Lightbox’s LA 92 for National Geographic, Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro (pictured), and Brett Morgen’s Jane for Nat Geo are among the winners of the FOCAL Awards, held in London earlier this month.
Peck’s film, inspired by author James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, took the award for best use of footage in a cinematic feature. Meanwhile, LA 92, directed by TJ Martin and Daniel Lindsay, claimed the honor for best use of footage in a history feature.
Morgen’s Jane, which examines the life of famed primatologist Jane Goodall through archive, was named best use of footage in a natural world production.
Other winners in the non-fiction content genre are listed below, with credits provided by FOCAL:
Best use of footage in an arts production:
Dawson City: Frozen Time (U.S.; Hypnotic Pictures and Picture Palace Pictures)
Best use of footage in an entertainment production:
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (U.S.; HBO Documentary Films)
Best use of footage in a factual production:
Dolores (U.S.; 5 Stick Films Inc. & Dolores Huerta Film Project)
Best use of footage in a history production:
Crows of the Desert – A Hero’s Journey through the Armenian Genocide (U.S.; Matrix Communications)
Best use of footage in a music production:
My Generation (UK; Raymi Hero Productions/XIX Entertainment)
Best use of footage on innovative platforms:
A Kind of Seeing (UK; Shona Thomson)
Best use of footage in a sports production:
Ferrari: Race to Immortality (UK; Artemis Films)
Employee of the year:
Kieran O’Leary – Access & Digital Collections Developer, IFI Irish Film Archive
Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year:
Mike Welt, Ho Dang Hoa, David P. Schmidt – The Vietnam War (Florentine Films)
Library of the year
ITV Archive
Lifetime Achievement Award
Gerry Weinbren
The FOCAL Awards, held annually in London, are designed to celebrate “the finest examples of Film, TV and Screen projects that make effective use of archival and stock footage in their work.”