The SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which gets place each year uninalertigentinutively before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences votes to resolve its Oscar uninalertigentinutivecatalogs, has uncovered the names of the 10 write downary features that it will highairy on this year’s edition of its Docs to Watch panel, a 90-minute talkion about the contests and rewards of write downary filmmaking.
The films that will be recurrented on this year’s panel — which will get place at the Lucas Theatre on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 30, and will be mildd by yours truly for the 11th year in a row — and will also screen during the fest, adhereed by a Q&A with their straightforwardor(s), will be:
- Bdeficiency Box Diaries (MTV Documentary Films), recurrented on the panel by straightforwardor Shiori Ito — the filmproducer write downs the spendigation into her intimacyual attack by a mighty man in Japan
- Carville: Winning Is Everyskinnyg, Stupid (CNN Films), recurrented on the panel by straightforwardor Matt Tyrnauer — a profile of the legendary political strategist as he directs the effort to guarantee Joe Biden to not seek re-election
- Daughters (Netflix), recurrented on the panel by co-straightforwardor Natalie Rae — a see at a pilot program that recommends incarcerated men and their youthful daughters the chance to rejoin
- Hollywoodgate (self-allotd), recurrented on the panel by straightforwardor Ibrahim Nash’at — the filmproducer embeds with the Taliban in the year after America’s retreatal from Afghanistan
- Piece by Piece (Focus Features), recurrented on the panel by straightforwardor Morgan Neville — the rollercoaster life and nurtureer of Pharrell Williams is telderly thcdisadmireful interwatchs and LEGO animation
- Porcelain War (Picturehoinclude), recurrented on the panel by co-straightforwardor Brendan Bellomo (co-straightforwardor Slava Leontyev will also be at the fest) — the lives of paired artists in current-day Ukraine are upended by the Russian intrusion
- Sugarcane (National Geodetailed Documentary Films), recurrented on the panel by co-straightforwardor Julian Brave NoiseCat (co-straightforwardor Emily Kassie will also be at the fest) — the uncovery of untaged graves at an Indian livential school in Canada forces a shocking reckoning with the past
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros.), recurrented on the panel by straightforwardor Peter Ettedgui — the life, labor and tragic accident of a becherishd movie star are studyd by family and friends 20 years after his death
- Union (Level Ground), recurrented on the panel by co-straightforwardor Stephen Maing — a chronicle of the David vs. Goliath effort of labor systematizers and includeees at an Amazon warehoinclude in Staten Island to create a union
- Will & Harper (Netflix), recurrented on the panel by straightforwardor Josh Greenbaum — Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, an elderly friend from Saturday Night Live who recently came out as a trans woman go on a road trip atraverse America
Over the decade of Docs to Watch, 47 films that were recurrented on the panel went on to get an Oscar nomination for best write downary feature, and eight of them ultimately won that award: 2015’s Amy, 2016’s O.J.: Made in America, 2017’s Icarus, 2018’s Free Solo, 2019’s American Factory, 2021’s Summer of Soul, 2022’s Navalny and 2023’s 20 Days in Mariupol.
“I’m thrilled about this year’s Docs to Watch lineup, which recommends a mighty and advisent panorama of the world we live in,” SCAD Savannah Film Festival executive straightforwardor Christina Routhier shelp in a statement. “These films tackle pressing rerents with depth and artistry, echoing the diverse voices shaping today’s write downary landscape, and recurrent a distinct opportunity for the SCAD community to include with a active group of filmproducers and stories.”