WIFT NZ member Barbara Sumner Burstyn's award-winning documentary This Way of Life has been selected for DocuWeeks which puts it up for Academy Awards 2010 consideration. To be up for consideration a documentary must be selected to take part in DocuWeeks which has to take place by August 2010 in the USA. During that time the film must play in screenings for a period of 1 week in both Los Angeles and New York where it will then be judged by members of the Documentary Branch. Final voting will be made by members of The Academy where a short list of documentaries that will be in the running for the Academy awards will be decided upon. The film has recently finished a successful 12 week theatrical run in NZ and was released on DVD on June 17.