Sundance DocSource

The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Ngawang Choephel (Tibet In Song) and Natalia Almada (El General), for their nominations at this year’s International Documentary Association Doc Awards.

IDA Music Documentary Award Nominee
Tibet In Song – Ngawang Choephel (Director)
http://www.tibetinsong.com/

Tibet in Song is both a celebration of traditional Tibetan folk music and a harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese controlled Tibet. Director and former Tibetan political prisoner, Ngawang Choephel, weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way never before seen on film.

Recipient of the 2009 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
Natalia Almada
http://www.altamurafilms.com/

Natalia Almada was born in Mexico. Her directing credits include El General (DFP grantee),  All Water Has a Perfect Memory, an internationally recognized experimental short, and Al Otro Lado, an award-winning feature documentary about immigration and drug trafficking.  Almada’s work has screened at Sundance, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Biennial as well as on ARTE and PBS. She is a 2008 Guggenheim fellow and has received support from Creative Capital, the Sundance Institute, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. She shares her time between Mexico and Brooklyn.

The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to extend a further congratulations to all the films and filmmakers previously supported by the Sundance Institute who have also been nominated for IDA Awards this year:

Feature Documentary Nominees:

Afghan Star (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director/Producer: Havana Marking

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sundance Film Festival, 2008)
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Producer: Rebecca Yeldham

DFP Nominees in the category of  Short Documentary:

Sari’s Mother
Director/Producer: James Longley (DFP grantee: Iraq in Fragments)

DFP Nominees in the category of Limited Series Award:

Time for School
Producer/Writer: Oren Rudavsky (DFP grantee : Chato Is Dead: An Immigrant Story)

We Shall Remain
Writers: Anne Makepeace (DFP grantee: As Nutayunean)

DFP Finalists in the category of  ABCNews VideoSource Award:

Earth Days (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director/Producer/Writer: Robert Stone

Sergio (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director: Greg Barker (Doc and Edit Lab Advisor, 2009)

Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
Director/Producer: Liz Garbus (SDF grantee: Fallen Cradle, Girlhood)
Producers: Rory Kennedy (SDF grantee: Fallen Cradle)

Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House
Director/Producer: Rory Kennedy (SDF grantee: Fallen Cradle)
Producers: Liz Garbus (SDF grantee: Fallen Cradle, Girlhood)

Pare Lorentz Award—Finalists:

The Cove (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director: Louis Psihoyos
Producers: Fisher Stevens, Paula DuPre Pesmen