Monica Land’s revolutionary documentary “Fannie Lou Hamer's America: An America ReFramed Special”. a co-production by WORLD Channel, American Documentary and Black Public Media in partnership with PBS won the “Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series” award, announced over the weekend by the International Documentary Association at the 38th IDA Awards ceremony held at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 10, 2022.
Told through Hamer's public speeches, interviews, powerful songs and never-before-seen family photos and archival footage, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a unique portrait of the life and legacy of the Mississippi-born sharecropper whose harrowing encounters with injustice propelled her into leadership in the fight for voting rights. The film is currently available to stream on PBS Passport, Amazon and iTunes.
“The entire WORLD Channel and America ReFramed team is honored by this recognition by the IDA and the hundreds of industry experts that selected Fannie Lou Hamer’s America as a 2022 IDA Documentary Award winner,” said Chris Hastings, executive producer for WORLD Channel at GBH in Boston. “WORLD Channel is proud to share Monica Land’s epic vision for this film, and to provide a platform for the story of Fannie Lou Hamer’s rise as a civil rights icon, told in her own words.”
The IDA Documentary Awards is the world's most prestigious event dedicated to the documentary genre, celebrating the best nonfiction films and programs of the year. It seeks to represent excellence in the documentary field from around the world by emerging and established documentarians. The IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees were selected by independent committees of 310 documentary makers, curators, critics and industry experts from 52 countries.
Over the past decade, America ReFramed has received widespread acclaim which includes recent duPont-Columbia, International Documentary Association and News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations. An essential platform for diverse artists and audiences, the series is the recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, and has been honored by the Gracies, Imagen Awards, Kaleidoscope Awards, Asian American Journalist Association, Native American Journalists Association, The Association of LGBTQ Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists.
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