The Contenders

Showtime

Attica

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PANELISTS:

Stanley Nelson

Writer/Director/
Producer

Traci A. Curry

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"There was also just sort of this basic negation of humanity in terms of how the guards and the prisoners related to each other.” Read Story Here

National Geographic

Becoming Cousteau

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PANELISTS:

Liz Garbus

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"There’s been that sense of outrage like, 'Wow, I cannot believe he’s been saying this since the '70s -- how is it taking so long?'” Read Story Here

Apple Original Films

Billie Eilish: The
World's a Little Blurry

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PANELISTS:

Jenna Rosher

Cinematographer

R.J. Cutler

Writer/Director/
Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"In my experience…the subject opens up and if you do your job properly, you're going to really get to the heart of some real truths.” Read Story Here

CNN Films

Citizen Ashe

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PANELISTS:

Rex Miller

Director/Producer

Sam Pollard

Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"Imagine a man keeping all of this in for so many years all those years and the impact it has on him both psychically and physically.” Read Story Here

Showtime

CUSP

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PANELISTS:

Parker Hill

Director/Producer/
Cinematographer/
Editor

Isabel Bethencourt

Director/Producer/
Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"The choice to be older sometimes is not made by you. It’s made by people around you and you have to figure out how to navigate that.” Read Story Here

Neon

Flee

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PANELISTS:

Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"It's really a story about memory and trauma, and animation enabled us to be more expressive about dealing with these things.” Read Story Here

Discovery+

Francesco

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PANELISTS:

Evgeny Afineevsky

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"He’s a man of action, and I think this bodes well.” Read Story Here

Hulu

Homeroom

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PANELISTS:

Peter Nicks

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"[They] are active or learning how to be engaged and put their voice forward in such a way to say ‘We can actually help. We have something to say. We have something to add.'" Read Story Here

HBO

In the Same Breath

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PANELISTS:

Nanfu Wang

Director/Producer

Jialing Zhang

Producer

Julie Goldman

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"We started working together on the film in January and pretty quickly started to realize that what was developing here was quite frightening as well." Read Story Here

Discovery+

Introducing,
Selma Blair

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PANELISTS:

Rachel Fleit

Director

Selma Blair

Subject

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I love when that happens -- when someone notices something because of the film and they’ve given someone else more leeway." Read Story Here

Sony Pictures Classics

Julia

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Co-Writer/Director/Co-Producer

PANELISTS:

Julie Cohen

Director/Producer

Betsy West

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"It just wasn't typical to have somebody with Julia's authority, confidence and advanced age on television telling people what to do." Read Story Here

HBO Max

LFG

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PANELISTS:

Andrea Nix Fine

Writer/Director/
Producer

Sean Fine

Writer/Director/Producer/
Cinematographer

Becky Sauerbrunn

Subject (United States Women’s National Soccer Team Member)

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"That’s kind of what it's like to be a woman fighting for equality these days. It's usually for the generations hopefully after you." Read Story Here

Amazon Studios

My Name Is
Pauli Murray

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PANELISTS:

Betsy West

Co-Writer/Director

Julie Cohen

Co-Writer/Director

Talleah Bridges McMahon

Co-Writer/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"Pauli ... always managed to push through, to find solutions, to find a way around, to come up with innovative legal ideas, to move on to the next thing, and to live life with ... exuberance." Read Story Here

Netflix

Procession

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PANELISTS:

Robert Greene

Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"We thought that doing these staged scenes that come from the guys...they’re taking back power from the church in a sense directly." Read Story Here

Discovery+

Rebel Hearts

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PANELISTS:

Pedro Kos

Co-Writer/Director/
EP

Shawnee Isaac Smith

Co-Writer/Producer

Kira Carstensen

Producer

Judy Korin

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"There's not a lot that's changed in the last five decades vis-a-vis what these women were fighting for." Read Story Here

Focus Features

Roadrunner: A Film
About Anthony Bourdain

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PANELISTS:

Morgan Neville

Director/Producer

Caitrin Rogers

Producer

Eileen Meyer

Editor

Aaron Wickenden

Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I felt like we didn't have to kind of tame the truth, and we could just lean into that ambiguity because that was very much him." Read Story Here

HBO

Simple as Water

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PANELISTS:

Megan Mylan

Director/Producer

Robin Hessman

Producer

Hazem Obid

Co-Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"They have to welcome us in, and they choose how many layers they reveal, so those relationships were really fundamental." Read Story Here

HBO

Street Gang: How We
Got to Sesame Street

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PANELISTS:

Marilyn Agrelo

Director

Ellen Scherer Crafts

Producer

Trevor Crafts

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"You see the sense of family and love that there is between these people, and we’ve never really gotten a chance to see that sort of behind the scenes look at this time of Sesame Street..." Read Story Here

Onyx Collective / Searchlight Pictures / Hulu

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

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PANELISTS:

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

Director/EP

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"This was all that I watched for five months in a row. … It's almost like I lived with it as if it were an art installation." Read Story Here

National Geographic

The First Wave

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PANELISTS:

Matthew Heineman

Director/Producer/
Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I think the overwhelming feeling was that people felt that this needed to be documented." Read Story Here

Showtime

The Real Charlie
Chaplin

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Co-Writer/Director/Co-Producer

PANELISTS:

Peter Middleton

Co-Writer/Director/
Co-Producer

James Spinney

Co-Writer/Director/
Co-Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"The more we looked into Chaplin’s life, the more versions of him we found." Read Story Here

Focus Features

The Sparks Brothers

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PANELISTS:

Edgar Wright

Director

Ron Mael

Subject

Russell Mael

Subject

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"Obviously, Edgar's films are incredibly kinetic, and that was one reason why Edgar was the only one that we ever said yes to [doing a documentary] about us…" Read Story Here

Apple Original Films

The Velvet
Underground

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PANELISTS:

Todd Haynes

Writer/Director/
Producer

Adam Kurnitz

Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"Unlike any other…subjects of rock documentaries, the Velvet Underground don't really reside in traditional material." Read Story Here

Amazon Studios

Val

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PANELISTS:

Leo Scott

Director/Producer

Ting Poo

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I was sort of blown away right away by how little vanity and how there wasn't a big wall or guard put up that you would expect from a celebrity of his stature." Read Story Here

Sony Pictures Classics

Who We Are: A Chronicle
of Racism in America

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PANELISTS:

Emily Kunstler

Director/Producer/
Editor

Sarah Kunstler

Director/Producer

Jeffery Robinson

Writer/Subject

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I would suggest that that's what's going on in America right now, is people are scared to lose their myths." Read Story Here

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