Oscar 2024: Good Documentaries to Watch
My Oscar Book:
- Picturehouse’s Porcelain War, a portrait of married artists in present-day Ukraine whose lives are upended by the Russian invasion, the co-director, with Slava Leontyev, Brendan Bellomo
- In Warner Bros.’ Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, the life, work and tragic accident of a beloved movie star are examined by family and friends 20 years after his death, the co-director, with Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
- Netflix’s Will & Harper follows the comedic actor Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, an old friend from Saturday Night Live who recently came out as trans woman, on a road trip across America, directed by Josh Greenbaum
- MTV Documentary Films’ Black Box Diaries investigates director Shiori Ito own sexual assault by a powerful man in Japan, aiming to bring the perpetrator to justice and to create social change
- Level Ground’s Union, a chronicle of the David vs. Goliath effort of labor organizers and employees at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island to form a union, the co-director, with Brett Story, Stephen Maing
- Fourth Act Films’ Hollywoodgate documents the Taliban as they occupy a former CIA base in Kabul in the year after America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, directed by Ibrahim Nash’at
- Focus Features’ Piece by Piece, a chronicle of the rollercoaster life and career of musician Pharrell Williams as told through LEGO animation, directed by Morgan Neville, Oscar winner for 2013’s Twenty Feet from Stardom
- National Geographic Documentary Films’ Sugarcane, a deeply personal excavation of the long-buried history of wrongdoing at an Indian residential school in Canada, the co-director, with Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat
- Netflix’s Daughters, a film about a program that helps incarcerated men to reconnect with their daughters, and four fathers and daughters who are impacted by it, the co-director, with Natalie Rae, Angela Patton
- Greenwich Films’ Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, a profile of the legendary Democratic political strategist who led the effort to convince President Biden to not seek re-election, directed by Matt Tyrnauer
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