There were 40 nominees across 10 categories and 19 countries, including Angola, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States.

The acclaimed film, directed by Rehad Desai, exposes the truth behind the Marikana mineworkers strike and the subsequent masscacre. Using the point-of-view of the miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company, Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. Six days after the strike began, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the workers, killing 34 and injuring many more. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country’s first post-colonial massacre.

Released last year, Miners Shot Down has received worldwide acclaim and gone on to win multiple awards including:

  • The Cinema for Peace Award winner 2015;
  • The Václav Havel Jury Award at the One World Human Rights Film Festival;
  • Camera Justitia Jury Award at the Movies That Matter Human Rights Film Festival;
  • The Aung San Suu Kyi Jury Award at Hrhdiff, Myanmar;
  • The Audience Award at the African Film Festival, Cologne;
  • The Audience Prize at The Black Movie Film Festival, Geneva;
  • The Best Reality Documentary Award at The Ugu Film Festival, South Africa;
  • Jury First Prize For Documentary, Fespaco, Burkina Faso;
  • Best Documentary Feature South African Film And Television Awards; and
  • Human Rights Jury Award, Amnesty International, Durban International Film Festival.

“Every year, the international television community competes to be recognized for excellence on the International Emmy's global stage,” said Bruce L. Paisner, president & CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. “We congratulate the 2015 Nominees for their outstanding programs and performances.”

Winners will be announced at a black-tie Ceremony on Monday, 23 November 2015 at the Hilton New York Hotel.

Other documentaries in the Uhuru Productions collection include Alexandra My Alexandra, Father Inside, Bhambatha: War of the Heads 1906, The Choir, Taking Back the Waves Nasser Tapes, Cops 17: An Activist's Diary, Weather Gods, Permission to Stay, Battle for Johannesburg, You Chuse, Bushmen’s Secret, The Heart of Whiteness, Born into Struggle, Looting the Nation, My Land My Life, Dilemma and Carlos Cardoso: An Independent Spirit. 

For more information on these and the hundreds of other movie and TV titles, visit www.vidi.co.za.

For more information on Miners Shot Down, visit www.minersshotdown.co.za.