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IDA Documentary Awards Announces 2013 Nominations

IDA has announced their 2013 Documentary Awards nominations. Among them are some of the most talked about female directed documentaries of the year including Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Blackfish, Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell and Jehane Noujaim’s The Square.

Below are the women directed documentaries that were nominated. Please note that for series — both limited and continuing — not all of the series included directors, so we looked at the women producing those. For a full list of nominees, go here.

BEST FEATURE AWARD

BLACKFISH

Directors: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Producer: Manuel V. Oteyza

Writers: Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Eli Despres

Executive Producers: Judy Bart, Erica Kahn

Magnolia Pictures

STORIES WE TELL

Director/Writer: Sarah Polley

Producer: Anita Lee

Roadside Attractions

THE SQUARE

Director: Jehane Noujaim

Producer: Karim Amer

Noujaim Films

BEST SHORT AWARD

THE EDUCATION OF MUHAMMAD HUSSEIN

Directors: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady

Producers: Heidi Ewing; Rachel Grady; Sadia Shepard; Sara Bernstein (for HBO)

Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins (for HBO)

HBO Documentary Films

NINE TO NINETY

Director: Alicia Dwyer

Producer: Juli Vizza

Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer

Independent Television Service (ITVS)

BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD

180 DAYS: A YEAR INSIDE AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL

Directors/Producers: Jacquie Jones, Garland McLaurin

Executive Producer: Jacquie Jones

NPBC/PBS

INSIDE MAN

Producers: Kristen Vaurio, Lisa Kalikow, Shannon Gibson, Suzanne Hillinger, Lara Benario

Writers: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock

Executive Producers: Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin, Morgan Spurlock

CNN

VIEWFINDER: LATIN AMERICA

Directors: Manuel Contreras, Russ Finkelstein, Alfonso Gastiaburo, Juan Pablo Rojas, Paola Gosalvez, Luciana Freitas Silva, Susanna Lira, Fernanda Polacow
and Juliana Borges

Producers: Rodrigo Vazquez, Patricia Boero

Writer: Ingrid Falck

Executive Producers: Flora Gregory

Series Producer: Jean Garner

Al Jazeera English

WITNESS

Directors:David Frankham, Abdallah Omeish

Producers: Ike Martin, Allison Kunzman, Youree Henley, Julie Herrin, Josiah Hooper

Co-Producer: Ra’uf Glasgow

Executive Producers: Michael Mann, David Frankham

Blue Light Productions and Little Puppet Productions with HBO Entertainment and HBO Documentary Films

BEST CONTINUING SERIES AWARD

30 FOR 30

Producers: Libby Geist, Andy Billman, Kyle Godwin, Brian D’Ostilio, Jenna Anthony, Erin Leyden, Deirdre Fenton

Executive Producers: Connor Schell, John Dahl, Bill Simmons

ESPN

CURIOSITY

Producers: Geoff Deehan, Christine Weber

Executive Producers: Erik Nelson, Simon Dickson, Sanjay Singhal, Dave Harding, Mike Masland

Discovery Channel

INDEPENDENT LENS

Producer: Lois Vossen

Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer

Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with PBS

POV

Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry

Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia López

VP of Programming & Production: Chris White

Series Producer: Andrew Catauro

American Documentary | POV in association with PBS

DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD

BETWEEN LAND AND SEA

Directors/Producers/Writers: Sarah Berkovich, J. Christian Jensen

Stanford University

MY SISTER SARAH

Directors/Producer: Elizabeth Chatelain

University of Texas at Austin

WHY WE RACE

Directors: Kiley Vorndran, Ryan Westra, Andrew Evers, Ben Fischinger

Producer: Kiley Vorndran

Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

HUMANITAS AWARD

ANTONS RIGHT HERE

Director: Evgeniya Blaze

Producers: Konstantin Shavlovsky , Aleksandra Golutova

Writers: Lyubov Arkus

Executive Producers: Sergey Selyanov

INTERCINEMA Agency

THE SQUARE

Director: Jehane Noujaim

Producer: Karim Amer

Noujaim Films

PARE LORENTZ AWARD

A PLACE AT THE TABLE

Directors/Producers: Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson

Producers: Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington

Magnolia Pictures

ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Director/Producer/Writer: Shola Lynch

Producers: Sidra Smith, Carole Lambert, Carine Ruszniewski

Overbrook Entertainment


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