Editor's Note: In the month leading up to the Academy Awards, we at IDA will be featuring articles — some new, some from our archives—about each of the nominees in the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject categories. Here is an article from the Winter 2013 issue of Documentary magazine about David France, director/producer of How to Survive a Plague . David France, the recipient of the 2012 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award, may be new to nonfiction media, but his roots as a journalist run long and deep. He started covering the AIDS epidemic at the very
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From Arnold Shapiro’s 1978 film Scared Straight! It's been said that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Not that you'll be unemployed, but work won't seem like work as you lose yourself in pursuit of your passions. In the case of Arnold Shapiro, the 2012 IDA Career Achievement Award winner, he's been doing what he loves — making films and television shows — since 1964. And he's still going strong with a new series about to air: I Forgive You on GMC. To be successful in television, Shapiro says, "It has to be an obsession. It has to be the majority of your life and
And the winner is...'American Masters'!
And the winner is...'On Death Row'!
And the winner is...'La Camioneta'!