24-427: Edkins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Edkins (born 1953), South African filmmaker and producer Jenny Edkins , British political scientist Joseph Edkins (1823–1905), British Protestant missionary, linguist, translator, and philologist See also [ edit ] Adkins [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
48-1338: A Beautiful Country (Documentary) (producer) 2007 The Mohammed Cartoons (TV Movie documentary) (executive producer) 2007 Please Vote for Me (Documentary) (producer) 2007 Taxi to the Dark Side (Documentary) (executive producer: Steps International) 2007 Kinshasa 2.0 (TV Short documentary) (producer) 2010 Last White Man Standing (producer) 2011 Thato (Documentary short) (executive producer) / (producer) 2011 Mama Africa (Documentary) (producer) 2012 Land Rush (Documentary) (executive producer) 2012 Education Education (Documentary) (executive producer) / (producer) Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (executive producer - 5 episodes, 2007 - 2012) (producer - 1 episode, 2007) 2012 Poop on Poverty (Documentary short) (executive producer) 2012 Rafea: Solar Mama (Documentary) (executive producer) 2013 Gangster Backstage (Documentary short) (producer) 2016 Coming of Age (Documentary) (executive producer) / (producer) Grierson Awards - 2008 Award for Most Entertaining Documentary Grierson Awards Grierson: The British Documentary Awards , commonly known as The Grierson Awards , are awards bestowed by The Grierson Trust to recognise innovative and exciting documentary films , in honour of
72-463: A Contemporary Issue split into two; one for domestic productions and one of international. The award for Best Drama Documentary was replaced by an award for Best Student Documentary. The eligibility window was for documentaries first screened in the UK between 1 May 2008 and 30 April 2009. The Trustees' Award was not bestowed this year. The eligibility window was for documentaries first screened in
96-505: A public screening or broadcast in the UK between 1 May 2002 and 30 April 2003. Once again the awards were expanded. New categories of Best Documentary on the Arts, Most Entertaining Documentary and International Documentary were added. The eligibility window was for documentaries first screened publicly between 1 May 2001 to 30 April 2002. In 2000, with support from the UK Film Council
120-494: A statement on diversity and inclusion. The Grierson Trustees' Award and Grierson Hero of the Year Award are honorary and not selected by the jury process. The eligibility window was for documentaries broadcast or available to stream in the UK between 1 June 2023 and 31 May 2024. The eligibility window was for documentaries broadcast or available to stream in the UK between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023. The eligibility window
144-545: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Don Edkins Don Edkins is an international documentary filmmaker and producer. He was born in Cape Town in 1953. At the age of twenty-two he left South Africa for political reasons, and returned in 1994 to take part in his country’s first democratic elections. He produced the Southern African series on truth and reconciliation Landscape of Memory (1998), and
168-409: The surname Edkins . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edkins&oldid=1018956517 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
192-594: The 1930s. He started the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, and in 1933 the GPO Film Unit , gathering together such diverse and exciting talents as Humphrey Jennings , Paul Rotha and Alberto Cavalcanti . His ground-breaking work on the Scottish herring fleet, Drifters , had its premiere in 1929 alongside the first British showing of Sergei Eisenstein 's Battleship Potemkin . In 1936, he produced
216-611: The AfriDocs initiative. In April 2014, he started AfriDocs, the first weekly primetime documentary strand across sub-Saharan Africa, that screens the best African and international documentary films twice a week, as well as special focus events on relevant issues facing African audiences. Source: 2001 Steps for the Future (TV Series documentary) (series producer - 3 episodes) 2002 Ho ea rona (Documentary short) (producer) 2004 Ask Me I'm Positive (Documentary) (producer) 2004 Story of
240-544: The Trust published its 50 must-see documentaries since its inception in 1972. As of 2023, the Grierson Awards employ a two-stage judging process, with each individual entry reviewed by a minimum of three members of the Trust. A long list of eight nominees for each category is drawn up; then the contenders are judged by five-person juries, drawn from documentary makers, broadcasters and subject experts. The jurors then decide on
264-417: The UK between 1 May 2006 and 30 April 2007. The award for Best Documentary Series was reinstated after being dropped the previous year. This year saw the award for Best International Documentary and Best Cinema Documentary combined into a new Best International Cinema Documentary award. The Best Documentary Series award was replaced with a new award for Best Drama Documentary. The eligibility window
SECTION 10
#1732855017354288-540: The Year, whilst the award for Best Arts and Music Documentary was split into two separate awards. The eligibility window was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 June 2019 and 31 May 2020. The eligibility window was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 June 2018 and 31 May 2019. The eligibility window was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 June 2017 and 31 May 2018. The award for Best Newcomer
312-578: The awards were expanded to four categories and the Trustees' Award renamed to the Lifetime Achievement Award . The best documentary selected from these four category winners went on to win the overall Premier Grierson Award . The eligibility window was for documentaries first screened publicly between 1 January 2000 and 30 April 2001. From 1972 to 1999, there was a single award for Best British Documentary . In 1998 an honorary Trustees' Award
336-696: The celebrated Night Mail , directed by Harry Watt with script by W.H. Auden and score by Benjamin Britten . Founded as the Grierson Memorial Trust in 1972, shortly after the death of John Grierson, the Grierson Trust is a registered UK charity that exists to celebrate the best factual and documentary filmmaking from both the UK and globally. The trust also nurtures factual TV talent via training and mentoring schemes. Since its inception it has had nine chairs: In 2022, to mark its fiftieth anniversary,
360-532: The final four shortlisted nominations, and subsequently the winner for each category. The judges look for evidence of quality, integrity, creativity, originality and overall excellence. They also consider the steps taken by producers to ensure the best diversity and inclusion practices, as this is considered key to the integrity and quality of any documentary. Since 2020, entrants to all but the Best Student Documentary category have been required to provide
384-463: The multi-awarded documentary project Steps for the Future (2001/04) – a collection of 38 films about Southern Africa in the time of HIV and AIDS. He is Executive Producer of the STEPS International global documentary project Why Democracy? 10 long and 18 short films. He is Executive Producer on the STEPS International global documentary project Why Poverty? He is producing Dare to Dream and
408-459: The pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson . The inaugural award was given in 1972 and since then the awards have become an annual fixture. In 2000, The Grierson Trust forged a link with the UK Film Council in order to expand and add prestige to the awards. The awards have grown in stature and recognition over the years. The awards trophy is in the form of a bust of John Grierson. Sculpted posthumously by Ivor Roberts-Jones , it
432-601: The winner since 2017. The winners are: During the tenure of Jenny Barraclough as Trust chair, The Grierson Trust working in conjunction with Sheffield DocFest launched Grierson: Sheffields. Three awards were sponsored by the Trust: The Green Award, which recognised documentaries exploring environmental issues or that had made a contribution to the climate change debate ; The Innovation Award , for documentaries that exhibited innovation in format, style, technique or content and The Youth Jury Award . The Youth Jury
456-468: Was for documentaries broadcast or available to stream in the UK between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022. After the previous years online only ceremony, this year marked a return to an in-person event. The eligibility window was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 June 2020 and 31 May 2021. Best Cinema Documentary was not awarded for the first time since 2003, but two new categories were introduced, Best Sports Documentary and Hero of
480-566: Was for documentaries first screened in the UK between 1 May 2003 and 30 April 2004. New categories of Best Documentary on Science or the Natural World and Best Cinema Documentary were introduced this year. Also any entry which was substantially produced on photographic film was also considered for the Best Documentary on Film award. The Lifetime Achievement Award was renamed back to the Trustees' Award. All entries were required to have had
504-474: Was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 May 2014 and 30 April 2015. The eligibility window was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 May 2013 and 30 April 2014. This year saw the introduction of awards for Best Documentary on Current Affairs, Documentary Presenter of the Year and the Readers' Choice Award. This year saw the award for Best Documentary on
SECTION 20
#1732855017354528-448: Was introduced. The 1999 winners' ceremony was held at The Savoy Hotel in London on 23 March 2000 with Andrew Neil as guest speaker. Since 2005 an award has been given to the best documentary shown at the annual BFI London Film Festival . The awards from 2005–2016 were featured on the Trust's previous website, however it is unclear if the Trust has had any input into the selection of
552-491: Was replaced with an award for Best Documentary Short in 2017. This year saw the Best Science or Natural History Documentary award split into two separate categories and a new award for Best Constructed Documentary Series introduced. The eligibility window was for documentaries that had their first UK screening between 1 May 2015 to 30 April 2016. The Readers' Choice Award was dropped in this year. The eligibility window
576-479: Was struck in a limited edition of 10, with three copies held by the Trust. Originally, the trophy was given to the award winner for one year before being returned and presented to the next recipient. John Grierson was a leading documentary filmmaker, and he has also been attributed to have coined the name "documentary". He was born in Scotland in 1898. Grierson was the founder of a new movement of documentary film in
#353646