It was a relatively quiet week in Awards Nation, as the media arts world deferred to the final barnstorming days of the 2010 Winter Olympics. While that spectacle kept the world's attention, the filmmaking community enjoyed a spattering of kudos-including the International Digital Emmy Awards and the Streamy Awards, presented by the International Academy of Web Television. And basking in the Gold Medal glow of Team Canada glory, the Genie Awards brain trust recovered quickly from its Olympian hangover to announce nominees. The NAACP Image Awards honored Jeff Stinson and Chris Rock's Good Hair as Outstanding Documentary, while MIPDOC named its 2010 International Trailblazing Award winners in anticipation of the annual MIPDOC conference later this month. And running concurrently with the Berlinale, the Cinema for Peace gave its International Green Film Award to Joe Berlinger's Crude; Former Soviet Union Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev and actor Leo DiCaprio presented the honor to Berlinger.

1) Awards

Cesar Awards (France)
Best Documentary: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Dirs.: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea)

Cinema for Peace International Green Film Award: Crude (Dir.: Joe Berlinger)

Genie Awards (Canada)--Nominees
Best Feature Length Documentary
A Hard Name (Dirs./Prods.: Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon, Alan Zweig)
Les Dames En Bleu/ Ladies In Blue (Dir./Prod.: Claude Demers)
Inside Hana's Suitcase (Dirs./Prods.: Larry Weinstein, Rudolf Biermann, Jessica Daniel)
Prom Night In Mississippi (Dirs./Prods.: Patricia Aquino, Paul Saltzman)
Rip: A Remix Manifesto (Dirs./Prods.: Mila Aung-Thwin, Kat Baulu, Brett Gaylor, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong)
Best Short Documentary
The Delian Mode (Dirs./Prods..: Kara Blake, Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre)
Passages (Dir./Prod.: Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre)
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives On The Alberta Tar Sands (Dirs./Prods.: Peter Mettler, Sandy Hunter, Laura Severinac)

International Digital Emmy Awards--Nominees
Digital Program--Non-Fiction
Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall (ZDF Enterprises GmbH; Germany)
Digital Revolution (BBC /The Open University; United Kingdom)
Hunger to Learn (BBC; United Kingdom)
Last Chance to See (BBC; United Kingdom)

NAACP Image Awards
Outstand Documentary (Theatrical or Television): Good Hair (Dir.: Jeff Stinson; Prods.: Nelson George; Chris Rock)

Streamy Awards
Best Reality or Documentary Web Series
Interview Project (Dirs.: Austin Lynch and Jason S)
Mommy XXX (Dir.: John Ferrie)
RADAR
Streak to Win (Dirs.: Sean Tice, Adam Bedeient)
The Secret Life of Scientists (Exec. Prod.: Joshua Seftel; Prods.: Tom Miller, Darby Maloney)

2) Festivals

Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award: Terry Zwigoff

MIPDOC International Trailblazer Awards
Asian Trailblazer: Lixin Fan (Director, Eyesteelfilm, Canada), selected by EIDF (EBS International Documentary Festival/South Korea). His debut feature Last Train Home won the VPRO Best Feature Documentary Award at IDFA.
Green Trailblazer: Lizzie Gillett (Producer, Spanner Films, UK), selected by EDN (European Documentary Network). Gillett raised 1 million pounds on the Web--thanks to crowd-funding--to produce Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid, which went on to set a new Guinness World Record by being simultaneously screened in 63 cinemas across Britain. 
African Trailblazer: Djo Tunda Wa Munga (Director and Producer, Suka!; Democratic Republic of the Congo), selected by Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. Congo In Four Acts, the latest production of Djo Munga, was screened at the Berlinale 2010. Despite a limited technical infrastructure, Djo Munga has built a company in Congo and invested in training young people in filming.
Webdoc Trailblazer: Serge Gordey (Producer, Alegria, France), selected by NextMedia (Banff World Television Festival). Gordey has notably produced Gaza-Sderot: life in spite of everything with production company Bo Travail! and Franco-German TV Network Arte. This Web documentary presents itself as a series of short portraits chronicling ordinary lives of people in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel). They are available on Internet in a personal, interactive and nonlinear fashion. 
Middle East Trailblazer: Asaad Taha (Director and Producer, Hot Spot Films, Dubai), selected by a committee from the Al Jazeera Documentary Network. Egyptian film director, TV host and producer, Taha started his career as a journalist. He launched the production company "Hot Spot Films" in Dubai, in 2001, and has since produced 25 documentaries and series. These productions cover more than 70 countries worldwide; many of them are affected by war.

SoHo International Film Festival
Best Documentary Award: Burma: An Indictment (Dir.: Jeremy Taylor)