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Gunda are a few of the films nominated for the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors.
Time (pictured), Bradley’s portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors, including outstanding feature, direction, editing, score and debut.
Both Nanau’s
Collective – about journalists who uncovered health care fraud in the wake of a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, in 2015 and Kossakovsky’s
Gunda which follows the daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken had four nominations and joined
Time in being nominated for best feature, direction and editing.
Today, feature-length documentary
Gunda is making its streaming debut. Created by Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky and executively produced by vegan actor Joaquin Phoenix, the black-and-white documentary zeros in on the life of mother pig Gunda and her piglets, telling their family story without narration or music. The family along with a one-legged chicken and free-roaming cows does not live on a factory farm but rather in an open barn in Norway. Throughout
Gunda, Kossakovsky offers a long, intimate look at the animals as they develop relationships and interact with their surroundings. While Kossakovsky does not depict the family’s ultimate fate in a gruesome matter, the viewer is made acutely aware that these intelligent beings are slaughtered for food except for Gunda, who is spared due to her celebrity status after the film’s release. “But Gunda, she became so famous … so many people stopped eating meat (due to the film) that the owner of the farm decided she will