Sugarcane earned a number one 5 nominations because the IDA Awards introduced its nominees as we speak, adopted carefully by Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat with 4.
Black Field Diaries, My Candy Land, and Queendom earned three nominations apiece. Additionally incomes a number of nominations had been Agent of Happiness, No Different Land, and The Exceptional Lifetime of Ibelin – every with two nominations.
Sugarcane’s nods got here for Finest Documentary Characteristic and Finest Director, recognizing the work of Julian Courageous NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, in addition to nominations for cinematography, enhancing, and rating. The Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies documentary investigates the systematic abuse of Indigenous kids who attended a so-called “Indian Residential College” in British Columbia.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’s recognition got here within the Finest Documentary Characteristic class, in addition to Finest Director for Johan Grimonprez, Finest Modifying, and Finest Writing. The movie from Kino Lorber seems to be at how the U.S. State Division despatched main jazz musicians on a goodwill tour of Africa within the late Nineteen Fifties and ‘60s, even because the U.S., Belgium and even the UN management had been plotting to oust Congo’s first democratically elected chief.
Maybe the largest shock among the many nominations was Queendom, which earned recognition within the Finest Documentary Characteristic class, Finest Director for Agniia Galdanova, and Finest Cinematography. The Greenwich Leisure launch had flown underneath the radar for a lot of the yr however has just lately emerged as a robust awards contender. It tells the story of Jenna Marvin, a drag efficiency artist from Siberia who pursued her inventive imaginative and prescient regardless of the fixed risk of violence.
The IDA introduced actor-comedian Adam Conover will host the IDA Documentary Awards, which is able to happen December on the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. It’ll stream dwell on documentary.org and concurrently on IDA YouTube, Fb, and Instagram channels.
“IDA acquired 700+ entries in all classes from 77 nations, a rise over final yr each within the complete variety of entries and the nations represented,” the nonprofit stated. “IDA Documentary Awards entries had been reviewed by blue-ribbon jurors consisting of 300 documentary professionals from 40+ nations.
“Nominees in every of the Finest Characteristic Documentary and Finest Quick Documentary classes have been chosen from the shortlists beforehand introduced on October 24. IDA members can have entry to view every of the nominated movies and to vote for movies within the Finest Characteristic Documentary and Finest Quick Documentary classes from November 19 to December 1.”
The IDA beforehand introduced filmmaker Daybreak Porter will obtain the Profession Achievement Award; Shiori Ito (Black Field Diaries) will obtain the Rising Filmmaker Award; and the 4 administrators of No Different Land, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham will probably be offered with the Braveness Below Fireplace Award.
These are the nominees in 14 classes introduced as we speak:
40TH IDA DOCUMENTARY AWARDS NOMINEES
All nominees listed underneath every class are in alphabetical order by movie title.
Finest Characteristic Documentary Nominees
- Agent of Happiness (Bhutan, Hungary | Movie Motion | Director: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Producer: Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Máté Artur Vincze, Arun Bhattarai)
- Black Field Diaries (Japan, USA, UK | MTV Documentary Movies | Director: Shiori Ito | Producer: Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Shiori Ito)
- Dahomey (France, Senegal, Benin | MUBI | Director: Mati Diop | Producer: Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, Mati Diop)
- Ernest Cole: Misplaced and Discovered (France, South Africa, USA | Magnolia Photos | Director: Raoul Peck | Producer: Tamara Rosenberg, Raoul Peck)
- No Different Land (Palestine, Norway, USA | Director: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham | Producer: Fabien Greenberg & bård Kjøge Rønning)
- Queendom (USA, France | Greenwich Leisure | Director: Agniia Galdanova | Producer: Igor Myakotin, Agniia Galdanova)
- In search of Mavis Beacon (USA | NEON | Director: Jazmin Renée Jones | Producer: Guetty Felin, Olivia McKayla Ross)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Belgium, France, Netherlands | Kino Lorber | Director: Johan Grimonprez | Producer: Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety)
- Sugarcane (USA | Nationwide Geographic | Director: Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily Kassie | Producer: Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn)
- The Exceptional Lifetime of Ibelin (USA | Netflix | Director: Benjamin Ree | Producer: Ingvil Giske)
Finest Quick Documentary Nominees
- A Transfer (Iran, UK | The New York Occasions Op-Docs | Director: Elahe Esmaili | Producer: Hossein Behboudi Rad)
- A Motion Towards the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas (USA, Philippines | Criterion Channel | Director: Esy Casey | Producer: Esy Casey, Nur Jannah Kaalim)
- Amma ki Katha (India | Director: Nehal Vyas | Producer: Nehal Vyas, Advik Beni)
- Enchunkunoto (The Return) (Kenya | Director: Laissa Malih | Producer: Kavita Pillay, Adam Mazo, Tracy Rector, Taylor Hensel)
- Devices of a Beating Coronary heart (Japan | The New York Occasions Op-Docs | Director: Ema Ryan Yamazaki | Producer: Eric Nyari)
- Fashionable Goose (Canada | The New York Occasions Op-Docs | Director: Karsten Wall | Producer: Alicia Smith)
- 9 Straightforward Dances (Canada | York College | Director/Producer: Nora Rosenthal)
- The Medallion (UK, Ethiopia, USA | The New Yorker, SUDU Connexion | Director: Ruth Hunduma | Producer: Lily Usher, Tolu Stedford)
- The Poem We Sang (Canada, Palestine, Jordan | MAD Options | Director: Annie Sakkab | Producer: Annie Sakkab, Paul Lee)
- Till He’s Again (USA, Spain, Morocco | PBS POV & Scripps Information | Director: Jacqueline Baylon | Producer: Jacqueline Baylon, Hailey Gavin)
Finest Director
- Agniia Galdanova, Queendom (Greenwich Leisure | USA, France)
- Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham, No Different Land (Palestine, Norway, USA)
- Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
- Shiori Ito, Black Field Diaries (MTV Documentary Movies | Japan, USA, UK)
Finest Cinematography
- Arun Bhattarai, Agent of Happiness (Movie Motion | Bhutan, Hungary)
- Alix Blair, Helen and the Bear (N/A | USA)
- Sareen Hairabedian, My Candy Land (ITVS – PBS / ARTE France / RTS | Jordan, France)
- Ruslan Fedotov, Queendom (Greenwich Leisure | USA, France)
- Christopher LaMarca, Emily Kassie, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
Finest Modifying
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Black Field Diaries (MTV Documentary Movies | Japan, USA, UK)
- Katrina Taylor, Helen and the Bear (N/A | USA)
- Raphaelle Martin-Holger, Sareen Hairabedian, My Candy Land (ITVS – PBS / ARTE France / RTS | Jordan, France)
- Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Nathan Punwar, Maya Daisy Hawke, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
Finest Unique Music Rating
- Víctor Hernández Stumpfhauser, Frida (Amazon MGM Studios | USA)
- Maxwell Sterling, Life and Different Issues (DR Gross sales | Denmark, UK, Sweden)
- Tigran Hamasyan, My Candy Land (ITVS – PBS / ARTE France / RTS | Jordan, France)
- Mali Obomsawin, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
- Uno Helmersson, The Exceptional Lifetime of Ibelin (Netflix | USA)
Finest Writing
- Raoul Peck, Ernest Cole, Ernest Cole: Misplaced & Discovered (Magnolia Photos | France, South Africa, USA)
- Hasan Oswald, Mediha (N/A | USA)
- Lea Glob, Andreas Bøggild Monies, Piece by Piece (HBO | Max | Denmark, Poland, France)
- Jazmin Jones, In search of Mavis Beacon (NEON | USA)
- Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Morgan Neville, Jason Zeldes, Aaron Wickenden, Oscar Vasquez, Piece by Piece (Focus Options | USA)
Finest TV Characteristic Documentary
- Madu (Disney+ | USA, UK, Nigeria | Administrators: Matthew Ogens, Joel ‘Kachi Benson | Producers: Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, Rachel Halilej)
- Night time Is Not Everlasting ( HBO | Max | USA | Director: Matthew Ogens, Joel ‘Kachi Benson | Producers: Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, Rachel Halilej)
- Stolen Gold (ESPN | UK, USA, Spain | Director: Suemay Oram | Producer: Santi Aguado, Gentry Kirby)
- The Apartheid Killer (BBC World Service | UK, South Africa | Director: Charlie Northcott, Isa Jacobson | Producers: Isa Jacobson, Charlie Northcott)
- Two American Households: 1991-2024 (PBS | USA | Administrators: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes | Producers: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes, Frank Koughan, Nina Chaudry)
Finest Curated Sequence
- 30 for 30 (ESPN Movies | USA | EPs: Heather Anderson, Marsha Cooke, Brian Lockhart, Burke Magnus)
- 99 – All of us share 99% of the identical DNA (N/A | France | EP: Jérôme Plan)
- Unbiased Lens (PBS | USA | EPs: Lois Vossen, Carrie Lozano)
- POV (PBS | USA | EPs: Erika Dilday, Chris White)
- The New York Occasions Op-Docs (The New York Occasions Op-Docs | USA | EP: Adam Ellick)
Finest Episodic Sequence
- A Actual Bug’s Life (Nationwide Geographic | USA, UK | Administrators: Alex Ranken, John Capener, Alex Hemingway, Nathan Small, Nat Sharman | Producers: Helen Williamson, Invoice Markham, Alex Ranken, John Capener, Alex Hemingway, Nathan Small, Nat Sharman | EPs: Tom Hugh-Jones, Martha Holmes, Grant Mansfield, Justine Schmidt, Pamela Caragol)
- {Couples} Remedy (Paramount+ | USA | Director: Kim Roberts | Producers: Sophie Kissinger, Matt Parker | EPs: Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
- Queens (Nationwide Geographic | UK | Administrators: Rachael Kinley, Ilaira Mallalieu, Victoria Bromley, Jess Tombs, Religion Musembi | Producers: Rachael Kinley, Ilaira Mallalieu, Victoria Bromley, Jess Tombs, Religion Musembi; Chloë Sarosh | EPs: Vanessa Berlowitz, Angela Bassett, Pamela Caragol)
- The Negotiators (CNA, Mediacorp Pte Ltd | Singapore | Administrators: Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Georgie Yukiko Donovan, Indra Nienhaus | Producers: Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Georgie Yukiko Donovan, Indra Nienhaus | EP: Aditya Thayi)
- We’re Right here (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Peter LoGreco | Producers: Erin Haglund, Kimberly Greenhut | EP: Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Johnnie Ingram, Stephen Warren, Peter LoGreco, Erin Gamble)
Finest Restricted Sequence
- A City Referred to as Victoria (PBS | USA | Director: Li Lu | Producers: Li Lu, Anthony Pedone | EPs: Deniese Davis, Hunter Arnold, Lois Vossen, Rachel Raney, Royd Chung, Donald Younger, Stephen Gong, Li Lu)
- Choir (Disney+ | USA | Director: Rudy Valdez | EPs: Jason Blum, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein, Michael Seitzman, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, Gretchen Palek, Ryan Miller, Rudy Valdez, Ross Dinerstein)
- Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix | USA | Director: Joe Berlinger | EPs: Joe Berlinger, Tim Pastore, Patrick Milling-Smith, Matt Renner, Yoshi Stone)
- Homicide in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Jason Hehir | Producers: Jason Hehir, Jacob Rogal, Nicholas Eisenberg, Jilllian Moosmamm | EPs: Joie Jacoby, Linda Pizzuti Henry, Dan Krockmalnic, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez)
- STAX: Soulsville U.S.A. (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Jamila Wignot | Producers: Jamila Wignot, Kara Elverson | EPs: Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow, Nigel Sinclair, Nicholas Ferrall, Scott Pascucci, Sophia Dilley, Michele Smith, Jody Gerson, David Blackman, Charlie Cohen, Ron Broitman, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen)
Finest Music Documentary
- Any Different Approach: The Jackie Shane Story (Nationwide Movie Board of Canada | Canada | Administrators: Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee| Producers: Amanda Burt, Justine Pimlott, Sam Dunn, Scott McFadyen)
- Beatles 64 (Disney+ | Director: David Tedeschi | USA | Producers: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Sean Ono Lennon, Martin Scorsese, Margaret Bodde, Jonathan Clyde, Mikaela Beardsley)
- Maestra (BRKLY | USA | Director: Maggie Contreras, Producers: Maggie Contreras, Neil Berkeley, Emma West, Melanie Miller, Lauren Lexton)
- Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre (Oscilloscope Laboratories | USA | Director: Nicolas Jack Davies | Producers: Johann Scheerer)
- Songs from the Gap (N/A | USA | Director: Contessa Gayles | Producer: Contessa Gayles, richie reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe)
Finest Audio Documentary
- “What’s Up, Michael Freeman?” (Ear Hustle and Radiotopia from PRX | USA | Host: Earlonne Woods, Nigel Poor | Engineers: Earlonne Woods, Fernando Arruda, Harry Culhane | USA | Producers: Amy Standen, Bruce Wallace, Rahsaan Thomas)
- Lengthy Shadow: In Weapons We Belief (PRX | USA | Hosts: Garrett M. Graff and Jennifer Mascia | Engineers: Claire Mullen and Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan | Producers: John Patrick Pullen, Emily Martinez. Matthew Shaer, and Aleah Papes)
- Pack One Bag (Lemonada | USA | Host: David Modigliani | Engineer: Willa Kaufman | Producers: David Modigliani, Willa Kaufman, Nicki Stein, Eric Spiegelman, Whitney Donaldson, Stanley Tucci, Jessica Cordova Kramer, Stephanie Wittels Wachs)
- Shadowball: Rise of the Black Athlete (Audible | USA | Host: Jemele Hill | Engineer: Neil Cabana | Producers: Pleasure Highway Leisure, PG Cuschieri, Jim Younger, Matthew Hatchette, Neil Cabana, Carey Williams, Jemele Hill)
- The Sunday Story: A Track for Grief in China (NPR | USA, China | Hosts: John Ruwitch, Aowen Cao | Engineer: Josh Newel | Producers: Justine Yan, Jenny Schmidt)
David L. Wolper Scholar Documentary
- Her Title Was Zehava (NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute | USA, Israel | Director: Tamar Baruch | Producer: Tamar Baruch)
- Jerhy ( College of California, Santa Cruz | Costa Rica, USA, | Director: John Ortiz | Producer: John Ortiz)
- Milk (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director: Miranda Stern | Producer: Ashionye Ogene)
- The Anarchist and The Fridge (College of Visible Arts MFA Social Documentary Movie | USA | Director: Yunchang Zhang | Producer: Yunchang Zhang)
- The Waiter, the Scientist and Jenny (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director: Joe Snelling | Producer: Joe Snelling)
fortieth IDA Documentary Awards Key Dates
- IDA Member Voting Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- IDA Member Voting Ends: Tuesday, December 1, 2024
- Awards Ceremony: December 5, 2024, The Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles
- IDA Member Viewing Platform Closes: December 31, 2024
