‘Crip Camp’ Wins Top Prize at IDA Documentary Awards

‘Crip Camp’ Wins Top Prize at IDA Documentary Awards

“Crip Camp” has been named the accurate documentary of 2020 on the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards, the International Documentary Association launched on Saturday at a virtual ceremony.

The film, about an upstate Fresh York summer season camp for disabled kids that helped open the disability rights movement, also gained the ABC Files VideoSource Award for its employ of archival photos and carried out as runner-as a lot as “My Octopus Teacher” for the Pare Lorentz Award.

“Crip Camp,” which was picked up by Netflix at final twelve months’s Sundance Movie Competition, gained in a category whose other nominees occupy been “Collective,” “Gunda,” “MLK/FBI,” “The Reason I Jump,” “Reunited,” “Softie,” “Time,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya.”

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Garrett Bradley gained the accurate director award for “Time” and likewise gained the Rising Documentary Filmmaker Award for that film.

Within the tv lessons, awards went to “American Abilities” for curated series, “Final Likelihood U” for episodic series and “Atlanta’s Lacking and Murdered: The Misplaced Younger folk” for multi-half documentary.

Matthew Killip’s “John Modified into as soon as Attempting to Contact Aliens” gained the award for documentary short.

“Dick Johnson Is Unnecessary” gained two awards, one for its modifying and one for its writing, whereas “My Octopus Teacher” gained for tune and likewise took the Pare Lorentz Award for “exemplary filmmaking whereas focusing on the actual employ of the natural ambiance, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social complications.”

Founded in 1982, the IDA runs the longest-running awards devoted exclusively to nonfiction filmmaking. Within the 15 years for the explanation that IDA Awards occupy been handing out a single Easiest Characteristic prize, the winner has long past on to be nominated for the Easiest Documentary Characteristic Oscar 10 times, and has gained four times.

Willie Garson hosted the glean ceremony.

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The winners:

Easiest Characteristic: “Crip Camp”


Administrators and Producers: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder

Easiest Director: Garrett Bradley, “Time”

Easiest Immediate: “John Modified into as soon as Attempting to Contact Aliens”


Director and Producer: Matthew Killip

Easiest Curated Sequence: “American Abilities”


Govt Producers: Susan Bellows and Label Samels

Easiest Episodic Sequence: “Final Likelihood U”


Director and Govt Producer: Greg Whiteley. Govt Producers: Joe LaBracio, James D. Stern, Lucas Smith, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard

Easiest Multi-Section Documentary: “Atlanta’s Lacking and Murdered: The Misplaced Younger folk”


Administrators and Govt Producers: Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Joshua Bennett, Jeff Dupre. Govt Producers: John Story, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorious, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller

Easiest Immediate Compose Sequence: “POV Shorts”


Producer: Opal H. Bennett. Govt Producers: Justine Nagan, Chris White

Easiest Audio Documentary: “Any individual”


Newshounds and Producers: Alison Plant life, Bill Healy and Sarah Geis. Host: Shapearl Wells. Newshounds: Sam Stecklow, Annie Nguyen, Kahari Blackburn, Rajiv Sinclair, Henri Adams, Matilda Vojak, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Frances McDonald, Diana Akmajian, Andrew Fan and Maddie Anderson. Affiliate Producer: Ellen Glover. Govt Producers: Jamie Kalven, Maria Zuckerman, Christy Gressman, Leital Molad

Easiest Tune Documentary: “Universe”


Administrators: Sam Osborn and Nicholas Capezzera. Producers: Esther Dere and Leah Natasha Thomas

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award: “Of us Admire Me” Director/Producer: Marrok Sedgwick, Co-Editor: Jackson Patrick-Sternin, University of California, Santa Cruz

Easiest Cinematography: Viacheslav Tsvietkov, “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”

Easiest Editing: Nels Bangerter, “Dick Johnson Is Unnecessary”

Easiest Tune Gain: Kevin Smuts, “My Octopus Teacher”

Easiest Writing: Nels Bangerter and Kirsten Johnson, “Dick Johnson is Unnecessary”

Pare Lorentz Award: “My Octopus Teacher”


Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed. Producer: Craig Foster


Honorable Mention: “Crip Camp”


Administrators/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder

ABC Files VideoSource Award: “Crip Camp”


Administrators/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder

Honorary Awards

Amicus Award: Regina S. Scully

Profession Fulfillment Award: Sam Pollard

Courage Under Fireplace Award: David France, Olga Baranova, David Isteev and the filmmakers and activists from “Welcome to Chechnya”

Rising Documentary Filmmaker Award: Garrett Bradley, “Time”

Pioneer Award: Firelight Media

Fact to Power Award: Maria Ressa and Rappler

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