The ABCs of Book Banning (2023)Director: Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi Children hold a wisdom not poisoned by the machinations of our adult world. They confront subjects simply, looking at them for what they are and what they mean to themselves and others, and form evaluations that don’t consider economics or politics, but simply […]
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The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022)Directors: Diane Alvergue, Debra McClutchy Have you ever heard of the Martha Mitchell Effect? You probably should have. It’s the term used when a person’s reality is professionally labelled as delusional and later revealed to be true. Martha Mitchell was the wife of John N. Mitchell, the United States Attorney General
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Do Not Split (2021) Director: Anders Hammer A nominee for Documentary Short Subject at the 2021 Oscars, Do Not Split from Norwegian born journalist and documentarian Anders Hammer takes place across one of year of violent and impassioned protests in Hong Kong between 2019 and 2020, illustrating the efforts of the Hong Kong people attempting to rebel
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Hunger Ward (2021) Director: Skye Fitzgerald Imagine losing a child. It is the most unfathomable pain, the most incomprehensible of injustices. The guttural wailing of mothers who have just seen their children die is a sound you can never unhear, an explicit experience of grief that is unforgettable. In Yemen, a country torn to pieces
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A Concerto Is a Conversation (2020) Director: Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot Screenwriter: Ben Proudfoot In 2019, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book won Best Picture at the Oscars, controversy erupting around the film’s perceived whitewashing of black history and what the moment said of the contemporary United States. On the stage stood an assembly of primarily white men whose
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A Love Song for Latasha (2020) Director: Sophia Nahli Allison There is something so inherently poetic about Sophia Nahli Allison’s Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Subject A Love Song for Latasha. Something that imbues every scene with a sense of ethereal resonance. Perhaps it’s the soft spoken voiceover of those who knew Latasha, or the eccentrically designed
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In the Absence (2018/2020) Director: Yi Seung-Jun 2020 Oscar-nominated documentary short In the Absence, from South Korean director Yi Seung-Jun, is a moving portrait of the human condition amidst one of the most devastating human tragedies outside of wartime in recent years. Documenting the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry between Incheon and Jeju in South
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