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Time’s Garrett Bradley has become the first African-American woman recognized with an Oscar nomination for directing a feature documentary.

Haley Bosselman editorGarrett Bradley’s Academy Award-nominated documentary “Time” was meant to be a short film. Then, on the last day of filming, Fox Rich (who is at the center of the movie) gave her an archive of 100 hours of home videos.“When you’re making documentaries, for me, [it] has been a real meditation and honoring of the present moment because you don’t have control over the future,” Bradley told director Claire Denis in a conversation for Variety.“Time” follows Rich (full name Sibil Fox Richardson) as she fights for the release of her husband Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for participating in an armed robbery.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIn “Time,” an awards contender in the documentary feature race, director Garrett Bradley follows the story of Fox Rich, an author, abolitionist and mother who spend two decades fighting for her husband Robert Richardson’s release from prison.As Bradley was piecing Rich’s story together, she learned Rich had 100 hours of family footage. That footage would serve as the missing piece of the puzzle to tell the compelling story and would turn the short film into a feature-length story.Editor Gabe Rhodes helped Bradley seamlessly tell a story through that time, straddling between past and present as she highlights not only Rich’s fight, but captures the elements of daily life.

Time, the most honored documentary of the past year, has been described as a film about mass incarceration. That’s true enough, but director Garrett Bradley sees another theme at its heart.

Netflix has dominated the Oscar documentary race in recent years, winning best feature in both 2020 and 2018. But this year it could be Amazon Studios’ to shine.

Filmmakers Tommy Oliver and Garrett Bradley each looked at the country's prison industrial complex through the intimate lens of families affected by decades of incarceration. The Bradley-directed Time (Amazon Prime Video) follows Fox Rich as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, while he serves a 60-year sentence for a bank robbery.

Garrett Bradley, the award-winning director of Time, says her documentary “really stands on the shoulders of a film like 13th.”

!If you're an Aaron Sorkin fan, you've got two options to keep you busy this weekend. Kids aren't running out of things to stream either, as they can slay monsters or sing along with the options available on streaming this week.If you want to feel sad but inspired, a documentary and a based-on-a-real-story flick are at your disposal.

The mother at the centre of Amazon’s acclaimed documentary film exploring the impact of the US criminal justice system said it was “love” that allowed her family to survive.

When it comes to the discussion of systemic racism and racial injustices in the US, the topic of prisons and sentencing will always come into play. And while the trailer for “Time” doesn’t really wear its messages on its sleeve, it’s clear that the upcoming Amazon documentary aims to shed light on an issue that faces so many Black people in the US.