Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(13)
Senna, which has already won the 2011 world cinema documentary audience award at Sundance film festival, may do what The Warrior could not.
The documentary audience award went to "My Flesh and Blood," Jonathan Karsh's film on the even-keeled Susan Tom and her noisy, happy brood of adopted disabled children; Mr. Karsh's work got him the directing award, too.
The US documentary audience award went to another controversial piece, Kirby Dick's The Invisible War, which exposes the high number of instances of rape and sexual assault in the US military.
In recent years Mr. Burns, whose patented blend of original photographs, celebrity readings and articulate historians has captivated the television documentary audience with programs like "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz," has suffered some setbacks.
"Dark Days" won the documentary audience award while "Two Family House," a period drama set in the 1950's Long Island from director Raymond DeFelitta that was presented in the festival's American Spectrum section and thus not eligible for jury prizes, won the dramatic audience award.
U.S. Documentary Audience Award.
Similar(47)
While it is not unusual for documentary audiences to identify most strongly with figures who seem familiar, Ms. Reid and Ms. Hoffmann hoped for more.
At this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it won the grand jury prize for best documentary, audiences focused on the story of Peter and Linda Biehl, Amy's parents and the film's only Americans.
Taken together, the Fassbinder and Columbine images are a good reminder that since 1970, when "The American Soldier" appeared, documentary audiences have had considerable practice reading surveillance and evidentiary images.
And though Mr. Fricke views the ambitious chronicles of "Samsara" as beyond documentary, audiences may approach that global tour with expectations molded by the flood of recent films that present Earth and its diversity as something in need of saving, not just gazing.
Mainstream documentary audiences tend to want investigations of known evils or a confirmation of decided heroes.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com