Will Social Issue Docs Like ‘Beyond Utopia’ and ‘Four Daughters’ Snag Oscar Noms This Year?
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor This year’s Oscar feature documentary shortlist is made up of a group of 15 films that, by and large, big streamers aren’t interested in sharing with subscribers.
Six films that made it to the shortlist — Lea Glob’s “Apolonia, Apolonia,” Nancy Buirski’s “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy,” Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters,” Maciek Hamela’s “In the Rearview,” Luke Lorentzen’s “A Still Small Voice” and Sam Green’s “32 Sounds” — have theatrical distribution, but were not picked up by a major streaming company such as Netflix, Amazon or Apple TV+.
Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” one of a number of social-issue docs on this year’s shortlist, was theatrically released via PBS distribution and played on “Frontline” earlier this year.
Roadside Attractions picked up Madeleine Gavin’s “Beyond Utopia,” about a family trying to defect from North Korea, for a limited release and the doc will soon screen on PBS’ “Independent Lens” and stream on Hulu as a special presentation.
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