhin Tewolde
*Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Music Score, and Best Writing categories were also judged by subcommittees of the Best Feature Documentary jurors.
Best Short Documentary
Chairs: Sue Ding, Shilpi Gulati, Laura Bermúdez
Jurors: Elenie Chung, Sarah Garrahan, Carlo Nasisse, Angela Park, Adrian Randall, Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz, Maria Luisa Santos, Norbert Shieh, Hao Zhou, Farid Ahmad, Malia Bruker, Toby Bull, Surbhi Dewan, Maysoon ElMassry, Mary Grueser, judy lieff, Bethania Maia, Nida Mehboob, Mina Nabil, Malati Rao, Andrea Arauz, Elvis Caj, César Hernández, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Sofia Lena Monardo, Violeta Mora, Esmeralda Reynoth, Anais Taracena, Jiayan "Jenny" Shi, Duiren Wagua , Marcela Zamora
Best TV Feature Documentary
Chair: Cynthia Kane
Jurors: Asha Boston, Cathy Fischer, Lisa Scott Gordon, Diana Holtzberg, Elizabeth Lawrence, Mitch Levine, Argyro Nicolaou, Remoy Philip, Sophie Schrago, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Leslie Siben, Laurence Uebersfeld, John Warburton
Best Curated Series
Chairs: Brenda Avila-Hanna, Amelia Hanibelsz
Jurors: Juan Pedro Agurcia, Charity Bustamante, Faridah Gbadamosi, Tarisai Gombe, Luma Haj-Heithoff, Devin Karambelas, Senain Kheshgi, Ayesha Sood, Colleen Thurston, Sari Trisulo, Melina Tupa, Nani Walker
Best Episodic Series
Chair: Denise Khumalo
Jurors: Sherein Bansal, Balzhan Burabekova, Abhiraj Dethe, Imani Dlamini, Nella Etkind, Janice Khumalo, Galaletsang Malomane, Tannah Naude, Sakile Odimo, Chinweizu Oham, Tehniyat Shaikh, Dominic Siaki, Fatih Yilmaz
Best Limited Series
Chairs: Marga Varea, Pegi Vail
Jurors: Andrea van Beuren, Enrique Pedráza-Botero, Inti Cordera, Patricia Drati, Ariana Garfinkel, Lynn Hughes, Noe Mendelle, Jiayan Jenny Shi, Martina Sönksen, Heather Trawick, Alia Ayman, Jill Dickerson, Martina Durac, Asako Gladsjo, Arsh Harjani, Mary Kerr, Amit Madheshiya, Nelson Makengo, Igor Myakotin, Ruth Somalo
Best Music Documentary
Chair: Melissa Haizlip
Jurors: Adam Dorn, Laurens Grant, Stacey L Holman, Leonard Joseph, Annukka Lilja, Dwayne Mann, Erik Martinez, Jakub Piatek, Joel Quizon, Steve Rivo, Tamara Shogaolu
Best Audio Documentary
Chairs: Beni Matías
Jurors: Megan Bradshaw, V Padma Priya Dharmavarapu, Dhashen Moodley , Ramsey G. Tesdell
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
Chair: Gilberto López
Jurors: Eliana Araúz, Tomas Cortes, Milko Delgado, Trillo Guardia, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Said Isaac, Sol Moreno, Karla Quintero, Antonio Andrés Rosello, Risseth Yangüez Singh
Pare Lorentz Award
Chair: Harrison Engle
Jurors: Dennis Dimick, Tilly Lorentz Grey, Christopher Lucas, David Resha, Treva Wurmfeld, Maciek Hamela
ABC News VideoSource Award
Chair: Anthony Perrone
Pre-Screening Committee
Olga Acevedo, Ayesha Bashir, Merrie Byers, Anjani Chadha, Natalia Dutkiewicz, Grace Gao, Julie Gaynin, Mateusz Golebiewski, Chrissy Griesmer, Kaitlin Harlow, Zulfiya Hamzaki, Meredith Hamm, Liisa Halloran, Claire Haughey, Katarzyna Kosajda, Chloe Kurabi, Ana Montgomery-Neutze, Eileen McNulty, Natalia Pośnik, Zofia Połaniewicz, Louie Poore, Talya Sky Plush, Emily Prins, Jakob Roston, Jasmine Ruffin, Sarah Sabatke, Andres Senra, Zoey Solomon, Grace M Sukanya, Zandra Sweeney, xiyan tan, Xinran Tong, Dominic Yarabe, Shucheng Yan, Xymena Zaręba, Anja Zalewska, Laura Zephirin, Weixin Zhuang
Credits
The Competition
Awards Competition Manager: Gabriella Ortega Ricketts
Awards Competition Supervisor: Zaferhan Yumru
The Awards Ceremony
Host: Adam Conover
Director: James Costa
Event Producer: Brian Davis, Gina Wade
Show Producer: Zaferhan Yumru
Script Supervisor: Eliza Skinner
Teleprompter: Tony Finnetti
Voice Announcer and Nominee Reel Producer: Sean Verchick
Graphic Design: Maria Hinds
Motion Graphics Design: Andrey Negron
Marketing & Communications: Zaferhan Yumru, Catalina Combs,Cielo Saucedo
Volunteer Manager: Armando Zamudio
Red Carpet Manager: Nadine Jolson
Trophies: Encore Awards
Seating Manager: Amy Staszkow
Seating: Anisa Hosseinezhad
ASL interpreters: Andréa Lust & Cathy Goodson
Photographers: Laura Ann Ahmad, Phil Faraone (Getty Images), Rodin Eckenroth (Getty Images)
Photo Editors: Daniele Iachella (Getty Images), Nicole Vasquez (Getty Images)
Livestream: Justin Lusignan