Deadline on Monday launched the streaming website for its Contenders Movie: Documentary, spotlighting eight nonfiction movies within the awards-season highlight. The digital showcase came about Sunday.
This 12 months’s function documentaries included a wholesome cross-section of titles taking over subjects starting from politics and social justice to struggle, household, artwork and music, with creatives and their topics becoming a member of for panel conversations about their tasks.
Films on this 12 months’s lineup embrace Abramorama’s America’s Burning, with govt producer Michael Douglas becoming a member of the dialog; Amazon MGM Studios’ I Am: Celine Dion and Frida; Boat Rocker and Nameless Content material’s Warfare Recreation; DailyWire+’s Am I Racist?, the 12 months’s highest-grossing doc; Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies’ Sugarcane, Nexico’s The Final Journey, additionally Sweden’s official Oscar submission for Finest Worldwide Function; and Collectively Movies’ Mediha.
Along with the Oscar-winning Douglas, among the many panelists collaborating Sunday have been Warfare Recreation‘s Emmy-winning co-director Jesse Moss and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman, Matt Walsh from Am I Racist?, Swedish TV duo Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson with The Final Journey, Sugarcane director Emily Kassie and Julian Courageous NoiseCat, and Mediha topic Mediha Alhamad.
Sunday’s occasion comes after a trio of Deadline’s Contenders Movie occasions: Contenders Movie: London in October, the signature Contenders Movie: Los Angeles final month, and Saturday’s Contenders Movie: Worldwide, as we close to the Oscar shortlist unveiling December 17.