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Spike Lee and Ira Glass are Two of IDA's Special Award Winners

by Eric D. Snider Nov 11th 2007 // 11:02AM

Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Awards », Cinematical Indie »

There's more news this week from the International Documentary Association, which will hold its annual award ceremony on Dec. 7. We told you about the main nominees back in October, followed by the announcement last week that Michael Moore would be given a career achievement trophy. Now the IDA has revealed the winners of four special categories.

First, Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina doc When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts has won the Pare Lorentz Award, named for the pioneering documentarian and given to films that carry on his activist spirit. (The IDA sponsored a Pare Lorentz Film Festival a few weeks ago; see this item for more background on the subject.) Lee's film beats out nine other nominees, which included Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience and A Walk to Beautiful.

A film called Sputnik Mania, about the Soviet Union's first forays into space exploration in the 1950s, wins the IDA/ABC News VideoSource Award. This prize is to honor the film that best incorporates TV news footage into its story. Other nominees included My Kid Could Paint That and Steal a Pencil for Me.

The IDA honors television docs, too, with awards for best continuing series and best limited series. The continuing series winner is Showtime's version of Ira Glass' National Public Radio mainstay This American Life. Its competition included Morgan Spurlock's FX program 30 Days and PBS' American Masters. The limited series winner is The Supreme Court, a four-part PBS series about, um, the Supreme Court. Fellow nominees included Logo's Coming Out Stories and HBO's Addiction.

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Favela Rising Interview, Part One: Jeff Zimbalist

by Kim Voynar Jan 16th 2006 // 12:17PM

Filed under: Documentary », ThinkFilm », Politics », Interviews », Oscar Watch »

When Jeff Zimbalist got a call from from his good friend Matt Mochary, he didn’t know his life was about to change. Mochary was calling from a favela (slum) in Rio de Janeiro to tell Zimbalist he had found a story the two of them had to make into film, about a movement in Rio called Afroreggae, and the two men behind the movement, Anderson Sa and Jose Junior. Zimbalist quit his job and flew to Brazil, and the two friends spent the next two years filming the story of the Afroreggae movement. The resulting documentary, Favela Rising, is on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary and shared International Documentary Association top honors with another film. Cinematical interviewed Mochary and Zimbalist recently about their film, the Afroreggae movement, and how making Favela Rising has changed their lives. This is Part One of the interview, with Jeff Zimbalist. Part Two, with Matt Mochary, will be published tomorrow.

 

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