UPDATED with quotes from winners and IDA’s incoming govt director. Bobi Wine: The Folks’s President earned the highest award on the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, introduced in a digital ceremony tonight.
The movie directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp was named Greatest Function Documentary, profitable over 9 different Oscar-contending documentaries, a listing that included Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Challenge, Within the Rearview, The Mom of All Lies, and Apolonia, Apolonia. Scroll for the entire winners listing.
Bobi Wine: The Folks’s President tells the story of the titular Ugandan pop singer-turned politician, who dared to problem his nation’s dictator for management of Uganda.
Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine.
Lookman Kampala/Nationwide Geographic
“The attention this movie has dropped at world audiences has arguably saved Bobi Wine alive and out of jail for now,” Bwayo commented in his acceptance speech. “This movie is a testomony to the braveness and willpower of Bobi Wine, his spouse, Barbie, and the folks of Uganda, and all these courageous opposition leaders of the world. This recognition is immensely gratifying.”
Sharp commented, “For the reason that movie got here out, the dictatorship in Uganda has been more and more restrained. If there was ever a case of a documentary making a distinction, that is it. The movie would possibly play an element in liberating a nation from 38 years of tyranny. Your assist means greater than you may probably think about.”
Bobi Wine: The Folks’s President premiered on the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant and has gone on to win prizes at Hamptons Worldwide Movie Pageant, and Impartial Movie Pageant of Boston. It’s nominated in three aggressive classes at subsequent month’s Cinema Eye Honors.
Final 12 months, Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes received Greatest Function Documentary on the IDA Awards and went on to earn an Oscar nomination. Sen received the IDA’s Greatest Director prize final 12 months as effectively.
Within the directing and craft classes, the thirty ninth IDA Awards had been break up between numerous main movies:
Asmae El Moudir received Greatest Director for her work on The Mom of All Lies. Her movie, chosen to symbolize Morocco within the Oscars’ Greatest Worldwide Movie class, examines her household historical past and a shattering occasion for Morocco: the 1981 Bread Riots, wherein tons of of individuals might have been killed (the federal government put the demise toll at 66).
Greatest Cinematography went to Ants Tammik, director of pictures on Smoke Sauna Sisterhood. Carolina Siraqyan received the Greatest Modifying prize for her work on The Everlasting Reminiscence. The Greatest Writing Award was claimed by Kaouther Ben Hania for her documentary 4 Daughters, which she additionally directed.
“One of the crucial tough issues is writing a documentary — earlier than, in the course of the taking pictures after which within the modifying,” Ben Hania famous in her acceptance speech. “It’s such a pleasure for me to obtain this award.”
Leonard Küssner received Greatest Unique Music Rating for Anselm, the documentary about artist Anselm Kiefer directed by Wim Wenders.
Greatest Documentary Brief went to Incident, directed by Invoice Morrison. The movie examines the killing of Harith Augustus, who was shot to demise by police in Chicago in 2018. The narrative crafted by authorities of how the incident went down got here aside upon evaluation.
“We acknowledge that it’s a difficult movie that different programmers have shied away from,” Morrison mentioned as he accepted the award. “I need to thank the Chicago Humanities Pageant, specifically, the place the movie premiered in Chicago and it was attended by the sufferer’s mom. The movie wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the journalistic work of its producer, Jamie Kalven, who obtained the footage from the Chicago Police, and I need to thank Jamie for trusting me to retell this story with the footage he fought to acquire.”
Greatest Brief Documentary and Greatest Function Documentary had been decided by a vote of IDA membership. Winners within the different 16 classes had been chosen by unbiased judging committees.
The Pare Lorentz Award went to Within the Rearview, directed by Maciek Hamela and produced by Piotr Grawender. That movie facilities on Ukrainian civilians who tried to flee throughout the Polish border within the days and weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Hamela mentioned of his movie, “It’s concerning the everlasting refugee disaster that we’re dealing with throughout the globe and that has touched extra folks than ever earlier than. And we hope that this movie will simply present how essential is to finish wars as quickly as potential. And we hope that the battle in Ukraine will finish within the foreseeable future as effectively.”
After the ultimate award was introduced on the digital ceremony, the IDA’s incoming Government Director, Dominic Asmall Willsdon, took a second to introduce himself. He formally takes the reins of the nonprofit on January 8, succeeding interim Government Director Ken Ikeda.
“Our job is to change into as worldwide as we might be,” Willsdon mentioned. “You see it already. Have a look at this 12 months’s award nominees. Have a look at who works at IDA and who’s on the board now and who’s contributing to the journal [Documentary, the IDA’s publication]. We’ll proceed to pursue a dynamic expansive internationalization of IDA. Should be capable of work with anybody, wherever on the earth who cares about documentary filmmaking and its contribution to the wellbeing of everybody.”
That is the total listing of winners on the 39th IDA Documentary Awards:
Greatest Function Documentary Nominees
Winner: Bobi Wine: The Folks’s President (Uganda | Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies | Administrators: Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp | Producers: Christopher Sharp, John Battsek)
Nominees:
In opposition to the Tide (India | BBC Storyville | Director: Sarvnik Kaur | Producers: Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur)
ANHELL69 (Colombia | Sq. Eyes | Director: Theo Montoya | Producers: Bianca Oana, David Hurst, Theo Montoya, Juan Pablo Castrillon, Balthasar Busmann, Maximilian Haslberger)
Apolonia, Apolonia (Denmark, Poland, France | HBO | Max | Director: Lea Glob | Producer: Sidsel Lønvig Siersted)
Bobi Wine: The Folks’s President (Uganda | Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies | Administrators: Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp | Producers: Christopher Sharp, John Battsek)
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Challenge (United States | HBO Documentary Movies | Administrators: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster | Producers: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Tommy Oliver)
Within the Rearview (Poland | Cinephil | Director: Maciek Hamela | Producers: Maciek Hamela, Piotr Grawender)
Milisuthando (South Africa | Director: Milisuthando Bongela | Producers: Marion Isaacs, Viviana Gomez, Sonia Barrera, Milisuthando Bongela, Hankyeol Lee)
Q (United States | Chehab Movies | Director: Jude Chehab | Producers: Jude Chehab, Fahd Ahmed)
The Mom of All Lies (Morocco | Arizona Distribution | Director/Producer: Asmae El Moudir)
Whereas We Watched (United Kingdom, India | POV, BRITDOC Movies | Director: Vinay Shukla | Producers: Vinay Shukla, Khushboo Ranka, Luke W Moody)
Greatest Brief Documentary Nominees
Winner: Incident (United States | Hypnotic Photos | Director: Invoice Morrison | Producers: Invoice Morrison, Jamie Kalven)
Nominees:
How you can Carry Water (United States | Multitude Movies | Director: Sasha Wortzel | Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jess Devaney, Anya Rous)
Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles (United States | The New Yorker, Condé Nast Leisure | Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyy Sobchuk | Producer: Daniel Lombroso)
Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) (Australia | Different Photos & Change Productions | Administrators: Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne | Producers: Matthew Thorne, Patrick Graham)
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma) (United States | Director: Sean Wang | Producers: Sean Wang, Sam Davis, Malcolm Pullinger)
Neighbour Abdi (The Netherlands | The New York Instances Op-Docs | Director: Douwe Dijkstra | Producer: Richard Valk)
Raat: Night time Time in Small City India (India | The Third Eye Studying Lab | Administrators: Arti Ahirwar, Ashraf Hussain, Rajkumari Ahirwar, Vikas Khatri, Tabassum Ansari, Kulsum Khatoon, Khushi Bano, Parmeshwar Mandrawaliya, Santra Chaurthiya, Rajkumari Prajapati, Manisha Chanda, Anita Sen, Rani Devi, Ajfarul Shaikh | Producers: Ruchika Negi, Dipta Bhog, Shabani Hassanwalia, Shivam Rastogi)
Abruptly TV (Sudan | Gisa Productions | Director/Producer: Roopa Gogineni)
The Unicorn in Snowpants Abruptly Ran Off (Germany | The New Yorker, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg | Director: Philipp Schaeffer | Producer: Fabian Leonhardt)
The Veiled Metropolis (United Kingdom | JSH Movies | Director: Natalie Cubides-Brady | Producer: Jacob Swan Hyam)
Greatest Director
Winner: Asmae El Moudir, The Mom of All Lies (Arizona Distribution | Morocco)
Nominees:
Milisuthando Bongela, Milisuthando (South Africa)
Sarvnik Kaur, In opposition to the Tide (BBC Storyville | India)
Theo Montoya, ANHELL69 (Sq. Eyes | Colombia)
Lea Glob, Apolonia, Apolonia (HBO | Max | Denmark, Poland, France)
Greatest Cinematography
Winner: Ants Tammik, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Greenwich Leisure | Estonia, France, Iceland)
Nominees:
Andrew H. Brown, Between the Rains (Journeyman Photos | Kenya, USA)
Curren Sheldon, King Coal (King Coal Productions LLC | USA)
Franz Lustig, Anselm (Sideshow and Janus Movies | Germany)
Lars Erlend Tubaas Oymo, Songs of Earth (SWC/Arte, BBC Storyville | Norway)
Greatest Modifying
Winner: Carolina Siraqyan, The Everlasting Reminiscence (MTV Documentary Movies | Chile, USA)
Nominees:
Andreas Bøggild Monies, Thor Ochsner, Apolonia, Apolonia (HBO | Max | Denmark, Poland, France)
Fahd Ahmed, Q (Chehab Movies | USA, Lebanon)
Hendrik Mägar, Tushar Prakash, Qutaiba Barhamji, Martin Männik, Anna Hints, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Greenwich Leisure | Estonia, France, Iceland)
Greatest Unique Music Rating
Winner: Leonard Küssner, Anselm (Sideshow and Janus Movies | Germany)
Nominees:
Jonathan Goldsmith, To Kill a Tiger (Nationwide Movie Board of Canada | Canada, India)
Rebekka Karijord, Songs of Earth (SWR/Arte, BBC Storyville | Norway)
Samora Pinderhughes, Chris Pattishall, Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Challenge (HBO Documentary Movies | USA)
Will Epstein, Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (Greenwich Leisure | USA)
Greatest Writing
Winner: Kaouther Ben Hania, 4 Daughters (Kino Lorber | France, Tunisia, Germany)
Nominees:
Asmae El Moudir, The Mom of All Lies (Arizona Distribution | Morocco)
Lea Glob, Andreas Bøggild Monies, Apolonia, Apolonia (HBO | Max | Denmark, Poland, France)
Milisuthando Bongela, Milisuthando (South Africa)
Nisha Pahuja, To Kill a Tiger (Nationwide Movie Board of Canada | Canada, India)
Greatest TV Function Documentary or Mini-Sequence
Winner: Mariupol: The Folks’s Story (BBC | UK | Director: Robin Barnwell | EP: Darren Kemp, Tom Stone | Producer: Hilary Andersson)
Nominees:
Nice Photograph, Pretty Life (HBO | Max | USA | Administrators: Amanda Mustard, Rachel Beth Anderson | EP: Rachel Dretzin, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller and Sara Rodriguez | Producers: Amanda Mustard, Rachel Beth Anderson, Luke Malone)
How you can Come Alive with Norman Mailer (Showtime | USA | Director: Jeff Zimbalist | EP: Vinnie Malhotra, Stu Schreiberg, John Buffalo Mailer | Producers: Victoria Marquette, Jeff Zimbalist)
Reggie (Prime Video | USA | Director: Alexandria Stapleton | EP: Brenda Gilbert, Aaron L. Gilbert, Josh Miller, Kim Carsten, Zoë Morrison, Jason Fabric, Suraj Maraboyina, Producers: Alexandria Stapleton, Christopher Leggett, Rafael Marmor, Daniel Crown, Yoni Liebling)
The U.S. and the Holocaust (PBS | USA | Administrators: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein | Producers: Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns, Mike Welt)
Greatest Curated Sequence
Winner: POV (PBS | USA | EP: Erika Dilday, Chris White)
Nominees:
American Masters (PBS | USA | EP: Michael Kantor)
America ReFramed (American Documentary, Inc, WORLD Channel | USA | EP: Erika Dilday, Chris White, Christopher Hastings)
Impartial Lens (PBS, Impartial Lens | USA | EP: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen)
Reel South (PBS, WORLD Channel | USA, South Korea, UK | EP: Rachel Raney, Don Godish, Donald Washington, Linda Midgett)
Greatest Episodic Sequence
Winner: Our Planet II (Netflix | USA, UK | EP: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey)
Nominees:
Frozen Planet II (BBC America | USA | EP: Mark Brownlow)
Telemarketers (HBO | Max | USA | EP: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Dani Bernfeld, David Gordon Inexperienced, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Greg Stewart, Brandon James, Adam Bhala Lough, Sam Lipman-Stern, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen)
The Hair Tales (Hulu/OWN | USA | EP: Oprah Winfrey, Tracee Ellis Ross, Michaela Angela Davis, Tara Duncan, Raeshem Nijhon, Carri Twigg, Kisah Imani Cameron, Kadine Anckle, Nicole Galovski)
VICE (Showtime | USA | EP: Beverly Chase, Subrata De, Craig Thomson)
Greatest Music Documentary
Winner: Max Roach: The Drum Additionally Waltzes (PBS, American Masters | USA | Administrators/Producers: Ben Shapiro, Sam Pollard)
Nominees:
Protecting the Music Alive (France, Singapore, UK | TVF Worldwide | Administrators: Sarah El Younsi, Mandakini Gahlot | Producers: Babel Doc, CNA)
Little Richard: I Am All the things (Magnolia Photos, CNN Movie, HBO | Max | USA, UK | Director: Lisa Cortés | Producers: Lisa Cortés, Robert Friedman, Liz Yale Marsh, Caryn Capotosto)
Milli Vanilli (Paramount+ | USA | Director: Luke Korem | Producers: Luke Korem, Bradley Jackson)
Pianoforte (Greenwich Leisure | Poland, Germany | Director: Jakub Piatek | Producer: Maciej Kubicki)
Greatest Multi-Half Documentary
Winner: Expensive Mama (FX | USA | Director: Allen Hughes | EP: Lasse Järvi, Quincy “QD3” Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles King, Peter Nelson, Adel “Future” Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Nanick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair)
Nominees:
Algiers, America (Hulu | USA | Director: Jackson Fager | Producers: Jackson Fager, Jeffrey Fager, David Rohde, Connor Schell, Libby Geist, Raina Kelley, Joseph Langford, Durado Brookes, Raza Naqvi, Kristen Lappas)
Burden of Proof (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Cynthia Hill | EP: Charlotte Prepare dinner, Rahdi Taylor, Davis Guggenheim, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller | Producers: Christine Delp, Cynthia Hill, Andrea Weigl)
Deadlocked: How America Formed the Supreme Courtroom (Showtime | USA | Director: Daybreak Porter | Producers: Vinnie Malhotra, Aaron Saidman, Eli Holzman, Daybreak Porter)
Women First: A Story of Ladies in Hip-Hop (Netflix | USA | Administrators: Hannah Beachler, Raeshem Nijhon, Dream Hampton, Giselle Bailey | EP: Dream Hampton, Troy Carter, Raeshem Nijhon, Carri Twigg, MC Lyte, Nicole Galovski, Justin Simien, Jennifer Ryan)
Greatest Brief-Type Sequence
Winner: POV Shorts (PBS | USA | EP: Opal H. Bennett, Erika Dilday, Chris White)
Nominees:
99: True Tales From Your Fellow People (99 | USA, India, UK | Producer: Jérôme Plan)
{Couples} Remedy (Showtime | USA | Producers: Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, Vinnie Malhotra)
Equals (Anahad Basis | India | Producers: Abhinav Agrawal, Shuchi Roy, Mudit Chaturvedi)
Queer Futures (Multitude Movies | USA | Producers: Jess Devaney, Anya Rous, J Wortham, Colleen Cassingham)
Greatest Standalone Audio Documentary
Winner: This Coal Life (South Africa | Host: Lesedi Mogoatlhe | Reporter: Siyabonga Mokoena | Producer: Dhashen Moodley)
Nominees:
Okay-Pop Dreaming, Episode 3 – “Trot” (USA | LAist Studios | Host: Vivian Yoon | Producers: Fiona Ng, Antonia Cereijido)
Les gardiennes du temple (The Guardians of the Temple) (France | SMAC Le Florida, Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, RTBF, RTS Tradition SRG SSR | Hosts: Aurélien Caillaux, Benoit Bores | Producers: Faïdos Sonore, Les Voix de Traverse, SMAC Le Florida, Théâtre des Quatre Saisons)
Sounds Homosexual: Melanie Speaks (USA | SiriusXM Podcast Community | Host/Producer: Sarah Esocoff | Producer: Cass Adair)
NPR’s Invisibilia: Freedom Diving (USA | NPR | Host: Kia Miakka Natisse | Producers: Phoebe Wang, Ariana Gharib Lee)
Toughie (USA | BBC’s Brief Cuts | Host: Josie Lengthy | Reporter/Producer: Sarah Craig)
Greatest Multi-Half Audio Documentary or Sequence
Winner: You Didn’t See Nothin (USA | The Invisible Institute, USG Audio | Host: Yohance Lacour | Producers: Invoice Healy, Erisa Apantaku, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Sarah Geis)
Nominees:
Foretold (USA | Los Angeles Instances | Host: Religion E. Pinho | Producers: Asal Ehsanipour, Alex Higgins, Lauren Raab, Sue Horton, Avery Trufelman, Jazmín Aguilera, Heba Elorbany, Ethel Brooks, Mike Heflin, Vadim Kolpakov, Alex PGSV)
Into America presents: Road Disciples (USA | MSNBC | Host: Trymaine Lee | Producers: Aisha Turner, Isabel Angell, Max Jacobs, Allison Bailey, Mike Brown, Janmaris Perez)
Operation Morning Gentle (USA, Canada | Crucial Leisure, Vespucci | Host: Dëneze Nakehk’o | Producers: Michael LaPointe, Daniel Turcan, Johnny Galvin, Jason Hoch)
Scamanda (USA | Lionsgate Sound | Host: Charlie Webster | Producer: Charlie Webster, Jaxson McLennan | EP: Craig Piligian, Charlie Webster, Nancy Moscatiello)
The Best Menace: Inside The Homosexual Jail Experiment (Australia | Audible | Host/Producer: Patrick Abboud | Producer: Simon Cunich)
David L. Wolper Scholar Documentary
Winner: Lettre à Elie (Letter to Elie) (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director/Producer: Alexis Grigorieff)
Nominees:
El Bastón (The Metropolis School of New York | USA, Colombia | Director: Nemo Allen | Producers: Aditi Natasha Kini, Juan Blanco García)
Hungry for Freedom (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK, Thailand | Director/Producer: Rachata Thongruay | Producer: Athena Vlachos)
The Paradise Park Will Shut on Fridays at Three (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director/Producer: Frank Eli Martin | Producer: Tal Elkayam)
With Girl (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director/Producer: Mia Harvey)
Pare Lorentz Award
Within the Rearview (Poland | Cinephil | Director: Maciek Hamela | Producers: Maciek Hamela, Piotr Grawender)
ABC Information VideoSource Award
Storming Caesars Palace (USA | Impartial Lens, PBS | Director: Hazel Gurland-Pooler | Producers: Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Nazenet Habtezghi)
