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Awards Roundup: April 20-28, 2010
Posted: Apr. 28, 2010 Sign-in to Comment Bookmark and Share

 

Last week's Awards Roundup included a number of honorees from the South; The Nashville Film Festival had yet to tally up its audience awards by the time we posted, but we have the results this week, along with the jury prizes. Jim Bingham's For Once in My Life, about the Miami-based Spirit of Goodwill Band, made up of performers with mental and physical disabilities, picked up two awards-the Audience Award and the Gibson Impact of Music Award, while Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, the highest grossing doc of all time in New Zealand theaters, shared the Audience Award and took the Best GLBT Film prize.

The FOCAL International Awards, which honor usage of archival footage, as well as those who preserve it and those who research it, took place Tuesday night. The results are below.

 

1)      Awards

FOCAL International Awards
Best Use of Footage in Factual Productions:
Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil (BBC)
JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America (New Animal Productions for History)
Monsieur Under the Banners(AMIP)

Best Use of Footage in an Arts, Music or Drama Production:
Legends: The Motown Invasion (BBC Wales)

Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Stock Footage:
Shark Nicole (NHNZ)
Best Use of Sports Footage:
Empire of Cricket (BBC)

Best Use of Footage in an Educational or Corporate Production:
Witness: Apartheid, South Africa (BBC)

Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release:
Henri-Georges Clousot's Inferno (Lobster Films

Best Use of Footage on Non-Television Platforms:
It Felt Like a Kiss (BBC)

Best Use of Footage in a Home Video release:
Over Our Dead Bodies (Stewkley Film Archive)

The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award:
Barry Purkis: The Lost World of Communism (BBC)

 

Footage Library Person of the Year: Robin James (BBC Motion Gallery)

Footage Library of the Year: AP Archive

Lifetime Achievement Award: David Atkinson (Prime Focus)

 

Gaybie Awards
Best Gay Documentary: Outrage (Dir.: Kirby Dick)

 

German Film Awards (German Film Academy)
Best Documentary: The Heart of Jenin (Dirs.: Marcus Vetter, Leon Geller)

 

Slnko v Sieti Film Awards (The Slovak Film and Television Academy; Slovakia)
Best Documentary: Blind Loves (Dir.: Juraj Lehotský)
Best Director: Juraj Lehotský (Blind Loves)

 

2)      Festivals

 

City of Lights, City of Angels Festival
COL COA Critics Award: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (L'Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Dirs.: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Mediea)

 

Crossing Europe Film Festival (Linz, Austria)
Best European Documentary Award: Videocracy (Dir.: Erik Gandini)

 

Finale Festival of Czech Film
Golden Kingfisher: Land of Destiny (Dir.: Pavel Kolaja)
Special Award: Phantom of Liberty II (Dir.: Karel Žalud)
ACFK Award for Best Czech Documentary. Forgotten Transports to Poland (Dir.: Lukáš Přibyl)

 

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary: At My Doorstep (Dir.: Nishta Jain)
Honorable Mention: Nero's Guests (Dir.: Deepa Bhatia)
Audience Award--Documentary: The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet's Struggle For Freedom (Dirs.: Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam)


Nashville Film Festival
Documentary Channel Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature: Racing Dreams (Dir.: Marshall Curry)
Honorable Mention: Queen of the Sun (Dir.: Taggart Siegel)
Gibson Impact of Music Award: For Once in My Life (Dir. Jim Bingham)
Documentary Channel Award for Best Short Documentary: Q&A (Dirs.: Tim Rauch,   Mike Rauch); Mr. Okra (Dir.: T.G. Herrington)
Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Documentary Short: I Am a Man: From Memphis, A Lesson in Life (Dir.: Jonathan Epstein)
Special Jury Prize for Artistic Perseverance through Commercial Adversities: Don't Quit Your Daydream (Dir.: Clark Stiles)
Best GLBT Film: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (Dir.: Leanne Pooley)
Coleman Sinking Creek Award: Steve James
Special Jury Prize for Bravery in Storytelling: Out in the Silence (Dir.: Dean Hamer)
Audience Award-Best Documentary: For Once in My Life (Dir. Jim Bingham); The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (Dir.: Leanne Pooley)

 

Palm Beach International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: The Desert of Forbidden Art (Dirs.: Amanda Pope, Tchavdar Georgiev)
Audience Award--Best Documentary Feature: The Legend of Pale Male (Dir.: Frederic Lillen)

 

Sunscreen Film Festival
Best Documentary: I Met with an Accident (Dir.: Trevor Ward)