Young@Heart and ‘Burning The Future’ pick up early IDA awards

Put a smile on your face and some beat into your step Young@Heart and eco-activist docu portrait Burning the Future: Coal in America are among the early bird winners for this year’s International Documentary Association’s annual awards given out to docu films that get theatrical or television play. Not surprisingly, Fox Searchlight’s extremely popular film fest audience winner YoungAHeart took the award for IDA /Alan Ett Music Documentary Award, while to David Novack’s docu on the nauseating affects of the coal industry (I reviewed this early in the year) claimed the IDA/Pare Lorentz Award.

The remaining three categories for Best Feature, Best Short and Audience award will be given out on the 5th of December. This year’s main feature category will see Kassim the Dream, Man on Wire Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains, Young@Heart and Waltz with Bashir duke it out for the top honor.

The winners are as followed:…

CONTINUING SERIES: 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, 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 Smith
 
LIMTED SERIES: Sin City Law
Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Remy Burkel
Maha Productions, Arte, Sundance Channel
 
IDA/ALAN ETT MUSIC DOCUMENTARY AWARD: Young@Heart
Stephen Walker, Sally George
Walker George Films, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Fox Searchlight Pictures
 
IDA/PARE LORENTZ AWARD: Burning The Future: Coal In America
David Novack, Alexis Zoullas
FireFly Pix, Sundance Channel
 
Honorable Mention: Garbage Warrior
Oliver Hodge, Rachel Wexler, Patrick Wilson
Open Eye Media, Sundance Channel, Documentary Channel, ITVS International
 
IDA/ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD: War Child
C. Karim Chrobog, Afshin Molava
18th Street Films, Independent Producers Alliance, Interfact Media Group, Porchlight Entertainment
 
IDA/DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD: As We Forgive
Laura Waters Hinson
American University