'Nostalgia for that Light' tops IDA Honours

Chilean film ''Nostalgia for that Light'' has won the very best feature award in the Intl. Documentary Assn.Award was presented Friday evening to director Patricio Guzman in the Company directors Guild of America theater.Film's centered on the driest place on the planet, the Atacama Desert, where astronomers from around the globe gather because the sky's so translucent it enables these to look into the limitations from the world.''A country without documentary filmmaking is sort of a family with no picture album,'' stated Guzman in the acceptance speech.''Nostalgia'' capped ''Better Our Planet,'' ''How to Die in Or,'' ''The Redemption of General Butt Naked,'' and ''The Tiniest Place.''No IDA finalist is around the 15 docus selected for that Oscar narrow your search.Low-key events were located by IDA prexy Eddie Schmidt, a banjo-playing Josh Fox and Tiffany Shlain.IDA's best short award would go to ''Poster Girl,'' directed by Sara Nesson, who thanked film subject, former soldier Robin Murray.''Boomtown,'' concentrating on a little North Dakota town, won the award for the best Limited Series for director/executive producer Rachel Libert.The ABC News Videosource award visited ''The Pruitt-Igoe Myth'' for Chad Freidrichs.The IDA Humanitas Award visited ''Position One of the Stars.'' Producers are giving prize towards the Indonesian family that offered as the topic of the film.''Guanape Sur'' won IDA's David Wolper student documentary award for Janos Richter.The ongoing series award visited PBS's ''POV'' for professional producer Simon Kilmurry.L'ensemble des Blank received an eternity achievement award from Werner Herzog, who stated ''I do believe L'ensemble des Blank ought to be named a national treasure.'' Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com