Questlove’s music documentary leads all films with four noms, including Best Feature and Best Director
The morning after it swept the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul” led all films in nominations for the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards, which were announced on Monday. “Summer of Love” was nominated in four categories, followed by Jessica Beshir’s “Faya Dayi” and Nicholas Bruckman’s “Not Going Quietly,” with three nods each. In the Best Feature category, those three films will be going up against Arami Ullon’s “Nothing But the Sun,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,” Nanfu Wang’s “In the Same Breath,” Jessica Earnshaw’s “Jacinta,” Angelo Madsen Minax’s “North by Current,” Chris McKim’s “Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker” and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s “Writing With Fire.” The nominations were chosen by IDA juries from among 314 eligible documentary features,137 doc shorts and 172 doc series. While the top nominees included many of the most honored nonfiction films of the year, including “Summer of Soul,” “Faya Dayi,” “Flee” and “In the Same Breath,” it was a distinctly international list that did not include such honored docs as “Ascension” (one nomination for cinematography), “The Rescue” and “Attica.” Directing nominations went to Questlove, Beshir, Earnshaw, Rasmussen and Bruckman. IDA members can vote in the Best Feature and Best Short categories beginning on Dec.13. The winners will be announced on Saturday, Feb.5 at an in-person ceremony at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The nominations: Best Feature Apenas el sol (Nothing but the Sun) (Switzerland, Paraguay/ Film republic. Director/Producer: Arami Ullón. Producer: Pascal Trächslin) Faya Dayi (Ethiopia, USA, Qatar / Janus Films. Director/Producer: Jessica Beshir) FLEE (Denmark, France, Norway / NEON, Participant. Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Producers: Monica Hellstrӧm,Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie) In the Same Breath (USA, China / HBO, HBO Max. Director/Producer: Nanfu Wang. Producers: Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn) Jacinta (USA / Hulu, ABC News. Director: Jessica Earnshaw. Producers: Jessica Earnshaw, Holly Meehl, Nimisha Mukerji) North By Current (USA / POV. Director/Producer: Angelo Madsen Minax. Producer: Felix Endara) Not Going Quietly (USA / Greenwich Entertainment. Director: Nicholas Bruckman. Producer: Amanda Roddy) Summer of Soul (USA / Hulu, Searchlight Pictures. Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Producers: Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein) Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (USA / Kino Lorber. Director: Chris McKim. Producers: Chris McKim, Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey) Writing With Fire (India / ITVS, Music Box. Director/Producers: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh) Best Director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson ( Summer of Soul, USA / Hulu, Searchlight Pictures) Jessica Beshir ( Faya Dayi,Ethiopia, USA, Qatar / Janus Films) Jessica Earnshaw ( Jacinta, USA / Hulu, ABC News) Jonas Poher Rasmussen ( FLEE, Denmark, France, Norway / NEON, Participant) Nicholas Bruckman ( Not Going Quietly, USA / Greenwich Entertainment) Best Short A Broken House (USA, Lebanon / Condé Nast Entertainment, The New Yorker, POV. Director/Producer: Jimmy Goldblum. Producer: Matt Weaver, former Representative Richard Gephardt and Harrison Nalevansky) Águilas (USA / The New Yorker. Director/Producer: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan. Co-Director/Producer: Maite Zubiaurre) Ain’t No Time For Women (Canada / Travelling. Director: Sarra El Abed. Producer: Isabelle Grignon-Francke) E14 (UK / Fifth Season LTD. Director: Peiman Zekavat. Producer: Sanam Jehanfard) Joe Buffalo (Canada / Condé Nast Entertainment, The New Yorker. Director/Producer: Amar Chebib. Producer: Hayley Morin, Mack Stannard) Kalsubai (India / Film and Television Institute of India. Director: Yudhajit Basu) Open Shutters (USA, Republic of Korea / Field of Vision. Director/Producer: Youjin Do) Red Taxi (USA, Hong Kong / Field of Vision. Director/Producer: Anonymous) Senior Prom (USA / Independent Lens, PBS. Director/Producer: Luisa Conlon. Producer: Jessica Chermayeff) Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me (Desde que llegaste, mi corazón dejó de pertenecerme) (USA / The New Yorker. Director/Producer: Erin Semine Kökdil) Best Curated Series America ReFramed (USA / WORLD Channel. Executive Producers: Christopher Hastings, Chris White, Justine Nagan and Erika Dilday) American Masters (USA, Canada / THIRTEEN Productions, LLC, PBS.
