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2003 IDA Documentary Awards Nominees

By Tom White


Nominees: 19th Annual IDA DISTINGUISHED DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS    2003

Feature Documentaries

Balseros
Maria Jose Solera, Tom Roca, Loris Omedes, Carlos Bosch, Josep M. Domenech
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Seventh Art Releasing, Televisio Catalunya, Bausan Films

Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Charles Guggenheim, Grace Guggenheim
PBS Home Video, CS Associates, Guggenheim Productions Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York

Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Jennifer Rogen
Magnolia Pictures, HBO Documentary Films

Das Leben Geht Weiter (Life Goes On)
Carl Schmit, Mark Cairns
Starcrest Media GMBH

The Day I Will Never Forget
Kim Longinotto, Richard McKerrow, Paul Hamann
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Women Make Movies

Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life & Work of Piri Thomas
Jonathan Robinson
Independent Television Service (ITVS) , Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Andre Singer, Hal Vogel, Vikram Jayanti
Alliance Atlantis, National Film Board of Canada (NFBC)

Lost Boys of Sudan
Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Sundance Documentary Fund, ITVS, American Documentary, Inc., CS Associates, PBS/P.O.V.

Lost in La Mancha
Lucy Darwin, Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
IFC Films, Optimum Releasing, Hart Et Court

My Flesh And Blood
Jennifer Chaiken, Jonathan Karsh
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Strand Releasing, CBC, BBC, RTSI, VTM, TV2 Denmark, HBO Latin America, Noga Communications

Tupac: Resurrection
Afeni Shakur, Van Toffler, Lauren Lazin
MTV Films, Amaru Entertainment, Inc., Paramount Pictures

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
David Power, Rod Stoneman, Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Power Pictures, RTE, The Irish Film Board, BBC, ZDF, ARTE, NPS, CoBO, YLE

The Weather Underground
Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Bill Siegel
Shadow Distribution, Films We Like, Roco Films, ITVS

 

IDA/ABCNEWS VideoSource Award

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Murder of Emmett Till
Stanley Nelson, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH,PBS

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Tupperware!
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH, PBS

AMERICAN MASTERS: Robert Capa in Love and War
Susan Lacy, Anne Makepeace
Thirteen/WNET New York, Films Transit

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer
PBS/P.O.V., California Newsreel, ITVS, NBPC

Bus 174
Jose Padilha, Marcos Prado
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, THINKFilm

Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Jordan Mechner, Don Normark, Andrew B. Anderson, Mark Moran

Khachaturian
Peter Rosen
Seventh Art Releasing

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
HBO Family, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Morning Sun
Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon, Germie R. Barme
NAATA, Jane Balfour Ltd

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Martin Smith, Scott Pearson, Greg Palmer
TWI, Carlton, KCTS Television

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
David Power, Rod Stoneman, Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Power Pictures, RTE, The Irish Film Board, BBC, ZDF, ARTE, NPS, CoBO, YLE

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Bill Jersey, Richard Wormser, Sam Pollard, William Grant
California Newsreel, PBS, Thirteen/WNET New York, National Endowment Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The Weather Underground
Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Bill Siegel
ITVS, Shadow Distribution, PBS, Films We Like, Roco Films

 

Pare Lorentz Award

A Kalahari Family: Death by Myth
John Marshall, Lorna Marshall
Documentary Educational Resources

Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Charles Guggenheim, Grace Guggenheim
PBS Home Video, CS Associates, Guggenheim Productions Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer
PBS/P.O.V., California Newsreel, ITVS, NBPC

The Day I Will Never Forget
Kim Longinotto, Richard McKerrow, Paul Hammon
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, Women Make Movies

Flip Flotsam
Etienne Oliff, Lucy Bateman

Morning Sun
Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon, Germie R. Barme
NATA, Jane Balfour Ltd.

Sooner or Later
Theres Scherer-Kollbrunner, Juerg Neuenschwander
Container TV AG, Filmcoopi Zürich AG, Carav Film AG, SF DRS, SRG SSR idee suisse, ARTE GEIE

Urk
Andrew Berends
Storyteller Productions, LifeSize Entertainment & Releasing

 

Continuing Series

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Murder of Emmett Till
Stanley Nelson, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH,PBS

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Seabiscuit
Stephen Ives, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH, PBS

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Tupperware!
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Margaret Drain
American Experience/WGBH,PBS

AMERICAN MASTERS: Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Susan Lacy, Stephanie Bennett
Thirteen/WNET New York, Eagle Rock Entertainment LTD

AMERICAN MASTERS: Robert Capa in Love and War
Susan Lacy, Anne Makepeace
Thirteen/WNET New York, Muse Film and Television, Films Transit International

 

Limited Series

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Jimmy Carter
Margaret Drain, Adriana Bosch
American Experience/ WGBH, PBS

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Thomas Lennon, Bill Moyers
Public Affairs Television

The Long Grey Line: The Spirit of West Point
Rob Lihani, Arthur Drooker
The History Channel

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Martin Smith
KCTS Television

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Bill Jersey, Richard Wormser, Sam Pollard
California Newsreel, PBS, National Endowment Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting 

 

Short Documentaries

Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Jordan Mechner, Mark Moran

Flip Flotsam
Etienne Oliff, Lucy Bateman

Foo-Foo Dust
Gina Levy, Eric Johnson

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston
HBO Family, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Ocularist
David Allen Cress, Vance Malone

 

IDA/David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award

BOM-EE-O-MYUN (Waiting For Spring
Jeansang Lee, Sue-Yeon Jung
Columbia College, Chicago

Desiree
Mark R. Walker
VCA School of Film and TV, Melbourne, Australia

Girl Wrestler
Diane Zander
University of Texas at Austin

Nutria
Ted Gesing
University of Texas at Austin

Texas Doughnut Shop
Wook Steven Heo
Syracuse University