Jocelyn Shearer will accept the 2007 International Documentary Association 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. The honors will be presented at the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award gala benefit, Dec. 7 at the Directors Guild of America Theatre. Shearer is a National Geographic vp who has primary responsibility for repurposing the society's library of moving images, which traces back to 1903. Darfur Now is Braun's first theatrical documentary, and it details the crisis unfolding in Sudan's western region. The IDA will present the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award to Erin Hudson for the film Long Haul.
- 11/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected 33 students from 16 colleges and universities as finalists for the 34th annual Student Academy Awards competition, which takes place June 9 at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Students who participated in one of three regional competitions will present their films in four categories (alternative, animation, documentary and narrative) and have the chance to win a cash prize of $5,000, $3,000 or $2,000.
Finalists include 2005 silver medal winners Erin Hudson and Ben Wu from Stanford for their documentary "Unhitched". Hudson also was a finalist in 2006 for her documentary "Afloat".
Students who participated in one of three regional competitions will present their films in four categories (alternative, animation, documentary and narrative) and have the chance to win a cash prize of $5,000, $3,000 or $2,000.
Finalists include 2005 silver medal winners Erin Hudson and Ben Wu from Stanford for their documentary "Unhitched". Hudson also was a finalist in 2006 for her documentary "Afloat".
- 5/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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