$200,000 ON THE TABLE FOR ONE DOCUMENTARY
The prize pays down the list: $50,000 for the runner-up and $25,000 each to the other four, so all six finalists leave with money.
🔴 $200,000 goes to one documentary. The other five finalists still get paid.
Deadline reports the Library of Congress, The Better Angels Society, Ken Burns and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation named six finalists on Monday for the eighth annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
The money breaks down like this. $200,000 to the winner. $50,000 to the runner-up. $25,000 each to the other four.
The underwriting comes from a gift by Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine through the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation. The prize was established in 2019 to back American history documentaries.
The six finalists: THE ANIMATED MIND OF OLIVER SACKS, directed by Dempsey Rice. BARRIO TELEVISION, on the Puerto Rican activists who launched "Realidades" in 1970s New York. THE DAY FREEDOM DIED, from Joseph Dorman and Kelly Williams, on the 1873 killings of more than 60 Black men in Colfax, Louisiana. ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, shot on 16mm by William Greaves at a 1972 gathering in Duke Ellington's townhouse and finished by his son David. ROMARE BEARDEN: A LIFE IN COLLAGE, from Deborah Riley Draper. ZENON AND THE REBEL BOATS, on the Puerto Rican fisherman who fought the U.S. Navy occupation of Vieques.
A national jury of filmmakers, historians and cultural leaders picked the shortlist. Acting Librarian of Congress Robert Newlen, in consultation with Ken Burns, chooses the winner and runner-up. The ceremony is October 22 in New York City.
Which of the six would you actually sit down and watch?
#documentary #kenburns #filmmoney #libraryofcongress #causeanuproar
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