Golden Globe Award-winning documentary filmmakers Eugene Jarecki and Ross McElwee celebrated with a cocktail reception in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
Established by the Golden Globe Awards and the Artemis Rising Foundation, the award honors nonfiction filmmakers whose work “demonstrates both outstanding creative value and a keen potential to inspire positive social change.”
Jarecki and McElwee each received a custom Golden Globe half-statue with an inscription from the Artemis Rising Foundation.
artemis “There is an urgent need for more nonfiction works to be created, appreciated, and seen,” said Regina K. Scully, Founder and CEO of the Rising Foundation. “This award is an extension of the Artemis Rising Foundation’s decades of work championing powerful stories about the most difficult social justice issues of our time. We hope this will help further spotlight these incredible creative works.”
Jarecki won the inaugural award at the Cannes Film Festival, where his documentary about Julian Assange, The Six Billion Dollar Man, won the festival’s Li’l d’Or. McElwee’s Remake, a deeply personal film that explores his journey as a filmmaker as well as the life of his son Adrian, who tragically died of drug abuse, won the award at the Venice Film Festival.
A further key collaborator is Think-Film Impact Production, which has been central to the award’s creation and attention at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, with an overall mission to “ensure that powerful independent films resonate broadly to change society for the better.”
