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IDA Awards: More Memorable Moments...in Black and White!

By Tom White

IDA's own Meg Madison snapped some elegant black-and-white photos of the IDA Awards after-party that, in their elegance, gives one the impression that the party actually took place in a simpler time, before many of us were born; perhaps while Truman Capote was throwing his Black and White Ball on the East Coast, this alternative universe of revelers on the Left Coast was throwing its own fete, the true impact of which we wouldn't be feeling until some 40 years later! In the photo above are Anvil director Sacha Gervasi (middle) and Anvil star Steve 'Lips" Kudlow, along with a friend. Here are some more:

IDA Awards host Ira Glass (right) shares a private moment with composer--and Ira's cousin--Philip Glass.

Current Media journalist Euna Lee, who, with colleague Laura Ling, presented a "Courage Under Fire" Tribute to those journalists and filmmakers who had lost their lives in 2009 in pursuit of the truth.
 
IDA President Eddie Schmidt (right) chatting with actor/radio pundit Harry Shearer.
 
 
IDA Executive Director Michael Lumpkin (right) with Michael Selditch, director/executive producer of Limited Series Award-winning Architecture School.

And for a link to the entire slide show, click here.

And prior to the IDA Awards, the good folks at Eastman Kodak hosted their annual IDA Awards Luncheon for the honorees and nominees, as well as IDA Board and staff. Many thanks to Michael Zakula and Candace Chatmon for their continued support of the IDA. Here are some pix from that event--in color this time around--courtesy of the indefatigable Meg Madison.

 

Anvil frontmen Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner flank Irene Taylor Brodsky, director/producer of the Pare Loentz Award-winning The Final Inch.

Irene Taylor Brodsky with Mai Iskander, director/producer/cinematographer/writer of the IDA/Humanitas Award winner, Garbage Dreams.

 

Pioneer Award honoree Nicolas Noxon (right) with Robert Kenner, director/producer of Feature Documentary Nominee Food, Inc.

The Feature Documentary Nominees--left to right: Klaas Bense, director/writer, Diary of a Times Square Thief; Robert Kenner, director/producer, Food, Inc.; Sacha Gervasi, director, Anvil! The Story of Anvil; Havana Marking, director/producer, Afghan Star. Not pictured: Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, directors, Mugabe and the White African.