All that Breathes tops the winners of the 2022 International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. All that Breathes won four awards including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director. The film directed by Shaunak Sen observes two brothers in a New Delhi bird clinic and the larger social forces echoed in their work. It previously won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Œil d’or at Cannes — the first film to do so.
Other winners included Fire of Love, which scored two awards including Best Cinematography. The win marked a posthumous honour for the film’s subjects, Maurice and Katia Krafft, whose spectacular footage of volcanic research fuels Sara Dosa’s all-archival ode to the passions that fuel us.
On the Canadian front, Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s won Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series. The doc hosted by Connie Walker uses a chance encounter by her father as a starting point to investigate Canada’s violent residential school system.
The full list of 2022 IDA Award winners is as follows:
Best Feature Documentary
All that Breathes (India, United States, United Kingdom | Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe in association with HBO Documentary Films | Director/Producer: Shaunak Sen | Producers: Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer)
Best Director
Shaunak Sen (All that Breathes) | India, United States, United Kingdom | Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe in association with HBO Documentary Films.
Best Short Documentary
Haulout (United Kingdom | Rise And Shine World Sales, The New Yorker | Directors/Producers: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev)
Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: An Ameria ReFramed Special (United States | American Documentary, GBH WORLD Channel, The Bitter Southerner, Black Public Media, PBS | Director: Joy Elaine Davenport | Producer/Executive Producer: Monica Land | Producers: Robert Y. Chang, Hannah Paul | Producer: Carmen L. Vicencio | Executive Producers: Selena Lauterer, Leslie Fields-Cruz, Erika Dilday, Chris White, Christopher Hastings)
Best Curated Series
POV (United States | PBS | Executive Producers: Erika Dilday, Chris White)
Best Episodic Series
Origins of Hip Hop (United States | A&E | Executive Producers: Peter Bittenbender, Slane Hatch, Mark Grande, Brad Abramson, Elaine Frontain Bryant)
Best Multi-Part Documentary
We Need to Talk About Cosby (United States | SHOWTIME Documentary Films, Boardwalk Pictures Production, WKB Industries | Director/Executive Producer: W. Kamau Bell | Executive Producers: Katie A. King, Andrew Fried, Sarina Roma, Jordan Wynn, Dane Lillegard, Vinnie Malhotra)
Best Short-Form Series
POV Shorts (United States | PBS | Producer: Opal H. Bennett | Executive Producers: Erika Dilday, Chris White)
Best Stand-Alone Audio Documentary
Documenting a Death by Euthanasia (United States | The New York Times | Host/Reporter: Lynsey Addario | Sound Engineers: Corey Schreppel, Marion Lozano | Producers: Sayre Quevedo, Annie Brown, Wendy Dorr, Mike Benoist)
Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s (Canada | Spotify | Host: Connie Walker | Sound Engineers: Emma Munger, Catherine Anderson | Producers: Ellen Frankman, Max Green, Anya Schultz, Chantelle Bellrichard, Betty Ann Adam)
Best Music Documentary
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (United States | Apple TV+ | Director/Producer: Sacha Jenkins | Producers: Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Julie Anderson)
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
Requiem for a Whale (Israel | The Steve Tisch School Of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University | Director/Producer: Ido Weisman)
Best Cinematography
Fire of Love (United State, Canada | National Geographic, NEON | Cinematographers: Maurice Krafft, Katia Krafft, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa)
Best Editing
All That Breathes (India, United States, United Kingdom | Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe in association with HBO Documentary Films | Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Vedant Joshi)
Best Music Score
The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons (United States | Composer: Ramachandra Borcar)
Best Writing
Fire of Love (United States, Canada | National Geographic, NEON | Writers: Sara Dosa, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, Shane Boris)
ABC News VideoSource Award
Riotsville, U.S.A. (United States | Magnolia Pictures | Directors: Sierra Pettengill | Producers: Mark Bailey, Sara Archambault, Jamila Wignot)
Pare Lorentz Award
All that Breathes (India, United States, United Kingdom | Sideshow and Submarine Deluxe in association with HBO Documentary Films | Director/Producer: Shaunak Sen | Producers: Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer)
