By the time December rolls round, a frontrunner has sometimes emerged within the Oscar race for Best Documentary Feature. Not this 12 months. The contest stays large open, extra so than in any 12 months in current reminiscence.
For that cause alone, it’s important to listen to from the main filmmakers within the combine. And that’s the place Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary occasion is available in. Out important information that includes an awards-worthy slate of excellent nonfiction movies kicks off Saturday at 9 a.m. PT that includes panels from 9 of the 12 months’s most buzzy titles.
Among the all-star expertise readily available is Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, director of Apple Original Films’ Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, in regards to the beloved Hollywood icon. Guggenheim’s movie not too long ago gained 5 prizes on the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, together with Best Feature and Best Director.
Also hailing from Apple Original Films is Underrated, the documentary about NBA champion and dead-eye 3-point shooter Stephen Curry, directed by Peter Nicks. Both Still and Underrated, of their approach, inform tales of undersized guys with outsized accomplishments — Fox, who was picked on as a child for his diminutive stature, and Curry, the 6’2” level guard who was instructed he was too small to make it within the professionals.
We will head down Silver Dollar Road with Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck, exploring his movie from Amazon MGM Studios a few compelling African American household engaged in a battle to maintain maintain of land that’s been a part of their identification for over a century. It’s a narrative of resilience and resistance from an idyllic stretch of coastal Carolina.
National Geographic Documentary Films, a perennial Academy Award contender, advances two Oscar favorites: Bobi Wine: The People’s President and The Mission. The latter movie, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, tells the surprising story of a younger American missionary killed as he tried to convey Christianity to a largely uncontacted Indigenous folks residing on a distant island.
Bobi Wine facilities on the titular charismatic pop star-turned-politician, who dared to run for president of Uganda in a direct problem to his nation’s ruthless dictator. Co-director Christopher Sharp, together with Wine and his spouse Barbie Kyagulanyi, be a part of Contenders to debate their movie, which is nominated for 4 awards on the upcoming Cinema Eye Honors in New York.
Oscar-nominated Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi will participate in a panel on The Eternal Memory, from MTV Documentary Films. Her characteristic, winner of the highest prize for worldwide documentary on the Sundance Film Festival, tells the poignant love story of Augusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia, leaders of Chile’s arts group, whose bond solely deepened as Augusto confronted Alzheimer’s illness.
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, from HBO Documentary Films, gained the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance. Renowned filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster will discuss their modern exploration of the work and considered poet Nikki Giovanni, a dynamic advocate for Black satisfaction, the Black Arts Movement, and civil and human rights because the Nineteen Seventies.
Music underpins two of the award-winning movies on the Contenders: Documentary program. Pianoforte, from Telemark and Greenwich Entertainment, takes us contained in the world’s most prestigious piano competitors, the International Chopin Piano Competition, held each 5 years in Warsaw. Polish director Jakub Piątek’s documentary has gained prizes at movie festivals world wide, together with the celebrated Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.
They Shot the Piano Player, from Sony Pictures Classics, makes use of dazzling animation — and the voice of actor Jeff Goldblum — to research the destiny of a unprecedented Brazilian musician, Francisco Tenório Júnior, who disappeared in 1976 whereas on a go to to Argentina for a gig. Directors Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal will inform us a few story full of intrigue, emotion and unimaginable music, narrated by Goldblum, who himself is a gifted jazz pianist.
Follow together with at the moment’s panel protection on Deadline and our social channels utilizing the hashtag #DeadlineContenders, and keep tuned for once we launch the streaming website Tuesday that includes all of the panel movies.
Below is at the moment’s panel lineup.
Contenders Film: Documentary
9 am – Livestream begins/opening remarks
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Davis Guggenheim (Director/Producer)
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Peter Nicks (Director/Producer)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS
The Mission
Jesse Moss (Writer/Director/Producer)
Amanda McBaine (Writer/Director/Producer)
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Bobi Wine (Subject)
Barbie Kyagulanyi (Subject)
Christopher Sharp (Co-Director/Producer)
AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Silver Dollar Road
Raoul Peck (Writer/Director/Producer)
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
They Shot The Piano Player
Fernando Trueba (Writer/Co-Director)
Javier Mariscal (Co-Director)
HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Joe Brewster (Writer/Director/Producer)
Michele Stephenson (Writer/Director/Producer)
Tommy Oliver (Producer)
TELEMARK and GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT
Pianoforte
Jakub Piątek (Director)
PARAMOUNT+ & MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS
The Eternal Memory
Maite Alberdi (Writer/Director/Producer)
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