Documentary films 76 Days, All In: The Fight for Democracy, Collective, Crip Camp are among 60 entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service and multimedia programming nominated for Peabody Awards.
Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
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76 Days, Collective, Crip Camp Among Peabody Awards Nominations
Crip Camp by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. | photo by Steve Honigsbaum
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‘Collective’ and ‘Boys State’ Win Top Prizes at 14th Cinema Eye Honors Awards
Steven Garza appears in Boys State by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine.| photo by Thorsten Thielow. Alexander Nanau’s “Collective” won the top prize for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ Boys State took the Audience Choice Prize at the 14th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony, held virtually last night.
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Directors Guild Announces Nominations ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ ‘Minari’ ‘Boys State’
THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION: RADHA BLANK (WRITER, DIRECTOR) as RADHA. Cr. JEONG PARK/NETFLIX ©2020 The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film and Documentary for 2020.
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Nominees Announced for 32nd GLAAD Media Awards -‘Ammonite’ ‘Circus of Books’ ‘Kajillionaire’
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite GLAAD announced the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. In the midst of a long overdue social movement against racial and ethnic discrimination, several of the nominees at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards include powerful and impactful stories about LGBTQ people of color. Those nominees include: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, I May Destroy You, The Half of It, Monsoon, Lingua Franca, The Boys in the Band, I Carry You With Me, Kajillionaire, The Wilds, Supergirl, Big Mouth, Dead to Me, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Wynonna Earp, and Dispatches from Elsewhere.
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IDFA 2020 Unveils Masters and Paradocs Lineups + More Films in Best of Fests
Rithy Panh’s Irradiated, winner of the Berlinale Documentary Award International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) announced the selections for the Masters and Paradocs program sections, as well as the remaining titles in the Best of Fests section. A total of 47 films have been added to the IDFA 2020 program.
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I’M YOUR WOMAN to Open, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI to Close Savannah Film Festival 2020 Lineup
Rachel Brosnahan and Arinzé Kene star in I’M YOUR WOMAN Photo Courtesy of Amazon Studios This year 23rd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival running as an all-virtual experience October 24 – 31, will screen 148 films, including 20 narrative films, 17 documentary films and 111 shorts, with 14 world premieres, four U.S. premieres and four North American premieres.
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San Francisco International Film Festival Reveals What Would’ve Been 2020 Lineup
I Carry You with Me directed by Heidi Ewing SFFILM has announced the complete lineup for the 2020 San Francisco International Film Festival (originally scheduled for April 8–21), though the event itself was canceled due to growing safety concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Documentary GIVING VOICE Wins Sundance Festival Favorite Award
Giving Voice by James D. Stern and Fernando Villena, an official selection of the Documentary Premieres program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jonathon Narducci. Giving Voice is the winner of the Festival Favorite Award, selected by audience votes from the 128 features screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, which took place in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance, Utah, from January 23 February 2, 2020.
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Miami Film Festival Announces 2020 Lineup. THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY to Open, MUCHO MUCHO AMOR to Close
Mucho Mucho Amor The Burnt Orange Heresy, the fifth screen adaptation of the works of late Miami noir novelist Charles Willeford, starring Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Debicki and Claes Bang, will open the 37th edition of Miami Dade College (MDC)’s acclaimed Miami Film Festival, on Friday, March 6 at downtown Miami’s historic Olympia Theater.
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Sundance Film Fest Announces 2020 Awards: MINARI, CRIP CAMP, BOYS STATE, CHARM CITY KINGS
Steven Yeun appears in Minari by Lee Isaac Chung, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. The 2020 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place last night, with top awards – Grand Jury Prizes awarded to Minari for U.S. Dramatic, Boys State for U.S. Documentary, Epicentro for World Cinema Documentary and Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness for World Cinema Dramatic.
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Berlin Film Festival Reveals Films in 2020 Panorama and Berlinale Special Lineup
Riz Ahmed in Mogul Mowgli by Bassam Tariq Directors Karim Aïnouz, Andrea Štaka and Francisco Márquez as well as the actors Ben Whishaw, Sandra Hüller and Stellan Skarsgård all present new films in the Berlinale Panorama program of the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival.
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HBO Announces Documentary Lineup for First Half of 2020, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, McMILLION$
Welcome to Chechnya by David France, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute HBO has confirmed their slate of captivating documentaries for the first half of 2020, including ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS (working title), a documentary series reexamining the missing and murdered children of Atlanta in the late-’70s and early-’80s in collaboration with Show of Force, Roc Nation and Get Lifted Film Co.; WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, directed by David France, chronicling a group of brave activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution in the repressive and closed Russian republic of Chechnya; NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND, intimately exploring Natalie Wood’s life, career and tragic death through the unique perspective of her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner and others who knew her best; and McMILLION$, from executive producer Mark Wahlberg and directors James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, a six-part documentary series chronicling the stranger-than-fiction story of the mysterious McDonald’s Monopoly game promotion scam and the mastermind who developed the complex scheme, stealing millions of dollars and building a vast network of co-conspirators across the U.S.