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Individual Ballots

Over 300 people from across the documentary field voted on our Greatest Docs of the 21st Century poll. Each participant was asked to submit an unranked list of up to three documentary projects they felt fit that description; the only criterion was their release date (all had to have been released past January 1, 2000). 

Below you’ll find a selection of ballots from those who allowed their choices to be made public.

 

Table of Contents

Jonathan Ali
Rose Arce
Robert Arkwright
Rodney Ascher
Sil Azevedo
Katherine Bange
Ted Barron
Arta Barzanji
Ryan Beaupit
John J. Belsha Jr.
Ross Bengel
John Bernstein
Sébastien Bertrand
Manuel Betancourt
Alexandra Blaney
Doug Block
Chris Boeckmann
Assia Boundaoui
Nick Bradshaw
Eugen Braeunig
Yoni Brook
Ethan Brown
Luca Bruno
Natalie Bullock Brown
Hansen Bursic
Sheila Canavan
Luca Capponi
Forrest Cardamenis
Darianna Cardilli
Holly Carter
Chris Cassingham
Rodolfo Castillo-Morales
Perri Chasin
Sonya Childress
Edo Choi
Maya Chupkov
Karen Cirillo
Williams Cole
Catalina Combs
Bernie Cook
Carol Cribbs
Melissa D'Lando
Kevin Dando
Josh Davidsburg
Laetitia Della Bianca
Samantha de Manbey
Juan Devis
Samuel Döring
Sahar Driver
Denny Dugally
David Earnhardt
Rachel Edelman
Elodie Edjang
Hugo Emmerzael
Joseph Erikson
Rodney Evans
Lena Faeskorn
Maura Fallon
Todd Felderstein
Conor Fetting-Smith
Robert Fink
Alec Fischer
Scott French
Edward Frumkin
Christine Fugate
Michael Galinsky
Nikolai Galitzine
Ricardo Gallegos
Marya E. Gates
Neil Giordano
Daniel Glassman
Ash Goh
Arlin Golden
Grace Gordon
Carmen Gray
Robert Greene
Carmine Grimaldi
Victor Guimarães
Nic Guttridge
Joyce Guy
Sarah Haas
Deirdre Haj
Patrick Hamm
Sasha Han
Angel Harper
Scarlett Harris
Mark Jonathan Harris
James Harvey
Sarah Haufrect
NC Heikin
Hanna Hemila
Jerry Henry
Steven Hoeksel
Tim Horsburgh
Dylan Huw
Annika Hylmo
Kelly Ireland
Adam Irving
Kirk Weston Jackson
Kurt Jacobsen
Ove Rishøj Jensen
Zachary Jeremiah
Kirsten Johnson
Chris M. Johnston
David C Jones
Peter Karl
Anthony Kaufman
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Natalia Keogan
Alexandra Kitty
Vivian Kleiman
Botagoz Koilybayeva
Georgia Korossi
Elliot Kotek
Nick Kouhi
Vera Krichevskaya
Daniel Larios
Roy LeBlanc
Jim LeBrecht
Alex Lei
Ry Levey
Pedro Lima de Andrade
Bing Liu
D. Taylor Loeb
Kim Longinotto
Jordan Lord
Monika Lostakova
Cynthia Lukas
Mackenzie Lukenbill
Matt Mace
Jonathan Mackris
Saffron Maeve
Stephanie Mardesich
Eric Marin
James Marsh
Scott Martin
Vanessa Maruskin
Carly Mattox
Catherine McKenzie
Betsy McLane
Arthur McMillan
Stephan Meeks
Robin Menken
Davi Merchan
Hind Mezaina
Barbara Miller
Peter Miller
Michael Monteabaro
Luke W. Moody
Alexander Mooney
Liv Moore
Jenni Morello
Lizz Morhaim
Zoë Morrison
Jane Mote
Mariko Munro
Vikram Murthi
Basia Myszynski
Edward Nachtrieb
Carol Nahra
Mary Nail
Trent Nakamura
Dale Nelson
Iris Ng
Bill Nichols
Peter Nicks
Ruun Nuur
Roger Nygard
Claire Ogden
Wilfred Okiche
Wen Chi Olcel
Jason Osder
Kathy Ou
Derrick Owens
Adriana Pacheco
Gabriel M. Paletz
Stephanie Palumbo
Luiza Parvu
Tony Pemberton
Aron Penczu
Gabor Pertic
Savina Petkova
Vladan Petkovic
Alex Pritz
Banu Ramazanova
Preston Randolph
Nicolas Rapold
Emma Ratliff
Yair Raveh
Kiva Reardon
Tracy Rector
Lucía Requejo
Cheryl Revkin
Patrick Reynolds
Soheil Rezayazdi
Michael Riccardi
Lucia Ricciardelli-Fossi
Yoruba Richen
Barbara Rick
Thomas Rigler
Marcia Rock
Andrew Ross
Bonnie Rowan
Pepe Ruiloba
Nicole Salazar
Mariana Sanson
Sudipto Sanyal
Cierah Sargent
Elias Savada
Hilari Scarl
Dennis Scheyer
Dan Schindel
Chris Schmidt
Ken Schneider
Sarah Schoellkopf
Nathalie Seaver
Ishita Sengupta
Rachael Sevilla
Sky Sitney
Öykü Sofuoğlu
Steven Solomon
Evan Stewart
Nora Stone
Mark Storey
Abby Sun
Ryan Swen
Olha Symonenko
Nitsan Tal
Nicholas Tana
Jeromiah Taylor
Luke Y. Thompson
John Thornton
Fernanda Tornaghi
H. Nelson Tracey
Raquel Tresvant
Matt Turner
Mary Ungerleider
Persheng Vaziri
Pacho Velez
Eva Vitija
Sonya Vseliubska
Clayton Walter
Kent Wilhelm
Aaron Willcott
Rachel-Anne Younger
Han Yan Yuen
Susan Zachary

 

 

Individual Ballots in Alphabetical Order

 

 

Jonathan Ali, curator and programmer

Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013

The Image You Missed, Dónal Foreman, 2018

Nowhere Near, Miko Revereza, 2023

 

Rose Arce, filmmaker

The Sentence, Rudy Valdez, 2018

The Perfect Neighbor, Geeta Gandbhir, 2025

The Eternal Memory, Maite Alberti, 2023

 

Robert Arkwright, filmmaker

An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, 2006

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008

 

Rodney Ascher, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel, Jenny Nicholson, 2024

The Pain of Others, Penny Lane, 2018

 

Sil Azevedo, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Welcome to Chechnya, David France, 2020

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Anna Hints, 2023

 

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Katherine Bange

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Procession, Robert Greene, 2021

 

Ted Barron, programmer/professor

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2004

This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011

Pictures of Ghosts, Kleber Mendonça Filho

 

Arta Barzanji, critic, filmmaker, and curator

Change Nothing, Pedro Costa, 2009

The Image Book, Jean-Luc Godard, 2018

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, Pedro Costa, 2001

 

Ryan Beaupit, critic

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

 

John J. Belsha Jr., critic

Time, Garrett Bradley, 2020

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas, 2000

 

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Ross Bengel

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, 2010

Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, 2010

 

John Bernstein

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

The Truffle Hunters, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, 2020

Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff, 2016

 

Sébastien Bertrand

Faces Places, Agnés Varda, 2017

Icarus, Bryan Fogel, 2017

Finding Vivian Maier, John Mallory and Charlie Siskel, 2013

 

Manuel Betancourt, critic

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

Shirkers, Sandi Tan, 2018

Tempestad, Tatiana Huezo, 2016

 

Alexandra Blaney, producer

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

War/Dance, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, 2007

Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman, 2015

 

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Doug Block, filmmaker

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

51 Birch Street, Doug Block, 2005

 

Chris Boeckmann

Mimi, Claire Simon, 2003

Running Stumbled, John Maringouin, 2006

De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2022

 

Assia Boundaoui

Exterminate All the Brutes, Raoul Peck, 2021

Ghosts of Sugarland, Bassam Tariq, 2019

Talking About Trees, Suhaib Gasmelbari, 2019

 

Nick Bradshaw, critic

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2004

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Eugen Braeunig, filmmaker

Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, 2022

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

 

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Yoni Brook, filmmaker

The Inner Tour, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, 2001

Two Towns of Jasper, Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, 2002

Lift, Marc Isaacs, 2001

 

Ethan Brown, producer, editor, investigative reporter, author

Bodyguard of Lies, Dan Krauss, 2025

Jonestown: Life and Death of The People's Temple, Stanley Nelson Jr., 2006

How to Survive a Plague, David France, 2012

 

Luca Bruno, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Welcome to Chechnya, David France, 2020

Free Solo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2018

 

Natalie Bullock Brown, filmmaker

A Mother Apart, Laurie Townshend, 2024

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt, 2006

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Shola Lynch, 2012

 

Hansen Bursic, filmmaker and journalist

North By Current, Angelo Madsen Minax, 2021

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021

 

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Sheila Canavan, filmmaker

Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, 2010

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

My Octopus Teacher, Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, 2020

 

Luca Capponi, film journalist

Tahrir: Liberation Square, Stefano Savona, 2011

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

No Bears, Jafar Panahi, 2022

 

Forrest Cardamenis, critic

La Commune (Paris, 1871), Peter Watkins, 2000

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

Lá-bas, Chantal Akerman, 2006

 

Darianna Cardilli, filmmaker and editor

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), Jason Kohn, 2007

Capturing the Friedmans, Andrew Jarecki, 2003

 

Holly Carter, filmmaker

Films BYkids, Various Directors, 2016-2023

The Alabama Solution, Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, 2025

The Nutcracker at Westerfield, Anne Sundberg, 2025

 

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Chris Cassingham, critic

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

Sweetgrass, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009

Ten Skies, James Benning, 2004

 

Rodolfo Castillo-Morales, filmmaker, curator and programmer

The Three Rooms of Melancholia, Pirjo Honkasalo, 2003

Devil's Freedom, Everardo González, 2017

Elena, Petra Costa, 2012

 

Perri Chasin, professor, former writer/producer

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

The Invisible War, Kirby Dick, 2012

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

 

Sonya Childress

Songs From the Hole, Contessa Gayles, 2024

Bus 174, José Padilha and Felipe Lacerda, 2002

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

 

Edo Choi, critic and curator

In Vanda's Room, Pedro Costa, 2000

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Wang Bing, 2002

The Last of the Unjust, Claude Lanzmann, 2013

 

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Maya Chupkov

Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, Kahlil Joseph, 2025

 

Karen Cirillo, cultural writer and curator

Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013

Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, 2008

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

 

Williams Cole, filmmaker and critic

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper, 2004

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

 

Catalina Combs, film enthusiast

Summer of Soul, Questlove, 2021

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Copa 71, Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine, 2024

 

Bernie Cook, professor and filmmaker

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

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Carol Cribbs

Collective, Alexander Nanau, 2019

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov, 2023

 

Melissa D'Lando, grants manager

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Johan Grimonprez, 2024

Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison, 2016

 

Kevin Dando, documentary fan

Secret Mall Apartment, Jeremy Workman, 2024

The Inventor: Out for Blood In Silicon Valley, Alex Gibney, 2019

20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov, 2023

 

Josh Davidsburg, filmmaker

Boys State, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, 2020

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, 2020

 

Laetitia Della Bianca, researcher

Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, 2022

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Johan Grimonprez, 2024

Futura, Pietro Marcell and Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher, 2021

 

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Samantha de Manbey, filmmaker

The Missing Picture, Rithy Pahn, 2013

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

The Up Series, Michael Apted, 2005-2019

 

Juan Devis, filmmaker

Occupied City, Steve McQueen, 2023

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), Jason Kohn, 2007

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, 2009

 

Samuel Döring, filmmaker

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

Queendom, Agniia Galdanova, 2023

Anhell69, Theo Montoya, 2022

 

Sahar Driver, impact producer

Songs From the Hole, Contessa Gayles, 2024

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Listen to the Voices, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2025

 

Denny Dugally, filmmaker, producer, and production designer

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Planet Earth, Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, 2006

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

 

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David Earnhardt, filmmaker

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Procession, Robert Greene, 2021

 

Rachel Edelman

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

 

Elodie Edjang, filmmaker

LoveTrue, Alma Har'el, 2016

Shirkers, Sandi Tan, 2018

True Life, MTV, 1998-2017

 

Hugo Emmerzael, critic and programmer

Bitter Lake, Adam Curtis, 2015

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2004

 

Joseph Erikson, filmmaker

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, 2016

The Story of Film: An Odyssey, Mark Cousins, 2011

 

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Rodney Evans, filmmaker and professor

Time, Garrett Bradley, 2020

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

The Arbor, Clio Barnard, 2010

 

Lena Faeskorn

Spermworld, Lance Oppenheim, 2024

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Lift, Marc Isaacs, 2001

 

Maura Fallon, critic

Traslados, Nicolás Gil Lavedra, 2024

Summer of Soul, Questlove, 2021

America, Garrett Bradley, 2019

 

Todd Felderstein

20 Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville, 2013

It Might Get Loud, Davis Guggenheim, 2009

Amy, Asif Kapadia, 2015

 

Conor Fetting-Smith, filmmaker

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Matt Wolf, 2008

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

 

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Robert Fink, filmmaker

Capturing the Friedmans, Andrew Jarecki, 2003

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

Faces Places, Agnés Varda, 2017

 

Alec Fischer, emerging documentary filmmaker

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Kurt Kuenne, 2008

Ascension, Jessica Kingdon, 2021

Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore, 2004

 

Scott French, writer

Anhell69, Theo Montoya, 2022

All These Sleepless Nights, Michal Marczak, 2016

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

 

Edward Frumkin, critic

Balloonfest, Nathan Truesdell, 2006

Concerned Student 1950, Adam Dietrich and Varun Bajaj and Kellan Marvin, 2016

De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2022

 

Christine Fugate

Love + War, Elisabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2025

Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, 2022

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

 

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Michael Galinsky, filmmaker

Occupation: Dreamland, Ian Olds and Garrett Scott, 2005

 

Nikolai Galitzine, filmmaker

Untitled, Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi, 2017

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Johan Grimonprez, 2024

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Ricardo Gallegos, film critic

All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen, 2022

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

Confessions of a Good Samaritan, Penny Lane, 2023

 

Marya E. Gates, critic and historian

Pina, Wim Wenders, 2011

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

Kokomo City, D. Smith, 2023

 

Neil Giordano, critic, teacher, filmmaker

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee, 2006

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

 

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Daniel Glassman

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

 

Ash Goh, filmmaker

The Mole Agent, Maite Alberdi, 2020

Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo, 2024

Cow, Andrea Arnold, 2021

 

Arlin Golden, filmworker

Domestic Violence, Frederick Wiseman, 2001

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

California Dreams, Mike Ott, 2017

 

Grace Gordon

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

Songbirds, Brian Hill, 2007

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

 

Carmen Gray, film programmer, journalist, and critic

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero, Abbas Fahdel, 2015

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

 

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Robert Greene, audience member

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Time, Garrett Bradley, 2020

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Carmine Grimaldi, filmmaker and historian

Recollection, Kamal Aljafari, 2015

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Wang Bing, 2002

Mobile Men, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2008

 

Victor Guimarães, critic and programmer

Playing, Eduardo Coutinho, 2007

Dead Souls, Wang Bing, 2018

There Will Be No More Night, Éléonore Weber, 2020

 

Nic Guttridge, documentary story consultant

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Benjamin Ree, 2024

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

The Cave, Feras Fayyad, 2019

 

Joyce Guy, filmmaker

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

Bobi Wine: The People's President, Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp, 2022

 

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Sarah Haas, filmmaker

The Imposter, Bart Layton, 2012

This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

 

Deirdre Haj, producer and exhibitor

How to Survive a Plague, David France, 2012

The Trials of Daryll Hunt, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, 2006

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

 

Patrick Hamm, producer

When Two Worlds Collide, Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orwell, 2016

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

 

Sasha Han, film writer

Geographies of Solitude, Jacquelyn Mills, 2022

Postscript, Ryan Ferko and Parastoo Anoushahpour and Faraz Anoushahpour, 2024

Sementara, Joant Úbeda and Chew Chia Shao Min, 2020

 

Angel Harper

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Mr. Soul!, Melissa Haizlip and Sam Pollard, 2018

13th, Ava DuVernay, 2016

 

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Scarlett Harris, culture critic

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Liz Garbu and Elizabeth Wolff and Myles Kane and Josh Koury, 2020

We Need to Talk About Cosby, W. Kamau Bell, 2022

 

Mark Jonathan Harris, filmmaker and professor

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, 2020

 

James Harvey, academic

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011

Democracies 2, Artur Żmijewski, 2015

 

Sarah Haufrect, journalist

Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, 2020

63 Up, Michael Apted, 2019

Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Sacha Gervasi, 2008

 

NC Heikin, filmmaker

Kimjongilia, NC Heikin, 2009

Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, 2022

Summer of Soul, Questlove, 2021

 

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Hanna Hemila, filmmaker

The Rescue, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2021

RBG, Betsy West and Julie Cohen, 2018

Paavo a Life in Five Courses, Hanna Hemila, 2010

 

Jerry Henry, documentary cinematographer

All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen, 2022

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy, 2010

 

Steven Hoeksel, producer

My Undesirable Friends, Julia Loktev, 2024

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, 2022

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

 

Tim Horsburgh, executive producer

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, 2010

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

 

Dylan Huw, writer/artist

What Weakens the Flesh is the Flesh Itself, Steve Reinke and James Richards, 2017

24 City, Jia Zhangke, 2008

Last Things, Deborah Stratman, 2023

 

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Annika Hylmo, filmmaker

The Tale of Silyan, Tamara Kotevska, 2025

Control Room, Jehane Noujaim, 2004

The Princess, Ed Perkins, 2022

 

Kelly Ireland

The Jinx, Andrew Jarecki, 2015

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012

 

Adam Irving, filmmaker

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Seth Gordon, 2007

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

The Last Dance, Jason Hehir, 2020

 

Kirk Weston Jackson, filmmaker

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Kurt Kuenne, 2008

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Andrew Douglas, 2003

The Painter and the Thief, Benjamin Ree, 2020

 

Kurt Jacobsen, filmmaker

Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, 2010

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

Best of Enemies, Robin Bissell, 2019

 

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Ove Rishøj Jensen, documentary advisor

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Senna, Asif Kapadia, 2010

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

 

Zachary Jeremiah, critic

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy, 2010

 

Kirsten Johnson

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, 2020

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Chris M. Johnston, filmmaker

Class Action Park, Seth Porges and Chris Charles Scott, 2020

Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock, 2004

Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville, 2018

 

David C Jones, filmmaker

Deep Water, Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell, 2006

Free Solo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2018

The Reason I Jump, Jerry Rothwell, 2020

 

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Peter Karl

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Senna, Asif Kapadia, 2010

American Factory, Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, 2019

 

Anthony Kaufman, writer

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

 

Scott Hamilton Kennedy, filmmaker

OT: our town, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2003

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

 

Natalia Keogan, critic

Time, Garrett Bradley, 2021

In Jackson Heights, Frederick Wiseman, 2015

How To With John Wilson, John Wilson, 2020-2023

 

Alexandra Kitty, author, media ethicist

Collective, Alexander Nanau, 2019

The Jinx, Andrew Jarecki, 2015

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

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Vivian Kleiman, filmmaker

Oblivion, Heddy Honigmann, 2009

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus, Eva Aridjis Fuentes, 2024

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Anna Hints, 2023

 

Botagoz Koilybayeva, film critic

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

Sea Tomorrow, Katerina Suvorova, 2016

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

 

Georgia Korossi, film critic and curator

For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, 2022

 

Elliot Kotek, producer/filmmaker

Senna, Asif Kapadia, 2010

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, 2009

 

Nick Kouhi, critic

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

City Hall, Frederick Wiseman, 2020

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, Pedro Costa, 2001

 

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Vera Krichevskaya, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Icarus, Bryan Fogel, 2017

The Social Dilemma, Jeff Orlowski, 2020

 

Daniel Larios, filmmaker, writer

Elena, Petra Costa, 2012

La vida loca, Christian Poveda, 2009

Finding Frances, Nathan Fielder, 2017

 

Roy LeBlanc, filmmaker

Prom Night in Mississippi, Paul Saltzman, 2009

Undefeated, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, 2011

Silver Dollar Road, Raoul Peck, 2023

 

Jim LeBrecht, filmmaker

Crip Camp, James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham, 2020

Grand Theft Hamlet, Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, 2024

Quest, Jonathan Olshefski, 2017

 

Alex Lei, writer, filmmaker

In Order Not to Be Here, Deborah Stratman, 2002

A Letter From Greenpoint, Jonas Mekas, 2005

DIRECT ACTION, Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell, 2024

 

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Ry Levey, filmmaker

A Lion In The House, Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, 2006

Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, 2017

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

 

Pedro Lima de Andrade, film critic

exergue- on documenta 14, Dimitris Athyridis, 2024

The Gleaners and I, Agnés Varda, 2000

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Bing Liu, filmmaker

In A Dream, Jeremiah Zagar, 2008

Cover-Up, Laura Poitras, 2025

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

 

D. Taylor Loeb, actor/CD/doc lover

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta, 2001

The Staircase, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, 2004

 

KIM Longinotto, filmmaker

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

Lac-Mégantic: This Is Not an Accident, Philippe Falardeau, 2023

The Alabama Solution, Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, 2025

 

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Jordan Lord, filmmaker

A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia, 2021

If From Every Tongue it Drips, Sharlene Bamboat, 2021

Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, 2010

 

Monika Lostakova, film producer, festival programmer

Anhell69, Theo Montoya, 2022

Hollywoodgate, Ibrahim Nash'at, 2023

Space Dogs, Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, 2019

 

Cynthia Lukas, filmmaker

My Octopus Teacher, Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, 2020

Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore, 2015

 

Mackenzie Lukenbill, archivist and editor

In Order Not to Be Here, Deborah Stratman, 2002

Risk, Laura Poitras, 2016

Weiner, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, 2016

 

Matt Mace, documentary super fan

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Honeyland, Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019

My Octopus Teacher, Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, 2020

 

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Jonathan Mackris, critic

Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, 2003

General Report II. The New Abduction of Europe, Pere Portabella, 2015

This is Paris Too, Lech Kowalski, 2020

 

Saffron Maeve, critic

In Order Not to Be Here, Deborah Stratman, 2002

My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin, 2007

Shakedown, Leilah Weinraub, 2018

 

Stephanie Mardesich, festival director/founder and critic journalist

Crows Of The Desert: A Hero's Journey Through The Armenian Genocide, Marta Houske, 2016

Amy, Asif Kapadia, 2015

The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Randy Barbato, 2000

 

Eric Marin, filmmaker

The Silence Before Bach, Pere Portabella, 2007

 

James Marsh, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

 

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Scott Martin, editor

Finding Vivian Maier, John Mallory and Charlie Siskel, 2013

Shirkers, Sandi Tan, 2018

 

Vanessa Maruskin, archival producer

All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen, 2022

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Let The Fire Burn, Jason Osder, 2013

 

Carly Mattox, critic

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

The Cats of Mirikitani, Linda Hattendorf, 2006

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, 2022

 

Catherine McKenzie, filmmaker

20 Feet from Stardom, Morgan Neville, 2013

March of the Penguins, Luc Jacquet, 2005

13th, Ava DuVernay, 2016

 

Betsy McLane, documentary historian/writer

The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003

Restrepo, Tim Hetherington, 2010

Tower, Keith Maitland, 2016

 

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Arthur McMillan

Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013

Amy, Asif Kapadia, 2015

Kedi, Ceyda Torun, 2016

 

Stephan Meeks, composer

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Johan Grimonprez, 2024

Exterminate All the Brutes, Raoul Peck, 2021

Respect My Crown: The Rise of African American Women in California Politics, Pamela Bright-Moon, 2024

 

Robin Menken, screenwriter, producer, film historian, and film critic

Enemies of the People, Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin, 2009

Our Daily Bread, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005

LA 92, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, 2017

 

Davi Merchan, journalist and documentary filmmaker

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019

Welcome to Chechnya, David France, 2020

 

Hind Mezaina, artist, film curator, and writer

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Filmfarsi, Ehsan Khoshbakht, 2019

Henry Fonda For President, Alexander Horwath, 2024

 

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Barbara Miller, filmmaker

#Female Pleasure, Barbara Miller, 2018

Wisdom of Happiness, Philip Delaquis and Barbara Miller, 2024

The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003

 

Peter Miller, filmmaker

The Central Park Five, David McMahon and Sarah Burns and Ken Burns, 2012

Summer of Soul, Questlove, 2021

American Coup: Wilmington 1898, Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen, 2024

 

Michael Monteabaro

Honeyland, Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019

The Tale of Silyan, Tamara Kotevska, 2025

 

Luke W. Moody, selector

Anhell69, Theo Montoya, 2022

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

The Human Surge, Eduardo Williams, 2016

 

Alexander Mooney, critic, filmmaker

Ten Skies, James Benning, 2004

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee, 2006

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

 

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Liv Moore

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, 2022

Time, Garrett Bradley, 2020

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

 

Jenni Morello, director and cinematographer

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Anna Hints, 2023

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

 

Lizz Morhaim, filmmaker

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), Jason Kohn, 2007

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Rebuilding Paradise, Ron Howard, 2020

 

Zoë Morrison, filmmaker

Undefeated, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, 2011

LA 92, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, 2017

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Jane Mote, funder and filmmaker

The Mole Agent, Maite Alberdi, 2020

For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Anna Hints, 2023

 

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Mariko Munro, filmmaker

Inside the Red Brick Wall, Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers, 2020

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

 

Vikram Murthi, writer and critic

The Task, Leigh Ledare, 2017

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

 

Basia Myszynski, filmmaker

The Keepers, Ryan White, 2017

Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin, Camille Juza and Yal Sadat, 2021

Communion, Anna Zamecka, 2016

 

Edward Nachtrieb, filmmaker

An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, 2006

Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock, 2004

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

 

Carol Nahra, journalist and lecturer

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Benjamin Ree, 2024

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

 

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Mary Nail, filmmaker

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Kurt Kuenne, 2008

The First Wave, Matthew Heineman, 2021

Free Solo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2018

 

Trent Nakamura, filmmaker and festival operations coordinator

Minding the Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021

Welcome to Chechnya, David France, 2020

 

Dale Nelson, entertainment lawyer and author

Grand Theft Hamlet, Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, 2024

Mayor, David Osit, 2020

Greatest Night in Pop, Bao Nguyen, 2024

 

Iris Ng, cinematographer

Minding The Gap, Bing Liu, 2018

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

Random Acts Of Legacy, Ali Kazimi, 2016

 

Bill Nichols, writer

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

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Peter Nicks, filmmaker

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

 

Ruun Nuur, documentary programmer

Jenin Jenin, Mohammad Bakri, 2002

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

Kony 2012, Jason Russell, 2012

 

Roger Nygard, filmmaker

The Social Dilemma, Jeff Orlowski, 2020

An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, 2006

The Nature of Existence, Roger Nygard, 2009

 

Claire Ogden

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

Hummingbirds, Estefanía Contreras and Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, 2023

 

Wilfred Okiche, critic

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Time, Garrett Bradley, 2021

 

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Wen Chi Olcel, lecturer

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

The Chinese Mayor, Zhou Hao, 2015

Japan: A Story of Love and Hate, Sean McAllister, 2008

 

Jason Osder, filmmaker and professor

The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003

The Oath, Laura Poitras, 2010

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

 

Kathy Ou, critic

Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021

Under the Dome, Fan Ming, 2015

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Derrick Owens, filmmaker

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Adriana Pacheco, filmmaker

Philly D.A., Ted Passon and Yoni Brook, 2021

2000 Miles to Andriivka, Mstyslav Chernov, 2025

My Undesirable Friends, Julia Loktev, 2024

 

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Gabriel M. Paletz, film teacher, historian, writer, critic, and programmer

A CERTAIN KIND OF DEATH, Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh, 2003

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

State Funeral, Sergei Loznitsa, 2019

 

Stephanie Palumbo, producer/impact strategist

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Three Promises, Yousef Srouji, 2023

Unseen, Laura Paglin, 2016

 

Luiza Parvu, filmmaker, professor

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Collective, Alexander Nanau, 2019

 

Tony Pemberton, filmmaker/professor

Mediha, Hasan Oswald, 2023

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, 2022

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy, 2010

 

Aron Penczu, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Senna, Asif Kapadia, 2010

Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog, 2011

 

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Gabor Pertic, programmer

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019

Name Me Lawand, Edward Lovelace, 2022

 

Savina Petkova, critic, programmer, scholar

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

The Oath, Laura Poitras, 2010

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

 

Vladan Petkovic, critic/programmer

The Land of the Enlightened, Pieter-Jan de Pue, 2016

The Other Side of Everything, Mila Turajlić, 2017

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Alex Pritz

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Banu Ramazanova, producer

Honeyland, Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

Behemoth, Zhao Liang, 2015

 

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Preston Randolph

Dina, Dan Sickles, 2017

Gleason, Clay Tweel, 2016

Weiner, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, 2016

 

Nicolas Rapold

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

National Gallery, Frederick Wiseman, 2014

 

Emma Ratliff, filmmaker

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras, 2022

The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003

Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta, 2001

 

Yair Raveh, critic and filmmaker

Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008

Touching The Void, Kevin Macdonald, 2003

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

 

Kiva Reardon, writer, producer

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee, 2006

Witches, Elizabeth Sankey, 2024

Off Frame, Revolution Until Victory dir Mohanad Yaqubi, 2015

 

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Tracy Rector, filmmaker

13th, Ava DuVernay, 2016

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, 2024

 

Lucía Requejo, critic

Aquí se construye (o ya no existe el lugar donde nací), Ignacio Agüero, 2000

The Blonds, Albertina Carri, 2003

Canuto's Transformation, Ernesto de Carvalho and Ariel Kuaray Ortega, 2023

 

Cheryl Revkin

The Rescue, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2021

The Story of the Weeping Camel, Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, 2003

 

Patrick Reynolds, filmmaker

The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003

Restrepo, Tim Hetherington, 2010

Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012

 

Soheil Rezayazdi, cultural worker

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

 

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Michael Riccardi, film buff and festival screener

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

 

Lucia Ricciardelli-Fossi, professor and documentary filmmaker

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Yoruba Richen, filmmaker

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

The Weather Underground, Sam Green and Bill Siegel, 2002

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

 

Barbara Rick, filmmaker, journalist

Billy Joel: And So It Goes, Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, 2025

Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012

A Small Act, Jennifer Arnold, 2010

 

Thomas Rigler, filmmaker

My Country My Country, Laura Poitras, 2006

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

Dig!, Ondi Timoner, 2004

 

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Marcia Rock

Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang, 2016

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, Deborah Dickson and Susan Froemke and Albert Maysles, 2001

Jesus Camp, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2016

 

Andrew Ross, music supervisor, producer

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

The Beatles: Get Back, Peter Jackson, 2021

Man on Wire, James Marsh, 2008

 

Bonnie Rowan, media historian, archival media researcher

9/11, Jules and Gédéon Naudet, 2002

The Rape of Europa, Richard Berge and Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen, 2006

Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands, Rita Coburn, 2022

 

Pepe Ruiloba, film critic

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

Beyond Utopia, Madeleine Gavin, 2023

 

Nicole Salazar, filmmaker

The Perfect Neighbor, Geeta Gandbhir, 2025

The Above, Kirsten Johnson, 2015

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, Johan Grimonprez, 2024

 

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Mariana Sanson, writer

Los Reyes del Pueblo que no existe, Betzabé García, 2015

A Fidai Film, Kamal Aljafari, 2024

Through The Graves The Wind Is Blowing, Travis Wilkerson, 2024

 

Sudipto Sanyal, writer

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Jiro Dreams of Sushi, David Gelb, 2011

Katiyabaaz, Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, 2013

 

Cierah Sargent, filmmaker and anthropologist

Hale County This Morning This Evening, RaMell Ross, 2018

Sweetgrass, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

 

Elias Savada, critic

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

 

Hilari Scarl, filmmaker

The Corporation, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, 2003

Marewencol, Jeff Malmberg, 2010

See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary, Hilari Scarl, 2009

 

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Dennis Scheyer, creative director/writer, producer

Summer of Soul, Questlove, 2021

An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, 2006

Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, 2012

 

Dan Schindel

The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Ta'ang, Wang Bing, 2016

 

Chris Schmidt, agent

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

Silver Dollar Road, Raoul Peck, 2023

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Ken Schneider, documentary director and editor

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

 

Sarah Schoellkopf, filmmaker and academic

Norita, Jayson McNamara and Andrea Carbonatto, 2023

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Robert Stone, 2004

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

 

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Nathalie Seaver

The Perfect Neighbor, Geeta Gandbhir, 2025

Summer of Soul, Questlove, 2021

The Jinx, Andrew Jarecki, 2015

 

Ishita Sengupta, critic

All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen, 2022

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

Dick Johnson is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, 2020

 

Rachael Sevilla, archivist

Haulout, Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev, 2022

Free Solo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 2018

The Mother of All Lies, Asmae El Moudir, 2023

 

Sky Sitney, festival director

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, 2022

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

 

Öykü Sofuoğlu, film critic

La Commune (Paris, 1871), Peter Watkins, 2000

Dead Souls, Wang Bing, 2018

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, Pedro Costa, 2001

 

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Steven Solomon

An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, 2006

The U.S. and the Holocaust, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, 2022

Three Minutes: A Lengthening, Bianca Stigter, 2022

 

Evan Stewart, cinephile

Mr. Bachmann and His Class, Maria Speth, 2021

Haulout, Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev, 2022

Incident, Bill Morrison, 2023

 

Nora Stone, professor and filmmaker

Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, 2013

Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Gabrielle Brady, 2018

Northern Light, Nick Bentgen, 2013

 

Mark Storey, documentary fan and connoisseur

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Bully, Lee Hirsch, 2011

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, 2009

 

Abby Sun, writer and producer

In Vanda's Room, Pedro Costa, 2000

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, Rithy Panh, 2003

De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2022

 

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Ryan Swen, critic

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2004

The Trap, Adam Curtis, 2007

Manakamana, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013

 

Olha Symonenko, filmmaker

A Family Affair, Tom Fassaert, 2015

Workingman's Death, Michael Glawogger, 2005

Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi, 2016

 

Nitsan Tal, filmmaker

Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023

13th, Ava DuVernay, 2016

To Kill a Tiger, Nisha Pahuja, 2022

 

Nicholas Tana, filmmaker

Sticky: A (Self) Love Story, Nicholas Tana, 2016

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Kirby Dick, 2006

 

Jeromiah Taylor, writer and editor

Dead Hands Dig Deep, Jai Love, 2016

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne, 2017

I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, 2016

 

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Luke Y. Thompson, film critic

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, 2002

Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008

Flipside, Christopher Wilcha, 2023

 

John Thornton, filmmaker

A Thousand Cuts, Ramona S. Díaz, 2020

Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, 2008

Period. End of Sentence, Rayka Zehtabchi, 2018

 

Fernanda Tornaghi, filmmaker

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, 2009

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

 

H. Nelson Tracey, director/editor

Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, 2016

Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison, 2016

Tower, Keith Maitland, 2016

 

Raquel Tresvant, filmmaker

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee, 2006

Roadrunner, Morgan Neville, 2021

Amy, Asif Kapadia, 2015

 

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Matt Turner, writer and editor

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas, 2000

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Wang Bing, 2002

 

Mary Ungerleider, filmmaker

Cutting Through Rocks, Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, 2025

The Fog of War, Errol Morris, 2003

 

Persheng Vaziri, professor and writer

The Gleaners And I, Agnés Varda, 2000

The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzmán, 2015

All That Breathes, Asif Kapadia, 2022

 

Pacho Velez, filmmaker and professor

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2004

Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012

O'er the Land, Deborah Stratman, 2009

 

Eva Vitija, filmmaker

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012

The Green Prince, Nadav Schirman, 2014

Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008

 

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Sonya Vseliubska, film critic, scholar

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, 2016

This Rain Will Never Stop, Alina Gorlova, 2020

 

Clayton Walter

Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros, Frederick Wiseman, 2023

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

At Berkeley, Frederick Wiseman, 2013

 

Kent Wilhelm, film journalist, critic

The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, 2017

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, 2014

No Other Land, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2024

 

Aaron Willcott

O.J.: Made In America, Ezra Edelman, 2016

Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, 2017

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

 

Rachel-Anne Younger, non-fiction storyteller

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Six Billion Dollar Man, Eugene Jarecki, 2025

The Jinx, Andrew Jarecki, 2015

 

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Han Yan Yuen, filmmaker

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012

Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005

Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, 2017

 

Susan Zachary, filmmaker

Navalny, Daniel Roher, 2022

Porcelain War, Slava Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo, 2024

We Will Dance Again, Yariv Mozer, 2024