The Heterodox Award demonstrates the porous boundaries between life’s documentation and creative storytelling, highlighting the ways in which today’s (non)fiction filmmakers are inspired, challenged and provoked by the realities in which their dramatic constructs live. Previous winners of the award were Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill (2011), Mike Mills’ Beginners (2012), Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours (2013), Carlos Reygados’s Post Tenebras Lux (2014), Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2015) and Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (2016).
