Focal International has revealed the shortlist for its annual footage industry awards, which honours producers, film-makers and other creative professionals who have used library footage in a documentary, feature film or any other form of production.

The Lost World Of The Seventies (BBC) and Idris Elba’s How Clubbing Changed the World (Fresh One) are among the shortlisted programmes.

Former head curator of the Imperial War Museum Paul Sargent will receive Focal’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The ceremony will take place on 2 May at the Lancaster London Hotel.

The full list of nominees:

Best Use of Footage in a History Production
Sponsored by BBC Motion Gallery
- Farewell Comrades! - Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (Germany)
- The Lost World of the Seventies - BBC Productions (UK)
- The Secret Life of Rubbish - Lambent Films (UK)

Best Use of Footage in a Current Affairs Production
Sponsored by ITN Source
- 1/2 Revolution - Globus (Denmark)
- Putin, Russia & The West - Brook Lapping Productions (UK)
- Ukraine - From Democracy to Chaos - Les Films Grain de Sable (France)

Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production
Sponsored by FremantleMedia Archive
- American Experience: Clinton - Ark Media (USA)
- Booker’s Place, A Mississippi Story - Eyepatch Productions (USA)
- The Radharc Squad - Tyrone Productions (Ireland)

Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production
- Idris Elba’s How Clubbing Changed the World – Fresh One (UK)
- Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis - Mansfield Avenue Productions (USA)
- The Great British Workout – BBC (UK)

Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production
Sponsored by The Bridgeman Art Library
- Arena: Dickens on Film - Film London (UK)
- Finding the Footprints - A Look Back at Mise Eire - Colm Bairead Ltd / Midas Productions (Ireland)
- Liv & Ingmar - Painfully connected - NordicStories (Norway)

Best Use of Footage in a Production featuring Music
Sponsored by Getty Images
- Crossfire Hurricane - Tremolo Productions (USA)
- Hava Nagila (The Movie) - Katahdin Productions (USA)
- Under African Skies - @radical.media (USA)

Best Use of Sports Footage
Sponsored by ITV Sport Archive
- 9.79* - VeryMuchSo Productions (UK)
- American Experience: Jesse Owens - Firelight Media (USA)
- Faster Higher Stronger, Stories of the Olympic Games - BBC Productions Bristol (UK)

Best Use of Footage in an Advert or Short Production
Sponsored by IMG Media Ltd
- The Beatles Live Project - OVOW Productions, Inc. (USA)
- The Odyssey - The Bureau (UK)
- Witness 20th Anniversary Video - Stalkr (USA)

Award for Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Footage
- Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild - BBC Bristol (UK)
- Built for the Kill: Lion - NHNZ (New Zealand)
- Natural World: Animal House - BBC Natural History Unit (UK)

Best Use of Footage on Digital or non-Television Platforms
Sponsored by Clips & Footage
- From The Sea To The Land Beyond - BFI/British Sea Power/Crossover/SIDFF/Illumina Digital (UK)
- The Arena Hotel - BBC Arena (UK )
- The Opera House Project - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia)

Best Use of Footage in a Home Entertainment Release
- From Headlines to ‘Tight-Lines’ - The Story of ATV Today - ATVLAND.productions (UK)
- Midlands on Film: Nottingham on Film 1920 -1980 - Lincoln School of Media (UK)
- Roll Out the Barrel: the British pub on film - BFI (UK)

Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release
Sponsored by British Pathé
- London - The Modern Babylon - Nitrate Film (UK)
- The Central Park Five - Florentine Films (USA)
- The House I Live In - Charlotte Street Films (USA)

Best Archive Restoration / Preservation Project
- David Attenborough’s Life on Earth and Trials of Life Series - BBC Worldwide / BBC Studios and Post Production (UK)
- Maarten Visser Collection - EYE Film Institute Netherlands / Haghefilm (Netherlands)
- The Silent Hitchcock Project – BFI / Deluxe (UK)

Best Archive Restoration / Preservation Title
Sponsored by BBC Studios and Post Production
- Lawrence of Arabia - Sony Pictures Entertainment (USA)
- Richard III - The Film Foundation (USA)  together with Janus Films/BFI National Archive/ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd./Museum of Modern Art/Romulus Films/Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- The Pleasure Garden – BFI / Deluxe (UK)

The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award
Sponsored by AP Archive
- Elspeth Domville (Canada) for Under Fire: Journalists in Combat
- Declan Smith & Masha Oleneva (UK/Russia) for Putin, Russia & The West
- Miriam Walsh (UK) for London - The Modern Babylon

Footage Employee of the Year
Sponsored by Deluxe

- Pauline Russell (UTV)
- Ronny Temme (EYE Film Institute Netherlands)
- Patti Tsarouhis (ABC Content Services)

Footage Library of the Year
Sponsored by Bonded Services Ltd
- Getty Images
- NHNZ Moving Images
- Videoplugger Ltd

Award for Lifetime Achievement
A gift of the FOCAL International Executive
- Paul Sargent

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