Stanley Nelson’s Attica (pictured), Robert Greene’s Procession and the Oscar-winning short The Queen of Basketball are among the documentary nominees for the 82nd annual Peabody Awards. Meanwhile, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Academy .
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Nanfu Wang follows One Child Nation with an eye-opening investigation for HBO of the COVID-19 outbreak and the common thread of misinformation from both Chinese and American leaders.
In the closing moments of her blistering account of government and media mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in both China and the U.S., director Nanfu Wang says: I have lived under authoritarianism and I have lived in a society that calls itself free; in both systems, ordinary people become casualties of their leaders pursuit of power. Like last year s
76 Days, the first half of Wang s film is an urgently immersive recap of the chaos that gripped Wuhan at the start of the outbreak in early 2020. The second half turns its haunted gaze to the arrival of the virus on American shores, and the refusal to heed ample warning signs and contain the foreseeable spread.
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Currently Reading In the Same Breath Review: Nanfu Wang s Disquieting Look at the Early Days of COVID in Wuhan
The director s personal and anecdotal approach to documentary illuminates the pandemic from the ground up.
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Director: Nanfu Wang
With: Runzhen Chen, Mingxing Tao, Yingjun Ding, The Li Zhou Family, Diana Torres, Dawn Kulach, Peien Liu, Wenbing Tao, Yawen Wang, The Wusinski Family, Adam Witt, Nicole Warring.
Now that we’re a year into the pandemic (and have a presidential administration that’s forging a sane response to it), the time feels right for taking stock for looking back, in a big-picture way, at how the crisis unfolded, the ways it was mismanaged, and how we can learn from the vast pileup of mistakes and corruption. Nanfu Wang, the director of the wounding and disturbing Sundance documentary “In the Same Breath,” has made exactly that kind of movie. But Wang, the Chinese-America
Sundance ’21: Director Nanfu Wang talks COVID-19 doc “In the Same Breath”
Late January of last year, before much of the world would come to know the virus that had just sent the city of Wuhan into lockdown, Nanfu Wang and her One . January 29, 2021
Late January of last year, before much of the world would come to know the virus that had just sent the city of Wuhan into lockdown, Nanfu Wang and her
One Child Nation producer Jialing Zhang, sharing feelings of helplessness at the Chinese government’s handling of the outbreak, decided to partner again on a new film.