Doclands DocPitch 2024 Winners And Jury Awards Announced

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With support from the Nancy P. & Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation and Resonance Philanthropies, DocPitch 2024 has awarded five independent documentary filmmakers cash awards totaling $100,000 to help them complete their feature documentary film projects currently in development or post-production. “With DocPitch 2024, we’re incredibly honored to again be in the position of supporting independent filmmakers in such a tangible way,” said DocLands Director of Programming Joni Cooper. “Thanks to our generous donors, we’re able to help move these passionate storytellers closer to the goal of seeing their projects reach the finish line — and into the public realm.

Each project underscores the importance of DocPitch to bring a wide range of timely and significant topics to the public including the industry professional eye, and in turn enriches essential discussions through the process itself.” DocPitch Award Recipients and their projects: The Co-Op: The Kids of Dorie Miller – Audience Award $45,000Director/Producer Paulina DavisThe Co-Op: The Kids of Dorie Miller is a feature-length documentary about a New Yorker who examines her family’s roots in New York City’s first unsegregated housing co-op, finding and examining an old solution to the current affordable housing crisis.

Untitled Lorena – Jury Award $40,000Directors, Producers Rodrigo Reyes and Dawn ValadezAfter losing her 12-year-old daughter Fátima to a horrible attack and fleeing her home in a village in Mexico, Lorena leads her family on a quest for justice against a corrupt system that kills thousands of women and girls each year, taking her fight to the country’s Supreme Court.