Producers of reality and documentary programming Authentic Entertainment have just signed on to be a Silver Sponsor of the 2011 IDA Documentary Awards. This annual fundraiser, which celebrates outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking, is pleased to have this first-time partnership with an organization that consistently produces award-winning non-fiction projects. Authentic joins ITVS, Stella Artois, Kodak and others to support an exciting night of celebration for our community and our esteemed nominees. The 27th annual IDA Documentary Awards is set for December 2, 2011 at the DGA
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At first glance, Danfung Dennis' Hell and Back Again gives the impression of a highly cinematic fiction film. Terrence Malick's latest war epic, perhaps? The filmmaker's access is so intimate, the sound design so engaging, and the imagery so arresting, it's unfathomable that the film could be shot, and the sound recorded, by one man. But it was. And its success is the result of a confluence of factors--right place, right time, right characters--but perhaps most remarkably, the filmmaker's unrelenting tenacity learned from years working as a war photographer, and the fairly recent development
"Before I met you," one Emmy-nominated, highly skilled documentary filmmaker said to me, "I thought a producer was just an accountant." Several years ago at the IDA Awards, an esteemed member of our community stood at the podium and made a crack about how when he takes a producer credit on his collaborator's films, "We all know what that means"--which is to say, he isn't doing much of anything. Everyone had a good laugh. And I can't tell you how many pitch meetings I've gone into as a potential documentary director, despite over 10 years of producing credits that also include cinematography
Best Feature, Best Short nominations and honorees announced.
From Ballets Russes Ballets Russes is the Follies of dance documentaries. Like that landmark musical, Ballets Russes begins with a reunion of the dancers of the legendary Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and examines the post-limelight lives of performers. The gathering in New Orleans in June 2000 was the impetus for this fascinating, scintillating and poignant anecdotal documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, which is screening in selected theaters through Zeitgeist Films. The great and beloved ballet dancer Frederic Franklin, now 90, said to the filmmakers, "I was not a hothouse flower,"
This past December, former IDA Board Member Marina Goldovskaya received the 2005 Laurel Prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Art of Documenting History from the Russian Association of Non-Fiction Film and Television. The prize honored Goldovskaya, one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers, for her work in documenting the country's history during moments of crucial change. Several of her films became important evidence of life during the totalitarian Soviet system. Goldovskaya, who lives in Los Angeles and teaches at UCLA, made a quick trip to Moscow between classes and finals
Three Bronx use their words to write their own stories.
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