-
Best Feature Award winners Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles for Dina
-
Best Short Award winners Thomas Lee Wright and Laura Checkoway for Edith+Eddie
-
-
-
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
33rd 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
|
Creative Recognition Award Winners
Best Cinematography
Machines
Cinematography by: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva
KINO LORBER
Best Editing
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Edited by: Bill Morrison
KINO LORBER
Best Music
Brimstone & Glory
Original Score by: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
OSCILLOSCOPE LABORATORIES
Best Writing
Donkeyote
Written by: Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira and Gabriel Molera
SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE