The Contenders

HBO Documentary Films

38 at the Garden

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PANELIST:

Frank Chi

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“I thought we were making like a millennial nostalgia movie. But it turns out we were making … an almost therapeutic movie for a lot of people...” Read Story Here

Onyx Collective

Aftershock

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PANELISTS:

Paula Eiselt

Co-Director/
Co-Producer

Tonya Lewis Lee

Co-Director/
Co-Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“Often people hear about an issue like maternal mortality and morbidity, and they just see numbers." Read Story Here

HBO Documentary Films

All That Breathes

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PANELIST:

Shaunak Sen

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"Every bird that flies off that cage after falling down is a bit of a tiny miracle." Read Story Here

Netflix

Descendant

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PANELIST:

Margaret Brown

Director/Co-Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“The Obamas’ and the Netflix platform is just crucial because … these kinds of histories are being obscured and obfuscated and denied.” Read Story Here

Louverture Films

EAMI

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PANELISTS:

Paz Encina

Writer/Director/
Producer

Jordana Berg

Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"They told me that they wanted me to help them tell what happened to them – what happened to them when they had to leave the forest, what happened to them and their ancestors." Read Story Here

Amazon Studios

Good Night Oppy

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PANELISTS:

Ryan White

Co-Writer/Director/
Producer

Blake Neely

Composer

Mark Mangini

Sound Design/
Re-Recording Mixer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"She is our little intrepid, bold explorer out there doing the things we can’t do ourselves.” Read Story Here

Guesthouse Productions

Guerrilla Habeas

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PANELISTS:

Betsy Hershey

Co-Director/Producer

Emma Wall

Co-Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“I think the important issue to remember is that this didn’t go away when Trump went away, and the system remains." Read Story Here

Sony Pictures Classic

HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song

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PANELISTS:

Dan Geller

Co-Writer/Co-Director/
Co-Producer/Co-Editor/
Cinematographer

Dayna Goldfine

Co-Writer/Co-Director/
Co-Producer/Co-Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“I like to say it’s one of the most generous songs that was ever written because it allows each person who chooses to cover it to bring themselves to it.” Read Story Here

Apple Original Films

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

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PANELISTS:

Sacha Jenkins

Director/Producer

Julie Anderson

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I think that because of this one-dimensional presentation of Louis, people thought he was careless about the Black community, which was not true at all. He knew exactly where he came from.” Read Story Here

HBO Documentary Films

Moonage Daydream

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PANELIST:

Brett Morgen

Writer/ Director/
Producer/Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“Bowie was able to pick up on frequencies and transmissions that most of us can’t hear, so what he’s describing isn’t the future. It’s the now. It’s just taken culture several decades to catch up with him.” Read Story Here

Warner Bros. Pictures/CNN Films/HBO Max

Navalny

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PANELISTS:

Daniel Roher

Director

Maria Pevchikh

Subject

Christo Grozev

Subject

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“By showing his humanity, his family, we were able to illustrate exactly what was at stake for him, and exactly what he was sacrificing for the cause of Russian democracy...” Read Story Here

Apple Original Films

Selena Gomez:
My Mind and Me

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PANELIST:

Alek Keshishian

Co-Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“I think our partnership was about doing something that was perhaps bigger than both of us, which was to help other people.” Read Story Here

Apple Original Films

Sidney

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PANELISTS:

Reginald Hudlin

Director/EP

Derik Murray

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“He changed the global image of Black people on Earth. That’s not a small achievement.” Read Story Here

Netflix

Sr.

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PANELIST:

Chris Smith

Director/
Co-Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“That was the challenge of the movie. We asked [Robert Downey Jr.] ‘Who is this guy?’ And he’s like, ‘I’ll never know.’ " Read Story Here

Łoziński Production

The Balcony Movie

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PANELIST:

Paweł Łoziński

Writer/Director/
Producer/Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"So if this, let’s say, strange guy on the balcony appeared one day and he’s ready to listen ... and he’s staying in this one place just for them, they will keep coming.” Read Story Here

Showtime

The Corridors
of Power

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PANELISTS:

Dror Moreh

Director/Producer

Oron Adar

Co-Editor

Stephan Krumbiegel

Co-Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I wanted that each one from the audience will ask himself, ‘What would I do if I was the commander-in-chief?’ ” Read Story Here

HBO Documentary Films

The Janes

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PANELISTS:

Emma Pildes

Co-Director/Producer

Tia Lessin

Co-Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“This is going to be a long, hard fight ahead.” Read Story Here

Sony Pictures Classic

The Return of Tanta Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile

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PANELIST:

Kathlyn Horan

Writer/Director/
Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“She chose to step away. She had lost her parents. And a lot of what this film is, it’s an exploration of this grief process.” Read Story Here

Sony Pictures Classic

Turn Every Page –
The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

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PANELIST:

Lizzie Gottlieb

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“They disagree viciously about the semicolon. Everything is important to them, the biggest things and the smallest details.” Read Story Here

Amazon Studios

Wildcat

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PANELISTS:

Trevor Beck Frost

Co-Director/Producer

Melissa Lesh

Co-Director/Producer/
Co-Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“I don’t think that either one of us expected for it to be the journey that it ended up being.” Read Story Here

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