Previously reported:
Academy Awards Short List--Short Documentaries
1) Awards
2009 European Film Award "Prix Arte" for Best Documentary
Winner: The Sound of Insects--Record of a Mummy (Dir.: Peter Liechti; Switzerland
Nominees:
The Beaches of Agnès (Dir.: Agnès Varda; France)
Below Sea Level (Dir.: Gianfranco Rosi; Italy /USA)
Burma VJ (Dir.: Anders Ostergaard; Denmark)
Cooking History (Dirs.: Peter Kerekes; Slovakia/Austria /Czech Republic)
The Damned of the Sea (Dir.: Jawad Rhalib; Belgium)
Defamation (Dir.: Yoav Shamir; Denmark /Austria/Israel/USA)
The Heart of Jenin (Dirs.: Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter; Germany)
Pianomania (Dirs.: Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis; Germany/Austria)
The Woman with the 5 Elephants (Dir.: Vadim Jendreyko; Switzerland/Germany)
2009 International Emmy Award--Nominees
Arts Programming:
Mamonas Assassinas--All My Life (TV Globo; Brazil)
The Mona Lisa Curse (Oxford Film & Television for Channel 4; United Kingdom)
Ode to Joy: 10,000 Voice Resound! (Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.; Japan)
Seven Gates of Jerusalem (TVP SA / Platige Image; Poland)
Documentary:
The Ascent of Money (Chimerica Media for Channel 4; United Kingdom)
Cityboy-- The Life of Investment Banker Geraint Anderson (United Docs/ECO Media/WDR; Germany)
Pancho Villa: Aqui y Alli (The History Channel Latin America / Anima Films;m Argentina)
Shooting the Messenger (Al Jazeera English; Qatar)
2) Festivals
Aspen Filmfest 2009
Audience Favorite Documentary: Sergio (Dir.: Greg Barker)
Hamptons International Film Festival
Golden Starfish Award for Best Documentary: Long Distance Love (Dir.: Magnus Gertten, Elin Jonsson)
Best Film of Conflict & Resolution: Rabbit à la Berlin (Dir.: Bartek
Konopka)
Audience Award for Best Documentary: Waking Sleeping Beauty (Dir.: Don Hahn)
International Film Festival of Ireland
Best US Documentary: The Lost Sparrows of Roodepoort (Dirs.: David Ponce, Brock Carter)
Environment & Ecology: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning
(Dir.: Mark Terry)
Documentary International: Next Tooth One Mile (Dir.: Cassi Glisper)
Documentary: Homeland Nation--Mescalero Apache (Dir.: Peter Mervis)
London Film Festival
The Grierson Award for Best Documentary-Nominees:
45365 (Dirs.: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross)
La Danse--The Paris Opera Ballet (Dir.: Frederick Wiseman)
Defamation (Dir.: Yoav Shamir)
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (Dir. Connie Field)
Mugabe and the White African (Dirs.: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson)
Osadne (Dir.: Marco Skop)
Sergio (Dir.: Greg Barker)
Romania International Film Festival
CineBlackSea Jury
Best Documentary:
On the Way to School (Dirs.: Orhan Cskikoy, Ozgur Dogan; Netherlands, Turkey)
Women in Cinema Jury
Best Documentary: Gauchos: If You Don't Get On, You Don't Get Off (Dir.: Jana Richter; Germany)
Critics Jury
Best Film Diploma: Room and a Half (Dir.: Andrej Khrzanovski; Russia)
Special Mention: Border (Dir.: Harutyun Khachtatryan; Armenia)
Zurich Film Festival
International Documentary Film Competition: The Sound After the Storm (Dirs.: Patrik Soergel, Ryan Fenson-Hood, Sven O. Hill)
Special Mention: Defamation (Dir.: Yoav Shamir)