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Doc Finalists for This Year’s Lavine/Ken Burns Prize Tackle Topics Ranging From Female Civil Rights Organizers to Jewish Animators
The six doc finalists for this year’s Lavine/Ken Burns prize tackle topics including female civil rights organizers and Jewish animators
The six projects that were selected are: James Sorrels’s “Area 2,” John Benitz’s “Behind the Lines,” Julia Greenberg and Dianna Dilworth’s “Dory Previn: On My Way to Where,” Norah Shapiro’s “Magic & Monsters,” Asaf Galay’s “Out of the Inkwell: The Greatest Story Never Told,” and Marlene McCurtis’ “Wednesdays in Mississippi.” This year’s jury is chaired by Hayden and composed of historians Dr. David G. Gutiérrez, professor Annette Gordon-Reed and Dr. Claudio Saunt; documentary filmmakers Julianna Brannum (“Homecoming”), Sam Pollard (“MLK/FBI”) and Betsy West (“RBG”); and Jacqueline Glover, executive director of Harvard University’s Black Film Project, who will review the six finalists and determine the top two. “Out of the Inkwell: The Greatest Story Never Told” Directed by Asaf GalayThe Fleischer brothers were a family of New York Jewish immigrants whose inventions helped create America’s animation industry.
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