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Some of the entertainment industry's top filmmakers will go up against each other at the 76th Emmy Awards. Oscar winner Ron Howard's Jim Henson Idea Man earned eight Emmy nominations this morning, more than any other nonfiction contender in the race. The Disney+ film about the Muppets creator is…

As America grapples with the latest in a way-too-long series of Most Important Presidential Election Years in Our Lifetime, democracy and its fundamental building blocks – governance, consensus, civil discourse, the rule of law, the balance of power – face an equally foreboding precarity. Boomers and…

When filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss first spoke with friends about the focus of their Apple TV+ documentary Girls State — a companion piece to their Emmy- and Sundance-winning 2020 documentary Boys State — they were surprised to hear about the expectations it conjured in their…

As award-winning directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss prepared to shoot their new documentary Girls State, they had no way of knowing real-world events would intrude upon the production in a major way. Nor, of course, did their protagonists. Just as hundreds of young women in Missouri were…

TITLE: Girls StateSection: PremieresDirectors: Amanda McBaine, Jesse MossLogline: Teenage girls from wildly different backgrounds across Missouri navigate a week-long immersive experiment in American democracy, build a government from the ground up, and reimagine what it means to govern. Amanda McBaine…

The Mission tells the story of John Chau, a missionary who in 2018 attempted to bring Christianity to the indigenous people of remote North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. The Sentinelese killed him for intruding. Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine said they discovered that Chau's story…

Apple Original Films has set a new documentary feature Girls State, directed and produced by award-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine (Boys State, The Mission), and Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim's Concordia Studio. After the widely celebrated, Emmy Award-winning documentary Boys State…

Judging from talk in restaurants and on the Telluride gondola, one of the films provoking the strongest reaction at the festival this year is The Mission. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, tells the story of missionary John Chau whose shocking demise in 2018…

EXCLUSIVE: Tonight, Telluride hosts the world premiere of the National Geographic documentary The Mission, the riveting story of a young Christian missionary who set out to evangelize an isolated Indigenous people, with fatal results. Ahead of the premiere, we've got your first look at the film…

Pete Buttigieg's profile is rising within the Biden administration, thanks in part to passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.  As secretary of transportation, Buttigieg will play a key role overseeing how that money is spent. But that's not the only reason Buttigieg's being talked about lately. There's also…

The annual 50-state student government conference Boys State, sponsored by the American Legion, first came to filmmaker Jesse Moss’ attention after reading about the Texas edition in the Washington Post. At each summer’s conferences, boys gather to set up a mock-state legislature — they organize political campaigns…

The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol underscored the precarious state of American democracy in a time of deep political polarization. But the Emmy-contending Apple Original Film Boys State offers some hope that bridging ideological differences remains a possibility. The documentary directed and produced by…