The IDA Announce Their 2020 Documentary Awards Shortlist
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced the 36th Annual IDA Documentary Awards shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories. The 2020 Awards will be presented at a virtual ceremony in January 2021.
We’re very excited to see many of the films we’ve featured appear in these lists and we’ve included links to any relevant coverage from us for each film.
Up to ten nominees in each of the feature and short documentary categories will be selected from the shortlist. Following the nominees announcement, IDA members will have access to nominated films to vote for Best Feature and Best Short starting December 7, 2020.
IDA Documentary Awards 2020 Features Shortlist
Time by Garrett Bradley - Read our review
Boys State by Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss - Read our review
Crip Camp by Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham - Read our review
The Viewing Booth by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz - Included in our Sheffield ‘20 Top 10
Welcome to Chechnya by David France - Included in our Sheffield ‘20 Top 10
Me and the Cult Leader by Atsushi Sakahara - Included in our Sheffield ‘20 Top 10
To See You Again by Carolina Corral Paredes - Included in our Sheffield ‘20 Top 10
Wintopia by Mira Burt-Wintonick - Included in our IDFA ‘19 Best Bits
Collective by Alexander Nanau - Included in our IDFA ‘19 Best Bits
Acasă, My Home by Radu Ciorniciuc
Softie by Sam Soko
Stray by Elizabeth Lo
The Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk
The Forbidden Reel by Ariel Nasr
A Metamorfose dos Pássaros by Catarina Vasconcelos
Notturno by Gianfranco Rosi
City Hall by Frederick Wiseman
Self Portrait by Margreth Olin
The Reason I Jump by Jerry Rothwell
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos
Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky
Disclosure by Sam Feder
‘Til Kingdom Come by Maya Zinshtein
76 Days by Anonymous, Weixi Chen
I Walk on Water by Khalik Allah
The Mole Agent by Maite Alberdi
Reunited by Mira Jargil
The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Unapologetic by Ashley O’Shay
IDA Documentary Awards 2020 Shorts Shortlist
Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa by Barbara Attie, Mike Attie, Janet Goldwater
All That Perishes at the Edge of Land by Hira Nabi
Tutwiler by Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Call Center Blues by Geeta Gandbhir
Eddy’s World by Lyn Goldfarb
Huntsville Station by Chris Filippone, Jamie Meltzer
Hysterical Girl by Kate Novack.
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens by Matthew Killip
The Lost Astronaut by Ben Proudfoot
Mizuko by Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo
Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem by Robert Greenwald
sống ở đây by Melanie Ho
To Calm the Pig Inside (Ang Pagpakalma sa Unos) by Joanna Vasquez Arong
Unforgivable by Marlén Viñayo
Virtually Free by André Robert Lee
You can find more info on this year’s IDA awards here.
