“All That Breathes,” a lyrical documentary about two brothers rescuing birds that have fallen victim to New Delhi’s polluted air, has been named Best Non-Fiction Feature Film of 2022 at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards, which took place on Saturday. night in Los Angeles.
“All That Breathes” won four awards overall, an unusually strong performance at the IDA Awards. The HBO Documentary Films release won Best Picture in a category that also included “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love” and “Navalny”; director Shaunak Sen and editors Charlotte Munch Bengtsen and Vedant Joshi won in their categories; and the film also won the Pare Lorentz Award, which is given to an outstanding film with a social conscience.
“Fire of Love” won in writing and cinematography and categories. Director Sara Dosa shared in the writing win, while the film’s latest subjects, married volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, were among the cinematographers honored for their camerawork.
Other winning features included “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” which was named the best music documentary of the year; “The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons,” which won for Ramachandra Borcar’s musical score; and “Riotsville, USA,” which won the ABC News VideoSource Award for a film using news footage.
Winners in television categories include PBS’s “POV,” the documentary series “Origins of Hip Hop” and the multi-part doc “We Need to Talk About Cosby.”
Founded in 1982, the International Documentary Association presents the longest-running awards show devoted exclusively to nonfiction film. In the 17 years since the IDA Awards handed out a single Best Picture award, the winner has been nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar 11 times and won four times, most recently with “OJ: Made in America.” ” in 2016.
IDA nominations are made by independent committees of filmmakers, curators, critics, and industry experts. Winners are voted for by members of the IDA.
The ceremony took place at the Paramount Theater on the Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles, and was hosted by comedian and actress Jenny Yang.
Winners:
best feature: “Everything that breathes”
best director: Shaunak Sen, “Everything That Breathes”
better short: “Haulot”
Best Documentary or Miniseries Feature: “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: A Reformed America Special”
Best Curated Series: “point of view”
Best Episodic Series: “Origins of Hip Hop”
Best Multi-Part Documentary: “We have to talk about Cosby”
Best Short Form Series: “POV Shorts”
Best Independent Audio Documentary: “Documentation of a death by euthanasia”
Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series: “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”
best music documentary: “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award: “Requiem for a Whale” (Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University)
Best Photography: “Fire of love”
Cinematographers: Maurice Krafft, Katia Krafft, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
best editing: “Everything that breathes”
Editors: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Vedant Joshi
best music score: “The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons”
Composer: Ramachandra Borcar
best writing: “Fire of love”
Writers: Sara Dosa, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, Shane Boris)
ABC News VideoSource Award: “Riotsville, United States”
Paré Lorentz Award: “Everything that breathes”
Pare Lorentz Honorable Mention: “Annoying Bear”