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Awards Roundup: April 28-May 5, 2009
Posted: May. 4, 2009 Sign-in to Comment Bookmark and Share

1) Awards

BAFTA Television Awards
Factual Series: Amazon with Bruce Parry (Series Prod./Dir./Prod: Steve Robinson; Dirs./Prods.: Matt Brandon, Rob Sullivan, James Smith; Prods.: BBC Two/Indus Films, Endeavour Productions)
Specialist Factual: Life in Cold Blood (Series Prod.: Miles Barton; Exec. Prod.: Sara Ford; Prods.: Hilary Jeffkins, James Brickell; Adam White; Prods.: BBC One/BBC Productions)
Single Documentary: Chosen (True Stories) (Dirs./Prods.: Brian Woods, Caroline Haydon, Chris Eley, Jimmy Edmonds; Prods.: C4/True Vision Productions)

German Film Awards
Best Documentary: Nobody's Perfect (Dir.:  Niko von Glasow-Bruecher)  

Sports Emmy Awards
Outstanding Sports Documentary:  Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football   (Prod.: Joe Lavine; Exec. Prods.: Ross Greenburg, Rick Bernstein; HBO Sports)

Webby Awards
Documentary: Individual Episode:
Intended Consequences (Dir.: Jonathan Torgovnik; Prod.: Chad A. Stevens; Media Storm): http://mediastorm.org/0024.htm
Kenya: Sweet Home Obama (Reporter: Edwin Okong'o; Prod.: Josiah Hooper; Frontline/World): http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld...

Documentary: Series
Making of Mad Men Online Production--Inside Mad Men (AMC Digital): http://www.amctv.com/videos/madmen/
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 (US Holocaust Museum): http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhib...

Movies and Film:
IFC (The Independent Film Channel): http://IFC.com
Sundance Channel: http://www.sundancechannel.com  

 

2) Festivals  

Atlanta Film Festival
Best Documentary: The Way We Get By (Dir.: Aron Gaudet; Prod.: Gita PullaPilly)
Special Jury Award-Directing:
Art & Copy (Dir.: Doug Pray)
Special Jury Award-Cinematography: At the Edge of the World (Cinematographers: Mathieu Mauverney, Simeon Houtman, Rip Odebralski, Tim Gorski, James Joyner, Jon Kane, Dan Fernandez)
Best Documentary Short: Salt (Dir.: Michael Angus) and The Beekeepers (Dir.: Richard Robinson)

Independent Film Festival of Boston
Documentary Feature:
Grand Jury Prize:
Crude (Dir.: Joe Berlinger)
Special Jury Prize: Unmistaken Child (Dir.: Nati Baratz)
Audience Award: Shooting Beauty (Dir.: George Kachadorian)
Honorable Mention: The Way We Get By (Dir.: Aron Gaudet)  

Indian Film Fest of Los Angeles
Best Documentary: Children of the Pyre (Dir.: Rajesh Jala)
Audience Award-Best Documentary: Supermen of Malgaon (Dir.: Faiza Ahmad Khan)
 

Okanagan International Film Festival
Best International Documentary
:  Under Our Skin  (Dir.: Andy Abrahams Wilson)
Best International Short Documentary: The Sky Was Angry (Dir.: Sharif Abdunner)
Best Canadian Short Documentary: Down Here  (Dir.: Charles Wilkinson)
Best Canadian Documentary: Sledhead  (Dirs.: David McIlvride, Alison Love)
Crosswood Productions Peoples Choice Award: Under Our Skin (Dir.: Andy Abrahams Wilson)

Palm Beach International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: The Legacy (Dir.: Andrés Faucher)
Audience Choice Award--Best Documentary Feature:  Gotta Dance (Dir.: Dori Berinstein)

Pomona Valley Film Festival
Best Documentary: The Constant Process (Dir.: Douglas Hunter)
Honorary Mention--Best Documentary: Teresa (Dir.: Matthew Bowler)

Riverrun Film Festival
Best Documentary: Unmistaken Child (Dir.: Nati Baratz)
Audience Award--Best Documentary: Food Inc. (Dir.: Robert Kenner)
Best Documentary Short: The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 (Dir.: Adam Pertofsky)

Tribeca Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature:  Racing Dreams (Dir.: Marshall Curry)
Special Jury Mention: Defamation (Hashmatsa) (Dir.: Yoav Shamir)
Best New Documentary Filmmaker: - Ian Olds (Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi)
Best New York Documentary Partly Private (Dir.: Danae Elon)
Best Documentary Short: home (Dir.: Matthew Faust)
Special Jury Mention: The Last Mermaids (Dir.: Liz Chae)

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