Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Wraps 32nd Edition, With Awards Going To ‘Between The Rains,’ ‘The Echo’ And More
deadline.comBetween the Rains and The Echo are among the big winners at the prestigious Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.
Between the Rains, directed by Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira, won Best Documentary Feature at the 32nd edition of Hot Springs, the longest running all-doc festival in North America.
The film centers on the Turkana-Ngaremara community of Kenya, living with the intense effects of a warming planet. The feature documentary jury said in a statement, “Through incredible images and extraordinary immersion into a rural area in northern Kenya, this stunning film tells a captivating coming of age story set in a community whose very existence is threatened by climate change.” Jurors in that category (filmmaker Amman Abbasi; Niketa Reed, founder and executive director, “Arkansas Soul,” and documentary film consultant Michael Lumpkin) awarded Honorable Mention to the new Roger Ross Williams documentary Stamped From the Beginning, a feature based on the bestselling book by Dr.
Ibram X. Kendi. They hailed the Netflix film as “both comprehensive and illuminating in its approach, that illustrates the history of anti-black ideologies and the severe impact they have had on generations of Black Americans.” The Critics Prize jury (on which I served, alongside Variety’s chief critic Peter Debruge and Lauren Wissot, contributing editor at Filmmaker magazine and Documentary magazine) chose as its winner The Echo, directed by Tatiana Huezo.
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