The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award honors a narrative film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. These films illuminate the formal possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking while raising provocative questions about on-going documentary orthodoxy and the perceived boundaries between narrative and nonfiction filmmaking. Previous winners in this category include Matt Porterfield’s PUTTY HILL (2011) and Mike Mills’ BEGINNERS (2012).
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Heterodox Award
A broken date serves as catalyst for an entrancing journey through the heart and mind of aggressively intelligent filmmaker Terence Nance, who turns the camera on himself in this documentary-narrative hybrid. A starry-eyed artist who spirals into self-examination/flagellation sparked by…
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Heterodox Award
Deep within the walls of the Roman prison Rebibbia, inmates whisper and conspire, giving new life to the timeless words of William Shakespeare as they rehearse a production of “Julius Caesar.” Utilizing the device of an unfinished theater, the players…
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Heterodox Award
In 1988, succumbing to international pressure, General Augusto Pinochet’s regime in Chile called for a national referendum on the proposal to extend the dictator’s presidency a further eight years. The ballot presented two choices: Yes (extend Pinochet’s rule) or No…
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Heterodox Award
Paintings by the Old Masters inspire a range of powerful emotions in many who encounter them. They also provide crucial historical clues about the socio-political context in which they were created. But what can they say about our age? And…
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Heterodox Award
Becky and Sandra aren’t the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police…
