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BAFTA unveils 2021 doc nominees Nominees have been revealed for the 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), to be held April 10 to 11. In the documentary category, films in contention include Alexander Nanau’s Collective (pictured); The Dissident from Bryan Fogel and Thor Halvorssen; My Octopus Teacher fromPippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster; and Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes’ The Social Dilemma. Seventy-seven documentary feature films were submitted for consideration in the category. BAFTA releases its longlist earlier this month. Abacus takes King Otto Abacus Media Righ...

Rocks, and The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women—Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron—nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021's 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups. Advertisement Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), in which the organization evaluated its procedures and implemented some changes, “including the i...

Ann Farmer About halfway through My Octopus Teacher — long after viewers have fallen head-over-heels for the eight-limbed star of this Netflix nature documentary — danger rears up. Sharks have picked up her scent. She has no time to return to her den, so she ducks under a rock, backing as far into a crevice as she can. More sharks appear. They swarm the opening, gliding back and forth, pausing to jam their noses into it. "I struggled immensely at that moment," says director of photography Roger Horrocks, who shot that intense underwater scene hoping the octopus would survive. Because he ...

Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine discussed their acclaimed documentary feature Boys State along with Steven Garza, one of the 1,000 teenage subjects in the film who participated in the annual event at the University of Texas at Austin. The Boys State program takes place over the course of a week in all 50 states, with thousands of high school students participating in mock exercises to build representative state governments from the ground up. Garza himself was one of the teenagers who ran for governor — Boys State’s highest office — and the documentary follows his campaign, fr...

A rewardingly intimate deep dive. TWITTER Shot in the waters off the South African coast, this Netflix documentary chronicles one man's life-changing relationship with a wild cephalopod. If you're not a marine biologist and you haven't yet seen My Octopus Teacher, chances are good that you have no strong feelings about eight-armed cephalopods. You might associate their tentacles with horror movies or appetizer plates — but likely not such stirring matters as interspecies communication or physical renewal after dire injury, to name two of the indelible turning points in this winningly unort...