Engaging Conversation with Oscar Contenders: Exploring ‘The Tale of Silyan,’ ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,’ and ‘Cover-Up’ on the Doc Talk Podcast
Oscar documentary branch members are set to vote on their shortlists beginning Monday, with a record-breaking 201 feature documentaries in consideration. Following the voting process, this extensive list will be narrowed down to just 15 finalists eligible for an Oscar nomination.
In an interview, director Sepideh Farsi discussed her documentary, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, and her connection with its subject, Fatma Hassouna, a Palestinian photographer and poet enduring the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Tragically, Hassouna and her family lost their lives in an Israeli missile strike just one day after Farsi’s film was accepted for premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, now in his late 80s, continues his groundbreaking work on Gaza, driven by the same relentless spirit that defined his reporting on the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. Hersh’s career is explored in Cover-Up, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras. Poitras revealed the tumultuous reaction from the Nixon White House when Hersh joined the New York Times and shared insights into why he began investigating even his peers at the paper.
The documentary Cover-Up premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will open in U.S. theaters on December 19, followed by a Netflix premiere on December 26.
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