Best Feature Award winners Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles for Dina
Best Short Award winners Thomas Lee Wright and Laura Checkoway for Edith+Eddie
Host Maz Jobrani
Kirsten Johnson (left) and Gini Reticker (right) honored Abigail Disney with Amicus Award
Best Writing winners Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira, Gabriel Molera for Donkeyote
Producer Allen Hughes wins Best Limited Series Award for The Defiant Ones
Courage Under Fire Award recipients: Evgeny Afineevsky and Bana al-Abad of Cries from Syria, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently's Hamoud Al-Mousa of City of Ghosts, Sebastian Junger andNick Quested of Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS, and Feras Fayyad of Last Men In Aleppo
Career Achievement Award recipient Lourdes Portillo
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award recipient Yance Ford and presenter Charles Burnett
ABC News VideoSource Award winners TJ Martin, Ben Piner, and Dan Lindsay for LA 92
Presenter Gilbert Gottfried
Best Short Form Series Award winner Kathleen Lingo for The New York Times Op-Docs
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award winner Joel Fendelman for Man on Fire
Pare Lorentz Award winner Marcel Mettelsiefen for Watani: My Homeland

33^rd Annual IDA Documentary Awards Honorees

Lourdes Portillo

Career Achievement Award

Abigail Disney

Amicus Award

Yance Ford

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award

Courage Under Fire Award

Over the years, IDA presents a Courage Under Fire Award to a documentarian for "displaying conspicuous bravery in pursuit of the truth". We recognize that both filmmakers and their subjects often take incredible personal risks to bring us essential stories. This year the traumatic conflict in Syria which has been documented by several teams of extraordinarily brave filmmakers, and in light of their contributions to the documentary field IDA has decided to honor four filmmaking teams along with the subjects of their films for bringing us the stories of the Syrian war.

The filmmaking teams and the subjects who are being honored with the 2017 IDA Courage Under Fire Awards are: "Cries from Syria", "Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS", "Last Men in Aleppo", and "City of Ghosts". Their brave filmmaking and journalism along with the courage of those who shared their stories in these films shed light on a conflict that touches all of humanity.

City of Ghosts	Cries From Syria
Hell On Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS	Last Men In Aleppo

Nominees and Winners

Best Feature

City Of Ghosts Director/Producer: Matthew Heineman AMAZON STUDIOS		Dina (Winner) Directors/Producers: Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles THE ORCHARD
Faces Places Directors: Agnès Varda and JR COHEN MEDIA GROUP		LA 92 Directors: Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin Producers: Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn and Sarah Gibson NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Strong Island Director/Producer: Yance Ford Producer: Joslyn Barnes NETFLIX

Best Short

Edith+Eddie (Winner) Director: Laura Checkoway Producers: Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright KARTEMQUIN FILMS		The Fight Directors/Producers: Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw THE GUARDIAN
Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 Director/Producer: Frank Stiefel		Long Shot Director/Producer: Jacob LaMendola Producers: Mary Beth Minthorn, Milos S. Silber and Todd Wiseman Jr. NETFLIX
Mr. Connolly Has ALS Director/Producer: Dan Habib IMPACT MEDIA PARTNERS		The Rabbit Hunt Director: Patrick Bresnan Producers: Maida Brankman, Ivete Lucas TOPIC STUDIOS

Best Curated Series Award

American Experience Executive Producer: Mark Samels PBS		Dokumania Executive Producer: Anders Bruus DR
Independent Lens (Winner) Executive Producers: Lois Vossen and Sally Jo Fifer PBS		REEL SOUTH Executive Producers: Rachel Raney and Amy Shumaker UNC-TV, South Carolina ETV, NETA and WORLD
POV Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White PBS

Best Limited Series Award

Daughters of Destiny Executive Producer: Vanessa Roth Netflix		The Defiant Ones (Winner) Executive Producers: Allen Hughes, Doug Pray, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Gene Kirkwood and Jerry Longarzo HBO
The Keepers Executive Producers: Jessica Hargrave, Ryan White and Josh Braun Netflix		The Vietnam War Executive Producer: Ken Burns PBS/WETA
TIME: The Kalief Browder Story Executive Producers: Jenner Furst, Nick Sandow, Julia Willoughby Nason, Michael Gasparro, Shawn “JAY Z” Carter, Chachi Senior, and Sharon Levy Spike

Best Episodic Series Award

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Executive Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia and Sandra Zweig CNN		Chef’s Table Executive Producers: David Gelb, Matthew Weaver, Brian McGinn, Andrew Fried, and Dane Lillegard Netflix
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath Executive Producers: Leah Remini, Aaron Saidman, Alex Weresow, Devon Graham Hammonds, Elaine Frontain Bryant and Amy Savitsky A&E		MARS Executive Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Michael Rosenberg, Dave O’Connor, Jon Kamen, Tommy Turtle, David Sirulnick, Jonathan Silberberg, Everardo Gout, Justin Wilkes, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner, and Robert Palumbo National Geographic
Planet Earth II (Winner) Executive Producer: Michael Gunton BBC AMERICA/BBC Worldwide

Best Short Form Series Award

Field of Vision Executive Producers: Laura Poitras, AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook Field of Vision		Shorts on Time Executive Producer: Jenni Wolfson Lifetime
The Guardian documentaries Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton The Guardian		The New York Times Op-Docs (Winner) Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo The New York Times
The Secret Life of Muslims Executive Producers: Joshua Seftel and Reza Aslan Vox

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award

This award recognizes exceptional achievement in non-fiction film and video production at the university level and brings greater public and industry awareness to the work of students in the documentary field.

Believers Director: Ray Whitehouse University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		Chomo Director: Maayan Arad Producer: Khaled Gad National Film and Television School (United Kingdom)
How To Make A Pearl Director: Jason Hanasik UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism		Man on Fire (Winner) Director: Joel Fendelman Producer: James Sanchez University of Texas, Austin
Room 140 Director: Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz Stanford University

ABC News VideoSource Award

This award is given each year for the best use of news footage as an integral component in a documentary.

Blood On The Mountain Directors: Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman Virgil Films/Netflix		Elián Directors: Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell Gravitas Ventures, CNN Films
Icarus Director: Bryan Fogel Netflix		LA 92 (Winner) Directors: Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin National Geographic
Obit. Director: Vanessa Gould Kino Lorber

Pare Lorentz Award Winner

The Pare Lorentz Award recognizes films that demonstrate exemplary filmmaking while focusing on the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems.

Watani: My Homeland (Recipient)
Director: Marcel Mettelsiefen

Intent to Destroy (Special Mention)
Director: Joe Berlinger