Short Film News (SFN)- Winners for the International Documentary Association’s 2008 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced today in several major categories, including limited series, continuing series, music, and student awards

Feature, short, and audience prize winners will be announced for the night of the program, to be held December 5 at the Directors Guild Theater in Los Angeles.

For the second consecutive year, Ira Glass' This American Life has nabbed the ontinuing Series Award.

In the Limited Series category, the prize has gone to Sin City Law, Denis Poncet, Jean Xavier De Lestrade, and Remy Burkel's eight-part episodic chronicling the criminal justice system in Las Vegas.

Now in its second year, the IDA/Alan Ett Music Documentary Award, sponsored by the veteran music industry figure and composer, has honored Stephen Walker's Young@Heart.

The IDA/Pare Lorentz Award, in homage to the pioneering filmmaker's legacy, was given to David Novack's Burning the Future: Coal in America, a hard look at the coal industry and its efforts to promote “clean coal technology” in the face of true environmental hazards.

Earning an Honorable Mention in the category is Garbage Warrior from filmmaker Oliver Hodge.

The IDA/ABCNEWS VideoSource Award, for best use of archival news footage, has gone to War Child by C. Karim Chrobog which is the story of a Sudanese child solider who emerges as an international rap star.

IDA continues to recognize the next generation of documentary filmmakers with its prestigious David L. Wolper Student Filmmaker Award. This year's prize has been awarded to As We Forgive by American University student Laura Waters Hinson.

This year's IDA Documentary Awards will be hosted by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and honoring Werner Herzog.

Voting continues for the inaugural Audience Award, where all IDA members can vote for their favorite doc from a wide-ranging list of the year's nonfiction features by logging on to www.documentary.org.