December
7
IDA Awards Honor Werner Herzog
The winners of this year's International Documentary Awards were announced Friday night at a ceremony at the DGA. (Waltz with Bashir and Man on Wire tied for best feature doc.) But the highlight of the night was director Werner Herzog's tribute. After showing stellar clips from Little Dieter Learns to Fly, Grizzly Man and his most recent doc, Encounters at the End of the World (which is short-listed for Oscar consideration), Herzog got a standing ovation and gave a speech.
"There are deeper strata of truth in cinema and there's such a thing as poetic ecstatic truth," said the director, who thanked his editor on his last fourteen docs and features, Joe Bini. "In being a filmmaker I really tried to find an answer about what constitutes reality...we have to individually find our own ways. I have tried to find something much deeper, something that constitutes truth, which is hard to grasp. In my filmmaking I have tried to find some sort of ecstasy where you are deeply moved and illuminated. If you leave pure facts behind...truth can create illumination."
At dinner afterwards, the classically educated Herzog cited Virgil's joyful The Georgiad as a source of inspiration for Encounters at the End of the World, yet another of his celebrations of the wonders to be found on this earth. The filmmaker arrived in Antarctica without knowing what his movie would be; he looked for interesting people and chose his subjects as he went. He was not permitted to dive under the ice, much as the fearless documentarian would have liked to. He denies that he is in any way a "journalist" or "reporter." He's seeking truth, which is something else entirely.
A complete list of winners is on the jump:
2008 International Documentary Association Awards Host Morgan SpurlockHonors
DISTINGUISHED FEATURE – WINNER (TIE)
Man on Wire
Director: James Marsh
Producer: Simon Chinn
Red Box Films, Wall to Wall, Discovery Films, BBC, UK Film Council, Magnolia PicturesWaltz with Bashir
Director/Producer: Ari Folman
Producers: Yael Nahlieli, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d’Ici, Razor Film, ARTE France, ITVS International, Sony Pictures ClassicsDISTINGUISHED SHORT – WINNER
La Corona
Directors/Producers: Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega
Runaway Films, Vega Films, HBO Documentary FilmsCAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Werner HerzogPIONEER AWARD
Rob EpsteinPRESERVATION & SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Marina GoldovskayaAVID EXCELLENCE IN EDITING AWARD
Sam PollardJACQUELINE DONNET EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Stefan ForbesCONTINUING SERIES – WINNER
This American Life
Created By Ira Glass/Chicago Public Radio
Chris Wilcha, director, co-executive producer
Jane Feltes, Sarah Koenig, Lisa Pollak, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, Nancy Updike, Kevin Vargas, producers
Julie Snyder, Alex Blumberg, Ira Glass, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel, executive producers
Left/Right, Killer Films, Chicago Public Radio, Showtime Networks
Episodes Submitted:
Escape
Two Wars
Going Down In History
John SmithLIMTED SERIES – WINNER
Sin City Law
Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Remy Burkel
Maha Productions, Arte, Sundance ChannelIDA/ALAN ETT MUSIC DOCUMENTARY AWARD - WINNER
Young @ Heart
Stephen Walker, Sally George
Walker George Films, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Fox Searchlight Pictures
IDA/PARE LORENTZ AWARD - WINNER
Burning The Future: Coal In America
David Novack, Alexis Zoullas
FireFly Pix, Sundance ChannelIDA/PARE LORENTZ AWARD – HONORABLE MENTION
Garbage Warrior
Oliver Hodge, Rachel Wexler, Patrick Wilson
Open Eye Media, Sundance Channel, Documentary Channel, ITVS InternationalIDA/ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD – WINNER
War Child
C. Karim Chrobog, Afshin Molava
18th Street Films, Independent Producers Alliance, Interfact Media Group, Porchlight EntertainmentIDA/DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
As We Forgive
Laura Waters Hinson
American University



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