The International Documentary Association, which is dedicated to promoting and increasing awareness of documentaries made each year, announced it’s 2012 winners list on Thursday.
THE WINNERS:
Best Feature – Searching For Sugar Man
Career Achievement Award – Arnold Shapiro
Best Short – Saving Face, Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Humanitas Documentary Award – Bitter Seeds, Micha X. Peled, Teddy Bear Films
Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker award – David France (How To Survive A Plague)
Best Writing, Ann Richards’ Texas, Keith Patterson
Best Music – Searching for Sugar Man, songs of Sixto Rodriguez, score by Malik Benjelloul
Best Editing: Room 237, Rodney Ascher
Best Cinematograpy – Women With Cows, Peter Gerdehag
Pare Lorenz award – The Island President, Jon Shenk
David L Wolper Student Documentary Award – La Camioneta, directed by Mark Kendall
Best Limited Series – On Death Row, Werner Herzog
Best Continuing Series – American Masters
ABCNEWS Video Source Award – Harvest Of Empire, Peter Getzels & Eduardo Lopez
Pioneer Award – Documentary Film Program at Sundance Labs
