Under the Skin

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking announced the five nominees for its annual Cinema Eye Heterodox Award. The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award honors a narrative fiction film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. The five films nominated this year for the Cinema Eye Heterodox Award are:

Boyhood directed by Richard Linklater

Heaven Knows What directed by Josh and Benny Safdie

A Spell to Ward off the Darkness directed by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell

Stop the Pounding Heart directed by Roberto Minervini

Under the Skin directed by Jonathan Glazer

“These nominees prove once again that the blurred lines between fiction/non-fiction, actor/non-actor and verite/script continue to thrill and provoke,”  said Esther Robinson, Chair of the Cinema Eye Honors.  “Year five of the Heterodox award gives us farmers, loners, aliens, addicts, and adolescents.  The films ask thrillingly big questions about childhood, time, utopia, modernity, sexuality and what happens when you drop a come-hither Scarlett Johansson into the Scottish countryside with a hidden camera. “

Previous winners of the award were Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill (2011), Mike Mills’ Beginners (2012), Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours (2013) and Carlos Reygados’s Post Tenebras Lux (2014).

In addition to the Heterodox Award nominees, voting for the organization’s Audience Choice Prize is now open. The nominees for the Audience Choice Prize are:

20,000 Days on Earth directed by Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard

The Case Against 8 directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White

Citizenfour directed by Laura Poitras

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me directed by Chiemi Karasawa

Finding Vivian Maier directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel

Jodorowsky’s Dune directed by Frank Pavich

Keep On Keepin’ On directed by Alan Hicks

Life Itself directed by Steve James

Mistaken for Strangers directed by Tom Berninger

Particle Fever directed by Mark Levinson

Voting for the Audience Choice Prize is open to the public via the Cinema Eye website.  Last year, more than 44,000 people voted for the award, which was won by Dave Grohl’s Sound City. Previous winners of the award are The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2008), Up the Yangtze (2009), The September Issue (2010),  Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2011), Buck (2012) and Bully (2013).