Outstanding Achievement in Production :: The 2013 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking

Outstanding Achievement in Production
There is no film without the producer, who juggles the myriad details and responsibilities of filmmaking – from finding subjects to hiring crew to raising money to completing the film. This award celebrates those who excel. Previous winners in this category include Seth Kanegis, Tomas Radoor and Mikael Rieks for GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL (2008), Simon Chinn for MAN ON WIRE (2009), Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens for THE COVE (2010), Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross for LAST TRAIN HOME (2011) and Gian-Piero Ringel and Wim Wenders for PINA (2012).

¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score, Outstanding Achievement in Production

As if Wallace Stevens and James Thurber kidnapped a David Attenborough film crew. Victor Kossakovsky’s thrillingly idiosyncratic yet substantial doc journeys to four sets of the Earth’s antipodes—the places you’d end up if you drilled directly through the planet to…

Searching for Sugar Man

Nominated for Audience Choice, Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Production

The son of Mexican immigrants, singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez recorded two politically conscious albums in 1969 and 1970. Set against swirling string arrangements, they flopped at home. But in apartheid-era South Africa, Sugar Man’s subversive music was passed around like…

The Imposter

Nominated for Audience Choice, Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score, Outstanding Achievement in Production

It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of…

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Production

How far will a big corporation go to protect its brand? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s experienced this recently. His previous film BANANAS!* recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. The film…

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, Outstanding Achievement in Production

China’s most famous international artist, Ai WeiWei, is shown with unprecedented access in this Sundance special jury prize-winning portrait. Artistic consultant for the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics and named the most powerful contemporary artist by ArtReview magazine,…

Cinema Eye Honors

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field.