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Doclands DocPitch 2024 Winners And Jury Awards Announced
Docpitch 2024 Winners And Jury Awards Revealed
Each project underscores the importance of DocPitch to bring a wide range of timely and significant topics to the public including the industry professional eye, and in turn enriches essential discussions through the process itself.” Selected by the Industry Jury, which this year consisted of Jim LeBrecht, Filmmaker and Co-Founder of FWD-Doc; Evan Neff, Documentary Fund Coordinator at Sundance Film Institute; Louie Psihoyos, Executive Director of Oceanic Preservation Society; and Diane Quon, Oscar-nominated Independent Producer presented the $40,000 Jury Award to directors Rodrigo Reyes and Dawn Valadez for their pressing project Untitled Lorena. The seven previous DocPitch Audience Award winners include Theo Rigby’s Sanctuary Rising(2017), now available online; James LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham’s 2020 Independent Spirit Award-winning documentary Crip Camp(2018), which Netflix acquired, and was nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 2020 Academy Awards; Chris Temple & Zach Ingrasci’s Five Years North(2019), which screened at DocLands 2020; Dianne Whelan’s 500 Days in the Wild(2020) scheduled for its US premiere at DocLands 2024; Maren Poitras’ Finding the Money(2021) is scheduled for a US theatrical release in May 2024; Alana Maiello’s Chewed Gum(2022) currently in production; and Kevin Truong’s Mai American(2023) currently in production.
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