November 10, 2016

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JONATHAN DEMMESTANLEY NELSONLIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

DAWN PORTERTHE ROBERT AND ANNE DREW AWARD

MOLLY THOMPSONTHE LEADING LIGHT AWARD

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MOLLYTHOMPSON

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSHonoring individuals with a substantial body of work.

Stanley Nelson • Jonathan Demme

ROBERT & ANNE DREW AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARY EXCELLENCE

Honoring a mid-career filmmaker with a new project distinguished for its use of observational cinema.

Dawn Porter

LEADING LIGHT AWARDHonoring an individual making a critical contribution to

documentary in a role other than as a filmmaker.

Molly Thompson

VISIONARIES TRIBUTEThursday, Nov 10, 2016 / Noon-2pm

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Visionaries Tribute is co-presented by:

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Molly Thompson is Senior Vice President of Feature Films at A+E Studios. In 2005, she founded A+E Studios’ feature documentary production arm, A&E IndieFilms, which under her leadership has gained an unprecedented track record, garnering three Academy Award nominations for Cartel Land (2015), Jesus Camp (2006) and Murderball (2005), Sundance wins in several categories for Life, Animated (2016), Cartel Land (2015), The September Issue (2009) and American Teen (2008), along with hundreds of other awards and nominations.

Thompson also serves as executive producer for documentaries produced under A+E Studios’ HISTORY Films banner, including Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (2015), The Unknown Known (2013), No Place on Earth (2012) and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010).

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MOLLY THOMpSON

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Dawn Porter’s latest project, Trapped, explores the impact of laws that regulate abortion clinics in the South. The film coincides with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 decision to rule on a constitutional challenge to Texas’ HB 2 law, which places unprecedented restrictions on abortion providers in the state. Trapped premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where it won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking.

Her documentary Gideon’s Army (2013) won the Sundance Film Festival Editing Award and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an Emmy. The film broadcast on HBO in July 2013 and has been used to engage local communities about issues of indigent defense and socioeconomic influences on crime.

Dawn’s other films include Spies of Mississippi (2014, PBS) and Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper, a documentary film chronicling President Obama’s program to help young men and boys of color succeed. The film aired nationally on The Discovery Channel and The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in 2015.

– r o b e r T & A N N e D r e w A w A r D F o r D o c u m e N TA r y e x c e L L e N c e –

DAWN pORTER

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CONGRATS TO

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VISIONARIES!

Joe’s ViolinCondé nast EntErtainmEnt & The New Yorker congratulate

Short Subject Documentary

Winner of Five 2016 Festival AwardsDirected and Produced by Kahane Cooperman | Produced by Raphaela Neihausen

Stanley Nelson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, MacArthur “genius” Fellow, and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences. Nelson is the director of fourteen documentary features, including Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple and The Murder of Emmett Till.

He is also co-founder of Firelight Media, which provides technical education, funding, and professional support to emerging documentarians. With eight of his films having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and multiple industry awards to his credit, Nelson is acknowledged as one of the premier documentary filmmakers working today.

In addition to co-founding the documentary production company Firelight Films with Marcia Smith, Nelson is also the co-founder of Firelight Media, a non-profit organization that anchored by two key programs: the Producers’ Lab, which provides technical education and professional support to emerging documentarians; and the Community Engagement Division, which activates diverse audiences around social justice issues using documentary film.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

Freedom Summer (2014)

Jesse Owens (2013)

Freedom Riders (2011)

Arise: The Battle Over Affirmative Action (2010)

Wounded Knee (2009)

CNN Presents: High Stakes (2006)

Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple (2006)

Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005)

A Place of Our Own: Black Resorts and the African American (2004)

The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)

Running: The Campaign for City Council (2002)

Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind (2000)

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999)

Methadone: Curse or Cure (1994)

Take Back the Courts (1995)

Puerto Rico: A Right To Choose (1994)

Schools for a New Society (1993)

Freedom Bags (1990)

Two Dollars and a Dream: The Story of Madame C. J. Walker and A’lelia Walker (1987)

– L I F e T I m e A c h I e v e m e N T A w A r D –

STANLEY NELSON

FILMOGRAPHY

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Jonathan Demme began his career as a writer and producer with Roger Corman in 1971 and has directed and produced more than 40 movies since. His films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, including Beloved, Melvin and Howard, Philadelphia, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Who Am I this Time?, Rachel Getting Married, The Manchurian Candidate, and Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for Best Director in 1991.

His documentaries and performance films include Cousin Bobby, The Agronomist, Haiti Dreams of Democracy, Stop Making Sense, Swimming to Cambodia, Neil Young Heart of Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show, Neil Young Journeys, Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains, I’m Carolyn Parker, The Good the Mad and the Beautiful, New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward, Tavis Smiley’s Been In the Storm Too Long and Enzo Avitabile Music Life.

His most recent concert film is Justin Timberlake + his The Tennessee Kids that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Netflix.

JT + the Tennessee Kids (2016)

Ricki And The Flash (2015)

A Master Builder (2013)

Enzo Avitabile Music Life (2012)

Neil Young Journeys (2012)

A Gifted Man (2011)

I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful (2011)

Neil Young Trunk Show (2010)

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)

Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward (2007)

Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

The Agronomist (2002)

The Truth About Charlie (2002)

Beloved (1998)

Storefront Hitchcock (1998)

Subway Stories: Subway Car to Hell (1997)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions (1994)

Philadelphia (1993)

Cousin Bobby (1992)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Haiti, Dreams of Democracy (1988)

Married to the Mob (1988)

Swimming to Cambodia (1987)

Something Wild (1986)

Accumulation with Talking Plus Water Motor (1986)

Swing Shift (1984)

Stop Making Sense (1984)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s “Who Am I This Time?”, (1982)

Melvin and Howard (1980)

– L I F e T I m e A c h I e v e m e N T A w A r D –

JONATHAN DEMME

FILMOGRAPHY

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