Awards Roundup—April 30-May 29, 2008

I.                  Awards

 

Focal International Awards

Best Use of Footage in Factual Productions: Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC/UK); Being Jewish in France (Etre Juif en France) – (Kuiv Productions/France); The Rape of Nanking (Point Du Jour/ France)

Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Stock Footage: Animal Crackers (Content Mint /Absolutely Wild Visuals/Australia)

Best Use of Sports Footage: Nation on Film: Caribbean Cricket (BBC TV Birmingham /UK)

Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms: Focus on Film - The National Archives (UK)

Award for Archive Restoration or Preservation Project: Documentary Centenaries - BFI National Archive (UK)

The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award: Val Evans

Award for Footage Library of the Year: AP Archive

Award for Lifetime Achievement: Elizabeth Klinck

 

Golden Trailer Awards

Best Documentary: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Dir.: Morgan Spurlock)

Hugo Television Awards

The Commitment to Excellence Award:  Kartemquin Films.

The Gold Hugo for Best Documentary:  In the Shadow of the Moon (Dox Productions) 

Leo Awards (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Documentary Program Or Series

Arts/Performing Arts: Dreams of Flight (Prod.: Ken Frith )

History/Biography/Social/Political: The Suicide Tourist (Prods.: Terence McKeown, John Zaritsky)

Nature/Environment/Adventure/Science/Technology: Saving Luna (Prods.: Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit)

Series: Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery (Prods.: Andrew Ferns, W. Paterson Ferns)

Best Direction: John Zaritsky—The Suicide Tourist

Best Screenwriting: Gwen Haworth—She's a Boy I Knew

Best Cinematography: Ian Kerr—The Suicide Tourist

Best Picture Editing: Stuart De Jong—The Suicide Tourist

Best Overall Sound: Ewan Deane, Patrick Brereton—The Suicide Tourist

Best Sound Editing:Dennis Burke, Andre Iwanchuk, Zoe Gordon—Hope

Best Musical Score: Daniel Seguin—The Suicide Tourist

Participant Media/Pangea Day Outstanding Filmmakers Awards

Dear Mandela (Dirs.: Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza; Africa)

I Remember Lebanon (Dir.: Zeina Aboul Hosn; Asia/Australia)

Moving Windmills (Dir.: Ari Kushnir; North America)

My Mother's Daughter (Dir.: Saleyha Ashan; Europe)

Papiroflexia (Dir.: Jaoquin Baldwin; South America)

2008 Student Academy Awards®—Documentary:

As We Forgive (Laura Waters Hinson; American University, Washington, DC)

If a Body Meet a Body (Brian Davis; University of Southern California)

Unattached (J.J. Adler; Columbia University)

 

Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowships--$35,000 each; $7,500 to Emerging Artists. We have spotlighted the documentary projects among the Fellows. For complete information, go to http://news.renewmedia.org/2008/04/30/2008-fellows/. 

Julianna Brannum (Emerging Artist)

Los Angeles, CA

Documentary Project: LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 is a documentary about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who, as the wife of a US Senator in the 1960s and ’70s, worked from within Washington DC’s political scene on behalf of American Indians.

Andrew Bujalski

Jamaica Plain, MA

Daniel Carrera

West Hollywood, CA

Cherien Dabis

New York, NY

Jacqueline Goss

Tivoli, NY

Documentary Project: Hart’s Location is an animated documentary that will provide a subjective portrait of the residents of a rural precinct in northern New Hampshire, set against the backdrop of the months preceding the country’s primary elections.

Judith Helfand

New York, NY

Documentary Project: Heat Wave: An Unnatural Disaster is a character-driven feature documentary that explores the legacy of the 1995 heat wave that ravaged the city of Chicago, leaving 739 people dead in four days, the majority of them old, poor and people of color. At the center of this story lies a moral dilemma that has nothing to do with the weather. Poverty predetermined who would live or die during the heat crisis.

Braden King

New York, NY

Billy Luther

Los Angeles, CA

Documentary Project: Grab is a documentary about the history of Grab Day, as well as its contemporary celebration in New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo Indian reservation. The filmmaker will follow a family as they prepare for this traditional festivity.

Shirin Neshat

New York, NY

Hugo Perez (Emerging Artist)

Brooklyn, NY

Laura Poitras

New York, NY

Documentary Project: Release is the second film in a documentary trilogy about America’s response to the attacks of 9/11. The film explores the long-term psychological and political repercussions of the US policy of detention and torture.

Dee Rees

Long Beach, CA

Jennifer Reeves

New York, NY

Naomi Uman

Newhall, CA

Lauren Woods

San Francisco, CA

Jessica Yu

La Canada-Flintridge, CA

Documentary Project: Signs of Life is a documentary about the life and work of deaf educator Dr. Virginia McKinney, and her fight to keep open the school she founded over 40 years ago. McKinney, 83, is the founder of the Center for Communicative Development (CCD) and an advocate for the education of language-deprived deaf adults. 

New Media Fellows:

Sharon Daniel

San Francisco, CA

Joe Davis

Cambridge, MA

Josh On

San Francisco, CA

C.E.B. Reas

Santa Monica, CA

Michael Rees

North Bergen, NJ

Paul Vanouse

Buffalo, NY

 

Webby Awards

http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12

http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97&season=12

Documentary: Individual Episode—Webby and People’s Voice:

Coney Island: An Uncertain Future   (Getty Images)

www.rickgershon.com/gettyimages

Documentary: Series--Webby:

NFB Filmmaker In Residence  (Subject Matter Inc)

http://www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresi...

Documentary: Series--People’s Voice:

Frontline World

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/

News and Politics—Webby:

Finding the Way Home (MediaStorm)

http://mediastorm.org/0017.htm

News and Politics--Peoples Voice:

Dubai: Night Secrets (Frontline World)

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld...

News & Politics: Series—Webby:

Hometown Baghdad    (Chat the Planet)

http://hometownbaghdad.com

News & Politics: Series—People’s Voice:

Onion News Network

http://tv.theonion.com

Public Service and Activism—Webby:

Hometown Baghdad

http://hometownbaghdad.com

Public Service and Activism—People’s Voice:

TitanGreens.com

http://www.TitanGreens.com

Reality—Webby:

Hometown Baghdad  (Chat the Planet)

http://hometownbaghdad.com

Reality--People’s Voice:

Mike's Got Mail (Discovery Channel)

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites...

II. Festivals

Babelgum Online Film Festival

The Babelgum Documentary Award: Greater - Defeating AIDS (Dir.: Emanuel Exitu)

 Cannes Film Festival

The Knockout of Un Certain Regard: Tyson (Dir.: James Toback)

Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: La Americana (The American) (Dir.: Nicholas Bruckman)

Special Jury Mention for Documentary Feature: Los Puños De Una Nación (The Fists Of A Nation) (Dir.: Pituka Ortega Heilbron)

Jury Award for Best Documentary Short:  Con El Toque De La Chaveta (With A Stroke of the Chaveta) (Dir.:  Pamela Sporn)

Special Jury Mention for Documentary Short: Por Mis Hijos (For Them) (Dir.: Aymée Cruzalegui)

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: La Americana (The American) (Dir.: Nicholas Bruckman)

Festival Internacional Documenta Madrid

First Prize of the Jury: The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (Dir.: Andrey Paounov)

Second Prize of the Jury: Fairytale of Kathmandu (Dir.: Neasa Ní Chianáin)

Honorary Award of the Jury: Caja cerrada (Dir.: Martín Solá)

Audience Award: Decile a Mario que no Vuelva (Dir.: Mario Handler)

First Prize of the Jury—Full-Length Film/National Competition: La Sangre Tibia del Hombre (Dir.: Iván García Rodríguez)

Second Prize of the Jury—Full-Length Film/National Competition: Atlas Bereber (Dir.: Moisés Salama Benarroch)

Audience Award—Full-Length Film/National Competition: Sahara No Se Vende (Dirs.: Joaquín Calderón Jiménez and Luis Arellano Blasco)

First Prize of the Jury— Certamen Nacional: Cortometrajes: Jumate/Jumate (Dir.: Diogo Costa Amarante)

Second Prize of the Jury— Certamen Nacional: Cortometrajes: Por Mis Hijos (Dir.: Aymée Cruzalegui Bazzetti)

Audience Award— Certamen Nacional: Cortometrajes: Harraga (Dirs.: Eva Fernández Manzano and Mario de la Torre Espinosa)

First Prize of the Jury—Original Short Film/National Competition: Jumate/Jumate (Dir.: Diogo Costa Amarante)

First Prize of the Jury--Original Short Film: Stiller Abtrag (Dir.: Wolfram Huke)

Second Prize of the Jury--Original Short Film: Love and Words (Dir.: Sylvie Ballyot)

Honorable Mention of the Jury--Original Short Film: Familia 068 (Dirs.: Rubén Margalló Acebrón and Tony Edo)

Audience Award—Original Short Film: Mientras Esperamos (Dirs.: Malin Nicader and Lisa Jonsson)

First Prize of the Jury—Reporting: Mi vida Dentro (Dir.: Lucía Gajá Ferrer)

Second Prize of the Jury—Reporting: 4 De Julio, La Masacre De San Patricio

(Dirs.: Juan Pablo Young and Pablo Zubizarreta)

Honorable Mention of the Jury—Reporting: Xavante Strategy (Dir.: Belisario Francal)

Audience Award—Reporting: Over the Hill (Dir.: Sunny Bergman)

Avid Award for Best Editing: Harraga (Dirs.: Eva Fernández Manzano and Mario de la Torre Espinosa)

Filmotech.Com Award: The Captain (Dir.: Sebastián Mantilla)

Maratón MC Avid - HP Xpréssate Award: El Vuelo Delángel,(Dir.: Gustavo Vizoso)

Gulf Film Festival

Best Documentary: When the People Spoke (Dir.: Amer Al Zuhair) 

Independent Film Festival of Boston

Grand Jury Prize Documentary: Song Sung Blue (Dir.: Greg Kohs)

Special Jury Prize Documentary: Secrecy (Dirs.: Robb Moss and Peter Galison)

 

Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival.

Audience Award—Best Documentary: She's A Boy I Knew (Dir.: Gwen Haworth)

Best Canadian Feature-Length Narrative or Documentary: Be Like Others (Dir.: Tanaz Eshaghian)

Honorable Mention-- Best Canadian Feature-Length Narrative or Documentary:  She's A Boy I Knew (Dir.: Gwen Haworth)

 

Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival

Best Documentary of the Year: The Planet (Dirs.: Johan Soderberg, Linus Torell, Michael Stenberg ; Charon Film; Tea Road to the Skies (Dirs.: Weiping Zhou, Peter Hercombe, Michel Noll; Yunnan TV / Solferino Images)

Jules Verne Nature Award: Ocean Voyager (Dir.: Feodor Pitcairn; Feodor Pitcairn Productions); Living with Big Cats (Dirs.: Dereck and Beverly Joubert - Wildlife Films)

Kansas City Film Jubilee

Indie Pioneer Award: Peter Broderick--President of Paradigm Consulting, which helps filmmakers and media companies develop strategies to maximize distribution, audiences, and revenues.

Heartland Division--Best Documentary: Henry D. Remple: Finding Hope in Troubled Times (Dir.: Linda Haskins)

US/International Division—Best Documentary:  Punam (Dir.: Lucian Muntean)

Honorable Mention: Life is Marbelous (Dir.: Mike Wolff)

Best Jazz Short: Song of Pumpkin Brown (Dir.: Brad Jayne)

Honorable Mention: Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1 (Dir.: Frank Fitzpatrick);

18th & Vine (Dir.: Adam Brumback)

Best Jazz Feature: Trying to Get Good--The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (Dirs.: Penny Peyser and Doug McIntyre)

Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

Audience Award—Best Documentary: Refusenik (Dir.: Laura Bialis(

MEDIAWAVE'2008

Best Documentary: The Mosquito Problem And Other Stories (Dir.: Andrey Paounov)

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Best Documentary Award: Chris & Don: A Love Story (Dirs.: Guido Santi and Tina Mascara)

Audience Award—Best Documentary: Call Me Troy (Dir.: Scott Bloom)

 

Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

Best Film: Young@Heart (Dir.: Stephen Walker

Emerging Director - Documentary: Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath--The Betrayal

RiverRun International Film Festival

Best Documentary Feature: Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)

Documentary Cinematography Award: Up the Yangtze (Cinematographer: Wang Shi Qing)

Best Documentary Short:  Board Control (Dir.: Emil Trier) 

Rose d’Or Festival

Best Arts Documentary:  Strictly Bolshoi (Prods.: Ballet Boyz Productions, Ltd.; Channel 4)

 San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Awards

Documentary Feature: Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)

Bay Area Documentary Feature: Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (Dir.: Dawn Logsdon)

Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize: Forbidden Lie$ (Dir.: Anna Broinowski)

Documentary Short: The Ladies (Dir.: Christina A. Voros)

TV Documentary Long Form: Calavera Highway (Dir.: Renee Tajima-Peña)

TV Documentary Short Form: The Mystery of the Second Painting (Dir.: Muriel Edelstein)

Taiwan International Children's TV & Film Festival Competition

Best Documentary: I Am in a Hand Puppet Troupe

 

Tribeca International Film Festival

Best Documentary Feature: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Dir.: Gini Reticker)

Best New Documentary Filmmaker: Carlos Carcas—Old Man Bebo

“New York LOVES Film” Award: Zoned In (Dir.: Daniella Zanzotto)

Best Documentary Short: Mandatory Service (Dir.: Jessica Habie)

Cadillac Audience Award: War Child (Dir.: C. Karim Chrobog)