Directing a documentary that resonates deeply with critics and audiences comes with what might be called an enviable downside: an awards season that tests a filmmaker’s endurance.
“It never ends,” jokes Bing Liu, who’s been on an incredible run with his film Minding the Gap, beginning in January 2018 with the world premiere at Sundance. It won a Special Jury Award there for Breakthrough Filmmaking, recognizing how skillfully Liu told the story of growing up in Rockford, Illinois where he and friends Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson gravitated toward skateboarding to escape families torn by emotional abuse.
The film claimed Best Documentary at the Ida Awards last December, and won numerous other awards en route to an Oscar nomination earlier this year. Now attention shifts to the Emmy Awards, where Minding the Gap could earn nominations in multiple categories.
“Part of what has been great about the awards campaign that has already happened,...
“It never ends,” jokes Bing Liu, who’s been on an incredible run with his film Minding the Gap, beginning in January 2018 with the world premiere at Sundance. It won a Special Jury Award there for Breakthrough Filmmaking, recognizing how skillfully Liu told the story of growing up in Rockford, Illinois where he and friends Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson gravitated toward skateboarding to escape families torn by emotional abuse.
The film claimed Best Documentary at the Ida Awards last December, and won numerous other awards en route to an Oscar nomination earlier this year. Now attention shifts to the Emmy Awards, where Minding the Gap could earn nominations in multiple categories.
“Part of what has been great about the awards campaign that has already happened,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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