The third annual Cinema Eye Honors, which salute the art and craft of nonfiction filmmaking, has moved from its post-Oscars/pre-Spring slot of the past two years, to January, thereby positioning the program in a prime calendar spot between the IDA Awards and the IFP Gotham Awards in December and the Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Awards nominations in January and February.
The nominees for the Cinema Eye Honors will be announced in November at Sheffield Doc/Fest, along with the exact date in January of the awards show..
In addition, the Cinema Eye team expanded beyond founder/filmmaker AJ Schnack and chair Thom Powers, documentary programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival, to include filmmaker Esther Robinson (A Walk into the Sea), Rachel Rosen, the newly appointed director of programming at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and Andrea Meditch, executive producer of Man on Wire and Encounters at the End of the World. Robinson, Rosen and Schnack will serve as chairs of the 2010 event, while Meditch will chair the Advisory Board and Powers, the nominations committee.
"While the first two years of Cinema Eye were largely about establishing and maintaining the awards event, we are now looking forward to the future of the organization and I'm incredibly excited to kick off year three with this outstanding team in place," Schnack said in a statement.