2003 IDA Documentary Awards Nominees
By Tom White
Nominees: 19th Annual IDA DISTINGUISHED DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2003
Feature Documentaries
Balseros
Maria Jose Solera, Tom Roca, Loris Omedes, Carlos Bosch, Josep M. Domenech
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Seventh Art Releasing, Televisio Catalunya, Bausan Films
Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Charles Guggenheim, Grace Guggenheim
PBS Home Video, CS Associates, Guggenheim Productions Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Jennifer Rogen
Magnolia Pictures, HBO Documentary Films
Das Leben Geht Weiter (Life Goes On)
Carl Schmit, Mark Cairns
Starcrest Media GMBH
The Day I Will Never Forget
Kim Longinotto, Richard McKerrow, Paul Hamann
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Women Make Movies
Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life & Work of Piri Thomas
Jonathan Robinson
Independent Television Service (ITVS) , Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Andre Singer, Hal Vogel, Vikram Jayanti
Alliance Atlantis, National Film Board of Canada (NFBC)
Lost Boys of Sudan
Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Sundance Documentary Fund, ITVS, American Documentary, Inc., CS Associates, PBS/P.O.V.
Lost in La Mancha
Lucy Darwin, Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
IFC Films, Optimum Releasing, Hart Et Court
My Flesh And Blood
Jennifer Chaiken, Jonathan Karsh
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Strand Releasing, CBC, BBC, RTSI, VTM, TV2 Denmark, HBO Latin America, Noga Communications
Tupac: Resurrection
Afeni Shakur, Van Toffler, Lauren Lazin
MTV Films, Amaru Entertainment, Inc., Paramount Pictures
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
David Power, Rod Stoneman, Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Power Pictures, RTE, The Irish Film Board, BBC, ZDF, ARTE, NPS, CoBO, YLE
The Weather Underground
Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Bill Siegel
Shadow Distribution, Films We Like, Roco Films, ITVS
IDA/ABCNEWS VideoSource Award
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Murder of Emmett Till
Stanley Nelson, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH,PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Tupperware!
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH, PBS
AMERICAN MASTERS: Robert Capa in Love and War
Susan Lacy, Anne Makepeace
Thirteen/WNET New York, Films Transit
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer
PBS/P.O.V., California Newsreel, ITVS, NBPC
Bus 174
Jose Padilha, Marcos Prado
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, THINKFilm
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Jordan Mechner, Don Normark, Andrew B. Anderson, Mark Moran
Khachaturian
Peter Rosen
Seventh Art Releasing
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
HBO Family, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Morning Sun
Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon, Germie R. Barme
NAATA, Jane Balfour Ltd
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Martin Smith, Scott Pearson, Greg Palmer
TWI, Carlton, KCTS Television
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
David Power, Rod Stoneman, Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Power Pictures, RTE, The Irish Film Board, BBC, ZDF, ARTE, NPS, CoBO, YLE
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Bill Jersey, Richard Wormser, Sam Pollard, William Grant
California Newsreel, PBS, Thirteen/WNET New York, National Endowment Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Weather Underground
Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Bill Siegel
ITVS, Shadow Distribution, PBS, Films We Like, Roco Films
Pare Lorentz Award
A Kalahari Family: Death by Myth
John Marshall, Lorna Marshall
Documentary Educational Resources
Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Charles Guggenheim, Grace Guggenheim
PBS Home Video, CS Associates, Guggenheim Productions Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer
PBS/P.O.V., California Newsreel, ITVS, NBPC
The Day I Will Never Forget
Kim Longinotto, Richard McKerrow, Paul Hammon
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Women Make Movies
Flip Flotsam
Etienne Oliff, Lucy Bateman
Morning Sun
Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon, Germie R. Barme
NATA, Jane Balfour Ltd.
Sooner or Later
Theres Scherer-Kollbrunner, Juerg Neuenschwander
Container TV AG, Filmcoopi Zürich AG, Carav Film AG, SF DRS, SRG SSR idee suisse, ARTE GEIE
Urk
Andrew Berends
Storyteller Productions, LifeSize Entertainment & Releasing
Continuing Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Murder of Emmett Till
Stanley Nelson, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH,PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Seabiscuit
Stephen Ives, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH, PBS
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Tupperware!
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH,PBS
AMERICAN MASTERS: Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Susan Lacy, Stephanie Bennett
Thirteen/WNET New York, Eagle Rock Entertainment LTD
AMERICAN MASTERS: Robert Capa in Love and War
Susan Lacy, Anne Makepeace
Thirteen/WNET New York, Muse Film and Television, Films Transit International
Limited Series
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Jimmy Carter
Margaret Drain, Adriana Bosch
American Experience/ WGBH, PBS
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Thomas Lennon, Bill Moyers
Public Affairs Television
The Long Grey Line: The Spirit of West Point
Rob Lihani, Arthur Drooker
The History Channel
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Martin Smith
KCTS Television
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Bill Jersey, Richard Wormser, Sam Pollard
California Newsreel, PBS, National Endowment Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Short Documentaries
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Jordan Mechner, Mark Moran
Flip Flotsam
Etienne Oliff, Lucy Bateman
Foo-Foo Dust
Gina Levy, Eric Johnson
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
HBO Family, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Ocularist
David Allen Cress, Vance Malone
IDA/David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award
BOM-EE-O-MYUN (Waiting For Spring
Jeansang Lee, Sue-Yeon Jung
Columbia College, Chicago
Desiree
Mark R. Walker
VCA School of Film and TV, Melbourne, Australia
Girl Wrestler
Diane Zander
University of Texas at Austin
Nutria
Ted Gesing
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Doughnut Shop
Wook Steven Heo
Syracuse University