The Lady Bird Diaries

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From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter, The Lady Bird Diaries is a groundbreaking documentary film about one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies in history, told in her own words from 123 hours of her riveting audio diaries.

Spermworld

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Spermworld is a road movie set inside the new wild west of baby making – online forums where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents. Against the landscape of roadside motels, abandoned shopping malls and suburban bathrooms, the film follows intimate encounters between donors and recipients as they exchange more than just genetic material. Spermworld examines […]

Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family’s Secrets

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Photojournalist Amanda Mustard returns home to Pennsylvania to investigate the sexual abuse crimes committed by her grandfather. A visual whirlwind of memories from her family’s archive unravels a world of secrets through interviews, photographs, and home movies. A cinematic journey eight years in the making, Great Photo, Lovely Life chronicles a granddaughter’s attempt to disrupt […]

Girls State

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What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? A political coming-of-age story and a stirring reimagination of what it means to govern, Girls State follows young female leaders — from wildly different backgrounds across Missouri — as they navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up.

Bread & Roses

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Bread & Roses offers a powerful window into the seismic impact that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021 had on women’s rights and livelihoods. The film follows three women in real time as they fight to recover their autonomy. Sahra Mani captures the spirit and resilience of Afghan women through a raw […]

Playing with Sharks

CEH 2023 Nominee: Playing With Sharks

A true pioneer in both underwater filmmaking and shark research, Valerie Taylor is a living legend and icon in the underwater world whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. From the birth of cage diving to Jaws hysteria to the dawn of cageless shark diving, Valerie […]

George Carlin’s American Dream

CEH 2023 Nominee: George Carlins American Dream

George Carlin’s American Dream chronicles the life and work of the legendary comedian who is remembered as one of the most influential stand-up comics of all time. George Carlin’s career spanned half a century during which he headlined 14 HBO comedy specials and appeared on The Tonight Show over 130 times, constantly evolving with the […]

Four Hours at the Capitol

CEH 2023 Nominee: Four Hours at the Capitol

Four Hours at the Capitol is a harrowing and immersive chronicle of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of American citizens from across the country gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election. The documentary features never-before-seen footage and vivid first-hand accounts from lawmakers, staffers, police officers, protesters […]

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

CEH 2023 Nominee: Downfall The Case against Boeing

A searing investigation of a once-iconic company and its tragic failures, Downfall: The Case Against Boeing exposes how Wall Street’s influence and Boeing’s crumbling internal culture resulted in two historic plane crashes, 346 fatalities and a shocking cover-up.