Sam Pollard Doubles His Chance of Winning This Year’s Lavine/Ken Burns Annual Prize From the Library of Congress

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Addie Morfoot Contributor The Better Angels Society, the Library of Congress, and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation have selected six finalists for the fifth annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.

Notably, veteran filmmaker Sam Pollard received two of the six noms. The award, established in 2019, recognizes late-stage documentaries that use original research and a compelling narrative to tell stories that bring American history to life through archival materials.

The six projects that were selected are: Barak Goodman’s “Buckley,” Nicole London’s “The Disappearance of Miss. Scott,” Sam Pollard’s “The Harvest,” Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn’s “Drop Dead City – New York on the Brink in 1975,” Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro’s “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes,” and Jason Cohn’s “Modernism Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story.” This year 125 American history documentary features were submitted for consideration. “We’ve seen time and again what a powerful tool a great historical documentary can be in sparking long overdue national conversations that are critical to how we understand the present,” says Ken Burns. “Thanks to the generous support of Jeannie and Jonathan Levine, and with the participation of the Library of Congress and The Better Angels Society, this prize was established to address the crucial need for finishing funds among documentarians making films about American history, in a similar vein of my work over the years.

Five years on, we continue to be amazed by the quality of the film submissions and the diversity of their topics as evidenced by this each of these terrific films.”The winning filmmaker will receive $200,000 in finishing funds to help with the final production and