Jocelyn Shearer will receive the International Documentary Association's 2007 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award on behalf of National Geographic Digital Motion and Darfur Now director Ted Braun will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.
Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award Gala Benefit on December 7 in Los Angeles.
Shearer is a National Geographic vice president who is chiefly responsible for repurposing the society's library of moving images, which dates back to 1903.
Darfur Now is Braun's first theatrical documentary, and chronicles the crisis unfolding in Sudan's western region.
Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award Gala Benefit on December 7 in Los Angeles.
Shearer is a National Geographic vice president who is chiefly responsible for repurposing the society's library of moving images, which dates back to 1903.
Darfur Now is Braun's first theatrical documentary, and chronicles the crisis unfolding in Sudan's western region.
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