Documentaries about the war in Iraq and forced child labor in South America earned top honors at the annual International Documentary Assn.'s awards gala benefit.
James Longley's Iraq in Fragments, the HBO Documentary Films and Typecast Releasing docu that provides intimate portraits of life among everyday Iraqis, won IDA's feature documentary award Friday night at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood.
The IDA's documentary short film award went to Marcelo Bukin for Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel). In his speech, he described his visually ambitious film as "a kind of poem about sacrificing souls and bodies."
Both awards were presented by Morgan Freeman, who acknowledged former Vice President Al Gore after taking the stage.
Gore gave the evening's opening remarks to an overflow crowd, stressing the importance of documentaries to the health and vitality of American democracy and comparing Guttenberg's publishing revolution to today's digital-media revolution.
Gore warned that ownership of the networks by conglomerates has not helped challenge the prevailing dogma of our times.
"Newspapers are increasingly shrinking and losing advertising, and, as a result, our national conversation of democracy has been shrinking," he said.
James Longley's Iraq in Fragments, the HBO Documentary Films and Typecast Releasing docu that provides intimate portraits of life among everyday Iraqis, won IDA's feature documentary award Friday night at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood.
The IDA's documentary short film award went to Marcelo Bukin for Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel). In his speech, he described his visually ambitious film as "a kind of poem about sacrificing souls and bodies."
Both awards were presented by Morgan Freeman, who acknowledged former Vice President Al Gore after taking the stage.
Gore gave the evening's opening remarks to an overflow crowd, stressing the importance of documentaries to the health and vitality of American democracy and comparing Guttenberg's publishing revolution to today's digital-media revolution.
Gore warned that ownership of the networks by conglomerates has not helped challenge the prevailing dogma of our times.
"Newspapers are increasingly shrinking and losing advertising, and, as a result, our national conversation of democracy has been shrinking," he said.
- 12/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
James Longley's Iraq in Fragments was named the best feature-length
documentary of the year at the International Documentary Assn.'s
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Friday night.
Iraq, which is also on the short-list of documentary Oscar documentary contenders, looks at the impact that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi people.
The other nominated features were Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Deliver Us from Evil, Showbusiness: A Season to Remember and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
Marcelo Bukin's Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel) was named best
short documentary at the IDA's gala, at the DGA Theatre in West Hollywood.
Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth was honored with the Pare Lorentz Award, recognizing a documentary filmmaker who represents both an activist spirit and a lyrical vision.
Andrew Berends received the Courage Under Fire Award for The Blood of My Brother.
Scholar and critic Dr. Patricia Aufderheide was honored with the IDA
Preservation & Scholarship Award. The Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award went to Christopher Quinn for God Grew Tired of Us, while Carrie Lozano claimed the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award for Reporter Zero.
PBS' American Experience series captured the IDA Award for a
Continuing Series, while the prize for Limited Series went to Off to War,
which aired on the Discovery Times Channel.
documentary of the year at the International Documentary Assn.'s
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Friday night.
Iraq, which is also on the short-list of documentary Oscar documentary contenders, looks at the impact that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi people.
The other nominated features were Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Deliver Us from Evil, Showbusiness: A Season to Remember and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
Marcelo Bukin's Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel) was named best
short documentary at the IDA's gala, at the DGA Theatre in West Hollywood.
Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth was honored with the Pare Lorentz Award, recognizing a documentary filmmaker who represents both an activist spirit and a lyrical vision.
Andrew Berends received the Courage Under Fire Award for The Blood of My Brother.
Scholar and critic Dr. Patricia Aufderheide was honored with the IDA
Preservation & Scholarship Award. The Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award went to Christopher Quinn for God Grew Tired of Us, while Carrie Lozano claimed the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award for Reporter Zero.
PBS' American Experience series captured the IDA Award for a
Continuing Series, while the prize for Limited Series went to Off to War,
which aired on the Discovery Times Channel.
- 12/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil, which examines the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church, and James Longley's Iraq in Fragments, in which Iraqis recount life during wartime, are among the films nominated for the International Documentary Assn.'s 22nd annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards.
The five nominated feature documentaries, announced Wednesday, are: Frank Popper's Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? from PBS' Independent Lens; Deliver Us From Evil, a Lionsgate release; Iraq in Fragments from Typecast Releasing and HBO Documentary Films; Dori Berinstein's Showbusiness: A Season to Remember, from Regent Entertainment; and Zach Niles and Banker White's Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, from PBS' P.O.V./American Documentary.
The short documentaries nominated are: The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Diary of Immaculee, Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel), The Short History of Sweet Potato Pie & How it Became a Flying Saucer, and The Wild Sheep, and the Fox and Love.
"The purpose of the IDA awards is to recognize these filmmakers' successful quests for excellence. They deserve to be in the limelight," IDA president Diane Estelle Vicari said.
The winners will be announced live for the first time during the IDA Awards Benefit Gala on Dec. 8 at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood.
The five nominated feature documentaries, announced Wednesday, are: Frank Popper's Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? from PBS' Independent Lens; Deliver Us From Evil, a Lionsgate release; Iraq in Fragments from Typecast Releasing and HBO Documentary Films; Dori Berinstein's Showbusiness: A Season to Remember, from Regent Entertainment; and Zach Niles and Banker White's Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, from PBS' P.O.V./American Documentary.
The short documentaries nominated are: The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Diary of Immaculee, Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel), The Short History of Sweet Potato Pie & How it Became a Flying Saucer, and The Wild Sheep, and the Fox and Love.
"The purpose of the IDA awards is to recognize these filmmakers' successful quests for excellence. They deserve to be in the limelight," IDA president Diane Estelle Vicari said.
The winners will be announced live for the first time during the IDA Awards Benefit Gala on Dec. 8 at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood.
- 11/2/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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