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The International Documentary Assn (a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to supporting the efforts of nonfiction film and video makers throughout the United States and the world, and who also publish a monthly mag) choose James Longley’s Iraq In Fragments as the best feature-length documentary of the year. The other final noms in the same category were Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington
Anymore?, Deliver Us From Evil, Showbusiness: A Season to Remember and Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars.
Other winners were:
Best short documentary: Marcelo Bukin – Angel’s Fire (Fuego de Angel)
Pare Lorentz Award (recognizing a documentary filmmaker who represents both an activist spirit and a lyrical vision): Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth
Courage Under Fire Award: Andrew Berends – The Blood of
My Brother
The Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award: Christopher Quinn – God Grew Tired of Us
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award: Carrie Lozano Reporter Zero
Scholar and critic Dr. Patricia Aufderheide was honored with the IDA Preservation & Scholarship Award.
IDA Award for a
Continuing Series: PBS’ “American Experience”
IDA Award for a Limited Series: “Off to War”
The ABC News Video Source Award: Stanley Nelson for Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple