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Apple TV+’s Girls State and HBO’s Ren Faire scored three nominations apiece to lead all broadcast nominees announced Thursday for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors. The group, which recognizes the year’s outstanding nonfiction and documentary films and TV series, also revealed the 16-film longlist for its annual Audience Choice Prize, won last year by National Geographic’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which went on to get nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar.

The past six winners of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar — this year’s winner 20 Days in Mariupol, Navalny, Summer of Soul, My Octopus Teacher, American Factory and Free Solo — were all Audience Choice Prize nominees. Fans voting will whittle the list to 10 beginning next week, with winners in that and all categories to be announced at an awards ceremony January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem.

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Cinema Eye Honors today shared a string of announcements, including the 16 films on its Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the unveiling of this year’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in its five Broadcast categories, and its annual Shorts List — spotlighting 11 of the year’s top documentary short films — at its 7th annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch in Downtown Los Angeles on October 24, 2024.

Spotlighted on the film side are several major Best Documentary Feature contenders including “Will & Harper,” “Black Box Diaries,” and “No Other Land,” which all also factored into the organization’s list of Unforgettables — standout on-camera collaborators from eight feature documentaries. This next ceremony will be the first time those honorees, like Harper Steele, Shiori Ito, and Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham for those respective films, receive a special medallion honoring their contribution to their Cinema Eye-winning films.

Highlights among the Broadcast nominees include filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, nominated for both...

The Apple TV+ documentary “Girls State” and the HBO doc series “Ren Faire” led all projects in nominations in the Cinema Eye Honors broadcast categories, which were announced on Thursday in Los Angeles.

“Girls State” was nominated in the Broadcast Film category and also for its editing and cinematography. “Ren Faire” was also nominated in those last two categories, as well as for Nonfiction Series.

Other broadcast films and series with multiple nominations included Netflix’s “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,” Apple’s “The Enfield Poltergeist,” HBO’s “Telemarketers” and National Geographic’s “Photographer.”

At its annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch at Redbird in downtown Los Angeles, the New York-based organization also announced the Audience Choice Award Long List, 16 films that will compete for the audience-voted award; 11 semi-finalists in the short doc category; and “The Unforgettables,” its annual list of the year’s most interesting documentary subjects.

The Audience...

The Enfield Poltergeist, directed by Jerry Rothwell, is a montage of the supernatural, science, childhood trauma, and many other aspects. This mini-documentary series pulls lightly at the strings of horror while focusing more on the scientific aspects. The events surrounding the Hodgson family and the experiences that they have had have been explored here. The intervention of Maurice Grosse, a member of the Society for Psychical Research (Spr), between 1977 and 1978 with more than 200 hours of tape recordings has been highlighted. The four-part mini-documentary series brings out a real-life infamous case of the haunting at a house in Enfield, reminding us of similar movies based on real-life stories like The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Amityville Horror, and others. Was Maurice able to rid the Hodgsons of the torture of the poltergeist? Was Janice really possessed, or was she faking things to garner attention? Let us look into what several witnesses...

Just in time for the scariest day of the year (unless you’re Justin Timberlake…that day came earlier this week with Brit‘s book), Apple TV+ is set to unleash the The Enfield Poltergeist, a genre-defying four-part series that exhumes the historic 1977-79 haunting of the UK’s Hodgson family. You may know the story as it was adapted in 2016’s The Conjuring 2, but you’ve never seen it told in such deep detail. Thanks to a curious British press at the time and the efforts of paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse, the Enfield case is one of the most-documented accounts of paranormal activity. The tale of a supernatural entity attacking young Janet Hodgson gripped the nation and sold millions of papers. That provided director Jerry Rothwell with a trove of photos and recordings from investigative interviews. “We were interested that this extensive archival record existed of a situation...

There is just something about this case. The reports of a demonic supernatural power in greater London has stirred and scared the public for decades, and is now being brought back to our screens in this original docu-drama series The Enfield Poltergeist.

Helmed by filmmaker Jerry Rothwell, we had the pleasure in speaking to the director ahead of the limited series launch on Apple TV+, as he deep dives into this frightening set of events. He speaks about the logistics of the project, both creative and technical, and what he believes it is about this case that has given it such longevity.

Watch the full interview with Jerry Rothwell here:

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Experience the chilling true story of the world’s most famous poltergeist case through original audio recordings made inside the house as the events unfolded.

The Enfield Poltergeist ” premieres globally on October 27, 2023 on Apple TV+

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The U.K.’s Documentary Film Council (Dfc) is seeking funds to support the independent documentary sector, which is under “existential threat.”

The Dfc was formed in response to a three-year study on the U.K. feature-length documentary film industry and co-designed by several organizations in the field, including Doc Society, Sheffield DocFest, the Grierson Trust, The Whickers, Scottish Documentary Institute, Docs Ireland and BBC Storyville.

An open letter to the U.K. screen industries compiled by the Dfc states that the formation of the Dfc is “based on the recognition that independent documentary in the U.K. faces an existential threat and that there is urgent need for coordinated, long-term interventions across the sector.”

“Films at the independent end of the spectrum – creative, observational, character-led films, films that originate outside of a commissioner’s brief or which explore difficult-but-vital political or cultural questions – are increasingly hard to get made,” the letter adds.

Signatories include Kim Longinotto, Sean McAllister, Orlando von Einsiedel, Jeanie Finlay, Jerry Rothwell, Andre Singer, Mark Cousins, Andrew Kötting, and Mike Lerner.

Leading figures from the UK documentary world have thrown their support behind an open letter from the Documentary Film Council (Dfc) raising the alarm about the predicament of the UK indie doc sector.

Despite rhetoric about this being a golden age of documentary, the letter claims the sector “faces an existential threat”. Production funding for indie docs has plummeted and chances of distribution and exhibition for many are “non-existent.” Broadcast slots are also dwindling as are deals with...

Apple TV+ has set an October 27, 2023 premiere date for The Enfield Poltergeist, a four-part documentary series focused on the true story behind the events portrayed in The Conjuring 2. The streaming service just released the official trailer, featuring the actual recordings made during the 1977 investigation, one month out from the docuseries’ premiere.

Per Apple TV+, the real recordings made during the investigation are incorporated into the series via actors lip-syncing to the tapes.

Jerry Rothwell directs and Al Morrow, BAFTA winner Stewart le Maréchal, Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan Silberberg, and Nicole Stott serve as executive producers. MetFilm and Concordia Studios produced the docuseries for Apple TV+.

Poster for ‘The Enfield Poltergeist’ documentary series (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)

The Enfield Poltergeist Synopsis, Courtesy of Apple TV+:

In 1977, the terrifying haunting of an everyday family in Enfield, London, dominated headlines across the United Kingdom and had a tremendous impact on an entire generation of children.

Apple TV+ has announced that they will be releasing the four-part documentary The Enfield Poltergeist – which tells about the case that served as inspiration for The Conjuring 2 – on October 27th, just in time for Halloween viewings. Along with that announcement comes the unveiling of a trailer for the docu-series, and you can check it out in the embed above.

According to Deadline, The Enfield Poltergeist relies on more than 250 hours of audio archive to help recreate the infamous events in Enfield. Throughout four episodes, the events at Enfield are reconstructed using the recordings captured by Maurice Grosse, a paranormal investigator who archived all of his interviews from back in the day. The doc built a replica of the council house where the incidents took place so performers could reenact what is heard on the tapes.

The docu-series also features appearances by people who were actually involved in the haunting case.

"Experience the original recordings." And get ready to be never sleep again! Apple has unveiled an official trailer for a chilling horror documentary series called The Enfield Poltergeist, about a real paranormal occurrence in Britain. Arriving for streaming in October just in time for Halloween, of course. London. 1977. Dread. This four-part documentary revisits the supposedly real-life haunting of a family with four kids in ’70s London. "Experience the chilling true story of the world’s most famous poltergeist case through original audio recordings made inside the house as the events unfolded." Also with appearances by those originally involved in the incident involving sisters Janet and Margaret Hodgson. There was already a British drama series made in 2015 about this same occurrence called The Enfield Haunting. And it's the same incident that is depicted in James Wan's horror film The Conjuring 2 (from back in 2016). This new series is directed by acclaimed doc filmmaker Jerry Rothwell,...

While Netflix explores the true story that inspired The Conjuring 3 this Halloween, Apple TV+ will be investigating “The Enfield Poltergeist,” the basis for The Conjuring 2.

The new four-part documentary series “The Enfield Poltergeist” tells the riveting story of the most famous poltergeist haunting in history.

Combining more than 250 hours of rare audio archive, meticulous recreation of the setting of the haunting and original interviews with the people impacted by the case, the series is an ambitious genre-bending story that explores the human fascination with the unexplained and its impact on those who live it. All episodes premiere globally on Friday, October 27.

In 1977, the terrifying haunting of an everyday family in Enfield, London, dominated headlines across the United Kingdom and had a tremendous impact on an entire generation of children. The mysterious case forever changed ideas about the supernatural and that it wasn’t just restricted to castles and...

Apple TV+ has conjured up The Enfield Poltergeist, a four-part documentary that revisits the supposedly real-life haunting of a family in ’70s London.

The doc relies on more than 250 hours of audio archive to help recreate the infamous events in Enfield that went on to inspire The Conjuring 2. It will drop Oct. 27 – just in time for your Halloween party.

Throughout four episodes, the events at Enfield are reconstructed using the recordings captured by Maurice Grosse, a paranormal investigator who archived all of his interviews from back in the day. The doc built a replica of the council house where the incidents took place so performers could reenact what is heard on the tapes.

There are also appearances by those originally involved in the incident involving sisters Janet and Margaret Hodgson.

The Enfield Poltergeist is produced for Apple TV+ by MetFilm and Concordia Studios, the producers of Apple’s Still: A Michael J.

The Conjuring 2, the 2016 horror blockbuster directed by James Wan, was based on the true story of the Enfield Poltergeist, a terrifying case of paranormal activity that plagued a family in London in the late 1970s. Now, Apple TV+ is bringing the real story to life in a new four-part docuseries that will premiere on October 27, just in time for Halloween.

The docuseries, titled The Enfield Poltergeist, will use more than 250 hours of rare audio archive, original interviews with the people impacted by the case, and meticulous recreation of the setting of the haunting to explore the human fascination with the unexplained and its impact on those who live it. The series will feature the recordings captured by Maurice Grosse, a paranormal investigator who documented all of his interviews with the Hodgson family, who experienced poltergeist phenomena in their council house in Enfield. The series will also build an exact...

MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide rights for filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s feature documentary “Body Parts” ahead of its world premiere Sunday in Tribeca Film Festival’s Spotlight section.

The pic shows the evolution of desire and sex on screen from a female perspective, “allowing women to reclaim the parts of themselves that have been objectified and exploited for decades,” according to a statement. It uncovers the processes involved in creating intimacy for mainstream American film and television, the toll these scenes exact on those directly involved, and the impact on women and girls in the real world.

The documentary features candid interviews with actors and creators who are advocating for real change, including Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade and David Simon.

It highlights the voices of women like Sarah Scott and Sarah Tither-Kaplan who spoke out against abusive behavior on their sets,...

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“Transplant,” Canada’s most-watched drama series, will be back for a third season at CTV, produced by Sphere Media in association with CTV and Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Season 3 will shoot in Montréal, with Hamza Haq returning as protagonist Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian refugee who fled to Canada where he now practices medicine. The show, currently airing its second season on CTV, CTV.ca and on the CTV app, is the country’s most-watched drama series at an average of 1.1 million viewers. The show has also done well abroad, airing on NBC in the U.S. with Season 2 scheduled to premiere March 6.

“Viewers around the world have embraced ‘Transplant,’ and we look forward to bringing this exceptional cast back as we continue to tell the stories of York Memorial Hospital,” said Justin Stockman, VP of content development and programming at Bell Media. “With our...

Sales outfit MetFilm renegotiated rights with distributors to make deal happen.

Disney+ has secured rights to documentary The Reason I Jump from the UK’s MetFilm Sales, which renegotiated previous agreements with distributors to close the deal.

The streaming giant has picked up SVoD rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance-award winning feature for Emea and Latin America and plans to launch the film around World Autism Day on April 2.

The documentary is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English...

New releases also include ‘In The Earth’, ‘The Reason I Jump’.

Warner Bros’ long-awaited musical In The Heights arrived in cinemas across the UK and Ireland this weekend, as one of several wide-release titles looking to benefit from the National Lottery Cinema Weekend campaign.

Set up by the BFI Film Audience Network, the campaign has made 200,000 free cinemas tickets available to National Lottery players, at over 500 UK venues.

With wetter weather forecast for much of the UK, distributors are hoping to see audiences seek shelter in the cinema. However this will be offset by interest in the ongoing football Euros...

Sarah Gavron's Rocks will compete for the Golden Shell Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Rocks was the big winner at this year's British Independent Film Awards[imagefullwidth id={ID}], last night, where it topped five categories, including Best British Independent Film.

Sarah Gavron's drama about a teenager's attempts to look after her younger brother after their mother goes Awol, also took home the Best Supporting Actress and Actor's awards and Most Promising Newcomer and Best Casting, which was previously announced with other craft awards in January.

Remi Weekes British horror His House won two awards and Florian Zeller's The Father took home, three, including a Best Actor award for Anthony Hopkins.

Jerry Rothwell’s documentary The Reason I Jump won Best Documentary and the Best International Independent Film award was won by Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland.

The full list of winners is below:

Best British Independent Film Winner: Rocks...

In an online ceremony hosted by Tom Felton, the winners of the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were announced yesterday with Sarah Gavron’s ‘Rocks’ taking home five awards.

Best British Independent Film was awarded to coming-of-age drama Rocks by Zendaya with actress Kosar Ali also taking home the awards for both Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer with her young co-star D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu winning Best Supporting Actor. The four awards on the night took the film’s BIFA tally to five with Lucy Pardee winning the award for Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society of America and Spotlight when the craft award winners were announced in January.

British horror His House was awarded two BIFAs on the night with Remi Weekes winning Best Director and Wunmi Mosaku winning Best Actress. Anthony Hopkins’ poignant portrayal of an ageing man in The Father won him Best Actor amongst three wins.

His House: Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù as Bol Majur, Wunmi Mosaku as Rial Majur. Cr. Aidan Monaghan/Netflix © 2020

In an online ceremony hosted by Tom Felton, the winners of the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were announced. Live from Wales, where he is filming Save the Cinema for Sky Cinema, Tom welcomed a glittering array of stars to announce the winners.

Best British Independent Film was awarded to coming-of-age drama Rocks by Zendaya with actress Kosar Ali also taking home the awards for both Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer with her young co-star D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu winning Best Supporting Actor. The four awards on the night took the film’s BIFA tally to five with Lucy Pardee winning the award for Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society of America and Spotlight when the craft award winners were announced in January.

British horror His House was awarded two BIFAs on the...

“Rocks,” “His House” and “The Father” were the leaders at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which were announced Thursday.

Coming-of-age drama “Rocks” won best British independent film, with Kosar Ali winning the awards for both best supporting actress and most promising newcomer with her young co-star D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu winning best supporting actor. Lucy Pardee’s best casting award, which was among the craft award winners announced in January, takes the “Rocks” tally to five.

Remi Weekes won best director and Wunmi Mosaku won best actress for horror film “His House.” The film also won the best production design and effects awards.

Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of an ageing man in “The Father” won best actor, and the film also won best screenplay for writer-director Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, and best editing for Yorgos Lamprinos.

In a year when awards were spread evenly, “Saint Maud,” “Mogul Mowgli,” “Misbehaviour” and...

Sarah Gavron’s Rocks and Remi Weekes’ His House scooped five and four awards respectively, while Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for The Father, at tonight’s British Independent Film Awards, held virtually this year. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Rocks was crowned Best British Independent Film, beating strong competition from the likes of Saint Maud and The Father. The film, a social drama about a group of schoolgirls and shot largely with non-actors, also took Best Supporting Actress (Kosar Ali) and Best Supporting Actor (D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu), as well as Most Promising Newcomer (Kosar Ali again) and Best Casting (Lucy Pardee).

It was also a great night for the claustrophobic horror His House, with Remi Weekes picking up Best Director, Wunmi Mosaku winning Best Actress, and the film picking up two below-the-line prizes: Best Effects (Pedro Sabrosa and Stefano Pepin) and Best Production Design (Jacqueline Abrahams...

Watch the ceremony live here.

The British Independent Film Awards for 2020 are taking place online tonight (February 18), hosted by Tom Felton.

Screen will be posting all the winners below on this page and on Twitter as they are announced; you can watch the live-streamed ceremony via YouTube below.

Scroll down for the winners.

The ceremony starts at 20.00 UK time and finishes at approximately 20.50.

Winners in the nine craft categories were revealed last month, with His House and Misbehaviour receiving two prizes each.

Saint Maud set a record total of 17 when nominations were announced in December, followed by His House with...

Watch the ceremony live here.

The British Independent Film Awards for 2020 are taking place online tonight (February 18), hosted by Tom Felton.

Screen will be posting all the winners below on this page and on Twitter as they are announced; you can watch the live-streamed ceremony via YouTube below.

Scroll down for the winners.

The ceremony starts at 20.00 UK time and finishes at approximately 20.50.

Winners in the nine craft categories were revealed last month, with His House and Misbehaviour receiving two prizes each.

Saint Maud set a record total of 17 when nominations were announced in December, followed by His House with...

The largest field of documentaries in Oscar history has been narrowed down to 15 semifinalists, with almost all of the films that were expected to advance to the shortlist doing so.

Kirsten Johnson’s “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” Garrett Bradley’s “Time,” Alexander Nanau’s “Collective,” Viktor Kosakovskiy’s “Gunda,” James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham’s “Crip Camp” and David France’s “Welcome to Chechnya,” which led all of the year’s nonfiction films in previous nominations and wins, were among the films that advanced from the record field of 238 qualifying docs. That number shattered the previous record of 170 eligible documentaries, which was set in 2017.

Other films that made the shortlist included “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” “Boys State,” “MLK/FBI,” “My Octopus Teacher,” “The Painter and the Thief,” “76 Days” and “The Truffle Hunters.” Two documentaries that were also entered in the Oscars’ international race, Chile’s “The Mole Agent” and Italy’s “Notturno,...

World premieres include Ivan Kavanagh’s thriller ‘Son’ and David Burke’s ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’.

World premieres of Ivan Kavanagh’s thriller Son and David Burke’s The Father of the Cyborgs are among the new Irish titles that will screen at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff) (March 3-14).

The edition of Diff, which recently announced it would take place online-only due to the ongoing pandemic, has selected acclaimed world cinema titles including Korean-American awards contender Minari, Ben Sharrock’s UK comedy-drama Limbo, French feature Gagarine and Greek drama Apples.

Guests participating virtually will include Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth,...

Another precursor has chimed in, this one focused on the documentary genre. Last night, the International Documentary Association held their 36th Annual awards ceremony. There, the IDA Awards tapped Crip Camp as its Best Feature winner, beating fellow nominees Collective, Gunda, MLK/FBI, The Reason I Jump, Reunited, Time, The Truffle Hunters, and Welcome to Chechnya. It was a good victory for Netflix and Higher Ground (Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s company), as they seek to make it back to back wins at the Academy Awards in Best Documentary Feature. Will an Oscar follow? Stay tuned to find out, but the winners are below… Here are the full results from the 2020 IDA Awards: Best Feature Nominees “Collective” “Crip Camp” – ***Winner*** “Gunda” “MLK/FBI” (USA / IFC Films. Director: Sam Pollard. Producer: Benjamin Hedin) “The Reason I Jump” “Reunited” (Denmark. Director: Mira Jargil. Producer: Kirstine Barfod) Softie (Kenya / Pov . Director/Producer: Sam Soko.

The International Documentary Association has announced the winners of the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards, with “Crip Camp” taking home the top prize.

The ceremony was hosted by actor Willie Garson, with musical entertainment from Ruby Ibarra, who performed the theme from “A Thousand Cuts.”

Directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, “Crip Camp” received the best feature award as well as the ABC News VideoSource award. Garrett Bradley won best director for his film “Time,” while “John Was Trying to Contact Aliens” from Matthew Killip received the best short award. “Dick Johnson Is Dead” took home the awards for best writing and best editing.

Besides “Crip Camp,” the nominees for best feature included “Collective,” “Gunda,” “The Reason I Jump,” “Softie,” “The Truffle Hunters,” “MLK/FBI,” “Reunited,” “Time” and “Welcome to Chechnya.” Nominees for best director besides Bradley included Newnham and LeBrecht for “Crip Camp,” Jerry Rothwell for “The Reason I Jump,...

An immersive documentary inspired by Naoki Higashida’s groundbreaking book of poetry, Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump places us in the mind of nonverbal autistic children, focusing on the ways in which they navigate the world. The result is a poetic and experimental documentary made for the big screen, and thankfully I had the rare opportunity to see it that way when it premiered last year at Sundance, presented in a version mixed for Dolby Atmos, the 360-degree sound system.

Now arriving in Virtual Cinemas around the country via Kino Marquee and ahead of a release in Rothwell’s native UK once cinemas reopen, we talked with the director about his experience adapting Higashida’s book and launching the film at a time when cinemas are largely closed.

The Film Stage: Thinking of your previous works exploring man in nature, how did you come to adapt Naomi Higashida’s The Reason I Jump?...

Naoki Higashida’s eye-opening book has now become an evocative, careful simulation of non-verbal autistic perception

The cinematic language of The Reason I Jump, an ambitious documentary which attempts to simulate the sensory experience of non-verbal autism, is elemental, building up one isolated detail at a time. A living room, for example, emerges from the cascading, metallic tide of an electric fan, from the frisson of sizzling oil in a frying pan, from the wafting glow of sunlight refracted through a plastic water bottle. The scene is an act of double translation: Naoki Higashida’s book of the same name, written when he was 13 years old to map his experience of non-verbal autism, reimagined by film-maker Jerry Rothwell into a cinematic approximation of autistic perception – the sensory overwhelm, the hyper-intensity of details, the destabilizing fluidity of memory – for a neuro-typical audience.

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The past year — and even the events of the past week in this country has been a struggle for a lot of people. More specifically, the pandemic and Covid-19 has claimed the lives of over 360,000 people and there are thousands of families in mourning. They are grieving — and this includes children. The virtual release of Katrine Philp’s documentary, Beautiful Something Left Behind speaks to this exact topic.

Beautiful Something Left Behind was filmed long before the pandemic and debuted at SXSW in 2020 where it won Best Documentary Feature under the title An Elephant in the Room. The film from MTV Documentary Films is timeless as it puts a heartbreaking spotlight on the lives of several young children who have recently lost one or both parents.

The Good Grief community in New Jersey focuses on a holistic approach to mourning, where children can give in to rage in “the volcano...

In 2007, a 13-year-old Japanese boy named Higashida Naoki — with the help of the alphabet board his mother created to help her son communicate his thoughts — built a desperately needed bridge between a nonspeaking autistic mind and the neurotypical world that has long struggled to understand them and too often neglected to try. The bridge assumed the form of a book titled “The Reason I Jump,” and, like all bridges, it called attention to the gaps that it was hoping to cross: The gap between what Higashida thinks and what he’s able to convey; the gap between a nonspeaking autistic child and their parents; the gap between reductive misconceptions about the autism spectrum and the infinite constellation of human experience that such a spectrum actually represents.

Higashida was part author and part codebreaker, which helps to explain why he and his book attracted the attention of “Cloud Atlas” writer David Mitchell.

The new documentary The Reason I Jump begins with text on screen that explains the basis for the film: “Ten years ago a book by Japanese teenager, Naoki Higashida, revealed a previously hidden world.”

That hidden world is the mental landscape of a non-speaking autistic youth, a variety of human experience that has often perplexed those who qualify as “neuro-typical.”

“I thought…how has this book come into being?” director Jerry Rothwell remembers wondering. “And then I went to meet Naoki and Naoki is every bit as fluid and poetic and wise as the book would suggest.”

Naoki learned to communicate by pointing to letters on a letter board, a painstaking process where, as Rothwell notes, “a sentence might take 10 minutes” to complete. The author, now in his 20s, didn’t want to appear in the documentary himself, Rothwell says, but his words resonate throughout it, words that illuminate his sensory perceptions.

"Can you imagine how your life would be, if you couldn't say what you wanted?"

It's a good question, posed by Japanese then-13-year-old Naoki Higashida, whose autism led him to experience exactly this in the first few years of his life. After the use of an alphabet grid opened a method of communication to the world, he wrote about his experiences of that feeling, along with a guide to how he perceives the world in his book, from which Jerry Rothwell takes the title of his engaging and eye-opening documentary. Rothwell, interweaves Higashida's insights - which the writer carefully notes are not intended to represent every autistic person's experience - with a portrait of others who have a complex form of the condition from countries across the globe.

People on the autistic spectrum have been given an increasing voice in film in recent years, through the likes of Too Sane For This World.

“We’ve built up a track record by meeting challenges.”

Kino Lorber has picked up US rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Venice Silver Lion winner Wife Of A Spy, the latest in a long line of festival gems and prestige titles that has helped the New York distributor further distinguish itself this year.

Richard Lorber and his team plan a spring 2021 release on the pre-Second World War Hitchcockian thriller about a Japanese actress and her wealthy merchant husband who try to smuggle evidence to the US of a human experimentation programme in Japan-controlled Manchuria.

Kurosawa reunites with Japanese actress Yu...

This morning British actors Holliday Grainger and Micheal Ward announced the list of nominations for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) which sees Rose Glass’s psychological horror lead the pack with 17 nominations.

‘Saint Maud’ will be taking on Remi Weekes’ ‘His House’, which has 16 nominations across the Director, Screenplay, debut and technical categories. Weekes’ powerful debut also received nominations in Best Actress and Best Actor for Wunmi Mosaku and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù.

‘Rocks’, Sarah Gavron and Anu Henrique’s fresh, poignant and genuinely uplifting take on life as a marginalised British teen has 15 nominations, including double nominations for stars Bukky Bakray and Kosar Ali in Best Actress and Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer. D’angleou Osei Kissiedu is nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Stefan Pape sat down with BIFA nomination announcers Holliday Grainger and Micheal Ward to talk about the bright future of British Film.

We also sat down...

National Geographic has commissioned event series “Return To The Moon” (working title), which will chronicle NASA’s historic Artemis program that will see a woman step on the lunar surface for the first time.

Named after Greek mythology’s goddess of the moon, National Geographic will take a comprehensive look at the mission, using all of its print and digital storytelling platforms to invest in extensive, multi-year coverage of NASA’s journey.

The series will be produced by Lightbox, the company co-founded by Simon Chinn, double Oscar winner for “Searching for Sugar Man” and “Man on Wire,” and Jonathan Chinn, double Primetime Emmy winner for “LA 92” and “American High.” The Chinns will serve as executive producers alongside Emmy-nominated producer Suzanne Lavery (“Cajun Navy”), with Simon Raikes executive producing for National Geographic.

Sundance winner Jerry Rothwell (“The Reason I Jump”) is the series director.

“For more than 130 years, National Geographic...

Rose Glass’ psychological horror “Saint Maud” leads the charge at the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with 17 nominations.

“Saint Maud” is up for best British independent film, screenplay and director, and also features in the debut categories — producer, director and screenwriter. Morfydd Clark is nominated for best actress and Jennifer Ehle for supporting actress. The film also features heavily in the technical categories.

Close behind is Remi Weekes’ “His House,” which contrasts asylum seekers’ real life horrors with those of the supernatural kind. It has 16 nominations across the director, screenplay, debut and technical categories, and acting nominations for Wunmi Mosaku and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù.

Elsewhere, “Rocks,” Sarah Gavron and Anu Henrique’s take on life as a marginalized British teen, has 15 nominations, including for stars Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali and D’angleou Osei Kissiedu.

Nick Rowland’s “Calm With Horses” has 10 nominations while Riz Ahmed has four BIFA nominations this year,...

The 2020 British Independent Film Awards nominations were revealed Wednesday morning by British actors Holliday Grainger (“The Borgias”) and Micheal Ward (“Lovers Rock”). Leading the list of nominees this year is Rose Glass’ horror movie “Saint Maud” with an impressive 17 nominations. A24 has U.S. distribution rights, but canceled a spring 2020 release due to the pandemic. While the film managed to open in the UK, it has yet to grace stateside screens outside of film festivals.

Another horror movie, Remi Weekes’ refugee nightmare story “His House,” trails close behind with 16 nominations. That film is available to stream on Netflix. With 15 nominations is Sarah Gavron’s teen tale “Rocks.” “Calm with Horses,” titled in the U.S. as “The Shadow of Violence,” has 10 nominations, while “Mogul Mowgli” starring Riz Ahmed has seven. Florian Zeller’s Oscar hopeful “The Father,” with Anthony Hopkins, also is ahead of the pack with six nominations.

The Richard Harris Award,...

Exclusive: National Geographic has assembled a team of award-winning documentary producers for Return To the Moon (working title), an event series that will follow NASA’s Artemis program.

The Artemis missions, named after Greek mythology’s goddess of the hunt and the moon, will land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface. They come half a century after the Apollo flights, named after the Greek god of the sun and light, made Neil Armstrong the first human to set foot on the moon.

Filming over the next four years — from now until the lunar landing launch — and using National Geographic’s print and digital storytelling platforms, Return To the Moon will give viewers an all-access pass to the group of astronauts and their colleagues, documenting their efforts, ambitions, personal sacrifices and breakthrough first steps. It will follow...

One of the early must-see films of 2021 is The Reason I Jump, which picked up an Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and has gone on to screen at BFI London, SXSW, AFI Docs, Doc NYC, and more. Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, translated into English by author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), Jerry Rothwell’s film is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. Ahead of a January 8 release from Kino Lorber, the first trailer and poster have now arrived.

John Fink said in our review, “While The Reason I Jump is a profound and moving experience, one that isn’t easy to forget, it’s most effective when operating as an experimental work, taking a unique and lyrical approach to a subject that has often focused on the relationships and social struggles its subjects feel.

"How do I see the world...? For me, the details jump straight out." Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for one of the best documentaries of the year titled The Reason I Jump, made by award-winning doc filmmaker Jerry Rothwell. This is a film adaption of the ground-breaking book by Naoki Higashida, in which he answers questions about autism and shares his insights into the mind of an autistic child. This immersive film explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world. It's a phenomenal examination of autism by introducing us to and taking us inside the minds of many autistic people. They have rich, beautiful minds, limited by their illness, but still full of so much potential - and this film teaches us how to understand and be more perceptive to their experiences. "It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful,...

Sean Durkin’s drama stars Jude Law and Carrie Coon.

Picturehouse Entertainment has secured UK distribution rights to Sean Durkin’s The Nest from US outfit FilmNation Entertainment, strengthening its slate of upcoming awards buzz titles.

The romantic drama, starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon, debuted at Sundance and went on to pick up a hat-trick of awards at the Deauville Film Festival. Picturehouse plans to release in 2021 but has yet to set a date.

Durkin’s second feature, after Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011, explores how life for an entrepreneur and his American family begins to take a twisted...

Virtual ceremony set for January 16, 2021.

The Reason I Jump, Gunda, and Crip Camp are among nominees for the best feature award at the upcoming 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards.

International Documentary Association (IDA) members will vote for the 10 best feature and short nominees from December 7-January 8, 2021. The virtual awards are set to take place on January 16, 2021.

The IDA received 1,056 submissions comprising 365 documentary features, 153 documentary shorts, 153 documentary series, 52 student films, 39 music documentaries, and 33 audio documentaries and podcasts. A record 40% of submissions were international productions or co-productions.

“The nominees present an inspiring and urgent range of stories from around the globe,” said Simon Kilmurry,...

“Crip Camp” leads all films in nominations for the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards, the International Documentary Association announced on Tuesday.

The film by directors Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht deals with a New York summer camp in the early 1970s that became a key launching pad for the disability rights movement. It was an opening-night film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the documentary audience award.

“Crip Camp” received five IDA doc awards nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Writing. Four films received three nominations each: Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI,” Garrett Bradley’s “Time,” Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s “The Truffle Hunters” and Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed’s “My Octopus Teacher,” the only film whose three nominations did not include the Best Feature category.

Other Best Feature nominees are “Collective,” “Gunda,” “The Reason I Jump,” “Reunited,” “Softie” and “Welcome to Chechnya.

Leading the International Documentary Association Documentary Awards nominees with five nominations is “Crip Camp,” Netflix’s look back at an influential activist summer camp for the disabled, followed by Garrett Bradley’s poetic black-and-white “Time” (Amazon Studios) and Sam Pollard’s 60s archival dive “MLK/FBI” (IFC Films) with four noms each.

“The Truffle Hunters” (Sony Pictures Classics) scored three nods. All four films landed nods for Best Feature and Director, along with Jerry Rothwell’s “The Reason I Jump.” Netflix also landed multiple nominations for “Dick Johnson Is Dead” And “My Octopus Teacher.”

The IDAs are among the most reliable bellwethers of the Oscar documentary feature race. Last year’s IDA Best Feature winner, “For Sama,” was among the final five Oscar nominees, along with three out of 10 IDA nominees, including eventual Oscar-winner “American Factory.”

Starting December 7, IDA members are invited to vote online for Best Feature and Best...

Leading the International Documentary Association Documentary Awards nominees with five nominations is “Crip Camp,” Netflix’s look back at an influential activist summer camp for the disabled, followed by Garrett Bradley’s poetic black-and-white “Time” (Amazon Studios) and Sam Pollard’s 60s archival dive “MLK/FBI” (IFC Films) with four noms each.

“The Truffle Hunters” (Sony Pictures Classics) scored three nods. All four films landed nods for Best Feature and Director, along with Jerry Rothwell’s “The Reason I Jump.” Netflix also landed multiple nominations for “Dick Johnson Is Dead” And “My Octopus Teacher.”

The IDAs are among the most reliable bellwethers of the Oscar documentary feature race. Last year’s IDA Best Feature winner, “For Sama,” was among the final five Oscar nominees, along with three out of 10 IDA nominees, including eventual Oscar-winner “American Factory.”

Starting December 7, IDA members are invited to vote online for Best Feature and Best...

The International Documentary Association has announced the nominees for its 36th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, and a certain streaming service dominates. Netflix scored a leading 18 noms for the 2020 IDAs, more than three times its nearest rival. PBS is second with five, followed by HBO (four).

The IDA also said today that its 2020 ceremony is going virtual on January 21.

“The nominees present an inspiring and urgent range of stories from around the globe,” said Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the IDA. “The broad range of subjects and approaches to storytelling underscores that documentary is our most exciting form of cultural expression, a vital art form and a crucial element of democratic dialogue.”

Ten films are up for the marquee Best Feature award: Collective, Crip Camp (Netflix), Gunda (Neon), MLK/FBI (IFC Films), The Reason I Jump (Kino Lorber), Reunited, Softie, Time, The Truffle Hunters (Sony Pictures Classics) and Welcome to Chechnya (HBO).

The helmers of five of those films also are up for Best Director: Garrett Bradley (Time), Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Truffle Hunters), Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (Crip Camp), Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI) and Jerry Rothwell (The Reason I Jump).

On the TV side, five programs will vie for Best Curated Series): ESPN’s 30 for 30, PBS’ American Experience, Thirteen Productions’ American Masters, Illinois Public Media’s Reel Midwest and PBS/World Channel’s Reel South.

The nominees for Best Episodic Series are Cheer (Netflix), Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (AMC), Last Chance U (Netflix), Seven Planets, One World (BBC America) and We’re Here (HBO).

Up for Best Multi-Part Documentary are Asian Americans (PBS), Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered (HBO), City So Real (National Geographic), Hillary (Hulu) and Lenox Hill (Netflix).

“This is a year that has been one of reflection, looking inwards, and living life differently than we have always known it to be,” said James Costa, co-chair of the Feature Documentary Nominating Committee and IDA Board of Directors’ co-vice president. “Through the art of filmmaking these films gave us an opportunity to truly look and learn through the lenses of others.”

Here is the full list of nominees for the 2020 IDA Documentary Awards:

Best Feature

Collective

Director/Producer: Alexander Nanau

Producer: Bianca Oana

Crip Camp (USA / Netflix)

Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht

Producer: Sara Bolder

Gunda

Director: Victor Kossakovsky

Producer: Anita Rehoff Larsen

MLK/FBI (USA / IFC Films)

Director: Sam Pollard

Producer: Benjamin Hedin

The Reason I Jump

Director: Jerry Rothwell

Producers: Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow

Reunited (Denmark)

Director: Mira Jargil

Producer: Kirstine Barfod

Softie (Kenya / Pov)

Director/Producer: Sam Soko

Producer: Toni Kamau

Time

Director/Producer: Garrett Bradley

Producers: Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn

The Truffle Hunters

Directors/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

Welcome to Chechnya (USA / HBO)

Director/Producer: David France

Producers: Alice Henty, Joy A. Tomchin and Askold Kurov

Best Director

Garrett Bradley

Time

USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw

The Truffle Hunters

USA, Italy, Greece / Sony Pictures Classics

Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht

Crip Camp

USA / Netflix

Sam Pollard

MLK/FBI

USA / IFC Films

Jerry Rothwell

The Reason I Jump

USA, UK / Kino Lorber

Best Short

Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa

Directors/Producers: Barbara Attie, Mike Attie, Janet Goldwater

All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (Pakistan)

Director/Producer: Hira Nabi

Producer: Till Passow

Huntsville Station (USA / New York Times Op-Docs)

Directors/Producers: Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone

Hysterical Girl (USA / New York Times Op-Docs)

Director: Kate Novack

Producer: Andrew Rossi

John Was Trying to Contact Aliens (USA / Netflix)

Director/Producer: Matthew Killip

The Lost Astronaut (USA / New York Times Op-Docs)

Director: Ben Proudfoot

Producers: Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabriel Berk Godoi

Mizuko

Directors/Producers: Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo

sống ở đây

Director/Producer: Melanie Ho

To Calm the Pig Inside (Ang Pagpakalma sa Unos) (Philippines)

Director/Producer: Joanna Vasquez Arong

Unforgivable (El Salvador)

Director/Producer: Marlén Viñayo

Producer: Carlos Martínez

Best Curated Series

30 for 30 (USA / ESPN)

Executive Producers: John Dahl, Libby Geist, Rob King, Erin Leyden, Connor Schell

American Experience (USA / PBS)

Executive Producers: Susan Bellows and Mark Samels

American Masters

Executive Producer: Michael Kantor

Reel Midwest (USA / Illinois Public Media)

Executive Producer: Moss Bresnahan

Reel South

Executive Producers: Don Godish and Rachel Raney

Best Episodic Series

Cheer (USA / Netflix)

Director/Executive Producer: Greg Whiteley

Producers: Adam Leibowitz, Arielle Kilker, Chelsea Yarnell

Executive Producers: Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Jasper Thomlinson, Bert Hamelinck

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (USA / AMC)

Executive Producers: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Shawn Gee, Alex Gibney, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Shea Serrano, Angie Day, One9, Erik Parker, Isaac Bolden

Last Chance U (USA / Netflix)

Director/Executive Producer: Greg Whiteley

Executive Producers: Joe Labracio, James D. Stern, Lucas Smith, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard

Seven Planets, One World (UK / BBC America)

Directors: Fredi Devas, Emma Napper, Giles Badger, Chadden Hunter

Executive Producer: Jonny Keeling

We’re Here (USA / HBO)

Executive Producers: Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Stephen Warren, Johnnie Ingram, Peter LoGreco, Erin Gamble

Best Multi-Part Documentary

Asian Americans (USA / PBS)

Directors: Leo Chiang, Geeta Gandbhir, Grace Lee

Producers: Renee Tajima-Peña, Mark Jonathan Harris

Executive Producers: Jeff Bieber, Sally Jo Fifer, Stephen Gong, Jean Tsien, Donald Young

Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered (USA / HBO)

Directors/Executive Producers: Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Joshua Bennett, Jeff Dupre

Executive Producers: John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorious, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller

City So Real (USA / National Geographic)

Director/ Producer: Steve James.

Producer: Zak Piper.

Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Alex Kotlowitz, Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Jolene Pinder

Hillary (USA / Hulu)

Director: Nanette Burstein

Producers: Isabel San Vargas, Timothy Moran, Chi-Young Park, Tal Ben-David

Executive Producers: Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Nanette Burstein, Sierra Kos, Laurie Girion

Lenox Hill (USA / Netflix)

Directors/Executive Producers: Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.

Executive Producer: Josh Braun

Best Short Form Series

Almost Famous (USA / New York Times Op-Docs)

Producers: Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabriel Berk Godoi and Jeremy Lambert

Executive Producer: Adam Ellick

Director: Ben Proudfoot

Guardian Documentaries

Producers: Shanida Scotland, Natasha Dack Ojumu and Nikki Parrott

Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips. Lindsay Poulton, Jess Gormley

Directors: Irene Baque, Laurence Topham, Sara Khaki, Mohammad Reza Eyni, Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Laura Dodsworth, Dan McDougall

Last Call For The Bayou: 5 Stories from Louisiana’s Disappearing Delta (USA / Smithsonian Channel Plus)

Producer: Nadia Gill

Executive Producer: Gina Hutchinson

Director: Dominic Gill

Pov Shorts (USA / PBS)

Producer: Opal H. Bennett

Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White

Run This City (USA / Quibi)

Director: Brent Hodge

Producer: Prince Vaughn

Executive Producers: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, Brent Hodge

Best Audio Documentary

Crosses in the Desert / Cruces en el desierto

Reporter: Dennis Maxwell

Producers: Catalina May, Martín Cruz

Executive Producer: Martina Castro

Fiasco: Bush v. Gore (USA / Luminary)

Producers: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons

Girl Taken (UK / British Broadcasting Corporation)

Reporter: Sue Mitchell

Producer: Richard Hannaford

Executive Producer: Philip Sellars

Heavyweight – The Marshes (USA / Gimlet Media)

Reporter, Producer and Executive Producer: Jonathan Goldstein

Reporter and Producer: Kalila Holt.

Producers: Stevie Lane, Jorge Just, BA Parker, Bobby Lord

Somebody (USA / iHeartRadio)

Reporters and Producers: Alison Flowers, Bill Healy

Reporters: Sam Stecklow, Ellen Glover, Annie Nguyen, Kahari Blackburn, Rajiv Sinclair, Henri Adams, Matilda Vojak, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Frances McDonald, Diana Akmajian, Andrew Fan and Maddie Anderson

Producers: Shapearl Wells, Sarah Geis

Executive Producers: Jamie Kalven, Maria Zuckerman, Christy Gressman, Leital Molad

Best Music Documentary

Beastie Boys Story (USA / Apple TV+)

Director/Producer: Spike Jonze

Producers: Jason Baum and Amanda Adelson

Billie (UK / Greenwich Entertainment)

Director: James Erskine

Crock of Gold (USA / Magnolia Pictures)

Director/Producer: Julien Temple

Producers: Johnny Depp, Stephen Deuters, Stephen Malit

Los Hermanos / The Brothers

Directors/Producers: Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider

Universe (USA)

Directors: Sam Osborn and Nicholas Capezzera

Producers: Esther Dere and Leah Natasha Thomas

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award

Bananas (UK / National Film and Television School)

Director/Producer: Sara Montoya Sepúlveda

Isle of Us (UK / National Film and Television School)

Director: Laura Wadha

Na Luta Delas (Brazil / Uc Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)

Directors/Producers: Orion Rose Kelly and Pedro Cota

People Like Me (USA / University of California Santa Cruz)

Director/Producer: Marrok Sedgwick

Susana (USA / Stanford University)

Director: Laura Gamse

Producer: James Davis

Trees (UK / National Film and Television School)

Director: Rosie Morris

Producer: Jesse Romain

Best Cinematography

Acasă, My Home

Cinematographers: Radu Ciorniciuc and Mircea Topoleanu

Boys State

Director of Photography: Thorsten Thielow

The Earth is Blue as an Orange

Cinematographer: Viacheslav Tsvietkov

The Truffle Hunters

Cinematographers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

Time

Cinematographers: Zac Manuel, Justin Zweifach, Nisa East

Best Editing

Boys State

Editor: Jeff Gilbert

Crip Camp (USA / Netflix)

Editors: Eileen Meyer and Andrew Gersh

Disclosure (USA / Netflix)

Editor: Stacy Goldate

Dick Johnson is Dead (USA / Netflix)

Editor: Nels Bangerter

Through the Night

Editor: Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Best Writing

Crip Camp (USA / Netflix)

Writers: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht

Dick Johnson is Dead

(USA / Netflix)

Writers: Nels Bangerter and Kirsten Johnson

I Am Not Alone (USA / Netflix)

Writer: Garin Hovannisian

My Octopus Teacher (USA / Netflix)

Writers: Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed

Socks on Fire (USA)

Writers: Max Allman, Bo McGuire

Best Music Score

Dancing with the Birds (USA / Netflix)

Composer: David Mitcham

David Attenborough: Life On Our Planet

Composer: Steven Price

Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice (USA / Netflix)

Composer: Chapavich Temnitikul)

My Octopus Teacher (USA / Netflix)

Composer: Kevin Smuts

Rising Phoenix (USA / Netflix)

Composer: Daniel Pemberton

ABC News VideoSource Award

#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (USA / Dark Star)

Director/Producer: Dan Partland

Producer: Art Horan

Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn (USA / HBO)

Director: Ivy Meeropol

Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn

Crip Camp (USA / Netflix)

Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht

Producer: Sara Bolder

Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections (USA / HBO)

Director: Sarah Teale

Directors/Producers: Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels

Producers: Michael Hirschorn and Jessica Antonini

MLK/FBI (USA / IFC Films)

Director: Sam Pollard

Producer: Benjamin Hedin

The First Rainbow Coalition

Director/Producer: Ray Santisteban

Pare Lorentz Award

Winner

My Octopus Teacher (USA / Netflix)

Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed

Producer: Craig Foster

Honorable Mention

Crip Camp (USA / Netflix)

Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht

Producer: Sara Bolder

Honorary Awards

Amicus Award

Regina K. Scully

Career Achievement Award

Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI)

Courage Under Fire Award

David France, David Isteev and Olga Baranova (Welcome to Chechnya)

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award

Garrett Bradley (Time)

Pioneer Award

Firelight Media

Truth to Power Award

Maria Ressa and Rappler (A Thousand Cuts)...

Update: This story is being updated this week as the new longlists are unveiled. Today (November 20) the Best Documentary longlist has been published, see below.

Previously, November 17: Organizers of the British Independent Film Awards have confirmed their upcoming ceremony will delay from its traditional end-of-year dates to February, 2021, moving in line with this year’s major awards shows.

This week, the BIFAs will unveil its various longlists of awards, which will be whittled down to its final nominations, to be revealed on December 9.

Today, the New Talent awards longlists have been unveiled, featuring a total of 46 directors, writers and producers. Each of the below will participate in BIFA’s Springboard scheme, a tailored program of professional development and peer to peer support.

Best Documentary

The Art Of Political Murder Paul Taylor, Teddy Leifer, Regina K. Scully

The Australian Dream Daniel Gordon, Stan Grant, Sarah Thomson, Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell,...