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‘Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit’ Wins $200K Library Of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Documentary Prize

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EXCLUSIVE: Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit, directed by Sam Katz and James McGovern, swept the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a three-year-old documentary award that carries a finishing grant of $200,000.The winning entry explores the decline of the American manufacturing city culminating in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S.

history in 2013 and its aftermath.Directors of runner-up Free Chol Soo Lee, Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, will receive $50,000 for their story of a Korean immigrant wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder in San Francisco in 1973.

Four finalists will be awarded $25,000 apiece.Filmmakers from Ken Burns’ production company Florentine Films and staff from the National

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