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Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
- 9/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Sir Ian McKellen will narrate a Channel 4 documentary about Muslim drag queens.
Muslim Drag Queens is a First Cut documentary from director Marcus Plowright that aims to offer an insight into the clandestine gay Asian community in Britain.
Commissioning editor David Brindley said: "This is an incredibly important, surprising and moving film.
"Those who have chosen to tell their stories have done so with immense bravery and speak so eloquently about the struggles they have faced.
"With piercing honesty, Muslim Drag Queens gets right to the heart of a community that have up until now remained hidden from the wider British public."
The film focuses on three of the estimated over 100 Muslim drag queens in the UK who aim to gain acceptance and tolerance within their wider community.
These people are 33-year-old gay rights activist and out Muslim drag queen Asif Quaraishi/Asifa Lahore.
"There is a whole community...
Muslim Drag Queens is a First Cut documentary from director Marcus Plowright that aims to offer an insight into the clandestine gay Asian community in Britain.
Commissioning editor David Brindley said: "This is an incredibly important, surprising and moving film.
"Those who have chosen to tell their stories have done so with immense bravery and speak so eloquently about the struggles they have faced.
"With piercing honesty, Muslim Drag Queens gets right to the heart of a community that have up until now remained hidden from the wider British public."
The film focuses on three of the estimated over 100 Muslim drag queens in the UK who aim to gain acceptance and tolerance within their wider community.
These people are 33-year-old gay rights activist and out Muslim drag queen Asif Quaraishi/Asifa Lahore.
"There is a whole community...
- 7/29/2015
- Digital Spy
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