39th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Judging Committee Chairs and Members
This year, the IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees were selected by independent committees of 280 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40 countries. IDA received 669 total submissions in all categories from 48 countries. Nominations for the IDA Documentary Awards are established through an independent judging process. Judging committees review films, series and audio documentaries without any participation or input from sponsors, production companies or distributors. To maintain fairness and integrity, judges do not review any films in which they partake or have vested interest.
Feature Documentary
Chairs: Koval Bhatia, Daniel Chein, James Costa, Lauren DeFilippo, Milton Guillen, Marángeli Mejía-Rabell, Cameron Quevedo, Sam Soko
Jurors: Rishika Advani, Rachel Bardin, Abner Benaim, Mathilde Bittner, Martín Blanco, Isabelle Carbonell, Julian Carrington, Julian Cautherley, Alfredo Chiarappa, Andrea Chignoli, Sandra Contreras, Elizabeth D. Costa, Sannii Crespina-Flores, Milo Daemgen, Tamir Elterman, Moisés Esparza, Eliza Fortes, Yanis Gaye, Traci Hercher, Mateus Hueb, Nyasha Kadandara, Rumbi Katedza, Abhay Kumar, Besma Lachhab, Vadim Lasca, Kate Lemberg, Anne Lewis, Justin Lewis, Lauren Lexton, Violeta Lockhart, Nora Long, Maida Lynn, Amit Madheshiya, Hatibu Madudu, Bethania Maia, M’Daya Meliani, Linton Melita, Hind Mezaina, Seggen Mikael, Arturo Montenegro, Julie Morris, Peter Murimi, Eynar Pineda, Savyasachi Anju Prabir, Mary Jirmanus Saba, Nevo Shinaar, Mohamed Siam, Juan Souki, Rolla Tahir, Medhin Tewolde, Vanessa Tsehaye, Nicole Tsien, Harry Vaughn, Ketih A. Wallace, Joanna Wright, Mostafa Youssef
Short Documentary
Chairs: Laura Bermúdez, Sue Ding, Shilpi Gulati
Jurors: Farid Ahmad, Elvis Caj, Marcela Zamora Chamorro, Guisel Contreras, Celina Escher, Sarah Garrahan, Jessica Guifarro, Sonali Gulati, César Hernández, Sihle Hlophe, Rajan Kathet, Tahiat Mahboob, Nida Mehboob, Mina Nabil, Angela J. Park, Adrianna Quena, Adrian Q. Randall, Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz, Youssef Sanheji, María Luisa Santos, Norbert Shieh, Lourdes Mary Supriya, Anais Taracena, Andrea Soledad Arauz Torres, Natalia Solorzano Vaquez, Duiren Wagua, Nundrisha Wakhloo, Hao Zhou
Curated Series
Chairs: Emily Abi-Kheirs, Brenda Ávila-Hanna
Jurors: Juan Pedro Agurcia, Daniel Díaz, Margje De Koning, Faridah Gbadamosi, Luma Haj-Heithoff, Devin Karambelas, Colleen Thurston, Melina Tupa
Episodic Series
Chair: Denise Khumalo
Jurors: Imani Dlamini, Daphne Gabriel, Janice Khumalo, Stanford Khumalo, Victor Mendoza, Jillian Molin, Sakile Odimo, Michael Owens, Kendall Packman, Gina Parris, Marco Peralta, Valerio Viale, Fatih Yilmaz, Alamin Yohannes
Multi-Part Documentary
Chairs: Pegi Vail, Marga Varea
Jurors: Maríssa Aroy, Alia Ayman, Jill Dickerson, Corinne van Egeraat, Cass Gardiner, Ariana Garfinkel, Laetitia Giansily-Doyle, Asako Gladsjo, Arsh Harjani, Mary Kerr, Nelson Makengo, Rachel Lauren Mueller, Igor Myakotin, Enrique Pedraza-Botero, Amanda Pike, Jiayan "Jenny" Shi, Martina Sönksen, Ruth Somalo
Short Form Series
Chairs: Amelia Hanibelsz
Jurors: Aja Beckham, Riham Ezzaldeen, Tatiana McCabe, Kathleen Montero, Monica Mwangi, Brian Ryu, Sophie Schrago, Hemal Trivedi, Cydney Tucker
Audio Documentary
Chairs: Rhea Chedid, Josephine Karianjahi
Jurors: Jasmin Bauomy, Megan Bradshaw, Firas Abou Fakher, Laura Ubaté González, Stephanie Kuo, Dhashen Moodley, Christine Mwaturura, Efevero Catherine Odudu, Ramsey Tesdell, Radhika Viswanathan
Best Music Documentary
Chair: Melissa Haizlip
Jurors: Adam Dorn, Laurens Grant, Stacey L. Holman, Evan Joseph, Annukka Lilja, Dwayne Mann,Joel Quizon, Josh Ralph, Steve Rivo
TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series
Chair: Cynthia Kane
Jurors: Hiran Balasuriya, Asha Boston, Cathy R. Fischer, Lisa Scott Gordon, Diana Holtzberg, Elizabeth Lawrence, Mitch Levine, Argyro Nicolaou, Remoy Philip, Leslie Siben, Laurence Uebersfeld, Lohn Warburton
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
Chair: Gilberto Loffer
Jurors: Jonathan Rangel Alleyne, Eliana Arauz, Carolina Borrero, Meilyn Esquivel, Juan Roberto Albarran Gonzalez, Said Isaac, Iván Jaripio , Enea Lebrun, Luis Lorenzo-Trujillo, Jose Manuel Lopez Vega, Risseth Yangüez, Juan Said Isaac Zepeda
Best Cinematography Award
Chair: Natasha Nair
Jurors: Jennifer Boles, Adamu T. Chan, Shanshan Chen, Camila Guarda, Patricia Velásquez Guzmán, John Haley, Danny Kim, Mollie Moore, Rodolfo Castillo Morales, Rahul Nair, Aarti Prashant Trikannad
Best Editing Award
Chairs: Katrina De Vera, Kristina Motwani
Jurors: Michael Abitz, Hina Ali, Claire Ave'Lallemant, Gian Cassini, Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros, Alvaro Torres Crespo, Andrea Cruz, Rebecca Adorno Dávila, Raúl Rodrigo Zendejas Escandón, Juan José Cid Fernandez, Andrew Garbus, Julie Gaynin, Meryl Goodwin, Aleksandra Markovic, Michaelle McGaraghan, Liz Perlman, Khalid Shamis, Toby Shimin, Susannah H. Smith, Gian Franco Oleg Cassini Tristán, Juli Vizza, Rabab Haj Yahya
Best Music Score Award
Chair: Jonathan Zalben
Jurors: Miguel Bezanilla, Ramachandra Borcar, Ed Gerrard, Andrew Gross, JoAnne Harris, Robert Honstein, Pat Irwin, D.D. Jackson, Taylor Krauss, Vivek Maddala, Alex Steyermark
Best Writing Award
Chair: Victor Buhler
Jurors: Ilinca Calugareanu, Enmanuel Martínez Cornó, Sam French, Chloe Genga, Bérénice Hahn, Taryn Joffe, Omri Kruvi, Grace Lin, Ruolin Luyo, Akuol de Mabior, Lorenzo Mora Salazar
Pare Lorentz Award
Chair: Harrison Engle
Jurors: Dennis Dimick, Tilly Lorentz Grey, Hilary Hoagland Grey, Christopher Lucas, David Resha, Shaunak Sen
ABC News VideoSource Award
Chair: Anthony Perrone
Pre-Screening Committee
Saeideh Akhkan, Lucas Anotado, Thaakirah Behardien, Alessandra Berti, Tayontae Calloway, Bri Chappelear, LuvLeighAn Clark, Chayce Donovan, Lydia Erickson, Catherine Finsness, Barbara Ghammashi, Michael Graziano, Solveig Herzum, Lonnie Moore III, Sydney Johnson, Benjamin Kodboel, Hannah Levin, Merry May Ma, JT Madden, Kai McNeil, Eileen McNulty, Kayoko Nakamura, Nu Nguyen, Kulsoom Rizavi, Taylor Rogers, Jakob Roston, Austin Russell, Nancy Burneo Salazar, Christine Seow, Taige Shi, Victoria Silman, Indira S. Somani, Tatiana Stark, Melina Tupa, Jinglin Zeng
Credits
The Competition
Awards Competition Supervisor – Ken Ikeda
Awards Competition Coordinator - Justin Nguyen
The Awards Show
Director, Producer, Writer – Zaferhan Yumru
Editor – Sarah Garrahan
Motion Graphics Designer – Andrey Negrón
Art Direction – Maria Hinds
Voicover Artists – Raul Campos, Tyler Boudreaux
ASL Interpreter – Andréa Lust
Production Assistants – Armando Zamudio, Justin Nguyen, Terence Johnson
Media Partners – KCRW, Variety