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IDA Announces Documentary Nominations
SpoutBlog — ... Sony chose to keep in the New York Film Festival rather than pull for a qualifying run. IDA also announced today that in addition to the career award that they’d previously planned to give to Werner Herzog, the December 5 ceremony will also honor Rob Epstein with the Pioneer Award, and Stefan Forbes, director of my favorite political doc of the year thus far, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, will get the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award. indieWIRE has the full list of honorees.

IDA’s Documentary Nominees
Awards Daily — ... Indiewire posted the nominees for the International Documentary Association Awards.  It is starting to look like one of the sure things in this year’s doc race is Man on Wire, as it’s the one that is finding itself on almost every list thus far.  Young@Heart is not eligible for the Oscar, neither is Waltz with Bashir (which is eligible for Foreign and Animated). It doesn’t appear to be shaping up like a political year for docs, though, unless you count Trouble the Water - because how do you talk about Katrina without talking about the government? ...

‘Man on Wire’ Among The Five IDA Documentary Finalists
Fataculture — ... doc chronicling his wartime memories of the Israel/Lebanon conflict of 1982 which isn’t eligible for the Oscar either, and finally “Kassim the Dream,” which tells the story of a Ugandan child soldier who defied the odds and became a world champion boxer, all received spots on the IDA finalist list. The awards ceremony is to be held on the 5th of December where Werner Herzog will receive the Career Achievement award, amongst other recipients of similar handouts. [ THR and indieWIRE ]

‘Man on Wire’ Among The Five IDA Documentary Finalists
:: The Playlist :: — ... of the Israel/Lebanon conflict of 1982 which isn’t eligible for the Oscar either, and finally “Kassim the Dream,” which tells the story of a Ugandan child soldier who defied the odds and became a world champion boxer, all received spots on the IDA finalist list. The awards ceremony is to be held on the 5th of December where Werner Herzog will receive the Career Achievement award, amongst other recipients of similar handouts. [THR and indieWIRE] [report provided by Fataculture] ...

Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: Joaquin Quits, Bubba Ho-Tep 2, 20 Films in Lego
Film Junk — ... of Rage = Children of Men Meets Lord of the Flies Another Chick Flick: Shoe Addicts Anonymous Man on Wire is Now the Best Reviewed Movie of All-Time 20 Films Recreated with Lego Kurosawa’s High and Low Gets a Remake Villains Comic Book Comes to the Big Screen Adrien Brody to Star in The Courier Muslim Movie The Message Gets a Remake Neal Moritz to Produce Skyscraper Disaster Movie International Documentary Association Announces 2008 Award Nominees W. Film ...