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Shortlist - Best Cinema Documentary
The films below were shortlisted for Grierson 2008 in the Best Cinema Documentary category.
Winner
Production Cº: Hudson Productions Ltd./Brown Owl Films Ltd.
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Director Grant Gee
Producers Tom Atencio, Tom Astor, Jacqui Edenbrow
Writer Jon Savage
In 1976 four young men from ruined, post-industrial Manchester, went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band, Joy Division. It was “a right laugh”. Three years later it was a matter of art, life and death. 30 years on they’re enjoying a larger audience and more influence than ever before with a profound legacy that resonates fiercely in today’s heavily careerist music industry and over-mediated pop culture.
Nominated
Production Cº: Dox Productions
BFI Southbank
Director David Sington
Producer Duncan Copp
Executive Producer John Battsek
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.
Nominated
Production Cº: Typecast Pictures
BBC Four
Director/Producer James Longley
Executive Producer Nick Fraser
Iraq in Fragments illuminates post war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religeon and ethnicity. Poetically filmed and with no scripted narration, the film explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis; people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations and concerns are at once personal and illustrative of larger issues in Iraq today.
Nominated
Production Cº: X-Ray Productions
General Release
Director/Producer Alex Gibney
Senior Producers D Glascoff, R Johnson, S Blumenthal, D Edkins
Writer Alex Gibney
Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was detained by the US military one afternoon. Five days after his arrest, Dilawar mysteriously died in his Bagram prison. This is the definitive exploration of the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in US facilities, and the roles played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process.
shortlisted
Production Cº: Open Eye Media
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Director Oliver Hodge
Producer Rachel Wexler
Series Producer Oliver Hodge
shortlisted
Production Cº: Cyclops Vision
Raindance Film Festival
Director/Producer Stuart Urban
Writer Stuart Urban
shortlisted
Production Cº: Inís Films & Besom Productions
Belfast Film Festival
Director Joel Conroy
Producer Margo Harkin, Joel Conroy
Writers Joel Conroy, Lauren Davies
shortlisted
Production Cº: Rise Films
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Director Paul Taylor
Producer Teddy Leifer
Executive Producers Jess Search, Leigh Blake
Writers Paul Taylor, Slindile Moya