Simon Lereng Wilmont’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival winner A House Made Of Splinters and Young Plato from Neasa Ní Chianáin and Declan McGrath are among the 38th International Documentary Association (IDA) feature nominees with Laura Poitras’s Venice Golden Lion winner All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
They will vie for the top prize at the awards ceremony on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles on December 10 alongside Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, Sara Dosa’s Fire Of Love, Edward Buckles, Jr.’s Katrina Babies, Isabel Castro’s Mija, Daniel Roher’s Navalny, Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home, and Lukasz Kowalski’s The Pawnshop.
Poitras, Dosa, Kowalski, Wilmont and Sen are also in contention for the best director prize.
The IDA member viewing platform opens and voting begins on November 18 and runs until December 5. The platform closes on December 17.
Select 38th IDA documentary awards nominees
Best Feature Documentary
All That Breathes (Ind-USA-UK), dir. Shaunak Sen
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (USA, Neon, Participant, HBO), dir. Laura Poitras
Fire Of Love (USA-Can, National Geographic, Neon), dir. Sara Dosa
A House Made Of Splinters (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine | Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont | Producer: Monica Hellström)
Katrina Babies (USA, HBO Documentary Films, HBO Max), dir. Edward Buckles, Jr.
Mija (USA, Disney+), dir. Isabel Castro
Navalny (USA-Ger-Rus Fed, Warner Bros Pictures, CNN Films, HBO Max), dir. Daniel Roher
No Simple Way Home (S Sud-Ken-SA, LBx Africa, STEPS, APO), dir. Akuol de Mabior
The Pawnshop (Pol, Syndicado), dir. Lukasz Kowalski
Young Plato (Ire-UK-Bel, Autlook Film Sales), dirs. Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath
Best Director
Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, USA, Neon, Participant, HBO)
Lukasz Kowalski (The Pawnshop, Pol, Syndicado)
Sara Dosa (Fire Of Love, USA-Can, National Geographic, Neon)
Shaunak Sen (All That Breathes, Ind-USA-UK, Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe, HBO Documentary Films)
Simon Lereng Wilmont (A House Made Of Splinters, Den-Swe-Fin-Ukr)
Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series Nominees
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (UK, HBO Documentary Films, HBO Max), dir. James Jones
Dream On (USA, ESPN), dir. Kristen Lappas
Endangered (USA, HBO Documentary Films, HBO Max), dirs.. Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (USA, American Documentary, WORLD Channel, PBS), dir. Joy Elaine Davenport
Four Hours At The Capitol (UK, HBO Documentary Films, HBO Max), dir. Jamie Roberts.
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