'Nostalgia for your Light' tops IDA Honours

Chilean film ''Nostalgia for your Light'' has won the most effective feature award within the Intl. Documentary Assn.Award was presented Friday evening to director Patricio Guzman in the organization company directors Guild of America theater.Film's dedicated to the driest place in the world, the Atacama Desert, where astronomers from around the world gather since the sky's so translucent it allows those to consider the restrictions in the world.''A country without documentary filmmaking is kind of a household without any scrapbook,'' mentioned Guzman within the acceptance speech.''Nostalgia'' assigned ''Better Our World,'' ''How to Die in Or,'' ''The Redemption of General Butt Naked,'' and ''The Tiniest Place.''No IDA finalist is about the 15 docus selected for your Oscar narrow your research.Reduced-key occasions were situated by IDA prexy Eddie Schmidt, a banjo-playing Josh Fox and Tiffany Shlain.IDA's best short award visits ''Poster Girl,'' directed by Sara Nesson, who thanked film subject, former soldier Robin Murray.''Boomtown,'' focusing on the little North Dakota town, won the award for top 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 Among the Stars.'' Producers are giving prize for the Indonesian family that offered because the subject from the film.''Guanape Sur'' won IDA's David Wolper student documentary award for Janos Richter.The continuing series award visited PBS's ''POV'' for professional producer Simon Kilmurry.Ces Blank received a very long time achievement award from Werner Herzog, who mentioned ''I do believe Ces Blank needs to be named a national treasure.'' Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com