{"id":17274,"date":"2020-11-06T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=17274"},"modified":"2021-10-23T01:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:14:29","slug":"2020-doc-nyc-11th-edition-november-11-19-online-part-3-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/2020-doc-nyc-11th-edition-november-11-19-online-part-3-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"DOC NYC 2020 November 11-13 Part 3: Winners Circle International Award Winner, Masters Films by Nonfiction Auteurs & Ameridan Perspectives Explore the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winners Circle International Award Winners<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ACASA, MY HOME<\/em>
\nDir: Radu Ciorniciuc<\/em>
\nProd: Monica L\u0103zurean-Gorgan<\/em>
\nWinner: Krakow<\/em>
\nA large Roma clan who have lived off the grid in the wilderness for 20 years are forced to resettle in the unfamiliar city.<\/em><\/p>\n

BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND<\/strong>
\nDir: Katrine Philp<\/em>
\nProd: Katrine A. Sahlstr\u00f8m<\/em>
\nWinner: SXSW<\/em>
\nAn affectionate and intimate child\u2019s eye view of New Jersey\u2019s Good Grief counseling center, which offers a holistic approach to mourning the loss of loved ones.<\/em><\/p>\n

INFLUENCE<\/strong>
\nDir: Richard Poplak, Diana Neille<\/em>
\nProd: Bob Moore, Neil Brandt<\/em>
\nWinner: Durban<\/em>
\nThis portrait of the founder of the infamous public relations firm Bell Pottinger explores the disturbing way our perceptions\u2014and politics\u2014are shaped by outside forces.<\/em><\/p>\n

MAYOR<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: David Osit<\/em>
\nWinner: Full Frame<\/em>
\nMusa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, Palestine, navigates day-to-day civic responsibilities, but the darker realities of life under occupation are never too far away.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE REASON I JUMP<\/strong>
\nDir: Jerry Rothwell<\/em>
\nProd: Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow<\/em>
\nWinner: Sundance<\/em>
\nBased on the groundbreaking book written by Naoki Higashida, this film explores the interior worlds and fascinating daily experiences of five nonverbal autistic young people.<\/em><\/p>\n

SONGS OF REPRESSION<\/strong>
\nDir: Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga
\nProd: Heidi Elise Christensen, Signe Byrge S\u00f8rensen
\nWinner: CPH:DOX
\nExecutive produced by Joshua Oppenheimer, this complex portrait reveals the dark truth behind Chile\u2019s seemingly idyllic German colony, Colonia Dignidad, formerly led by a cruel cult leader.<\/p>\n

STRAY<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Elizabeth Lo<\/em>
\nProd: Shane Boris<\/em>
\nWinner: Hot Docs<\/em>
\nA remarkable portrait of three dogs in Istanbul, where strays are an everyday part of the fabric of the community, belonging to no one and everyone at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE WALRUS AND THE WHISTLEBLOWER<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Nathalie Bibeau<\/em>
\nProd: Frederic Bohbot<\/em>
\nWinner: Hot Docs<\/em>
\nAn eccentric former marine animal park trainer wages a war via social media and the courts to save Smooshi, his beloved walrus, from deplorable conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Masters Films By Nonfiction Auteurs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

9TO5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar<\/em>
\nOscar-winners Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar (American Factory) explore the 1970s movement by secretaries and female office workers to demand better working conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n

CRAZY, NOT INSANE<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Alex Gibney<\/em>
\nProd: Ophelia Harutyunyan, Erin Edeiken, Joey Marra<\/em>
\nAlex Gibney profiles Dorothy Lewis, who grew up driven to understand what makes people into killers, leading her to become a psychiatrist specializing in serial killers.<\/em><\/p>\n

LOVE & STUFF<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Judith Helfand<\/em>
\nProd: Hilla Medalia, Julie Parker Benello<\/em>
\nFaced with the loss of her beloved mother and becoming a first-time mom herself at the age of 50, filmmaker Judith Helfand has a lot of stuff\u2014both literal and figurative\u2014to deal with.<\/em><\/p>\n

MLK\/FBI<\/strong>
\nDir: Sam Pollard<\/em>
\nProd: Benjamin Hedin<\/em>
\nUsing recent declassified files, MLK\/FBI examines J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s relentless campaign of surveillance and harassment against Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Errol Morris<\/em>
\nProd: Robert Fernandez, Steven Hathaway<\/em>
\nErrol Morris profiles the unforgettable Joanna Harcourt-Smith as she tells tales of sexual escapades and psychedelic tripping during her life on the run with the High Priest of LSD Timothy Leary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES (World Premiere)<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Abigail Child<\/em>
\nAbigail Child offers an eerie and exciting look into the present and future of artificial intelligence through the perspectives of robotics scientists, entrepreneurs, and a Black lesbian robot named BINA48.<\/em><\/p>\n

PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (North American Premiere)<\/strong>
\nDir: Ulrike Ottinger<\/em>
\nProd: Thomas Kufus, Kornelia Theune<\/em>
\nGerman auteur Ulrike Ottinger constructs an epic memoir tracing the influence of the time she spent living in Paris in the 1960s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ameridan Perspectives Explore the the USA<\/strong><\/h3>\n

CHASING CHILDHOOD (World Premiere)<\/em>
\nDir: Eden Wurmfeld, Margaret Munzer Loeb<\/em>
\nProd: Eden Wurmfeld, Lisa Eisenpresser<\/em>
\nReformed \u201chelicopter\u201d parents and education professionals reveal the benefits of allowing kids to have freedom to play unencumbered by schedules and structure.<\/em><\/p>\n

DEAR SANTA<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Dana Nachman<\/em>
\nProd: Chelsea Matter, Brendan Gaul, Christopher Karpenko<\/em>
\nEach year, volunteers for the USPS\u2019s Operation Santa answer letters to Santa, bringing holiday cheer to children nationwide.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Maria Finitzo<\/em>
\nProd: Cynthia Kane, Diane Quon<\/em>
\nA timely and radical film about gender politics, sexuality, and the barriers society and culture have placed on the acknowledgement of female sexual desire.<\/em><\/p>\n

FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor<\/em>
\nOnce prosperous but now reeling from the opioid epidemic, the town of Rutland, Vermont, becomes the center of an ideological debate on refugee resettlement.<\/em><\/p>\n

HAMTRAMCK, USA<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Justin Feltman, Razi Jafri<\/em>
\nIn Hamtramck, Michigan, America\u2019s first majority Muslim city, an election splits the typically harmonious community along ethnic lines.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE OIL WAR (World Premiere)<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: David Schisgall<\/em>
\nIconoclastic historian Andrew Bacevich delivers an anti-colonial critique of US foreign policy in the Middle East, which he sees as one long Oil War.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE PLACE THAT MAKES US<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Karla Murthy<\/em>
\nProd: Alexandra Nikolchev<\/em>
\nDemonstrating resilience and ingenuity, residents of post-industrial Youngstown, Ohio, once a booming steel and mining town, work to restore their community.<\/em><\/p>\n

RESTAURANT HUSTLE (World Premiere)<\/strong>
\nDir: Frank Matson<\/em>
\nProd: Tim McOsker<\/em>
\nExecutive produced by Guy Fieri, this is an intimate chronicle of the impact of the pandemic on the restaurants of four celebrity chefs: Antonia Lofaso, Marcus Samuelsson, Maneet Chauhan, and Christian Petroni. Co-presented by Grub Street.<\/em><\/p>\n

WOMEN IN BLUE<\/strong>
\nDir\/Prod: Deirdre Fishel
\nProd: Beth Levison, Aideen Kane
\nThree female officers from the Minneapolis Police Department must cope with the interdepartmental politics that arise from the appointment of the city\u2019s first female chief.<\/p>\n

End Part 3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Link to Part 4<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Winners Circle International Award Winners ACASA, MY HOME Dir: Radu Ciorniciuc Prod: Monica L\u0103zurean-Gorgan Winner: Krakow A large Roma clan who have lived off the grid in the wilderness for 20 years are forced to resettle in the unfamiliar city.…<\/p>\n

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