ABC, IDA Nominates Documentaries for Best Use of Stock Footage
Awards Sponsored by International Documentary Association, ABCNEWS VideoSource
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/26/2007 10:10:00 AM
ABC and the International Documentary Association named the eight nominees for best use of news footage in a documentary, with HBO's prolific film operation sharing in three of the nominations.
The awards, which have been given out annually since 1997, are sponsored by IDA and ABCNEWS VideoSource (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA287396.html), the network news operation's licensing arm for news and stock footage.
The winner will be named at the IDA Awards Gala Dec. 7 in Los Angeles.
And the nominees are: American/Sandinista (University of California, Berkeley); Half-Life: A Journey to Chernobyl (Seventh Art Productions); My Kid Could Paint That (Axis Films, Passion Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, A&E IndieFilms); Nanking (Agape Multimedia Partners; THINKFilm; HBO); Rapsodia Do Absurdo (Cláudia Nunes); Sputnick Mania (Varied Directions International); Steal a Pencil for Me (Diamond Lane Films, Red Envelope Entertainment); and White Light, Black Rain (Farallon Films/ HBO Documentary Films, HBO).
