Winter 2012

The 2011 IDA Awards Issue Winter 2012

In which we recognize Les Blank for his achievements throughout the year, and honor 2011's best in documentary filmmaking.

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Features

2011 IDA Documentary Awards: Creative Recognition Awards

The Creative Recognition Awards honor creative...

By IDA Editorial Staff

2011 Pare Lorentz Award Winner: 'The Last Mountain'

This award recognizes films that demonstrate...

By IDA Editorial Staff

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is...'Guanape Sur'!

By IDA Editorial Staff

Humanitas Documentary Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is...'Position Among the Stars'!

By IDA Editorial Staff

ABCNews VideoSource Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is...'The Pruitt-Igoe Myth'!

By IDA Editorial Staff

Best Limited Series Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is...'Boomtown.'

By IDA Editorial Staff

Best Continuing Series Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is...'POV'!

By IDA Editorial Staff

Best Short Documentary Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is...'Poster Girl'!

By IDA Editorial Staff

Best Feature Award Nominees 2011

And the winner is..."Nostalgia for the Light.'

By IDA Editorial Staff

2011 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award--Ethics Amidst the Fog of War: Danfung Dennis

The chopping sound of helicopter blades hovers...

By Justin Ridgeway

2011 Career Achievement Award--Visionary Wayfarer: Les Blank

Like almost all of the subjects he has explored in...

By Taylor Segrest

The West Memphis Three, Subjects of 'Paradise Lost' Trilogy, Released from Arkansas Prison

Berlinger and Sinosky film hearing and dismissal...

By IDA Editorial Staff

Columns

Playback: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter's 'Cosmos'

By John Valadez

Creators vs. Consumers: Reclaiming the Conversation About Copyright

By Cynthia Close

Documenting Film Preservation: 'These Amazing Shadows'

By Bob Fisher

Notes from the Reel World: The Executive Director's Column, Winter 2011

By Michael Lumpkin

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Winter 2011

By Tom White