The SD Gunner Fund hosted their second annual Charity Sporting Clay Shoot on April 17 at the Dorchester Shooting Preserve.
Cruising past large industrial sites on Sunbury Road in Midway, I hit a gravel road lined with skinny pine trees to find a rustic clubhouse filled with SD Gunner volunteers and supporters. Greeting me is SDGF founder and CEO
Britnee Kinard, a veteran advocate for wounded warriors with such a varied past that I have to share it.
“I studied recording industry management and entertainment law in college, then worked as a vice president at JP Morgan Bank before being a caretaker for my husband,
Alexander Nanau’s
Collective took the top award at the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors, winning outstanding achievement in non-fiction filmmaking, while Kristen Johnson won the outstanding direction honor for her film
Dick Johnson Is Dead.
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s feature-length documentary
American Factory secured both awards during last year’s event. The film later went on to win best documentary feature at the 2020 Oscars.
Garrett Bradley’s
Welcome to Chechnya received honors for outstanding production and outstanding broadcast film.
Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s Boys State received the audience choice prize.
All five films are on the Oscars shortlist for best documentary feature.
Sian Heder’s “CODA,” one of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s opening-day screenings, was the big winner at the awards ceremony Tuesday night. The film took home the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, as well as the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast. Heder was also honored with the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award.
Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo by Seacia Pavao
A dramatic feature about the only member of a family who can hear and a documentary about a forgotten 1969 music festival stole the hearts of viewers and swept the top honors Tuesday night during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival award ceremony.