The 21st Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Competition Nominees
December 2005-January 2006


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Feature Documentaries

The Boys of Baraka
Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Cara Mertes, Sally Jo Fifer
Loki Films, ITVS, PBS, P.O.V. /American Documentary

Cowboy del Amor
Michèle Ohayon, Theo Van de Sande
Homeland Film Productions Inc., Netflix Inc., Showtime Networks

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed, Joana Vicente
HDNet Films, Magnolia Pictures

Favela Rising    *Winner
Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary
Stealth Films, Sidetrack Films, Voy Pictures, THINKFilm, HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films

The Last Campaign
Wayne Ewing
Wayne Ewing Films, Inc

The Last Cowboy
Jon Alpert
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), ITVS/Independent Lens, PBS

Mad Hot Ballroom
Marilyn Agrelo, Amy Sewell
Just One Productions, Paramount Classics

Mission Accomplished
Sean Langan, Ben Summers, Simon Ford
BBC, Cinema Libre Distribution

Murderball
Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro, Jeff Mandel
Eat Films, LLC, THINKFilm, A&E Indie Films, MTV Films, Participant Productions

New Eldorado
Tibor Kocsis
Flora Film International Ltd.

Our Brand is Crisis   *Winner
Rachel Boynton
Boynton Films, Films Transit

Street Fight
Marshall Curry, Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy, Cara Mertes, Sally Jo Fifer
Marshall Curry Productions, LLC, Moxie Firecracker Films, ITVS, P.O.V./American Documentary, PBS

Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki, Susannah Shipman
Charlotte Street Films, Sony Pictures Classics

IDA/ABCNews VideoSource Award

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Fidel Castro
Adriana Bosch, Mark Samels, Sharon Grimberg
WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS

Ballets Russes
Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Geller/Goldfine Productions, Zeitgeist Films

Enron:  The Smartest Guys in the Room
Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed, Joana Vicente
HDNet Films, Magnolia Pictures

Excellent Cadavers
Marco Turco, Vania Del Borgo, Marco Visalberghi
Doclab Sri in association with Artline Films, First Hand Films

FDR: A Presidency Revealed
David C. Taylor, Susan Werbe
Team Productions, The History Channel

Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?   *Winner
Paul Freedman, Bill Brummel, Margaret Kim
Bill Brummel Productions, The History Channel

Same Sex America
Henry Corra, Alex Johnson
Corra Films, Inc./K2 Pictures, 7th Art Releasing, Showtime Networks

Sir! No Sir!
David Zeiger, Evangeline Griego
Displaced Films, Louise Rosen Ltd.

Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki, Susannah Shipman
Charlotte Street Films, Sony Pictures Classics,

WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception)
Danny Schechter, Steve Green, Rory O'Connor
Globalvision Inc., Cinema Libre Distribution, Mercury Media,

 

Pare Lorentz Award

America's Lost Landscape:  The Tallgrass Prairie   *Winner
David O'Shields, Daryl Smith
New Light Media, PBS

The Devil's Miner
Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani
Urban Landscapes Productions, LA Mita LoCa Films, PBS, Independent Lens, Zoo 6

Favela Rising
Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary
THINKFilm, HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Stealth Films, Sidetrack Films, Voy Pictures

Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand)
Jill Irene Freidberg
Corrugated Films

Homeland:  Four Portraits of Native Action
Roberta Grossman, Lisa B. Thomas
Katahdin Foundation, Native American Public Telecommunications, PBS

March of the Penguins
Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud
Bonne Pioche, Warner Independent Pictures, National Geographic Feature Films

New Eldorado
Tibor Kocsis
Flora Film International Ltd.

The Power of Harmony
Ginny Martin, Andy Streitfeld
AMS Production Group, Think Entertainment

National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth  *Honorable Mention
John Rubin, Rob Whittlesey, Ron Bowman, Jonathan Halperin, David Elisco, Nancy Burnett, Richard Hutton, Michael Rosenfeld, Mark Shelley
Sea Studios Foundation, Vulcan Productions, National Geographic Television and Film, WGBH Boston, PBS

 

Continuing Series

 

American Experience
Mark Samels, executive producer
Sharon Grimberg, series producer
WGBH Boston, PBS
Episodes Submitted:

  • The Fight (Barak Goodman, dir./prod.)
  • Mary Pickford (Sue Williams, dir./prod.; Kathryn Dietz, prod.)
  • RFK (David Grubin, dir./prod.)
  • Victory in the Pacific (Austin Hoyt, dir./prod.; Melissa Martin, prod.)

     

    CNN Presents   *Winner
    Sid Bedingfield, executive producer
    Jody Gottlieb, executive director
    CNN Productions, CNN
    Episodes Submitted:

  • High Stakes (John Valadez, dir./prod.)
  • Homicide in Hollenbeck (Anderson Cooper, corr.)
  • Impact of Terror (Tim Wolochatiuk, dir.; Simcha Jacobovici and Ric Bienstock, prods.)
  • Reasonable Doubt (Robin Mejia, Ken Shiffman, prods./dirs.)

     

    NOVA
    Paula S. Apsell, senior executive producer
    Alan Ritski, managing director
    Melanie Wallace, senior series producer
    Jennifer Pearce, co-producer
    Laura LeMarr, senior producer
    WGBH International, PBS
    Episodes Submitted:

  • The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Nancy Porter, dir./wtr.; Peter Frumkin, prod.)
  • Saving the National Treasures (Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, dirs./prods.; Ronald H. Bluner, wtr.)
  • The Wave that Shook the World (Lara Acaster and Alex Williams, dirs.; Martin Williams, prod./wtr.; Joseph McMaster, prod.)
  • Welcome to Mars (Mark David, dir./prod./wtr.)

     

    Lyndal's Lifeline
    Mark Wild, executive producer for Animal Planet
    Simon Willock, executive producer for Southern Star Entertainment
    Mark Strickson, director; Lyndal Davies, producer
    Animal Planet International, Southern Star Entertainment
    Episodes Submitted:

  • Chimps bUnder Fire
  • Elephant Alert
  • Koala Crisis
  • World's Busiest Wildlife Hospital

     

    The Deadliest Catch
    Thom Beers, executive producer for Original Productions
    Tracy Green, co-executive producer
    Jeff Conroy, supervising producer
    Dean Ollins, senior producer

    Rick Deppe, Nat Havholm, Monica M. Martino, Chris Nee, Ethan Prochnik, Cherie Silvera, Todd Stanley, episode producers
    David McKillop, executive producer for Discovery Channel
    Episodes Submitted:
  • Beat the Clock
  • Dead of Winter
  • Lady Luck
  • Man Overboard
    Original Productions, Discovery Channel

     

     

     

    Limited Series

     

    And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop
    Dana Heinz Perry, Richard Lowe, Russell Simmons
    Perry Films,VH1

    FDR: A Presidency Revealed
    David C. Taylor, Susan Werbe
    Team Productions, The History Channel

    NOVA: Origins
    Alice Harper, Joseph McMaster, Julia Cort, Larry Klein, Thomas Levenson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Melanie Wallace, Alan Ritsko, Paula Apsell
    A Pioneer Film & TV production for NOVA/WGBH and Channel 4; a Thomas Levenson Productions and Unicorn Projects, Inc. production for WGBH/Boston.

    Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?
    Paul Freedman, Bill Brummel, Margaret Kim
    Bill Brummel Productions, The History Channel

    The Staircase   *Winner
    Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet, Allyson Luchak
    Maha Productions, Sundance Channel

     

    Short Documentaries

     

    A Note of Triumph:  The Golden Age of Norwin Corwin
    Eric Simonson, Corinne Marrinan
    Noma Films LLC

    The Children of Leningradsky *Winner
    Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinsky
    HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films

    Phantom Limb
    Jay Rosenblatt
    HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films

    Positively Naked
    Arlene Donnelly Nelson, David Nelson, Helen Hood Scheer
    Juntos Films, HBO/Cinemax Documentary Flms

    Something's Brewing in Shiner
    Mike Woolf, Karen Yates
    Beef and Pie Productions

     

    IDA/David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award

     

    Back to Life
    Samantha Reynolds, Nora Donaghy, Tracy Wilson
    University of Southern California

    The Color of Love *Winner
    Maryam Keshavarz
    New York University

    Freedom from Despair
    Brenda Brkusic
    Chapman University

    Love to Hate, Hate to Love
    Brian Chang
    New York University

    Paris 1951
    Jasmin Gordon
    Stanford University