Ascension Receives Six Critics Choice Nominations
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The Critics Choice Association has announced the nominees for the Sixth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards. The winners will be revealed at a gala on Sunday, November 14, in Brooklyn, New York.
At Chicken & Egg Pictures, we are egg-cited to learn that three (Egg)celerator Lab grantees were nominated: Pray Away, Enemies of the State, and Ascension. Ascension is one of the two documentaries leading the Awards with six nominations each.
Ascension
dir. & prod. Jessica Kingdon
prods. Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
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Nominated for Best Documentary Feature, Best Director, Best First Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Score
Pray Away
dir. & prod. Kristine Stolakis
prod. Jessica Devaney and Anya Rous
![Still from Pray Away](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PRAY-AWAY-Primary-Still-1-1024x576.jpg)
Nominated for Best First Documentary Feature
Enemies of the State
dir. Sonnia Kennebeck
prod. Ines Hofmann Kanna
![Enemies of the State Sonia Kennebeck 2018 Accelerator Lab](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AL-2018_EnemiesOfTheState_still-anonymous-1024x735.jpg)
Nominated for Best Political Documentary
Special Congratulations
Listening to Kenny G, directed by 2017 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Penny Lane, and produced by Gabriel Sedgwick, received a nomination for Best Music Documentary.
A special congratulations to our Board member Susan Margolin, producer of A Crime on the Bayou (dir. & prod. Nancy Buirski, prods. Claire L. Chandler & Susan Margolin). The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature and Best Historical or Biographical Documentary.
Post by Communications Intern Mariana Sanson.
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