Filmmaker Rory Kennedy To Receive Pennebaker Award At Critics Choice Documentary Awards
deadline.comOscar-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy will receive the prestigious Pennebaker Award at the upcoming Critics Choice Documentary Awards in New York, honoring a director whose body of work includes Ethel, a film about her late mother, Ethel Kennedy, as well as Last Days in Vietnam and Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.
The award, named for the late pioneer of direct cinema D.A. Pennebaker, will be presented by filmmaker Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s widow, as the Critics Choice Documentary Awards celebrates its 9th annual event.
The ceremony will be held November 10 at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan. “Rory Kennedy is an Academy Award-nominated, Primetime Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker,” the Critics Choice Association writes in a release. “She has made over 40 films, including Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (Netflix), Last Days in Vietnam (American Experience), and Ethel (HBO), all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Her film, The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari, was the #1 Netflix film in the world during its release week in December, 2022.
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