Watchers of the Sky is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Edet Belzberg.[1][2] The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014 in the U.S. Documentary Competition.[3] It won the two awards at the festival.[4][5] It went on to win the Jonathan Daniels Award at the Monadnock International Film Festival[6] and the Ostrovsky Award for Best Documentary Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival.[7]
The film received positive response from critics. Dennis Harvey, in his review for Variety, wrote that "Edet Belzberg's sweeping survey of global genocide is an impressive and artful cinematic thesis of palpable substance."[15]Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film positive review and said that "An exhaustive, complex look at genocide with a sobering and historically predictable prognosis."[16]Steve Greene from Indiewire, in his review, wrote that "As a documentary, "Watchers of the Sky” shows how even capturing that progress is a monumental task in itself."[17]Amber Wilkinson, in her review for Eye for Film, gave the film four stars out of four and said that "There is quite a lot of onscreen reading to be done as well as watching, but the passages of Lemkin that Belzberg chooses are always well-illustrated either by the animation or archival footage."[18]Entertainment Weekly called it "fiery" and "essential" and Joshua Brunsting of Criterioncast.com named it one of 2014's best and said it was "a tour-de-force." The film did also receive the Cinema for Peace Award for Justice in 2016.[19][20]
Accolades
Watchers of the Sky, won the Editing Award: U.S. Documentary and
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