Jennifer Lawrence Doc ‘Zurawski V Texas,’ ‘No Other Land’ & ‘Porcelain War’ Claim Top Prizes At Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival

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EXCLUSIVE: Zurawski v Texas, the new documentary executive produced by Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, earned two awards as the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition.

The film, centering on women who filed suit against the state of Texas after its extremely restrictive abortion laws almost cost them their lives, won the Jury Prize for Best Feature at HSDFF, North America’s longest-running documentary festival.

Zurawski v Texas, directed by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, also won the Hot Springs Matt DeCample Audience Choice Award for Best Feature. “This urgent film sheds light on the inhumane and devastating consequences of Texas’s restrictive abortion laws,” the jury said of Zurawski v Texas. “By following the legal battles and intimate personal stories of several women denied essential healthcare, it powerfully and movingly highlights the vital importance of protecting women’s autonomy, reproductive rights, and bodily integrity.” The jury, comprised of film programmer Penelope Bartlett, filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe, and Jamie Shor, president or PR Collaborative and co-founder of DC/DOX, also awarded a special mention to Mati Diop’s Dahomey (winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale).

Jurors wrote, “[Diop] has crafted a singular, poetic work exploring enduring questions of identity, displacement and belonging in a world shaped and scarred by colonialism.