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IDA Doc Awards names ‘Wire’ and ‘Waltz’ Best Docs of 2008

James Marsh’s Man On Wire and Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir have tied for the International Documentary Association’s 2008 IDA Documentary Awards Best Doc of the Year award. The duel winners were in a final noms category with Kassim The Dream, Stranded and Young @ Heart.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 6, 2008

James Marsh‘s Man On Wire and Ari Folman‘s Waltz With Bashir have tied for the International Documentary Association’s 2008 IDA Documentary Awards Best Doc of the Year award. The duel winners were in a final noms category with Kassim The Dream, Stranded and Young @ Heart. Other winners include Chris Taylor‘s Food Fight which picked up the Audience Award and Stefan Forbes picked up the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award for his docu Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).