Awards
Series, archival, and student contenders plus special honorees have been unveiled for the December event.
While most of the big categories for this year’s IDA Documentary Awards won’t be covered until November 1st, the International Documentary Association has announced the first wave of nominees for its 33rd annual event showcasing the best in nonfiction, held on Decmber 9th.
Pare Lorentz Award
Watani: My Homeland (Recipient)
Director: Marcel Mettelsiefen
Intent to Destroy (Special Mention)
Director: Joe Berlinger
ABC News VideoSource Award
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
Directors: Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin
National Geographic
Obit.
Director: Vanessa Gould
Kino Lorber
Best Curated Series Award
American Experience
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
PBS
Dokumania
Executive Producer: Anders Bruus
DR
Independent Lens
Executive Producers: Lois Vossen and Sally Jo Fifer
PBS
POV
Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White
PBS
REEL SOUTH
Executive Producers: Rachel Raney and Amy Shumaker
UNC-TV, South Carolina ETV, NETA and WORLD
Best Limited Series Award
Daughters of Destiny
Executive Producer: Vanessa Roth
Netflix
The Defiant Ones
Executive Producers: Allen Hughes, Doug Pray, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, Jerry Longarzo, Michael Lombardo, and Gene Kirkwood
HBO
The Keepers
Executive Producers: Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave
Netflix
The Vietnam War
Executive Producer: Ken Burns
PBS/WETA
TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
Executive Producers: Jenner Furst and Nick Sandow
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, Dane Lillegard and Matthew Hilliard
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, Lorenzo Mieli, Everardo Gout, Justin Wilkes, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner, Robert Palumbo, and David Sirulneck
National Geographic
Planet Earth II
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 Producers: Julie Parker Benello
Lifetime
The Guardian documentaries
Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton
The Guardian
The New York Times Op-Docs
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
Believers
Director: Ray Whitehouse
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chomo
Director: Maayan Arad
National Film and Television School (United Kingdom)
How To Make A Pearl
Director: Jason Hanasik
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Man on Fire
Director: Joel Fendelman
University of Texas, Austin
Room 140
Director: Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz
Stanford University
