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    “Citizenfour” Wins International Documentary Award For Best Feature

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    Winners in the International Documentary Association’s 2014 IDA Documentary Awards were announced during tonight’s program at the Paramount Theatre, giving Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour top honors with the Best Feature Award. The third in a trilogy about post 9/11 America, Citizenfour reveals the disturbing level of surveillance of civilians, with revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden and others.

    Also announced in the ceremony was the Best Short Award, which honored Tashi And The Monk, directed by Johnny Burke and Andrew Hinton. Additionally, the film garnered the Pare Lorentz Award, which recognizes films that demonstrate exemplary filmmaking while focusing on environmental and social issues. Tashi And The Monk is a moving story of love and redemption told through the relationship of Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok and his 5-year-old charge Tashi Drolma.

    Emmy Award-nominated writer and comedienne, Carol Leifer, hosted the ceremony, which included the debut of three new series awards.  The OWN program Our America With Lisa Ling received the IDA’s inaugural Best Episodic Series Award. NPR’s multi-platform series Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt received the first Best Short Form Series Award. ITVS’ documentary showcase Independent Lens received the new Curated Series Award. Winner of the Best Limited Series was Showtime’s compelling portrayal of the end of life, Time of Death.

    IDA’s Career Achievement Award was presented to Robert Redford. Acclaimed as a filmmaker and actor, ardent conservationist and environmentalist, Redford is the founder of The Sundance Institute and its Documentary Film Program.  His work in documentary film began with the Academy Award-nominated short The Solar Film, and includes the award-winning Yosemite: Fate of Heaven, and feature documentaries Incident At Oglala and The Unforseen. In 2012, Redford formed Sundance Productions, and nonfiction work produced under its banner includes the Emmy-nominated All The President’s Men Revisited, nonfiction series Chicagoland and Death Row Stories for CNN, and the 3D film Cathedrals of Culture: The Salk Institute with executive producer Wim Wenders.  Presenting the award to Redford was Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and recipient of the IDA Career Achievement Award in 2010, Barbara Kopple.

    Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, founders of World of Wonder Productions were recipients of IDA’s Pioneer Award.  Presenting the award was Monica Lewinsky, the subject of their film Monica In Black and White.  With the simple belief that we are living in a world of wonder, award-winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato set up their production company in 1991 to tell the often stranger-than-fiction stories of real life people: from real estate agents (Million Dollar Listing) to twerkers (Big Freedia: Queen Of Bounce). They made a name for themselves with compelling documentaries about characters over-exposed yet under-revealed; from The Eyes Of Tammy Faye to Inside Deep Throat. Declaring themselves screen agnostic, they have set up a strong digital presence with their blog, The Wow Report (www.worldofwonder.net), Youtube channel and MCN WOW Presents. 

    IDA’s Preservation and Scholarship Award was presented to Rithy Panh, the co-founder of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Bophana Center collects film, television, photography and sound archives on Cambodia from around the world and grants free access to the public.  The Center also provides vocational training in film and media and produces contemporary fiction and documentary work, with the goal of developing the audiovisual sector in Cambodia. Panh’s film The Missing Picture was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

    A complete list of winners follows.

    2014 IDA Documentary Awards Honorees and Winners

    CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
    Robert Redford

    PIONEER AWARD
    Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

    PRESERVATION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
    Rithy Panh

    EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER AWARD sponsored by Red Fire Films and Modern VideoFilm
    Darius Clark Monroe

    BEST FEATURE AWARD
    CITIZENFOUR
    Director: Laura Poitras
    RADiUS-TWC, Participant Media, and
    HBO Documentary Films

    BEST SHORT AWARD
    TASHI AND THE MONK
    Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke
    HBO Documentary Films

    BEST CURATED SERIES AWARD
    INDEPENDENT LENS
    Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
    Deputy Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
    Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with PBS

    BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD
    TIME OF DEATH
    Executive Producers: Cynthia Childs, Dan Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Alexandra Lipsitz
    Co-Executive Producer: Miggi Hood, Sandy Shapiro
    Showtime

    BEST EPISODIC SERIES AWARD
    OUR AMERICA WITH LISA LING
    Executive Producers: Amy Bucher, Gregory Henry, Lisa Ling, David Shadrack Smith
    OWN

    BEST SHORT FORM SERIES AWARD
    PLANET MONEY MAKES A T-SHIRT
    Executive Producer: Alex Blumberg
    NPR

    DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
    MY DAD’S A ROCKER
    Director: Zuxin Hou
    University of Southern California

    HUMANITAS DOCUMENTARY AWARD
    LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Director: Thomas G. Miller
    PBS / Independent Lens

    PARE LORENTZ AWARD
    TASHI AND THE MONK
    Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke
    HBO Documentary Films

    ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD
    1971
    Director: Johanna Hamilton
    Independent Lens/ PBS

    CREATIVE RECOGNITION AWARD WINNERS

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY presented by Canon
    ELEVATOR
    Cinematography By: Hatuey Viveros Lavielle

    BEST EDITING
    LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM
    Editing By: Don Kleszy

    BEST MUSIC
    ALFRED AND JAKOBINE
    Music By: Nick Urata

    BEST WRITING
    FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
    Written By: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
     

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    AD&Co. Launches Studio A; Davida Hall To Head New Venture As Sr. Director of Creative Content

    Thursday, November 14, 2024

    Female-founded and led creative marketing agency AD&Co. has opened Studio A. The new venture will serve as AD&Co.’s in-house social brand content division, focused on developing and producing digital programming for advertising, social media, and influencer marketing campaigns designed to reach today’s audiences on the most popular and pivotal platforms. Davida Hall has been named to head Studio A as sr. director of creative content. She shifts over from AD&Co. where she held the same title since December 2023. Hall’s affiliations prior to AD&Co. include PopSugar and Studio71.

    Amy Demas, founder and chief creative officer of AD&Co., said, “We understand content is king-—or queen—and that our clients need to engage their customer communities where they live. That inspired the logical expansion of AD&Co with Studio A, which is committed to producing only the most engaging and authentic brand stories.”

    Studio A will harness both AD&Co’s and Hall’s deep expertise in the lifestyle sector, as content creators and avid consumers. Specializing in reaching audiences where they spend their time, the studio is immersed in social media, pop culture, and current trends, expertly crafting visuals, language, and storytelling to reinforce client brand identities and cut through the noise.

    Studio A debuts with the “This Is Me” campaign for Love + Craft + Beauty, a brand dedicated to embracing and promoting diversity within the beauty space. “This Is Me” highlights Gen Z’s affinity for radical self-expression that allows individuals to tell their own stories, free from labels, using beauty and fashion as tools of authenticity. The campaign showcases models celebrating their unique qualities to present... Read More

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