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Scripps Howard names top prize finalists, including AL.com’s ‘Mauled’ Updated Mar 09, 2021; Facebook Share Scripps Howard Awards has named finalists for its top journalism prizes, including AL.com. The list of three finalists for Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize, includes the series “Mauled: When Police Dogs Are Weapons.” The investigative series was the work of The Marshall Project, AL.com, The Indianapolis Star and Invisible Institute. The yearlong investigation was published in print and online by dozens of outlets...

Scripps Howard Awards honor best of 2020 journalism with finalists in 14 categories News provided by Share this article Share this article CINCINNATI, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Times and The Washington Post are the front-runners in the 68th Scripps Howard Awards, each with three entries selected as finalists for one of the media industry's most prestigious honors. The Awards, presented by the Scripps Howard Foundation and The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP), will award $160,000 in prize money for work across 14 categories and the coveted Impact Award. "Following a year th...

St. Vincent Meta-Documentary ‘The Nowhere Inn’ Acquired by IFC Films Film that premiered at Sundance in 2020 stars and was written by Annie Clark and Carrie BrownsteinBrian Welk | March 1, 2021 @ 3:50 PM Minka Farthing Kohl/Sundance IFC Films has acquired from Topic Studios the North American rights to “The Nowhere Inn,” the film starring, co-written by and centered on indie rock guitarist St. Vincent. Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, wrote the screenplay with “Portlandia” star and fellow musician Carrie Brownstein. The film is a genre-bending mockumentary of sorts that premiere...

Surf’s up at HBO with the announcement of 100 Foot Wave, a six-part sports doc series from filmmaker Chris Smith and executive producer Joe Lewis. The series follows the decade-long journey of world class surfer Garrett McNamara on his quest to surf a 100-foot wave. The odyssey takes McNamara, his wife Nicole and fellow surfers to the seaside village of Nazaré, Portugal, where locals have for centuries been in awe of the dangerous waters off their coast. Over the course of the six episodes, 100 Foot Wave weaves together the story of the seaside village that is transformed by McNamara and...

Passionate, personal and profoundly moving. TWITTER Writer-director Lucy Walker casts an immigrant's eye over California's catastrophic wildfires for this essayistic documentary. Bring Your Own Brigade isn't the first cinematic report on the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California, in 2018, or even the first one to screen at Sundance (Ron Howard's Rebuilding Paradise played at the festival in 2020). It almost certainly won't be the last film about the devastation wrought by uncontrolled wildfires, particularly in California, by a long shot. But it's probably the smartest, most interest...