Lucy Walker’s ‘Waste Land’ took the top 2010 IDA Documentary Award, ‘IDA PARE LORENTZ AWARD’ as well as the the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature. Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio. There, he photographs an eclectic band of catadores–self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with them, as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage, reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Waste Land offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

The (International Documentary Association) IDA promotes nonfiction filmmakers, and is dedicated to increasing public awareness for the documentary genre. IDA Documentary Awards is an annual event that recognizes and honors outstanding documentary films and filmmakers.

2010 IDA Documentary Awards

IDA SPECIAL AWARDS WINNERS:
IDA PARE LORENTZ AWARD
WASTE LAND
Director/Writer: Lucy Walker
Producers: Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine
Executive Producers: Fernando Meirelles, Miel de Botton Aynsley, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Jackie De Botton
Arthouse Films, Almega Projects Ltd., O2 Filmes, Entertainment One Films International

QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US? (Honorable Mention)
Director: Taggart Siegel
Producers: Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel
A Collective Eye Production

IDA MUSIC DOCUMENTARY AWARD
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE
Directors: Jim Bigham, Mark Moormann
Producer: Jim Bigham
Executive Producer: Lourdes Little
Big Blue Box Productions

ABCNEWS VideoSource Award
BHUTTO
Director/Producer: Duane Baughman
Director/Writer: Johnny O’Hara
Producers: Arleen Sorkin, Mark Siegel
Executive Producers: Glenn Aveni
Yellow Pad Productions in association with ICON TMI

IDA HUMANITAS Award (tie)
PRESUMED GUILTY
Directors: Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith
Producers: Layda Negrete, Roberto Hernandez, Martha Sosa, Yissel Ibarra
Executive Producers: Ernesto Canales, Ana Laura Magaloni, Layda
Sansores & Luciana Kaplan

THE OATH
Director/Producer/Director of Photography: Laura Poitras
ITVS, POV/American Documentary, Praxis Films, Zeitgeist Films

IDA DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
WAITING FOR A TRAIN: THE TOSHIO HIRANO STORY
Director/Producer: Oscar Bucher
OB3 Studios, San Francisco State University

THE STINKING SHIP (Honorable Mention)
Director/Producer: Bagassi Koura
University of California Berkeley
THE FOLLOWING AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON DEC. 3:
DISTINGUISHED FEATURE DOCUMENTARY NOMINEES
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Director: Banksy
Producer: Jaimie D’Cruz
Executive Producers: Holly Cushing, James Gay-Rees
Paranoid Pictures, Cinetic Media, A-Film Distribution, Alamode Film, Avalon Distribución Audiovisual, Mongrel
Media, Producers Distribution Agency, Revolver Entertainment, Madman Entertainment

THE OATH
Director: Laura Poitras
Producers: Laura Poitras
Co-Producer: Nasser Arrabyee, Aliza Kaplan, Jonathan Oppenheim
Associate Producer: Robert Hatch-Miller, Katy Scoggin, Pandora Zolotor
ITVS, POV/American Documentary, Praxis Films, Zeitgeist Films

STEAM OF LIFE
Directors: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen
Producer: Joonas Berghäll
Associate Producers: Adel Kjellström, Petri Rossi
Oktober, Nordisk Film Theatrical Distribution

SWEETGRASS
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producers: Ilisa Barbash
Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, Cinema Guild

WASTE LAND
Director/Writer: Lucy Walker
Producers: Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine
Executive Producers: Jackie De Botton, Miel De Botton, Fernando Meirelles, Andrea Barata Riberio
Almega Projects, O2 Filmes, E1 Films Canada, Arthouse Films

DISTINGUISHED SHORT DOCUMENTARY NOMINEES
KEEP DANCING
Director: Greg Vanderveer
Producer: Douglas Blair Turnbaugh
Turnbaugh/Vander Veer Productions

THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER
Director: Daniel Junge
Producer: Henry Ansbacher, Davis Coombe, Andy Schocken
Home Box Office (HBO)

WOMAN REBEL
Director/Producer: Kiran Deol
Executive Producer: Robert Richter
Women Rebel Films, HBO Documentary Films

THE FENCE
Director/Producer: Rory Kennedy
Producers: Liz Garbus, Keven McAlester, Nancy Abraham
Associate Producer: Lauren Barker
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Writer: Mark Bailey
Moxie Firecracker Films, Home Box Office (HBO)

THE LAST TRUCK
Directors/Writers/Producers: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Producer: Lisa Heller
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Home Box Office (HBO)

CONTINUING SERIES AWARD NOMINEES
30 FOR 30
Executive Producers: Keith Clinkscales, John Dahl, Joan Lynch, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons, John Skipper, John Walsh
ESPN

Episodes Submitted:
The Band That Wouldn’t Die (Dir./Exec Prod.: Barry Levinson; Prods.: Lee Bonner, Stan Flint, Jason Sosnoff)
Muhammad and Larry (Dirs.: Albert Maysles, Bradley Kaplan; Prods.: Laura Coxson, Bradley Kaplan, Mark Durand)
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (Dir./Prod.:Dan Klores; Prods.: David Zieff, Charles C. Stuart, Gale D’Agostino)
Run Ricky Run (Dirs.: Sean Pamphilon & Royce Toni; Co-Prod.: Royce Toni, Louise Story, Derek Hastings)

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Senior Producer: Sharon Grimberg
Coordinating Producer: Susan Mottau
Series Manager: James E. Dunford
Series Producer: Susan Bellows
WGBH; PBS

Episodes Submitted:
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World (Dir./Writer: Ric Burns; Prods.: Bonnie Lafave, Mary Recine, Robin Espinola, Ric Burns)
My Lai (Dir./Prod./Writer: Barak Goodman)
Roads to Memphis (Dir.: Stephen Ives; Writer: Michelle Ferrari, Prod.: Amanda Pollak)

ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Executive Producer: Susan Sollins
Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega
PBS

Episodes Submitted:
Compassion (Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge)
Fantasy (Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge)
Transformation (Consulting Director: Charles Atlas)
Systems (Consulting Director: Charles Atlas)

BRICK CITY
Executive Producer: Evan Shapiro, Forest Whitaker, Lynne Kirby, Mala Chapple, Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin,
Sarah Barnett
Sundance Channel

Episodes Submitted:
Summer Is Ours (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Struggle (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Central (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Circus (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)
Red October (Dirs.: Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin)

WIDE ANGLE
Executive Producer: Tom Casciato
Senior Producer: Nina Chaudry
PBS

Episodes Submitted:
Contestant No.2 (Dir.: Ibtisam Salah Mara’ ana; Prods.: Timna Goldstein Hattav,
Barak Heymann)
Heart of Jenin (Dirs./Writers: Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter; Prods.: Ernst Ludwig Ganzert, Ulli Pfau)
Crossing Heaven’ s Border (Director for Chosun Ilbo: Jung In Taek; Producer for Chosun Ilbo: Lee Hark Joon )
Once Upon a Coup (Dir.: Christopher Olgiati; Executive Producer: Roy Ackerman)

LIMITED SERIES AWARD NOMINEES
AFFLICTIONS: CULTURE AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN INDONESIA
Director, Producer: Robert Lemelson
Elemental Productions

HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG
Directors/Producers: Connie Field
Writers: Jon Else, Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen, Ken Chowder
Clarity Films

LATIN MUSIC USA
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Deane (WGBH), Mark Cooper (BBC)
Series Producers: Adriana Bosch (WGBH), Jeremy Marre (BBC)
Director/Producers: Adriana Bosch, Daniel McCabe, John J. Valadez, Jeremy Marre
Producer: Pamela A. Aguilar
Writers: Adriana Bosch, Daniel McCabe, David Espar, John J. Valadez, Jeremy Marre
WGBH, BBC

MASTERCLASS
Executive Producer: Lin Arison
Director/Producer: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Writers: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Simon and Goodman Picture Co

THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE
Executive Producer: Dyllan McGree, Peter W. Kunhardt
Executives-in-Charge: Jody Allen, Paul G. Allen
Senior Executive Producers: Richard Hutton, Paula S. Apsell
Supervising Producers: Lisa Mirowitz, Bonnie Benjamin-Phariss
Writer: Jesse Sweet
Writer/Host: Daniel Gilbert
Vulcan Productions, NOVA/WGBH Science Unit, Kunhardt McGee Productions

Documentary producer, director Morgan Spurlock returns as host of the 2010 IDA Documentary Awards. Host of the Awards in 2008, the Academy Award® and Emmy® Award-nominated Spurlock directed Super Size Me (2004), Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008), The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice! (2010), Freakonomics (2010) and Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan’s Hope, set for release in 2011.

The IDA will award its prestigious 2010 Career Achievement Award to legendary documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. This award is given to a filmmaker who has made a major impact on the documentary genre through a long and distinguished body of work. Kopple’s 1976 documentary, Harlan County USA, about a coal miners’ strike in Kentucky, earned an Academy Award® as well as a place in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Her 1991 film American Dream also won an Academy Award®, as well as the Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Filmmaker’s Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival.

The 2010 IDA Pioneer Award honors Alan and Susan Raymond, the filmmakers behind the seminal nonfiction series prototype, An American Family (1973). After An American Family, the Raymonds formed their own company, Video Verite, and produced The Police Tapes (1977), which captures the life and times of a precinct in the South Bronx, and which inspired numerous fiction and nonfiction law enforcement series. The couple received an Oscar® nomination for Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991) and an Oscar® for I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993).

Academy Award® winner and longtime USC film professor Mark Jonathan Harris will be honored with the IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award. Harris received his Oscars® for the documentaries The Redwoods (1968) and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) and directed the Oscar winning feature documentary, The Long Way Home (1997). Chair of the documentary film program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Harris has taught at USC for over 25 years.

Jeff Malmberg, director of MARWENCOL will receive the 2010 IDA/Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.

source: IDA