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34th Annual IDA Documentary Awards


Honorees

Julia Reichert

Career Achievement Award

Bing Liu

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award

Chicken & Egg Pictures

Amicus Award

Stephen Maing & NYPD 12

Courage Under Fire Award

The Courage Under Fire Award—which is given from time to time to a filmmaker who demonstrates extraordinary courage in pursuit of the truth—will be presented to director Stephen Maing and all the NYPD12 whistleblowers of Crime + Punishment. Amidst a landmark lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. Over four years of rare access, the film cinematically documents our nation’s largest policing institution from the inside through the efforts of a brave group of officers who decide to sue the department and became known as the NYPD12.