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The IDA Announces Nominations For the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards

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Penn Jillette to Host the Gala Event Celebrating Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking

LOS ANGELES, October 22, 2012–The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced nominations for the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards today. This 28th edition of the world’s most prestigious awards for nonfiction filmmaking takes place on Friday, December 7th at the Director’s Guild in Los Angeles. Penn Jillette, the renowned illusionist, comedian, musician and best-selling author, will host the ceremony.

“This year’s documentaries have once again shown us the power of the documentary art form.” said IDA Executive Director Michael Lumpkin, “The record number of submissions we received reflects the cultural relevance of documentary storytelling.”

The five films nominated in IDA’s Feature category are: THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon’s compelling recounting of the high profile trial and wrongful conviction of five young men in one of New York’s most sensational criminal cases; THE INVISIBLE WAR, Kirby Dick’s exposé of the staggering prevalence of rape in the military, and the profound consequences for those who experience it or try to report it; QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, Lauren Greenfield’s portrait of a modern day Gilded Age family and inside look at the world inhabited only by the super-rich; SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Malik Bendjelloul’s surprising and uplifting story of the power of music and one man’s journey from obscurity; and WOMEN WITH COWS, Peter Gerdehag’s observational study of the intricate and painful relationship between two sisters bound together by the family farm.

The five nominated films in the Short category are Rebecca Cammisa’s GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS, the story of Dolores Hart’s transformation from 60’s starlet to Mother Prioress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis; KINGS POINT, Sari Gilman’s poignant portrayal of the denizens of a Florida retirement community; MONDAYS AT RACINE, Cynthia Wade’s story of a Long Island hair salon that provides compassion, inspiration and community to women diagnosed with cancer; OPEN HEART, Kief Davidson’s chronicle of young heart patients in Rwanda and the doctors fighting to save them; and SAVING FACE, Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s story of Pakistani women who have survived acid attacks, and the doctor who returns to Pakistan to help them.

Winners in the Best Feature and Best Short categories are selected by IDA’s membership. Screening committees of industry professionals based in New York City, Washington, DC, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles determine other award categories.

Three series are nominated for the Continuing Series Award: AMERICAN MASTERS (THIRTEEN), INDEPENDENT LENS (ITVS), POV (American Documentary | POV). Limited Series nominees are: BOMB PATROL: AFGHANISTAN (NBC/G4), GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (HBO), ON DEATH ROW (Investigation Discovery), SLAVERY: A 21ST CENTURY EVIL (Al Jazeera English), THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION (HBO).

Nominees for the HUMANITAS Documentary Award, given to a documentarian whose film strives to unify the human family by exploring cultural differences, are: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE AMISH (David Belton, Director), BITTER SEEDS (Micha X. Peled, Director), CALL ME KUCHU (Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Directors), HARVEST OF EMPIRE (Peter Getzel, Eduardo Lopez, Directors), and THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME (Namir Abdel Messeeh, Director). Five student films are nominated for the DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD: THE A-WORD (Lindsay Ellis, Director), LA CAMIONETA (Mark Kendall, Director), CAPTIVE RADIO (Lauren Rosenfeld, Director), JULIAN (Bao Nguyen, Director), and MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI (Benjamin Kahlmeyer, Director).

Nominees for the ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD, which recognizes the use of news footage in documentary filmmaking include: BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY (Raymond De Felitta, Director), THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Directors/PBS), THE FAMILY (Hussein Elrazzaz, Director/Al Jazeera English), HARVEST OF EMPIRE (Peter Getzel, Eduardo Lopez, Directors), and WE ARE WISCONSIN (Amie Williams, Director).

The host of the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards, Penn Jillette, is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy® Award­winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from HOWARD STERN to GLENN BECK to the Op-Ed pages of THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and the LOS ANGELES TIMES. He has appeared on DANCING WITH THE STARS, MTV CRIBS and CHELSEA LATELY, and hosted the NBC game show IDENTITY. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on DAVID LETTERMAN, as well as on several other TV shows, from THE SIMPSONS and FRIENDS to TOP CHEF and JIMMY FALLON. He co-hosts the controversial series PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT!, which has been nominated for sixteen Emmy® Awards. His documentary, THE ARISTOCRATS, features 100 top comics telling their version of the world’s dirtiest joke and was a 2005 official Sundance entry.

In addition to recognizing the year’s best in documentary filmmaking and nonfiction programming, the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards will honor producer Arnold Shapiro with the organization’s Career Achievement Award, and present The Sundance Institute’s groundbreaking Documentary Film Program and Fund with the Pioneer Award, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to advancing the non-fiction form and providing exceptional vision and leadership to the documentary community.

For more information, tickets and sponsorship opportunities for the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards go to: http://www.documentary.org/awards2012.

About the IDA Documentary Awards

The annual IDA Documentary Awards Gala is the world’s most prestigious award event solely dedicated to documentary film. For almost three decades, IDA has produced this annual celebration to recognize the most groundbreaking documentary films of the year. In addition to honoring both individuals and organizations for outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking and contributions to the field, the IDA Documentary Awards also recognizes the year’s best documentary productions.

About the International Documentary Association

Founded in 1982, the International Documentary Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that supports documentary filmmaking worldwide. At IDA, we believe that the power and artistry of the documentary art form are vital to cultures and societies globally, and we exist to serve the needs of those who create this art form. IDA is the portal into the world of documentary filmmaking. We provide up-to-date news, information and community through our website, documentary.org, our various special events, and our quarterly publication, Documentary Magazine. Our main program areas are Advocacy, Filmmaker Services, Education and Public Programs & Events.

 

 

2012 IDA Documentary Awards Nominations

 

BEST FEATURE AWARD NOMINEES

 

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE

Directors/Producers/Writers: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon

Executive Producer: Ken Burns

Florentine Films, Sundance Selects, PBS

 

THE INVISIBLE WAR

Director/Writer: Kirby Dick

Producers: Amy Ziering, Tanner King Barklow

Executive Producers: Regina Kulik Scully, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Sarah Johnson Redlich,

Women Donors Network, Teddy Leifer, Sally Jo Fifer, Nicole Boxer-Keegan

Co-Executive Producer: Kimball Stroud

Cinedigm and Docurama Films

 

QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

Director: Lauren Greenfield

Producers: Lauren Greenfield, Danielle Renfrew Behrens

Executive Producers: Frank Evers, Dan Cogan

Co-Producer: Rebecca Horn Black

Evergreen Pictures, Magnolia Pictures

 

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

Director/Producer/Writer: Malik Bendjelloul

Producer: Simon Chinn

Executive Producer: John Battsek

Red Box Films, Sony Pictures Classics

 

WOMEN WITH COWS

Director: Peter Gerdehag

Producers: Tell Aulin, Lasse Rengfelt

Writers: Tell Aulin, Malcolm Dixelius

Executive Producer: Malcolm Dixelius

Deep Sea Productions

 

BEST SHORT AWARD NOMINEES

 

GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS

Director/Producer: Rebecca Cammisa

Producer: Julie Anderson

Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein

Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins

HBO Documentary Films

 

KINGS POINT

Director/Producer: Sari Gilman

Producers: Jedd Wider, Todd Wider

Co-Producer: Susannah Ludwig

Kings Point Documentary/Wider Film Projects

 

MONDAYS AT RACINE

Director/Producer: Cynthia Wade

Producer: Robin Honan

Co-Producer: Vanessa Bergonzoli

Supervising Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)

Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)

Cynthia Wade Productions

 

OPEN HEART

Director: Kief Davidson

Producers: Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern

Executive Producers: Geralyn Dreyfous, Rick Rosenthal, Nancy Stephens, Eric Dobkin, Barbara Dobkin,

Sean Mewshaw, Desi Van Til, Damon Lindelof, Heidi Lindelof

Urban Landscapes Productions, Whitewater Films, Believe Media

 

SAVING FACE

Director: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Producers: David Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sabiha Sumar

Co-Producers: Aaron Kopp, Fazeelat Aslam

Senior Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)

Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)

HBO Documentary Films, Milkhaus, LLC, and JungeFilm, LLC

 

BEST CONTINUING SERIES AWARD NOMINEES

 

AMERICAN MASTERS

Executive Producer: Susan Lacy

Series Producer: Prudence Glass

Supervising Producer: Julie Sacks

Coordinating Producer: Junko Tsunashima

THIRTEEN in association with PBS

 

INDEPENDENT LENS

Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer

Senior Series Producer: Lois Vossen

Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with PBS

 

POV

Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry

Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia López

VP of Programming & Production: Chris White

Series Producer: Yance Ford

Coordinating Producer: Andrew Catauro

American Documentary | POV in association with PBS

 

BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD NOMINEES

 

BOMB PATROL: AFGHANISTAN

Executive Producers: Dan Cesareo, Doug DePriest, Vince DiPersio, Laura Civiello, Tim Rummel

Series Producers: Kathryn Gilbert, Joe Venafro

Producers/Shooters: Joe Venafro, Christopher Whiteneck, David D’Angelo, Scott Stoneback

Big Fish Entertainment for NBC/G4 Media, Inc.

 

GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

Director/Producer: Martin Scorsese

Executive Producers: Scott Pascucci (Grove Street), Emma Tillinger Koskoff (Sikelia Productions), Margaret Bodde

Producers: Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair

Supervising Producer: Blair Foster

Grove Street Pictures, Spitfire Pictures, and Sikelia Productions in association with HBO Documentary Films

 

 

ON DEATH ROW

Director/Writer: Werner Herzog

Producer: Erik Nelson

Coordinating Producer: Robert Erickson

Executive Producers: Dave Harding, Amy Briamonte; Andre Singer and Lucki Stipetic (Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film); Nick Raslan (Skellig Rock); Henry Schleiff and Sara Kozak (Investigation Discovery)

Creative Differences, Investigation Discovery

 

SLAVERY: A 21ST CENTURY EVIL

Directors: David Hickman, Tim Tate, Tom Phillips

Executive Producer: Jon Blair

Series Producer: Tim Tate

Al Jazeera English

 

 

THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION

Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins, John Hoffman

Series Producers: John Hoffman, Dan Chaykin, Sarah Teale, Tomek Gross, Alexandra Moss, Sonia Dulay Ricci

HBO Documentary Films and the Institute of Medicine, in association with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, and in partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente

 

 

DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD NOMINEES

 

 

THE A-WORD

Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Lindsay Ellis

Producers: Kaveh Taherian, Clarinda Morales

University of Southern California

 

LA CAMIONETA

Director/Producer/Writer: Mark Kendall

Producer: Rafael González

Writer: Shannon Kennedy

Executive Producer: Esther Robinson

School of Visual Arts

 

CAPTIVE RADIO

Director/Producer/Writer: Lauren Rosenfeld

University of California, Berkeley

 

JULIAN

Director/Producer/Writer: Bao Nguyen

Executive Producer: Maryann De Leo

School of Visual Arts

 

MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI

Director: Benjamin Kahlmeyer

Producer: Boris Frank

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

 

 

ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

 

BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY

Director: Raymond De Felitta

Producer: David Zellerford

Executive Producers: Lynn Roer, Steven Beer

Eyepatch Productions/Ogilvy, Hangover Lounge, Tribeca Film

 

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE

Directors/Producers/Writers: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon

Executive Producer: Ken Burns

Florentine Films, Sundance Selects, PBS

 

THE FAMILY

Director: Hussein Elrazzaz

Executive Producer: Jon Blair

Al Jazeera English

 

HARVEST OF EMPIRE

Directors: Peter Getzels, Eduardo López

Producers: Wendy Thompson-Marquez, Eduardo López

Onyx Films, EVS Communications, Loquito Productions

 

WE ARE WISCONSIN

Director: Amie Williams

Producers: Kathryn Takis, Doug Pray

Executive Producers: Marge Tabankin, Bill Hirsch, Scott Verges

Bal Maiden Films, Peer Review Pictures, Public Interest Pictures

 

HUMANITAS DOCUMENTARY AWARD

 

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE AMISH

Director: David Belton

Producers: David Belton, Callie T. Wiser

Writer: David Belton

Senior Producer: Sharon Grimberg

Executive Producer: Mark Samels

Sarah Colt Productions for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, PBS

 

BITTER SEEDS

Director/Producer: Micha X. Peled

Teddy Bear Films

 

CALL ME KUCHU

Directors/Writers: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Producer: Malika Zouhali-Worrall

New Video

 

HARVEST OF EMPIRE

Directors: Peter Getzels, Eduardo López

Producers: Wendy Thompson-Marquez, Eduardo López

Onyx Films, EVS Communications, Loquito Productions

 

THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME

Director/Producer/Writer:  Namir Abdel Messeeh

Writers: Nathalie Najern, Anne Paschetta

OWEDA Films, Doha Film Institute, Doc & Film International

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