Indie producer Jeffrey Sharp, whose credits include You Can Count on Me (2000), was preparing to celebrate his one-year anniversary as executive director of the Independent Film Project when the coronavirus struck.
IFP is host of the Gotham Awards, the first major awards show of the season and an Oscar bellwether — Moonlight, Spotlight and The Hurt Locker are among the handful of films named best feature by both IFP and the Academy Awards.
In a first, the five features nominated by the Gothams jury this year all were directed by women: Kelly Reichardt's First Cow, Kitty Green's The Assistant, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Chloé Zhao's Nomadland and Natalie Erika James' Relic.
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