“The Cove” Leads Cinema Eye Honors Nominees
by Peter Knegt (November 5, 2009)
A scene from Louie Psihoyos' "The Cove." Image courtesy of Roadside Attractions.
Louie Psihoyos’ “The Cove,” received a record-tying seven Cinema Eye Honors nominations today when they were announced at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival in the UK. The film - about dolphin hunts in Japan - won dozens of prizes on the festival circuit this year, include Sundance’s Audience Award. The Cinema Eye Honors followed suit handing “The Cove” nods for Production, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Debut Feature and the top prize, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. For the top prize, “The Cove” was joined by Anders Ostergaard’s “Burma VJ,” Robert Kenner’s “Food, Inc.,” Darius Marder’s “Loot,” and Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s “October Country.” “Burma” and “October” each grabbed four additional nominations, tying for the second most nods after “The Cove,” while “October Country”‘s Michael Palmieri, in co-directing, co-producing, photographing and co-scoring the film, became the first individual nominated for five Cinema Eye Honors in a single year. Last year, Ari Folman set the previous high mark of four nominations for “Waltz With Bashir,” a number matched this year by Palmieri’s co-director Donal Mosher. Cinema Eye also unveiled a new honor - the Spotlight Award, designed to honor films “that have not yet received the recognition that they deserve in the United States.” Films recognized in this category did not have to be eligible for other Cinema Eye categories in order to be nominated. The inaugural Spotlight Award nominees include “Because We Were Born” (France/Brazil), “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo” (USA), “Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty” (Netherlands), “The Sound Of Insects: Record Of A Mummy” (Switzerland) and “Trimpin: The Sound Of Invention” (USA). The nominations were announced at the Cinema Eye Roller Disco by Cinema Eye Honors co-chairs Esther Robinson & AJ Schnack and two-time Cinema Eye Honoree Simon Chinn.Nominations were determined in voting by top documentary programmers from international film festivals. This year’s nominations committee was chaired by previous Cinema Eye co-chair Thom Powers, documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival and programmer for New York’s popular Stranger Than Fiction series. Committee members included Meira Blaustein (Woodstock Film Festival), Heather Croall (Sheffield), Sean Farnel (Hot Docs), Ben Fowlie (Camden), Tom Hall (Sarasota/Newport), Doug Jones (Los Angeles), David Kwok (Tribeca), Caroline Libresco (Sundance), Janet Pierson (SXSW), Powers, Rosen, Sky Sitney (Silverdocs), Sadie Tillery (Full Frame) and David Wilson (True/False).
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