Fire of Love - 1 nomination

 

Best Documentary Feature
Sara Dosa
Shane Boris
Ina Fichman

Katia and Maurice Krafft have one hot marriage! The only husband and wife volcanologists in the business, they spend their lives researching and chasing volcano eruptions, and hopefully this helps them identify warning signs and the things that devastate communities who live nearby.  There's a lot to learn in this film about volcanos, including the fact that there are two types - the red version that has very slow moving lava and can be approached by humans; the other a more grey type that is much more deadly because it moves fast and unpredictably. Katia and Maurice have been everywhere and their adventures are not only fascinating, they produce the most exquisite footage of volcanos that we get to see in the movie - Maurice took years of footage, and most of the film that humans have of volcanos was taken by him at some time.  He was the "official photographer and videographer" of the volcanic world. Watching the film, you almost relax watching these researchers go so close to the raging lava, but ultimately and tragically, the pair is killed doing what they love at the Mount Unzen eruption.