Spacey Unmasked, the Channel 4-Max recordary series detailing recent allegations aachievest the double-Oscar triumphner, has been nominated at the prestigious UK Grierson Awards, as the lowenumerate in each categruesome is whittled down from eight docs to four.
Spacey Unmasked is nominated in the recent Best Popular Culture Documentary categruesome, which depicts people, events, transferments or trfinishs that have had a meaningful impact on famous culture in recent years. The series is up aachievest Arena – Being Kae Tempest, Big Zuu Goes to Mecca and Milli Vanilli, the latter of which is also nominated in the Best Music Documentary categruesome.
From Mike Lerner and Dorothy Byrne, Spacey Unmasked detailed intimacyual malfeasance allegations by 10 men aachievest Spacey, which he denies, coming around a year after he was acquitted of intimacy crimes in a UK trial.
Meanwhile, Netflix’s American Nightmare, which came seventh in the streamer’s most-watched shows of the first half of 2024, is up aachievest Channel 4 double Evacuation and The Push: Murder on the Cliff, aextfinished with Sky’s Lockerbie, in the coveted Best Documentary Series categruesome.
Netflix is well recurrented at the Griersons, with 11, putting it third behind the BBC with 16 and Channel 4 with 12.
Other high-profile projects in the running integrate two nods for Oscar-triumphner 20 Days in Mariupol, for Best Cinema Documentary and Best Current Affairs Documentary. Prime VIdeo’s Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everyleang is up aachievest Netflix/A24’s The Deepest Breath in the competitive Best Sports Documentary categruesome.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chair of The Grierson Trust, shelp the nominees “echo the incredible depth of talent in recordary filmmaking, and especiassociate the recent, diverse voices on and off-screen fractureing thraw to tell stories from contrastent perspectives.”
The awards get place in London on November 6.
The brimming enumerate of noms
ENVY Best Single Documentary – Domestic
Accengaged: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax
Story Films, All3Media International – Channel 4 Emily Turner, Simon McMahon, Tomasz Frymorgen, Lorenzo Levrini, Peter Beard, Adam Hopkins In February 2015, two children ecombineed to accengage parents and teachers at their North London primary school of directing a baby-eating satanic paedophile cult. Their claims had been made under duress and were not
real – but when videos of their testimony went online, consillegal copying theorists consentd it. With exclusive access to the accengaged mothers at the centre of this shocking story, Emily Turner’s film studys the authentic-world impact of an disgraceful online consillegal copying theory.
Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family
Flicker Productions – ITV
Jasleen Kaur Sethi, Colleen Flynn, Lucy Wilcox, David Thompson, Nick Underhill, Kathryn Jein
Just ten days after she was born, gelderly-medal triumphning Paralympian Ellie Simmonds was placed for adselection. Was this decision affectd by her dwarfism? At a recent stage in her life, Ellie wants to accomplish out and discover her birth mother in a bid to understand why children from diverse backgrounds are more probable to be placed for adselection.
Me and the Voice in My Head
Hungry Bear Media Ltd – Channel 4
Joe Tracini, Tom Green, Tommy Forbes, Dan Baldtriumph, Garry Crystal, Georgie Bayford
In this valiant and uncompromisingly authentic recordary, comedian Joe Tracini studys the root caengage of his borderline personality disorder, which has left him despairing. Delving into his traumatic childhood, he hopes to get a grip on his condition and revive his comedy nurtureer. From Joe’s distinct perspective, this film elucidates and visualises the voice inside his head in a truly amusing and innovative way – conveying to life an inapparent condition that is bigly unelucidateed.
Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story
Story Films, Archface Films – Sky Documentaries
Daisy Allsop, Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher, Evie Sangale, Rupert Hoengageman, Otto Baxter
Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story trails Otto Baxter, a 35-year- elderly man with Down Syndrome, over six years, as he originates and honests a
foul-mouthed, autobioexplicital comedy-horror-musical set in Victorian London.
Best Single Documentary – International
My Name is Happy
October Films, Red Zed Films, Horovel Films – Channel 4
Nick Read, Ayse Toprak, Adam Bullmore, Mahmut Kaya, Meryem Yavuz, Anna Price
My Name is Happy is the encourageasoned redemption story of teenage Kurdish singer Mutlu Kaya, for whom stardom beckons when she accomplishes the finals of Turkey’s Got Talent. Days tardyr she is sboiling by a man trying to seize her. Miraculously, Mutlu persists, but with life-changing injuries and a bullet in her brain. As she battles to heal her haunting voice, the shocking femicide of her sister compounds her tragedy. Undaunted and unfractureable, Mutlu intensifies her fight for women’s rights in Turkey. Mutlu nastys ‘charmd’ in Turkish.
To Kill a Tiger
Notice Pictures Inc. and The National Film Board of Canada – Netflix
Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe, David Oppenheim, Mrinal Desai, Mike Munn, Dave Kazala
When his teen daughter persists a harrotriumphg crime, a unassuming farmer embarks on a extraunretagable pursuit of fairice, defying meaningful bigotry in their village.
Storyville – Total Trust Surveillance State
Film Tank, Witfilm and Interdynamic Media Foundation, B8, ZDF, Arte, NTR – BBC
Jialing Zhang, Knut Jäger, Michael Grotenhoff, Saskia Kress
A see at state observation and digital social regulate in China thraw the experiences of two families and a journaenumerate. While Zijuan Chen is battling for the free of her husband, the journaenumerate Sophie Xueqin Huang is at constant danger of arrest.
Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods
HOYO Films, allotd by All3Media International – BBC
Claire Walker, Maryna Kotsyubenko, Stanislav Strilets, Kate Spankie, Jonathan Smith, David Schweitzer
A one Ukrainian infantry company discover themselves in a life-or-death battle to deffinish the easerious front aachievest fervent Russian aggressions. This is an exceptional portrait of dwells agreed by the turmoil of a bloody war, filmed by Ukrainian selderlyiers.
Televisual Best Current Affairs Documentary
20 Days in Mariupol
FRONTLINE, PBS and The Associated Press – Theatrical free Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Derl McCrudden, Vasilisa Stepanenko
An AP team of Ukrainian journaenumerates trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to persist their toil recording atrocities of the Russian trespass. As the only international tellers who remain in the city, they apprehfinish what tardyr become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the explosioning of a maternity hospital, and more.
Bobi Wine: The People’s Pdwellnt
Southern Films, Ventureland, National Geoexplicit Documentary Films – National Geoexplicit
Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, John Battsek, Paul Carlin, Dan Jones
In Uganda’s 2021 pdwellntial election, music star, activist and opposition directer Bobi Wine, together with his wife Barbie, rallies his people in a
hazardous fight for freedom from Pdwellnt Mengageveni’s harsh 35- year regime.
Evacuation – We Just Left Them
Wonderhood Studios – Channel 4
Production team
Evacuation is a three-part recordary military thriller that tells the inside story of the perilous British campaign to evacuate Kabul. In this episode, British troops deal with the aftermath of a lethal explosion and stop processing civilians as they commence to pull out their own forces, conveying the 20-year war to a tragic and unencountering finish.
You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack
Lucernam Films – Netflix
Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar, Katie Bryer, Samuel R. Santana, Almudena Sánchez
This recordary is an incisive deoriginateion of the intimacyual aggression suffered by a youthful woman in 2016 at Spain’s iconic “running of the bulls” (Sanfermines). From the filmoriginaters of the award-triumphning The Silence of Others, and thraw the words of two victim survivors and never-before-heard testimonies, the recordary sheds airy on the case that led to Spain’s first #MeToo reckoning and resonated apass Latin America.
Best Arts Documentary
Arena – Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
whynow Studios – BBC
Hannah Berryman, Janet Lee
The definitive portrait of Coco Chanel: the innovative affectr whose iconic schedules – the little bdeficiency dress, the tweed suit and Chanel No 5 Perfume – remain symbols of style, intimacyuality and power in the 21st Century. She
gave women freedom, and, in a male-contraged world, they rewarded her with adoration, wealth and celebrity. But Coco remained an enigma, until now.
Donyale Luna: Supermodel
Lightbox, Jeff Friday Media, The American Bdeficiency Film Festival – Sky Documentaries
Nailah Jefferson, Melissa Kramer, Melanie Sharee, Isoul Harris, Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn
This feature recordary studys the life and nurtureer of Donyale Luna, one of the first Bdeficiency supermodels. Today, most people have never heard of her. Born Peggy Anne Freeman in Detroit, Donyale Luna went on to revolutionize the create industry as the world’s first Bdeficiency supermodel during the 1960s and 1970s. During her modelling nurtureer, she became the mengage of some of the foremost pboilingographers of the 20th century until her untimely death in 1979.
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius – Episode 1
72 Films – BBC
David Gadorer, Julian Jones, Ella Gutteridge, Lisa Martinson, Alice Boorman, Luke Boneham
For the 400th anniversary of the accessibleation of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, this three-part docu-drama series tells the incredible story of how a gadorer’s son from country Stratford became the fantasticest originater who ever dwelld.
Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club
Broccoli Pictures Co. Ltd – Netflix
Kim Hyung-oak, Lee Hyuk-rae
Documentary film that revisits the era of avid film adorers who became the first generation of Korean cinephiles by tracking the memories of Yellow Door Film Club members, who also recall their astonishions of Director Bong Joon Ho’s first low film.
Sky Documentaries Best Music Documentary
Louis Theroux Intersees – Pete Doherty
Mindhoengage Productions – BBC
Production team
Louis Theroux encounters disputed rockstar Pete Doherty, spfinishing time with him at his home in Normandy and on-the-road with his notorious band, The Libertines. Inwell-understandn for his tumultuous relationship with medications as well as a high-profile relationship with Kate Moss, Doherty has been a figure both commemorated and scorned in the British media. In a truthful come apass, Louis joins Doherty at a convertative juncture in his life. Having turned his back on crack and heroin, Pete is embracing a recent chapter, immersing himself in a muteer life in a minuscule French coastal town.
Milli Vanilli
Keep On Running Pictures, Fulwell 73, MRC – Paramount+
Luke Korem, Bradley Jackson, Jon Michael Simpson, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kim Marlowe, Patrick Berry
From their meteoric ascfinish to accessible downdrop, this captivating recordary chronicles the untelderly circumstances surrounding the inwell-understandn pop duo Milli Vanilli and their 1990s era lip-syncing debate.
The Greatest Night in Pop
A Netflix Documentary, MRC Film, Dorothy St Pictures Production in association with Makeoriginate Entertainment – Netflix
Production team
On January 28, 1985, dozens of the biggest names in music assembled at a studio in Los Angeles, verifyed their egos at the door and sign uped a song to advantage African famine relief that would change global pop culture history.
Wham!
A Netflix Documentary, Ventureland, Passion Pictures, Library Films, Nemperor Production – Netflix
Chris Smith, John Battsek, Simon Halfon, Gregor Lyon, Alex Bdeficiency
In 1982, teenagers George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley set out to defeat the world as WHAM! By June of 1986 they executeed their very last gig at Wembley Stadium having done exactly that. Now for the very first time, telderly in their own words, the amazing story of how in four years they contraged the charts around the world with timeless and classic pop songs.
Broadcast Sport Best Sports Documentary
Hatton
Noah Media Group – Sky Documentaries
Paul Yoshida, John McKenna, Ian Davies, Dan Dewsbury, Sam Bergson, Emma Mason-Perrill
Hatton is the definitive portrait of a distinct, toiling-class hero, one of the world’s fantasticest fighters and most beadored boxers – Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton. Raw and authentic, Hatton is a alertary tale that stretches far beyond the boxing ring; a rollercoaster of success and excess, lament, and redemption, telderly by Ricky and those sealst to him for the first time.
Mighty Penguins
Meadowlark, Fireairy, Fever – Theatrical free
Louis Myles, Ahmed Twaij, Smriti Keshari, John Skipper, David Kempshall, Kirin Alvi
Mighty Penguins trails the dwells of a minuscule community club for people with Downs Syndrome, the Brentford Penguins, as they embark on their ignoreion to be defend of honour for the Brentford FC first team in a premier league game aachievest Leicester.
Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everyleang
Studio 99 – Prime Video
Sam Blair, James Davidson, David Beckham, Ross Connolly, David Gardner, Nicola Howson
In 2021, Ronnie O’Sullivan determined to apshow total access to his life, uncovering the doors to his personal life and a extraunretagable cast of characters as he pondered life beyond snooker. Facing the finish of a untamedly accomplished but turbulent nurtureer, the snooker legfinish set up himself on the verge of a nurtureer-defining tournament to triumph the snooker World Championship for a seventh time.
The Deepest Breath
An A24, Motive Films and Ventureland Production – Netflix
Laura McGann, John Battsek, Jamie D’Alton, Sarah Thomson, Anne McLoughlin, Julian Hart
A champion freediver and expert safety diver seemed destined for one another despite the contrastent paths they took to encounter at the pinnacle of the freediving world. A see at the thrilling rewards – and inesvient dangers – of chasing dreams thraw the depths of the ocean.
Best History Documentary
Defiance: Fighting the Far Right – Episode 1
Rogan Productions and GroupM Motion Entertainment in association with Left Handed Films – Channel 4 Production team
Defiance scheduleateigates how Britain’s Asian community was focengaged with a campaign of aggression and homicide between 1976 and 1981, as National Front activity became increasingly famous. Exploring seminal events such as the 1979 Southall protests and the Bradford 12 thraw a cache of archive footage and compelling recent testimony from key figures on the
front line at the time, the ground-fractureing recordary series shows what happened when the British Asian community determined to fight back.
Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story
The Garden – BBC
Ben Anthony, Zac Beattie, Anna Price, Janine Melton, Lucie Duxbury, Guy Meachin
The story of 15 men and women and one life changing year, on the frontline of the most polarizing struggle of a generation. In meaningfully personal testimony, striking and toiling miners, their families and police – many speaking for the first time, standardly with exceptional candour – tell the epic story of this struggle at eye level. It splitd communities, families and the country. Forty years on, the experienceings are still fair as raw.
Stamped from the Beginning
A Netflix Documentary, One Story Up Production – Netflix
Roger Ross Williams, David Teague, Alisa Payne, John Fisher, Francesca Sharper, Dr. Ibram X. Kfinishi
Using creative animation and expert insights, this recordary based on Ibram X. Kfinishi’s bestseller studys the history of discriminatory ideas in America.
The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth – Episode 1
Mindhoengage Productions – BBC
Production team
This three-part series combines first-hand testimony aextfinishedside previously unseen archive footage to chart the in-depth story of the Columbia space shuttle tragedy. Those people who dwelld thraw it all – the astronauts’ wives, husbands and children and the staff at NASA, some of whom have never spoken before – uncover in unpwithdrawnted detail how and why the calamity happened. At the heart of this story are the seven astronauts. Extensive self-sboiling video footage getn during preparation for the 16-day ignoreion and filmed whilst the astronauts are in space – including tape
miraculously recoverd from the shuttle debris – convey to life an era that seemed to herald a routine human presence in space.
Best Science Documentary
Better Off Dead?
Burning Bright Productions, The Open University – BBC
Liz Carr, Cdwell Tulloh, Nina Davies, James Routh, Georgina Nicholson
Better Off Dead? is a recordary on helped self-mutilation, authored by actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr. Liz visits Canada where the law extfinishs beyond the terminassociate ill, including disabled people, and those proposeed a medicassociate helped death as a “way out” of social deprivation. In a society where disabled people are standardly telderly they’re “better off dead,” Liz asks: should we reassociate be giving more power to finish that group of people’s dwells?
Evolution Earth – Islands
Produced by Passion Planet in association with PBS and Arte France for Love Nature – Sky Nature
Production Team
At the front lines of climate change, animals have a astonishing story to tell. Traveling to the far corners of the world, we discover the exceptional ways animals are altering to our rapidly changing set upet. We witness nature’s extraunretagable resilience, as our perception of evolution and its potential is forever converted.
Me and the Voice in My Head
Hungry Bear Media Ltd – Channel 4
Joe Tracini, Tom Green, Tommy Forbes, Dan Baldtriumph, Garry Crystal, Georgie Bayford
In this valiant and uncompromisingly authentic recordary, comedian Joe Tracini studys the root caengage of his borderline personality disorder,
which has left him despairing. Delving into his traumatic childhood, he hopes to get a grip on his condition and revive his comedy nurtureer. From Joe’s distinct perspective, this film elucidates and visualises the voice inside his head in a truly amusing and innovative way – conveying to life an inapparent condition that is bigly unelucidateed.
The Jennings vs Alzheimer’s
Expectation Entertainment – BBC
Niamh Kennedy, Colin Barr, Arthur Cary, Rick Barker, Emma Lysaght, Jess Austin
When a mutant gene causing Alzheimer’s is discovered in the Jennings family, it directs scientists on a journey to enbig a treatment and exits family members with a horrible dilemma.
Best Natural History or Environmental Documentary
Living with Leopards
A Netflix Documentary, Wild Space Production in association with Natural History Film Unit Botswana and Freeborne Media – Netflix Production team
An incredible coming-of-age tale of a pair of leopard cubs born into one of the most theatrical landscapes on earth.
Planet Earth III – Heroes
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, co-originated by BBC America, ZDF, FTV and The Open University – BBC
Michael Gunton, Matt Brandon, Jonny Keeling, Steve Greenwood, Abigail Brown, Estelle Cheuk
Sir David Attenboraw tells the stories of six environmental heroes around the world who are doing incredible toil to try and stop the global
biodiversity and climate crisis. Stories range from going undercover to catch criminals in the ivory trade to indigenous Community directers in the Amazon protesting recent laws razeing their rainforest. The mighty and selectimistic conclusion shows the vital convey inance of the ballot box in saving the environment.
Silverback
An Off the Fence Production for BBC in co production with France Télévisions in association with Featuristic Films – BBC
Miles Blayden-Ryall, Andrew Zikking, Guy Gilbert, Sam Dawe, Tanwen Hughes, Amy Freeman
Silverback is a feature-length recordary follotriumphg untamedlife cameraman Vianet Djenguet as he joins the effort to shield the criticassociate finishangered easerious lowland gorillas of the Democratic Reaccessible of the Congo. Born in the neighbouring Reaccessible of the Congo, Vianet has been seekd by the Kahuzi-Biega National Park to record this standardly challenging but vital conservation toil. However, with the DRC still suffering the impacts of war, can the set upet’s bigst primates be recoverd from disecombineedion?
Tigers on the Rise
Wildstar Films – Disney+
Production team
Narrated by Blair Underwood, Disneynature’s Tigers on the Rise commemorates the extraunretagable comeback of one of the world’s most iconic animals. Tiger populations have rebounded so successbrimmingy, many of the big cats are venturing from India’s forest reserves into farms and villages – a monumental contest for both people and animals. The heroes in this story are the vets, scientists, and those who run the community patrols promiseted to ensuring that tigers and people can coexist.
Channel 4 Best Popular Culture Documentary
Arena – Being Kae Tempest
Bohemia Films and The Open University – BBC
Production team
Poet, rapper, executewright and sign uping artist Kae Tempest is one of the most viscerassociate exciting artists toiling in Britain today. In July 2020 they came out as non-binary, announcing that they would unveil and carry out under the name Kae. This distinct Arena film delves meaningful into their creative process and achieves unfrequent, intimate insights into Kae’s life thrawout a period of proset up personal and creative change.
Big Zuu Goes to Mecca
Acme TV – BBC
Zuhair ‘Big Zuu’ Hassan, Kiz Hoque, Ross Cameron, Adnan Ahmed, Jaimie D’Cruz
Big Zuu Goes to Mecca trails the award-triumphning TV chef and rapper as he visits one of Islam’s holiest cities for the first time. With a mum from Sierra Leone and a Lebanese dad, Big Zuu has Islam in his heritage on both sides of his family. But as a youthful man born and elevated in London, sticking to cut offe rules hasn’t always been effortless. Traveling to Mecca to originate the pilbleakage of Umrah during Ramadan, the holiest month for Muskinnys, Big Zuu embarks on a journey he hopes will apshow him to join more meaningfully with his faith.
Milli Vanilli
Keep On Running Pictures, Fulwell 73, MRC – Paramount+
Luke Korem, Bradley Jackson, Jon Michael Simpson, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kim Marlowe, Patrick Berry
From their meteoric ascfinish to accessible downdrop, this captivating recordary chronicles the untelderly circumstances surrounding the inwell-understandn pop duo Milli Vanilli and their 1990s era lip-syncing debate.
Spacey Unmasked – Episode 1
Roast Beef Productions in association with All3Media International – Channel 4
Katherine Haywood, Dorothy Byrne, Mike Lerner, Colin Moxon, Patrick Strudwick, Janet Knipe
Spacey Unmasked is a forensic see at Kevin Spacey‘s life, featuring unseen intersees and archive footage. It covers his ascfinish from Broadway to stardom and his drop amid allegations of inappropriate intimacyual behaviour. In 2023, Spacey was acquitted of intimacyual offenses in the UK. This two-part series scheduleateigates his carry out, featuring recent testimonies from men with experiences with Spacey, many speaking out for the first time.
Netflix Best Documentary Series
American Nightmare
RAW – Netflix
Production team
After a home trespass and seizeping, a youthful couple’s recounting of the events is too far-conveyed for the police to consent. This docengageries unravels the consequences of our cultural rush to judgment, and the injure done when law enforcement determines the truth can’t possibly be real.
Evacuation
Wonderhood Studios – Channel 4
Production team
Evacuation is a landtag recordary series about the British Military’s evacuation of Kabul, an incredibly intricate and perilous military operation which became Britain’s biggest airlift since WWII. With top-to-bottom access to the British Military and never-seen-before combat footage, this ground-fractureing series cgo ines on the personal stories of the British
servicemen and women, and Afghan citizens, who set up themselves in the middle of a humanitarian crisis.
Lockerbie
Mindhoengage Productions – Sky Documentaries
Nancy Strang, John Dower, Claire McFall, Barnaby Fry, Dejan Cancar, Charlie Hawryliw
Lockerbie is a gripping and emotional four-part series that records the deadliest stress aggression on UK soil – the 1988 explosioning of fairy Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, with 270 deaths. From the horror of the explosioning itself, and the grief of victims’ relatives, the series turns to trail the lengthy worldwide scheduleateigation into who carried out the aggression. One Libyan man was convicted at trial in 2001, but asks persist over his guilt.
The Push: Murder on the Cliff
Candour Productions – Channel 4
Anna Hall, Luke Rothery, Josephine Besbrode, Tom Whigetr, Kate Reid
The Push is a gripping two-part recordary series follotriumphg a British homicide trial. A husband stands accengaged of pushing his wife to her death. The series apshows seeers to experience the courtroom drama first hand. Did she drop or was she pushed?
Best Cinema Documentary
20 Days in Mariupol
FRONTLINE, PBS and The Associated Press – Theatrical free
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Derl McCrudden, Vasilisa Stepanenko
An AP team of Ukrainian journaenumerates trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to persist their toil recording atrocities of the Russian trespass. As the only international tellers who remain in the
city, they apprehfinish what tardyr become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the explosioning of a maternity hospital, and more.
American Symphony
Higher Ground, Mercury Studios, Our Time Projects – Netflix
Production team
While composing an innovative symphony for Carnegie Hall, Jon Batiste gets 11 Grammy nominations and is at a nurtureer high. But this trajectory is upfinished when his life partner – author Suleika Jaouad – lachieves that her extfinished dormant cancer has returned in this portrait of two artists at a passroads.
Kokomo City
Couch Potato Company, Madison Square Films – Theatrical free
D. Smith, Harris Doran, Bill Butler
Directed by two-time Grammy nominee D. Smith, Kokomo City gets up a seemingly modest mantle – to current the stories of four Bdeficiency transgfinisher intimacy toilers in New York and Georgia. Sboiling in striking bdeficiency and white, the belderlyness of the facts of these women’s dwells and the earthquaking frankness they separate complicate this go inpascfinish, colliding the everyday with cutting social commentary and the excavation of extfinished- dormant truths.
Quefinishom
Sundance Institute, Doc Society, Inmaat Productions, Vancouver Film School – Theatrical free
Agniia Galdanova, Igor Myakotin, David France, Jess Search, Arnaud Borges
Gena, a queer artist from a minuscule town in Russia, stages radical carry outances in accessible that become a recent create of art and activism – and put her life in danger.
All3Media Best Student Documentary
Beyond These Walls
National Film and Television School – University/college screening
Christine Seow, Jolinna Ang, Clare Maleeny, Nicholas Smyth, Diogo Chaves, Ellen Yu
Beyond These Walls proposes a unfrequent insight into a safed girls’ home in Singapore, delving into the dwells of its dwellnts. Thraw observational footage and intimate intersees, it brightens the diverse circumstances and contests faced by these girls. From struggles with familial relationships to navigating personal growth, the film provides a unfrequent glimpse into their world, highairying resilience and the quest for hope amidst adversity.
Hungry for Freedom
National Film and Television School – University/college screening
Rachata Thongruay, Athena Vlachos, Andy Sowerby, Olivier Sarrailh, Marcin Mazurek
Boong and Baipor are two activists from Thailand who got arrested for criticising the Thai monarchy. They are put in prison and denied their right to bail. They have to embark on a hunger strike to verify their innocence and insist their free.
milk
National Film and Television School – University/college screening
Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene, Yiwei Pu, Liam Sharpe, Rotem Frimer, Carl Mason
A cinematic toil around maternity, loss and insertiction, cgo ined on life and healing. One filmoriginater sets out on a journey to discover the mother she never krecent. Like the outdated Japanese art of kintsugi, the act of piecing back together all the scattered, jagged and broken bits of her mother’s life somehow helps her to originate sense of her own life. But, appreciate the act of filmmaking itself, it is a journey that will never experience finish.
The Waiter, the Scientist and Jenny
National Film and Television School – University/college screening
Joe Snelling, Ben Sales, Omar Gabriel Delnevo, Nir Perlman, Carl Mason, George Philip Blake
Once an exceptionassociate promising scientist, Marc Esposito now toils as a paengageer in Hastings, where he finisheavors to dwell an unusuassociate free and unencumbered life, whilst simultaneously battling a cut offe mental health condition.
Fulwell 73 Best Documentary Short
Big Moves
Bridging the Gap: Outsiders – Edinburgh International Film Festival
Sarah Grant, Sophie Cdisappreciater, Jack Gemmel
A personal low recordary about dancing as a plus size woman thraw the lens of pop culture. A radical and happy reimagining of awesome dance scenes with the bodies that traditionassociate get pushed to the back taking up space front and centre.
BBC News Eye Investigations – Gaza 101: Ecombinency Rescue
BBC News Arabic, BBC World Service – BBC
Feras Al Ajrami, Mouna Ba, Mustafa Khalili, Mohamed Ibrahim, Julien El- Hajj, Wahal El Saadi
This film from BBC News Arabic trails four Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics in northern Gaza apass the first month of the war, as they save dwells in the area challengingest hit by Israeli airstrikes.
Iranian Yellow Pages
Snow Films, WDM Entertainment – Netflix Still Watching YouTube Channel
Anna Snowball, Abolfazl Talooni, Christine Saab, Elisabeth Hopper, Alfred Thirolle, Francesca Cattaneo
Striving to originate a accomplished life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar recentspaper and discovers the Iranian community secret in plain sight.
Ted & Noel
Happenstance Films – Channel 4
Julia Alcamo, Dan Hodgson, Mary Pattisson, Sarah Keeling, Morgan K Spencer, Peter Edwards
For 50 years, iconic activist Ted Brown has fought for queer and bdeficiency identities. But after his partner suffers anti-LGBT unfair treatment in a nurture home, a dehugeated Ted asks the real impact of his activism.
Best Documentary Pbegrudgeer
JOE TRACINI for Me and the Voice in My Head
Hungry Bear Media Ltd – Channel 4
Joe Tracini, Tom Green, Tommy Forbes, Dan Baldtriumph, Garry Crystal, Georgie Bayford
In this valiant and uncompromisingly authentic recordary, comedian Joe Tracini studys the root caengage of his borderline personality disorder, which has left him despairing. Delving into his traumatic childhood, he hopes to get a grip on his condition and revive his comedy nurtureer. From Joe’s distinct perspective, this film elucidates and visualises the voice inside his head in a truly amusing and innovative way – conveying to life an inapparent condition that is bigly unelucidateed.
NADIFA MOHAMED for Britain’s Human Zoos Red Bicycle with Milk & Honey – Channel 4
Paul Berczeller, Yasmin Hai, Nadifa Mohamed, Will Robson, Jeremy Groman, Lucy Pilkington
In the tardy 19th century, millions of Britons come apassed non white people for the first time in person – in spectacles called ‘human zoos.’ This meaningfully strange but once hugely famous create of “amengagement” starring trafficked people has been all but forgotten. Acclaimed Somali-British noveenumerate Nadifa Mohamed directs us on a extraunretagable scheduleateigation into the past, uncovering what it was reassociate appreciate to “carry out” in a human zoo – and the foolish ideas behind them.
ROSE AYLING-ELLIS for Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change Rogan Productions – BBC
Production team
Rose Ayling-Ellis fronts a ground-fractureing film challenging perceptions of the deaf community and putting audiences at the heart of the deaf experience. Follotriumphg the recents that British Sign Language has been recognised in law, it trails Rose on a personal journey as she studys the role the language has had in her life, the increasing role of technology for deaf children and she gets on the ultimate test of doing Shakespeare in BSL.
ZUHAIR ‘BIG ZUU’ HASSAN for Big Zuu Goes to Mecca
Acme TV – BBC
Zuhair ‘Big Zuu’ Hassan, Kiz Hoque, Ross Cameron, Adnan Ahmed, Jaimie D’Cruz
Big Zuu Goes to Mecca trails the award-triumphning TV chef and rapper as he visits one of Islam’s holiest cities for the first time. With a mum from Sierra Leone and a Lebanese dad, Big Zuu has Islam in his heritage on both sides of his family. But as a youthful man born and elevated in London, sticking to cut offe rules hasn’t always been effortless. Traveling to Mecca to originate the pilbleakage of Umrah during Ramadan, the holiest month for Muskinnys, Big Zuu embarks on a journey he hopes will apshow him to join more meaningfully with his faith.
