One of our favorite Honors, the Audience Choice Prize is the award that everyone gets to vote for. It goes to those special films that engage, enrage, inspire, entertain and create intimate connections with their audiences. Previous winners in this category include The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2008), Up the Yangtze (2009), The September Issue (2010), Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2011), Buck (2012), Bully (2013), Sound City (2014), Keep On Keepin’ On (2015) and Meru (2016).
And The Nominees Are
20 Days in Mariupol
Directed by Mstyslav Chernov
American Symphony
Directed by Matthew Heineman
Beyond Utopia
Directed by Madeleine Gavin
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp
Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Directed by Penny Lane
The Deepest Breath
Directed by Laura McGann
The Eternal Memory
Directed by Maite Alberdi
Invisible Beauty
Directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky and Maeve O’Boyle