CRIP CAMP: A Disability Revolution has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film also recently won Best Feature at the International Documentary Awards, as well as the 2021 duPont-Columbia Award for excellence in journalism. Read more here.

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Try Harder! will have its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. Documentary Competition. It is one of only ten feature documentaries selected. Read more here.

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A new film from FRONTLINE explores how the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers. From award-winning filmmakers Daffodil Altan & Andrés Cediel, the film offers stories from the pandemic’s invisible victims, including crucial farm and meat-packing workers who lack protections and have been getting sick. Check local listings and watch the trailer here.

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CRIP CAMP wins the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Read more here.

The film plays festivals in New York, Miami, Newport, Camden, Columbia, Copenhagen and London before its premiere on Netflix on March 25th.

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Andrew Gersh has edited many stories for the PBS news magazine series FRONTLINE/World, including:

Cambodia: Pol Pot’s Shadow, produced by Amanda Pike

Venezuela: A Nation On Edge, produced by Doug Hamilton

Liberia: No More War, produced by Jessie Deeter

Japan: The Slow Life, produced by Jason Cohn

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Shalom Ireland is a feature documentary that explores Ireland’s remarkable, yet little known Jewish community. From gun running for the Irish Republican Army during Ireland’s War of Independence to smuggling fellow Jews escaping from the Holocaust into Palestine, the film tells the untold story of how Irish Jews participated in the creation and development of both Ireland and Israel. Directed by Valerie Lapin Ganley.  U.S. Premiere at the 2003 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

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National Geographic Channel’s Explorer offers viewers a surprisingly intimate portrait of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in its twilight. In a special two-hour episode premiering in April 2009, Explorer: Inside Guantanamo goes behind the razor wire to document what life is really like for the detainees and the military personnel who guard them.

Explorer’s crew spent nearly three weeks inside the prison, documenting the pressurized interaction and contest of wills among soldiers and detainees, as well as briefings and operations that have previously been off-limits. The film includes candid interviews with troopers at Guantanamo, top officials who believe there is an active al-Qaeda cell in the facility, a former interrogator and former detainees, as well as attorneys representing those still being held.

Directed by Jon Else and Bonni Cohen.

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“Over the past four years, (George) Lucas and Paramount Home Video have pumped millions of dollars into reframing “Young Indiana” as a lavish, three-volume library of DVDs with a staggering number of extras, including 94 highly polished documentaries on famous people and moments in history… The best part of the DVD series may be the new documentaries, which were led by CBS News veteran David Schneider.” ~ Geoff Boucher, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Andrew Gersh edited multiple documentaries in the series of 94 produced by JAK Films/Lucasfilm, Ltd.

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Andrew Gersh has edited many behind-the-scenes documentaries for Lucasfilm, Ltd. on the making of the prequel films in the Star Wars saga. Released as special features on DVD and Blu-ray worldwide.

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In a four-part special series, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. Through interviews with key figures in print, broadcast and electronic media over the past four decades — and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of today’s most important news organizations, FRONTLINE traces the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration’s attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press, to the new challenges presented by the war on terror and other global forces now changing — and challenging — the role of the press in our society.

In part three of “News War,” entitled “What’s Happening to the News”, Lowell Bergman examines the mounting pressure for profits faced by America’s network news divisions and daily newspapers, as well as growing challenges from cable television and the Internet. Bergman talks to network executives, newspaper editors and publishers, bloggers, Wall Street analysts and key players at Google and Yahoo! about the battle for market dominance in a rapidly changing world.

Produced by Stephen Talbot and Lowell Bergman. Watch the entire program at PBS/FRONTLINE.

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