New York Women in Film & Television is happy to share that fifteen of our members have been nominated in a variety of categories for the 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards!
The winners will be presented in two ceremonies on September 25th and 26th in New York. The news categories will be presented on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. The documentary categories will be presented on Thursday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m. EDT.
The News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City, and will be streamed live on NATAS’ dedicated viewing platform powered by Vimeo, available on the web at watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku.
The nominations below are sorted by category.
Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis: Editorial & Opinion
We Went to Puerto Rico: The Inequality We Saw Will Shock You
Producer & Host – NYWIFT Member Natasha Del Toro
Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form
How a 1986 Student Protest Fueled A Chicano Rights Movement
Archival Producer – NYWIFT Member Rebecca Losick
Outstanding Recorded News Special
How Saba Kept Singing
Archival Producer – NYWIFT Member Rebecca LoSick
Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
Nothing But the Truth
Associate Producer – NYWIFT Member Madeline Johnson
Outstanding Editing: News
Failure at the Fence
Director & Producer – NYWIFT Member Gabrielle Schonder
Outstanding Business, Consumer, or Economic Coverage
America’s Dangerous Trucks
Director, Writer & Producer – NYWIFT Member Gabrielle Schonder
Outstanding Crime and Justice and Coverage
Inside Iran: What Happened to Iran’s Women-led Uprising?
Producer – NYWIFT Member Gelareh Kiazand
Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Director – NYWIFT Member Yael Melamede
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
Director – NYWIFT Member Dawn Porter
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Every Body
Director – NYWIFT Member Julie Cohen
Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Director, Producer – NYWIFT Member Lisa Cortes
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis
Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary
Chowchilla
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis
Outstanding Short Documentary
Deciding Vote
Cinematography – NYWIFT Member Karen Rodriguez
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins
Producer – NYWIFT Member Lauren Wimbush
Last Song from Kabul
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins
Best Documentary
Mourning in Lod
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins
Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Mala Chapple
Science Fair: The Series
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Jessie Findlay
Outstanding Direction: Documentary
Another Body
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Ruth Ann Harnisch
Victim / Suspect
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Carolyn Hepburn
Outstanding Research: Documentary
Victim / Suspect
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Carolyn Hepburn
The Lady Bird Diaries
Director – NYWIFT Member Dawn Porter
Outstanding Editing: Documentary
Director, Producer – NYWIFT Member Lisa Cortes
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis
Outstanding Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design: Documentary
Chowchilla
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Amy Entelis
Outstanding Sound: Documentary
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Mala Chapple
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Mala Chapple