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Filmmakers of four Oscar contender documentaries join Arkansas festival panel

Directors behind four leading awards season documentaries gathered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas to discuss their projects.

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Filmmakers behind four Oscar-contending documentary features gathered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas last week for a live podcast panel. Deadline and Yahoo both reported that directors behind American Doctor, To Hold a Mountain, Closure, and Once Upon a Time in Harlem participated in a roundtable recording of Doc Talk at the event. [1][8]

The panel comes as critics and industry awards groups begin announcing nominees and shortlists for the upcoming awards season. According to Deadline, the four titles are among a group of documentary features currently gaining traction with awards arbiters in a wide-open race. [1]

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival takes place annually in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The festival originally launched in 1991 with a screening of ten Academy Award-nominated documentary films. [10]

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In short

  • Filmmakers behind four Oscar-contending documentaries appeared at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
  • The Doc Talk podcast hosted a roundtable featuring American Doctor, To Hold a Mountain, Closure, and Once Upon a Time in Harlem.
  • The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas was established in 1991.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Doc Talk Podcast Live From Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival With Makers Of Four Oscar-Contending FilmsDeadline, 3h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Andrew Garfield to Be Honored at Santa Barbara Film FestivalVariety, 9h ago
  3. [3]Netflix Partners With Rob Lowe on Documentary, Brings Podcast to the PlatformThe Wrap, 9h ago
  4. [4]Andrew Garfield takes his ‘Artificial’ Oscar campaign to the Santa Barbara Film FestivalGoldDerby, 9h ago
  5. [5]Netflix Confirms ‘Rob Lowe: The Outsider’ Documentary and Brings ‘Literally!’ Podcast to the ServiceWhat's on Netflix, 9h ago
  6. [6]Netflix Nabs ‘Literally! With Rob Lowe’ Video Podcast and a Documentary About ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ StarThe Hollywood Reporter, 9h ago
  7. [7]Access: Horror Virtual Film Festival Sheds Light on Disability by ‘Centering Ableism as the Horror Rather Than Disability’Variety, 2h ago
  8. [8]Doc Talk Podcast Live From Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival With Makers Of Four Oscar-Contending FilmsYahoo, 3h ago

Background

  1. [9]Haliey Welch on Wikipedia
  2. [10]Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival on Wikipedia
  3. [11]Academy Awards on Wikipedia
  4. [12]Oscar-nominated film and television composer George Fenton dies at 76 FTMQ Film & TV, 15d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 12 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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