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MillimeterNominees Announced for 20th Annual Int'l Documentary Association Awards
Oct 15, 2004 10:00 AM
LOS ANGELES - The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the nominees in the 20th Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards competition. The winning nonfiction films and filmmakers will be feted at the IDA Awards Benefit Gala on December 10 at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in Hollywood.
"The nominees earned the admiration of their peers who were on our juries," says IDA President Richard Propper. "The juries reviewed hundreds of entries from every part of the world. They reported that there were many difficult decisions in narrowing the field down to these finalists, because there were so many exceptional entries dealing with the issues of our times. That in itself is heartening."
The four Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award categories are Feature, Short, Limited Series (series of episodes with specific continuing theme, topic or subject) and Continuing Series (three individual programs that best represent the series).
Two winners will be chosen from the 14 documentaries vying for top honors in the Feature length competition. The nominated films are AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER, BEING DOROTHY, BORN INTO BROTHELS, CONTROL ROOM, THE CORPORATION, FAHRENHEIT 9/11, HIDING AND SEEKING, HOME OF THE BRAVE, JUVIES, LA VIE COMME ELLE VA (AS LIFE GOES BY), METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT, THE TAKE, and WORD WARS.
Five documentaries are competing in the Short Film category. They are CHERNOBYL HEART, GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA, THE LIFE OF KEVIN CARTER, MIGHTY TIMES VOLUME 2: THE CHILDREN'S MARCH, and PARENTS OF THE YEAR.
WGBH Boston (PBS) led the Continuing Series category with nominations for both THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE. Also nominated is this category is CNN PRESENTS from CNN, and AMERICAN MASTERS from Thirteen/WNET (PBS).
The nominees in the Limited Series category are THE BLUES, JAPAN: MEMOIRS OF A SECRET EMPIRE, THE NEW AMERICANS, and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, EPISODE EIGHT.
IDA will also present The ABCNEWS VideoSource Award to the documentary filmmaker(s) whose work best utilizes television news footage as an integral component of the work, and the Pare Lorentz Award will be given to the film that best represents the activist spirit and lyrical vision of Pare Lorentz, who was the first recipient of an IDA Career Achievement Award.
The IDA Awards selection process began with peer group juries who viewed all submissions to select nominees in each category for final review by a blue-ribbon panel.
Eastman Kodak Company has sponsored the Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards since their inception in 1984. Sundance Channel is also supporting the IDA as a sponsor of the Gala.
IDA is a nonprofit, public interest organization. For more information or to purchase tickets to the 2004 IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Gala, visit www.documentary.org or call 213-534-3600.
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