Nominees Announced for 18th Annual IDA Awards
LOS ANGELES, October 16—The International DocumentaryAssociation (IDA) has announced that 34 films will vie for top honorsin the organization’s annual Distinguished DocumentaryAchievement Awards competition. Winners will be named at the 18thAnnual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Benefit Gala onDecember 13 at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in Hollywood.
“These nominees have earned the admiration of theirpeers,” says IDA President Michael Donaldson. “Each hasproduced a film that leaves an enduring impression. They haveestablished the contemporary standards for excellence in the art ofnon-fiction filmmaking.”
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards will be presented infour categories, including feature length films, short films, limitedseries (series of episodes with specific continuing theme, topic orsubject) and continuing series (a single program in an on-goingseries).
IDA will also present the ABCNEWS VideoSource Award to thedocumentary filmmaker(s) whose work best utilizes television newsfootage as an integral component of the work and the Pare Lorentz Awardwill be given to the film that best represents the activist spirit andlyrical vision of Pare Lorentz, who was the first recipient of an IDACareer Achievement Award.
The IDA Awards selection process began with peer group juries whoviewed all submissions to select nominees in each category for finalreview by a blue ribbon panel.
“IDA was founded 20 years ago by a handful of dedicated peoplewho envisioned an organization that could inspire and support thepursuit of excellence in non-fiction filmmaking,” says IDAExecutive Director Sandra Ruch. “These IDA Award finalists werechosen by our juries out of many excellent entries, and that in itselfis a realization of our founders’ dream.”
In addition to presenting the Distinguished Documentary AchievementAwards, the IDA will honor Ken Burns (Civil War, Statue of Liberty,Jazz etc.), who will receive the 2002 Career Achievement Award inrecognition of his substantial body of work. The IDA Scholarship andPreservation Award will be given to the Imperial War Museum forarchiving some 120,000 feet of historically significant film dating tothe 1890s. The IDA Pioneer Award will be presented to Agnès Vardafor distinguished lifetime achievements
Kodak has sponsored the IDA Awards since their inception in 1984.“Kodak has been an unfailing friend of IDA and its members for 18consecutive years,” says Ruch. “We owe them our thanks fortheir loyalty and commitment to excellence.”
For more information about IDA or to purchase tickets to the 2002IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards, visit www.documentary.org orcall 213-534-3600.
2002 IDA FEATURE LENGTHNOMINEES
- A Child’s Century of War
(Films Transit Int.)
Producer/Writer/Director: Shelley Saywell
Producer: Deborah Parks - Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
(Artisan Entertainment /HBO/Cinemax Doc. Films/South AfricanBroadcast Corporation)
Executive Producer: Sherry Simpson
Producer/Director: Lee Hirsch - Blue Vinyl
(HBO/Next Wave Films/Working Films)
Producers/Directors: Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand - Mai’s America
(POV/ITVS/Women Make Movies)
Producer/Director: Marlo Poras - Senorita Extraviada
(Women Make Movies)
Producer/Director: Lourdes Portillo - Sister Helen
(HBO/Cinemax)
Producers/Directors: Rebecca Cammisa, Rob Fruchtman - Small Town Ecstasy
(HBO)
Executive Producer: Arnold Shapiro
Director: Jay Blumenfield - Spellbound
(THINKFilm/HBO/Cinemax)
Producer/Director: Jeff Blitz
Producer: Sean Welch - Stealing the Fire
Directors: John S. Friedman, Eric Nadler
- Stone Reader
Producer/Director: Mark Moskowitz
Producer: Robert Goodman
IDA SHORT FILM NOMINEES
- At Journey’s Edge
(Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
Executive Producer/Director: John Murphy
Producer: Lynn Birkett - The Internationale
(First Run/Icarus Films)
Producer/Director: Peter Miller - Judy’s Time
(USC Graduate School of Cinema-Television)
Producer/Director/Writer: Erin Flannery - Smashed
(HBO)
Producers/Directors: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon - Shades of Gray
(Seventh Art Releasing)
Producer: Edward P. Stencel
Director: Tim DePaepe
IDA LIMITED SERIES NOMINEES
- American Experience: Woodrow Wilson
(WGBH Boston)
Director/Writer: Carl Byker
Director/Cinematographer: Mitch Wilson - Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Executive Producer: Daniel Yergin
Producer/Director: William Cran - Kindergarten
(HBO)
Producers/Directors: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon - Military Diaries
(VH1)
Executive Producer: R.J. Cutler
Supervising Producer: Laura Zucco Thompson - The Secret Life of the Brain
(Thirteen/WNET N.Y.)
Executive Producer: Beth Hoppe
Producer/Director/Writer: David Grubin
IDA CONTINUING SERIES NOMINEES
- American Experience: War Letters
(PBS Home Video)
Executive Producer: Margaret Drain
Producer/Director: Robert Kenner - Blue Planet: Seas of Life
(Discovery/BBC)
Executive Producer: Maureen Lemire
Series Producer: Alastair Fothergill - Inside Pol Pot’s Secret Prison
(The History Chan.)
Executive Producer: Bill Brummel
Producer: Greg DeHart - Super Surgery: First Breath
(Discovery Health Channel/LMNO Productions)
Executive Producers: Bill Paolantonio, Eric Schotz - NOVA: Shackleton’s Voyage of Endurance
(WGBH Boston/PBS)
Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Producers: Sarah Holt, Kelly Tyler
ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARDNOMINEES
- Age of Terror
(Discovery Networks International)
Executive Producer: Bettina Hatami
Series Producer: Jon Blair - Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
(Artisan Entertainment /HBO/Cinemax Doc. Films/South AfricanBroadcast Corporation)
Executive Producer: Sherry Simpson
Producer/Director: Lee Hirsch - Bringing Down a Dictator
Executive Producer: Peter Ackerman
Producer/Writer/Director: Steve York - Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Executive Producer: Daniel Yergin
Producer/Director: William Cran - Hell in the Pacific
(TLC/Carlton Int. Media)
Executive Producer: Polly Bride
Writer/Producer/Director: Jonathan Lewis - In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01
(HBO)
Producers: Brad Grey, John Hoffman, Sheila Nevins - Inside Pol Pot’s Secret Prison
(The History Chan.)
Executive Producer: Bill Brummel
Producer: Greg DeHart - The Internationale
(First Run/Icarus Films)
Producer/Director: Peter Miller - The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
(HBO/Black Canyon Prod)
Exec. Producers: Ross Greenberg, Rick Bernstein - The Trials of Henry Kissinger
(BBC)
Producer/Writer: Alex Gibney
Producer/Director: Eugene Jarecki
THE PARE LORENTZ AWARD NOMINEES
- Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
(PBS)
Producer/Director/Writer: Ric Burns
Producer: Marilyn Ness - Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
(Artisan Entertainment /HBO/Cinemax Doc. Films/South AfricanBroadcast Corporation)
Executive Producer: Sherry Simpson
Producer/Director: Lee Hirsch - American Experience: War Letters
(PBS Home Video)
Executive Producer: Margaret Drain
Producer/Director: Robert Kenner - At Journey’s Edge
(Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
Executive Producer/Director: John Murphy
Producer: Lynn Birkett - Blue Planet: Seas of Life
(Discovery/BBC)
Executive Producer: Maureen Lemire
Series Producer: Alastair Fothergill - In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01
(HBO)
Producers: Brad Grey, John Hoffman, Sheila Nevins - The Internationale
(First Run/Icarus Films)
Producer/Director: Peter Miller - Lost World of the Holy Land
(Thirteen/WNET NY, National Geographic TV)
Producer: Jill Shinefield
Producer/Director/Writer: Gail Willumsen - Sin Libertad
Director/Writer: Iñaki Arteta
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