Golden Globes and Artemis Rising Foundation have joined together in a new initiative at the Venice Film Festival to present an Impact Prize for Documentary. The prize honours a documentary feature film in the Biennale’s official selection, either in or out of competition, that can demonstrate journalistic and creative prowess, and advocacy towards a key social issue.
The winning documentary will be selected based on its “social importance, journalistic integrity, artistic creativity, and narrative disruption.” It will also receive a cash prize of USD 10,000 from Artemis Rising Foundation, as well as an impact collaboration with Think-Film Impact Production.
Nominated documentaries for the Prize include Kabul Between Prayers (Aboozar Amini); My Father and Qaddafi (Jihan K); Nuestra Tierra (Lucrecia Martel); Notes of a True Criminal (Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov); Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus); Below The Clouds(Gianfranco Rossi), and Remake (Ross McElwee).
Artemis Rising Foundation founder and CEO Regina K. Scully comments: “Artemis Rising Foundation is proud to shine a light on impactful documentaries in the Venice Film Festival. We believe that championing powerful stories is essential to inspire meaningful change. We are thrilled to collaborate with the Golden Globes and present this unique new prize to a documentary film in support of the genre.”
Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera adds: “Documentaries grow year after year in the consideration of the public and critics. For this reason, the new prize that Golden Globes and Artemis Rising Foundation will present to the best impact documentary on the occasion of the 82nd Venice Film Festival seems to me of great importance and value.”
Actor/musician Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight, When They See Us, Unstoppable) and actor Teo Yoo (Past Lives, The Recruit, Karoshi) will join an international jury whose members already demonstrate high commitment to social justice: Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne; Artemis Rising Foundation Founder and CEO Regina K. Scully; Academy-Award winning Producer and co-founder of Impact Partners, Geralyn White Dreyfous; Screenwriter Misan Sagay, Director Edoardo Ponti, and, CEO & Founder of Think-Film Impact Production Danielle Turkov Wilson.
Jharrel Jerome comments: “Real stories are what all of us want, and what the world needs – they inspire us, and challenge what we think can be possible. It’s exciting to see documentary storytelling on the rise, and to be part of what this award represents for the future of film.”
Teo Yoo adds: “The power of documentary filmmaking to reveal new sides to humanity encourages us to all be more curious about the world around us – it’s such an important art form and one that deserves greater recognition and opportunity; I’m deeply honoured to be part of this new award.”
