Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee has been named Best Feature by the International Documentary Association at the 37th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. Elsewhere, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul picked up three awards for Best Music Documentary, Best Director for Thompson, and Best Editing.
Winners in bold below.
Best Feature Nominees
Apenas el sol (Nothing but the Sun) (Switzerland, Paraguay/ Film republic. Director/Producer: Arami Ullón. Producer: Pascal Trächslin)
Faya Dayi (Ethiopia, USA, Qatar / Janus Films. Director/Producer: Jessica Beshir)
FLEE (Denmark, France, Norway / NEON, Participant. Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Producers: Monica Hellstrӧm,Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie)
In the Same Breath (USA, China / HBO, HBO Max. Director/Producer: Nanfu Wang. Producers: Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn)
Jacinta (USA / Hulu, ABC News. Director: Jessica Earnshaw. Producers: Jessica Earnshaw, Holly Meehl, Nimisha Mukerji)
North By Current (USA / POV. Director/Producer: Angelo Madsen Minax. Producer: Felix Endara)
Not Going Quietly (USA / Greenwich Entertainment. Director: Nicholas Bruckman. Producer: Amanda Roddy)
Summer of Soul (USA / Hulu, Searchlight Pictures. Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Producers: Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein)
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (USA / Kino Lorber. Director: Chris McKim. Producers: Chris McKim, Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey)
Writing With Fire (India / ITVS, Music Box. Director/Producers: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh)
Best Director Nominees
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Summer of Soul, USA / Hulu, Searchlight Pictures)
Jessica Beshir (Faya Dayi,Ethiopia, USA, Qatar / Janus Films)
Jessica Earnshaw (Jacinta, USA / Hulu, ABC News)
Jonas Poher Rasmussen (FLEE, Denmark, France, Norway / NEON, Participant)
Nicholas Bruckman (Not Going Quietly, USA / Greenwich Entertainment)
Best Short Nominees
A Broken House (USA, Lebanon / Condé Nast Entertainment, The New Yorker, POV. Director/Producer: Jimmy Goldblum. Producer: Matt Weaver, former Representative Richard Gephardt and Harrison Nalevansky)
Águilas (USA / The New Yorker. Director/Producer: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan. Co-Director/Producer: Maite Zubiaurre)
Ain’t No Time For Women (Canada / Travelling. Director: Sarra El Abed. Producer: Isabelle Grignon-Francke)
E14 (UK / Fifth Season LTD. Director: Peiman Zekavat. Producer: Sanam Jehanfard)
Joe Buffalo (Canada / Condé Nast Entertainment, The New Yorker. Director/Producer: Amar Chebib. Producer: Hayley Morin, Mack Stannard)
Kalsubai (India / Film and Television Institute of India. Director: Yudhajit Basu)
Open Shutters (USA, Republic of Korea / Field of Vision. Director/Producer: Youjin Do)
Red Taxi (USA, Hong Kong / Field of Vision. Director/Producer: Anonymous)
Senior Prom (USA / Independent Lens, PBS. Director/Producer: Luisa Conlon. Producer: Jessica Chermayeff)
Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me (Desde que llegaste, mi corazón dejó de pertenecerme) (USA / The New Yorker. Director/Producer: Erin Semine Kökdil)
Best Music Documentary Nominees
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (USA / Kino Lorber. Director/Producer: Beth B. Producer: Kathleen Fox)
The Sparks Brothers (UK / Focus Features. Director/Producer: Edgar Wright. Producers: Nira Park, George Hencken, Laura Richardson)
Summer of Soul (USA / Hulu, Searchlight Pictures. Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Producers: Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein)
Tina (USA / HBO, HBO Max. Directors: Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin. Producers: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn and Diane Becker)
The Velvet Underground (USA / Apple TV+. Director/Producer: Todd Haynes. Producers: Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn and David Blackman)
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award Nominees
Anchored Out (USA / UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Directors/Producers: Katie Bernstein and Clara Mokri)
In The Space You Left (UK / National Film and Television School. Director/Producer: Christine Saab. Producer: Ju Park)
No Soy Óscar (USA, Mexico / Stanford University. Director/Producer: Jon Ayon)
Seahorse (Germany / Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Director/Producer: Nele Dehnenkamp. Producer: Christine Duttlinger)
The Doll (Islamic Republic Of Iran / Tehran University of Art. Director/Producer: Elahe Esmaili)
Best Cinematography Nominees
Ascension (USA / MTV Documentary Films. Cinematographers: Jessica Kingdon and Nathan Truesdell)
Cusp (USA / SHOWTIME Documentary Films. Cinematographers: Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill)
Faya Dayi (Ethiopia, USA, Qatar / Janus Films. Cinematographer: Jessica Beshir)
The Lost Leonardo (Denmark, France / Sony Pictures Classics. Cinematographer: Adam Jandrup)
The First Wave (USA / National Geographic. Cinematographers: Ross McDonnell, Thorsten Thielow, Brian Dawson, Matthew Heineman and Alex Pritz)
Best Editing Nominees
Charm Circle (USA. Editors: Michael Levine and Nira Burstein)
Homeroom (USA / Hulu. Editors: Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno)
Procession (USA / Netflix. Editor: Robert Greene)
Simple As Water (USA, Syria. Editors: Purcell Carson and Megan Mylan)
Summer of Soul (USA / Hulu,Searchlight Pictures. Editor: Joshua L. Pearson)
Best Music Score Nominees
Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground (USA / HBO Max. Composer: Roman GianArthur)
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (USA / PBS. Composers: Lori Goldston, Steve Fisk and Alexander Miranda)
Pelé (USA, Brazil / Netflix. Composers: Antônio Pinto, Gabriel Ferreira and Felipe Kim)
Speer Goes to Hollywood (Israel, Austria, Germany. Composer: Frank Ilfman)
The Lost Leonardo (Denmark, France / Sony Pictures Classics. Composer: Sveinung Nygaard)
The Neutral Ground (USA / POV, PBS. Composer: Sultana Isham)
Best Writing Nominees
Duty Free (USA / Independent Lens, PBS. Writer: Sian-Pierre Regis)
Eyes On The Prize: Hallowed Ground (USA / HBO Max. Writers: Lenelle Moïse and Sophia Nahli Allison)
North By Current (USA / POV, PBS. Writer: Angelo Madsen Minax)
Not Going Quietly (USA / Greenwich Entertainment. Writers: Nicholas Bruckman and Amanda Roddy)
The One And Only Dick Gregory (USA / SHOWTIME Documentary Films,Cinemation Studios, Hartbeat Productions, Hillman Grad Productions. Writer: Andre Gaines)
