Among them is “11 Questions,” from the Emmy-nominated director-producer Cassandra Herrman, which is also getting funding from “Frontline” in a first-time grant collaboration.
“How do you take 85 years and sort of whittle it down to 90 minutes?” said Roger Ross Williams. “Really difficult task, right?”
“I wasn’t expecting to make this, like, inspiring, patriotic movie about Satanism,” said director Penny Lane. “But that is the movie that I made. And I’m so proud of it.”
It took more than a year after Petra Costa’s first interview with Dilma Rousseff to get her to open up enough for interviews in the film.
‘Honeyland’ also took two prizes, as the wins focus attention on a narrowing field of nonfiction contenders.
The documentary examines the wide-ranging influence of the supermarket tabloid.
The American workers were distrustful of the media, while the Chinese workers presented a challenging language barrier.
The Netflix documentary goes behind the scenes of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal that factored into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The documentarian met the literary icon decades ago in his role as a photographer — it took years to convince her to open up for this film.
Director Richard Ladkani captures the struggle against violent groups who are threatening the Vaquita with extinction.
Rachel Lears’ documentary follows the primary races of four progressive Democrat candidates, and AOC is the film’s standout.
Whether they were about unruly pets or a love-story spanning continents, the New York Times Op-Docs told stories of friendship and empowerment.
