Jerry Rothwell’s ‘The Reason I Jump’
Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump, Mira Jargil’s Reunited and Alexander Nanau’s Collective among Best Feature nominees for the 36th International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards, to take place online January 16 2021. Jerry Rothwell is also nominated in the Best Director category.
Of the 1056 submissions this year, a record 40% were international productions or co-pros, IDA stated. In total there were 365 documentary feature submissions, 153 documentary shorts, 153 documentary series, 52 student films, 39 music documentaries and 33 audio documentaries and podcasts.
Nominees are selected by independent committees of 191 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 25 countries, of which 58% are female and 59% identify as Black, Indigenous or as a person of coloir. Fifreen per cent members are LGBTQ+ and 4% are disabled.
“The nominees present an inspiring and urgent range of stories from around the globe,” commented IDA Executive Director Simon Kilmurry. “The broad range of subjects and approaches to storytelling underscores that documentary is our most exciting form of cultural expression, a vital art form and a crucial element of democratic dialogue.”
IDA presented the 2020 IDA Pare Lorentz Award to Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed’s Netflix production My Octopus Teacher (Netflix).
Best Feature Nominees – full list
Collective (Romania / Magnolia Pictures, Participant. Director/Producer: Alexander Nanau. Producer: Bianca Oana)
Crip Camp (USA / Netflix. Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder)
Gunda (Norway, USA / NEON. Dir: Victor Kossakovsky. Prod: Anita Rehoff Larsen)
MLK/FBI (USA / IFC Films. Director: Sam Pollard. Producer: Benjamin Hedin)
The Reason I Jump (USA, UK / Kino Lorber. Director: Jerry Rothwell. Producers: Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow)
Reunited (Denmark. Director: Mira Jargil. Producer: Kirstine Barfod)
Softie (Kenya / POV. Director/Producer: Sam Soko. Producer: Toni Kamau)
Time (USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times. Director/Producer: Garrett Bradley. Producers: Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn)
The Truffle Hunters (USA, Italy, Greece / Sony Pictures Classics. Directors/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw)
Welcome to Chechnya (USA / HBO. Director/Producer: David France. Producers: Alice Henty, Joy A. Tomchin, and Askold Kurov)
Best Director Nominees
Garrett Bradley (Time, USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, New York Times)
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Truffle Hunters, USA, Italy, Greece / Sony Pictures Classics)
Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (Crip Camp, USA / Netflix)
Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI, USA / IFC Films)
Jerry Rothwell (The Reason I Jump, USA, UK / Kino Lorber)
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