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

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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.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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