Distant Constellation is a 2017 documentary film directed by Shevaun Mizrahi. [1] It was nominated for a 2018 Independent Spirit Award and included in Film Comment's Best Undistributed Films of 2017. The film was produced by Deniz Buga and Shelly Grizim. [2] [3]
It received many awards both in the US and internationally, including the International Documentary Association Best Cinematography Award. It is also nominated for two Cinema Eye Honor Awards. The details on the awards are below:
Some other awards that the documentary won are:
— "Distant Constellation is one of the more exciting achievements in nonfiction cinema in recent memory... Soulful, humorous, visually delicate." [8]
— "A quiet gem." [9]
— "A master class in the art of the portrait." [10]
— "A dazzling study of age and memory." [11]
— "Funny, startling and touching... Dreamlike... an unusually warm, complex and illuminating picture." [12]
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