It’s been a unprecedented week for No Other Land, the well timed documentary directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
The movie set within the occupied West Financial institution received Finest Characteristic Documentary on the 40th IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles tonight and it additionally received the Finest Director prize for the work of Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, and Yuval Abraham. The quartet of filmmakers additionally acquired the IDA’s Braveness Beneath Fireplace Award, a beforehand introduced honor recognizing the troublesome and harmful situations wherein the movie was made.
No Different Land swept a lot of the awards introduced this week: on Monday, it received Finest Documentary on the Gotham Awards, and on Tuesday, the New York Film Critics Circle named it one of the best documentary of the 12 months. It received the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award on Wednesday, though Sugarcane received the NBR’s prize for Finest Documentary.
The administrators spent 5 years on the undertaking, documenting life within the rural West Financial institution space of Masafer Yatta, the place the Israel Protection Forces often knock down Palestinian houses and faculties, saying it wants the land as a navy coaching zone (after a 20-year authorized battle, the Israeli Supreme Courtroom in 2022 dominated the IDF had the authorized authority to expel villagers from these Palestinian lands).
No Other Land bested a robust area of rivals for the Finest Characteristic Documentary award, together with Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies); Black Field Diaries (MTV Documentary Movies); Dahomey (MUBI), The Outstanding Lifetime of Ibelin (Netflix), and extra. No Different Land doesn’t have U.S. distribution, though it has earned theatrical distribution in different elements of the world.
‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’
Kino Lorber
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat received two awards on the night time: Finest Writing for writer-director Johan Grimonprez, and Finest Enhancing, recognizing the work of Rik Chaubet.
Instruments of a Beating Heart, a New York Instances Op-Doc directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki, received Finest Brief Documentary, placing it in a robust place to contend for Oscars. The movie examines how Japan’s major college schooling system instills civic virtues, cooperation, and empathy amongst schoolchildren.
Queer artist Jenna Marvin in ‘Queendom’
Galdanova Movies/Greenwich Ent.
Finest Cinematography went to Ruslan Fedotov who shot Queendom, a movie in regards to the Russian-born drag efficiency artist Jenna Marvin. Finest Authentic Music Rating went to Víctor Hernández Stumpfhauser, composer of Frida, the documentary about legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre received Finest Music Documentary.
On the ceremony on the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles, filmmaker Daybreak Porter acquired the Profession Achievement Award, and Black Field Diaries director Shiori Ito acquired the Rising Filmmaker Award.
“I’m very excited,” Itō informed Deadline about receiving the award. “Being right here in entrance of all these wonderful filmmakers who’ve been my textbook, it’s only a surreal feeling. So, I’m very completely happy.”
“IDA acquired 700+ entries in all classes from 77 nations, a rise over final 12 months each within the complete variety of entries and the nations represented,” the nonprofit famous. “IDA Documentary Awards entries have been reviewed by blue-ribbon jurors consisting of 300 documentary professionals from 40+ nations.” IDA members voted to find out the winners within the Finest Characteristic and Finest Brief classes; winners in different classes have been chosen by blue-ribbon panels.
40TH IDA DOCUMENTARY AWARDS WINNERS & NOMINEES
(All nominees listed beneath every class are in alphabetical order by movie title).
Finest Characteristic Documentary Nominees
Winner: No Different Land (Palestine, Norway, USA | Director: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham | Producer: Fabien Greenberg & bård Kjøge Rønning)
Nominees:
- Agent of Happiness (Bhutan, Hungary | Movie Motion | Director: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Producer: Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, Máté Artur Vincze, Arun Bhattarai)
- Black Field Diaries (Japan, USA, UK | MTV Documentary Movies | Director: Shiori Ito | Producer: Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Shiori Ito)
- Dahomey (France, Senegal, Benin | MUBI | Director: Mati Diop | Producer: Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, Mati Diop)
- Ernest Cole: Misplaced and Discovered (France, South Africa, USA | Magnolia Footage | Director: Raoul Peck | Producer: Tamara Rosenberg, Raoul Peck)
- No Different Land (Palestine, Norway, USA | Director: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham | Producer: Fabien Greenberg & bård Kjøge Rønning)
- Queendom (USA, France | Greenwich Leisure | Director: Agniia Galdanova | Producer: Igor Myakotin, Agniia Galdanova)
- Looking for Mavis Beacon (USA | NEON | Director: Jazmin Renée Jones | Producer: Guetty Felin)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Belgium, France, Netherlands | Kino Lorber | Director: Johan Grimonprez | Producer: Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety)
- Sugarcane (USA | Nationwide Geographic | Director: Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily Kassie | Producer: Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn)
- The Outstanding Lifetime of Ibelin (USA | Netflix | Director: Benjamin Ree | Producer: Ingvil Giske)
Finest Brief Documentary Nominees
Winner: Devices of a Beating Coronary heart (Japan | The New York Instances Op-Docs | Director: Ema Ryan Yamazaki | Producer: Eric Nyari)
Nominees:
- A Transfer (Iran, UK | The New York Instances Op-Docs | Director: Elahe Esmaili | Producer: Hossein Behboudi Rad)
- A Motion Towards the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas (USA, Philippines | Criterion Channel | Director: Esy Casey | Producer: Esy Casey, Nur Jannah Kaalim)
- Amma ki Katha (India | Director: Nehal Vyas | Producer: Nehal Vyas, Advik Beni)
- Enchukunoto (The Return) (Kenya | Director: Laissa Malih | Producer: Kavita Pillay, Adam Mazo, Tracy Rector, Taylor Hensel)
- Devices of a Beating Coronary heart (Japan | The New York Instances Op-Docs | Director: Ema Ryan Yamazaki | Producer: Eric Nyari)
- Trendy Goose (Canada | The New York Instances Op-Docs | Director: Karsten Wall | Producer: Alicia Smith)
- 9 Simple Dances (Canada | York College | Director/Producer: Nora Rosenthal)
- The Medallion (UK, Ethiopia, USA | The New Yorker, SUDU Connexion | Director: Ruth Hunduma | Producer: Lily Usher, Tolu Stedford)
- The Poem We Sang (Canada, Palestine, Jordan | MAD Options | Director: Annie Sakkab | Producer: Annie Sakkab, Paul Lee)
- Till He’s Again (USA, Spain, Morocco | PBS POV & Scripps Information | Director: Jacqueline Baylon | Producer: Jacqueline Baylon, Hailey Gavin)
Finest Director
Winner: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham, No Different Land (Palestine, Norway, USA)
Nominees:
- Agniia Galdanova, Queendom (Greenwich Leisure | USA, France)
- Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham, No Different Land (Palestine, Norway, USA)
- Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
- Shiori Ito, Black Field Diaries (MTV Documentary Movies | Japan, USA, UK)
Finest Cinematography
Winner: Ruslan Fedotov, Queendom (Greenwich Leisure | USA, France)
Nominees:
- Arun Bhattarai, Agent of Happiness (Movie Motion | Bhutan, Hungary)
- Alix Blair, Helen and the Bear (N/A | USA)
- Sareen Hairabedian, My Candy Land (ITVS – PBS / ARTE France / RTS | Jordan, France, USA, Eire)
- Ruslan Fedotov, Queendom (Greenwich Leisure | USA, France)
- Christopher LaMarca, Emily Kassie, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
Finest Enhancing
Winner: Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
Nominees:
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Black Field Diaries (MTV Documentary Movies | Japan, USA, UK)
- Katrina Taylor, Helen and the Bear (N/A | USA)
- Raphaelle Martin-Holger, Sareen Hairabedian, My Candy Land (ITVS – PBS / ARTE France / RTS | Jordan, France USA, Eire)
- Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Nathan Punwar, Maya Daisy Hawke, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
Finest Authentic Music Rating
Winner: Víctor Hernández Stumpfhauser, Frida (Amazon MGM Studios | USA)
Nominees:
- Víctor Hernández Stumpfhauser, Frida (Amazon MGM Studios | USA)
- Maxwell Sterling, Life and Different Issues (DR Gross sales | Denmark, UK, Sweden)
- Tigran Hamasyan, My Candy Land (ITVS – PBS / ARTE France / RTS | Jordan, France, USA, Eire)
- Mali Obomsawin, Sugarcane (Nationwide Geographic | USA)
- Uno Helmersson, The Outstanding Lifetime of Ibelin (Netflix | USA)
Finest Writing
Winner: Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
Nominees:
- Raoul Peck, Ernest Cole, Ernest Cole: Misplaced & Discovered (Magnolia Footage | France, South Africa, USA)
- Hasan Oswald, Mediha (Collectively Movies | USA)
- Jazmin Jones, Looking for Mavis Beacon (NEON | USA)
- Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber | Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Morgan Neville, Jason Zeldes, Aaron Wickenden, Oscar Vasquez, Piece by Piece (Focus Options | USA)
Finest TV Characteristic Documentary
Winner: Two American Households: 1991-2024 (PBS | USA | Administrators: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes Producers: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes, Frank Koughan, Nina Chaudry)
Nominees:
- Madu (Disney+ | USA, UK, Nigeria | Administrators: Matthew Ogens, Joel ‘Kachi Benson | Producers: Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, Rachel Halilej)
- Night time Is Not Everlasting ( HBO | Max | USA | Director: Nanfu Wang | Producers: Nanfu Wang, Lori Cheatle)
- Stolen Gold (ESPN | UK, USA, Spain | Director: Suemay Oram | Producer: Santi Aguado, Gentry Kirby)
- The Apartheid Killer (BBC World Service | UK, South Africa | Director: Charlie Northcott, Isa Jacobson | Producers: Isa Jacobson, Charlie Northcott)
- Two American Households: 1991-2024 (PBS | USA | Administrators: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes | Producers: Tom Casciato, Kathleen Hughes, Frank Koughan, Nina Chaudry)
Finest Curated Sequence
Winner: Impartial Lens (PBS | USA | EPs: Lois Vossen, Carrie Lozano)
Nominees:
- 30 for 30 (ESPN Movies | USA | EPs: Heather Anderson, Marsha Cooke, Brian Lockhart, Burke Magnus)
- 99 – All of us share 99% of the identical DNA (N/A | France | EP: Jérôme Plan)
- Impartial Lens (PBS | USA | EPs: Lois Vossen, Carrie Lozano)
- POV (PBS | USA | EPs: Erika Dilday, Chris White)
- The New York Instances Op-Docs (The New York Instances Op-Docs | USA | EP: Adam Ellick)
Finest Episodic Sequence
Winner: We’re Right here (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Peter LoGreco | Producers: Erin Haglund, Kimberly Greenhut | EP: Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Johnnie Ingram, Stephen Warren, Peter LoGreco, Erin Gamble)
Nominees:
- A Actual Bug’s Life (Nationwide Geographic | USA, UK | Administrators: Alex Ranken, John Capener, Alex Hemingway, Nathan Small, Nat Sharman | Producers: Helen Williamson, Invoice Markham, Alex Ranken, John Capener, Alex Hemingway, Nathan Small, Nat Sharman | EPs: Tom Hugh-Jones, Martha Holmes, Grant Mansfield, Justine Schmidt, Pamela Caragol)
- {Couples} Remedy (Paramount+ | USA | Director: Kim Roberts | Producers: Sophie Kissinger, Matt Parker | EPs: Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
- Queens (Nationwide Geographic | UK | Administrators: Rachael Kinley, Ilaira Mallalieu, Victoria Bromley, Jess Tombs, Religion Musembi | Producers: Rachael Kinley, Ilaira Mallalieu, Victoria Bromley, Jess Tombs, Religion Musembi; Chloë Sarosh | EPs: Vanessa Berlowitz, Angela Bassett, Pamela Caragol)
- The Negotiators (CNA, Mediacorp Pte Ltd | Singapore | Administrators: Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Georgie Yukiko Donovan, Indra Nienhaus | Producers: Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Georgie Yukiko Donovan, Indra Nienhaus | EP: Aditya Thayi)
- We’re Right here (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Peter LoGreco | Producers: Erin Haglund, Kimberly Greenhut | EP: Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Johnnie Ingram, Stephen Warren, Peter LoGreco, Erin Gamble)
Finest Restricted Sequence
Winner: A City Referred to as Victoria (PBS | USA | Director: Li Lu | Producers: Li Lu, Anthony Pedone | EPs: Deniese Davis, Hunter Arnold, Lois Vossen, Rachel Raney, Royd Chung, Donald Younger, Stephen Gong, Li Lu)
Nominees:
- A City Referred to as Victoria (PBS | USA | Director: Li Lu | Producers: Li Lu, Anthony Pedone | EPs: Deniese Davis, Hunter Arnold, Lois Vossen, Rachel Raney, Royd Chung, Donald Younger, Stephen Gong, Li Lu)
- Choir (Disney+ | USA | Director: Rudy Valdez | EPs: Jason Blum, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein, Michael Seitzman, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, Gretchen Palek, Ryan Miller, Rudy Valdez, Ross Dinerstein)
- Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix | USA | Director: Joe Berlinger | EPs: Joe Berlinger, Tim Pastore, Patrick Milling-Smith, Matt Renner, Yoshi Stone, Axel Gerdau, Rachael Profiloski)
- Homicide in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Jason Hehir | Producers: Jason Hehir, Jacob Rogal, Nicholas Eisenberg, Jilllian Moosmamm | EPs: Joie Jacoby, Linda Pizzuti Henry, Dan Krockmalnic, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez)
- STAX: Soulsville U.S.A. (HBO | Max | USA | Director: Jamila Wignot | Producers: Jamila Wignot, Kara Elverson | EPs: Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow, Nigel Sinclair, Nicholas Ferrall, Scott Pascucci, Sophia Dilley, Michele Smith, Jody Gerson, David Blackman, Charlie Cohen, Ron Broitman, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen)
Finest Music Documentary
Winner: Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre (Oscilloscope Laboratories | USA | Director: Nicolas Jack Davies | Producers: Johann Scheerer)
Nominees:
- Any Different Manner: The Jackie Shane Story (Banger Movies, Nationwide Movie Board of Canada | Canada | Administrators: Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee| Producers: Amanda Burt, Justine Pimlott, Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Michael Mabbott)
- Beatles 64 (Disney+ | Director: David Tedeschi | USA | Producers: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Sean Ono Lennon, Martin Scorsese, Margaret Bodde, Jonathan Clyde, Mikaela Beardsley)
- Maestra (BRKLY | USA | Director: Maggie Contreras, Producers: Maggie Contreras, Neil Berkeley, Emma West, Melanie Miller, Lauren Lexton)
- Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre (Oscilloscope Laboratories | USA | Director: Nicolas Jack Davies | Producers: Johann Scheerer)
- Songs from the Gap (N/A | USA | Director: Contessa Gayles | Producer: Contessa Gayles, richie reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe)
Finest Audio Documentary
Winner: “What’s Up, Michael Freeman?” (Ear Hustle and Radiotopia from PRX | USA | Host: Earlonne Woods, Nigel Poor | Engineers: Earlonne Woods, Fernando Arruda, Harry Culhane | USA | Producers: Amy Standen, Bruce Wallace, Rahsaan Thomas)
Nominees:
- “What’s Up, Michael Freeman?” (Ear Hustle and Radiotopia from PRX | USA | Host: Earlonne Woods, Nigel Poor | Engineers: Earlonne Woods, Fernando Arruda, Harry Culhane | USA | Producers: Amy Standen, Bruce Wallace, Rahsaan Thomas)
- Lengthy Shadow: In Weapons We Belief (Lengthy Lead, The Hint, Campside Media, PRX | USA | Hosts: Garrett M. Graff and Jennifer Mascia | Engineers: Claire Mullen and Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan | Producers: John Patrick Pullen, Emily Martinez. Matthew Shaer, and Aleah Papes)
- Pack One Bag (Lemonada | USA | Host: David Modigliani | Engineer: Willa Kaufman | Producers: David Modigliani, Willa Kaufman, Nicki Stein, Eric Spiegelman, Whitney Donaldson, Stanley Tucci, Jessica Cordova Kramer, Stephanie Wittels Wachs)
- Shadowball: Rise of the Black Athlete (Audible | USA | Host: Jemele Hill | Engineer: Neil Cabana | Producers: Pleasure Street Leisure, PG Cuschieri, Jim Younger, Matthew Hatchette, Neil Cabana, Carey Williams, Jemele Hill)
- The Sunday Story: A Tune for Grief in China (NPR | USA, China | Hosts: John Ruwitch, Aowen Cao | Engineer: Josh Newel | Producers: Justine Yan, Jenny Schmidt )
David L. Wolper Pupil Documentary
Winner: Her Identify Was Zehava (NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute | USA, Israel | Director: Tamar Baruch | Producer: Tamar Baruch)
Nominees:
- Her Identify Was Zehava (NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute | USA, Israel | Director: Tamar Baruch | Producer: Tamar Baruch)
- Jerhy ( College of California, Santa Cruz | Costa Rica, USA, | Director: John Ortiz | Producer: John Ortiz)
- Milk (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director: Miranda Stern | Producer: Ashionye Ogene)
- The Anarchist and The Fridge (College of Visible Arts MFA Social Documentary Movie | USA | Director: Yunchang Zhang | Producer: Yunchang Zhang)
- The Waiter, the Scientist and Jenny (Nationwide Movie and Tv College | UK | Director: Joe Snelling | Producer: Joe Snelling)
