Brilliant Oscar-winning documentaries and the SCAD Savannah Film Festival: For more than a decade, these two films have become virtually synonymous thanks to the Documentation to Watch panel. hollywood reporterhosted by yours truly, brings the directors of 10 of the year’s best nonfiction feature films to a film festival hosted by the nation’s largest university.
In fact, in the 10 years leading up to this year, 21 out of 97 documentaries were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and 8 of them were ultimately nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. won That award: 2015 Amy2016 Orange Juice: Made in the USA2017 Icarus2018 free solo2019 American factory2021 summer of soul2022 Navalny and 2023 Mariupol 20 days.
This year’s party, held on October 30 at SCAD’s Lucas Theater as part of the 27th annual festival, which you can see for yourself by checking out the video above, includes:
- on behalf of Picturehouse porcelain warCo-directed with Slava Leontyev, a portrait of married artists in present-day Ukraine whose lives were upended by the Russian invasion. Brendan Bellomo
- on behalf of Warner Bros. Super/Man: The Story of Christopher LeviThe film follows the investigation by family and friends into the life, work and tragic accident of a beloved film star 20 years after his death, with co-director Ian Bonhôte Peter Etegui
- On behalf of Netflix will and harpertells the story of comedian Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, an old friend from America. saturday night live The director recently came out as a transgender woman during a road trip across the United States Josh Greenbaum
- On behalf of MTV Documentary Films black box diaryIn the film, a filmmaker investigates his own sexual assault by a powerful man in Japan in order to bring the perpetrator to justice and create social change, directed by Shiori Ito
- represents level ground allianceCo-director Brett Story follows the David and Goliath struggle between labor organizers and employees at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island to form a union. Stephen Maine
- On behalf of Act IV Films hollywood doorThe film chronicles the Taliban’s capture of a former CIA base in Kabul a year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, directed by Ibrahim Nasheat
- Represent the focus feature’ little by littletells the roller-coaster life and career of musician Pharrell Williams, 2013 Oscar winner, through LEGO animation twenty feet from the star, Morgan Neville
- Represent National Geographic Documentary frightenedCo-director Emily Kassie’s deeply personal dig into the long-buried history of misconduct at an Indian residential school in Canada, Julian Brave Noise Cat
- On behalf of Netflix daughtersThe film follows a program that helps incarcerated men reconnect with their daughters, and the four fathers and daughters affected by the program, from co-director Natalie Rae, Angela Patton
- and on behalf of Greenwich Films Cavill: Winning is everything, stupid mana profile of a legendary Democratic political strategist who led efforts to persuade the president. Biden not seeking re-election, director Matt Tinard
During the conversation, the filmmakers discuss the origins and often unexpected evolution of their 2024 documentary. (Some of them have never made a movie before!) Five people who co-directed the film talked about these collaborations. Some political films discuss the challenges of finding distribution deals for such projects in the current climate. Everyone touches on the themes of their doc and/or the ways in which they were affected by the film’s production and/or distribution – often quite profoundly.
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