A Warm Congratulations to all of our DFP grantees nominated for an Oscar!
From a pool of 89 feature-length documentaries eligible for Oscar consideration this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary screening committee narrowed the decision to a final 15. The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home) and Mai Iskander (Garbage Dreams), for officially making the 2009 Oscar Short List.
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Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa (Director)
As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.
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Garbage Dreams
Mai Iskander (director)
The Zabbaleen people are trash collectors and proud of it. This community of around 60,000 Coptic Christians inhabits a suburb of Cairo. For generations, they have been collecting, sorting, processing and recycling the trash this metropolis produces. Garbage Dreams follows three Zabbaleen boys as they each find their own ways to deal with the new challenges facing them — by either working harder or joining their rivals.
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The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to extend a further congratulations to all the films and filmmakers previously supported by the Sundance Institute who have also made the Oscar Short List:
Burma VJ (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director: Anders Østergaard (Magic Hour Films)
http://burmavjmovie.com/
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The Cove (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director: Louie Psihoyos (Oceanic Preservation Society)
http://thecovemovie.com/
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Sergio (Sundance Film Festival, 2009)
Director Greg Barker (Passion Pictures and Silverbridge Productions)
http://www.sergiothemovie.com/