Channel 4 doc Me and the Voice in My Head and the theatrical release 20 Days in Mariupol have both scored two prizes at the Grierson Trust's 2024 British Documentary Awards.
Hungry Bear Media’s Me and the Voice in My Head picked up the best single documentary – domestic award, with its subject Joe Tracini named best documentary presenter.
Judges were “mesmerised” by Tracini and praised the programme’s “honest, humorous and vulnerable tone” and its “effective, creative storytelling devices”.
PBS/Frontline/Associated Press feature 20 Days in Mariupol, described as a “vital, devastating and viscerally cinematic” and a “powerful historic document”, was named both best current affairs documentary and best cinematic documentary.
Channel 4 took home five prizes, with wins for October Films/Red Zest Films/Horovel Films’ My Name is Happy (best single documentary – international); Candour Productions’ The Push: Murder on the Cliff (best documentary series); and Happenstance Films’ Ted and Noel (best documentary short).
Other winners included Acme TV’s BBC doc Big Zuu Goes to Mecca (best popular culture documentary); Broccoli Pictures’ Netflix doc Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club (best arts documentary); and Keep on Running Pictures/Fulwell 73/MRC’s Paramount+ doc Milli Vanilli (best music documentary).
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