Sisters With Transistors by Lisa Rovner (photo: Peggy Weil)
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced October 26 the 14 films that are longlisted in the Best Documentary category. Ten of the 14 documentaries are directed or co-directed by women and non-binary filmmakers. The final five nominations will be announced on Wednesday 3 November. Winners will be revealed at the BIFA ceremony on Sunday 5 December.
The longlisted documentaries are:
- Bank Job Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell (prod: Christopher Hird)
- Cow by Andrea Arnold (prod: Kat Mansoor)
- Dying to Divorce by Chloë Fairweather (prod: Sinead Kirwan)
- El Father Plays Himself by Mo Scarpelli (prod: Manon Ardisson, Rodrigo Michelangeli)
- Finding Jack Charlton by Gabriel Clarke, Pete Thomas (prod: John McKenna, Torquil Jones, Drew Masters, Catherine Quantschnigg)
- Hostile by Sonita Gale
- I Am Belmaya by Sue Carpenter, Belmaya Nepali (prod: Christopher Hird)
- Keyboard Fantasies by Posy Dixon (prod: Liv Proctor)
- Misha and the Wolves by Sam Hobkinson (Poppy Dixon, Al Morrow, Matt Wells, Jurgen Buedts, Gregory Zalcman)
- Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché Paul Sng, Celeste Bell (prod: Zoë Howe, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Matthew Silverman, Daria Nitsche)
- The Real Charlie Chaplin by Pete Middleton, James Spinney (prod: Oliver Kindeberg, Mike Brett, John Battsek, Jo Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Ben Limberg)
- Rebel Dykes Harri Shanahan Siân A. Williams (prod: Siobhan Fahey)
- Sisters With Transistors by Lisa Rovner (prod: Anna Lena Vaney, Marcus Werner Hed)
- The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins (prod: Adam Dawtrey, Mary Bell)
