In 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner mysteriously vanished on his way home from school. Nearly a decade later, his dramatic return to his family sparked ’80s-era “stranger danger” warnings, legal reforms, and one iconic Made-For-TV-Movie in which the family’s ordeal was transformed into a prime-time miniseries watched by 70 million Americans. When the credits rolled and the movie ended, it closed one tragic chapter of the family’s life, but opened another. This limited documentary series explores the evolution of true crime storytelling through the lens of one family’s 50-year journey and two brothers; one a hero, the other a villain. It’s about how truth becomes story and story becomes truth - on TV, in the justice system, and in our minds.I can see why both the limited series and the trailer itself earned nominations, the series itself for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary and the trailer for Outstanding Promotional Announcement. I found the trailer gripping and its use of music engaging.
I'm examining both categories today, beginning with Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary, where Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story is the only nominee with a nomination in another category, so it's my pick to win. Follow over the jump for the other nominees.
Outstanding Crime and Justice DocumentaryI'm changing up my usual procedure by embedding Hold Your Fire: The Longest Hostage Siege in NYPD History from Factual America Podcast, which opens with the trailer for the documentary.
Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story Hulu
Hold Your Fire AMC+
MTV Documentary Films The Fire That Took Her Paramount+
Supreme Team Showtime
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo HBO Max
The "Hold Your Fire" documentary by Stefan Forbes provides a riveting account of a hostage situation in Brooklyn in January 1973...I think Hold Your Fire examines a historically more signficant subject than Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story, but the latter tells a more personally engaging story that looks better told. That takes nothing away from Stefan Forbes, who gave a great interview that placed his film in a greater context.
Documentary film ‘Hold Your Fire’ provides us with a riveting account of a hostage situation in Brooklyn in January 1973, when four young African American men were caught stealing guns in a sporting goods store and took a dozen hostages.
The police assumed that they were members of the Black Liberation Army and came down with all the force of the NYPD. The situation snowballed into an event full of miscommunications, misunderstandings and mistaken identity, and it soon became tragically violent.
Emmy-nominated filmmaker Stephen Forbes, cinematographer and director of ‘Hold Your Fire,’ shares how he brought this incredible story to the big screen.
'Hold Your Fire' has its theatrical release in the US as well as on iTunes on May 20th.
“We’re taught a domination model in interaction. The best schools in America teach that you enter a conversation to win.” - Stefan Forbes
I'm returning to my usual M.O. by embedding The Fire That Took Her | Official Trailer from MTV Documentary Films.
Mother-of-two, Judy Malinowski, was doused in gasoline and set on fire by her crazed ex-boyfriend. She would go on to set new legal precedent, becoming the first woman to testify at the trial for her own murder. THE FIRE THAT TOOK HER goes inside her landmark case to ask a timely question: How much must women suffer in order to be believed?Testimony heard from beyond the grave — that's quite the chilling tale.
I couldn't find the trailer for Supreme Team on Showtime's channel, so here's Supreme Mcgriff’s “Supreme Team” Docuseries (2022) (Official Trailer) on Stiff Newz's channel.
The epic saga of a New York Empire. Directed by Nasir "Nas" Jones and Peter J. Scalettar.This looks like an entertaining true-crime story, but it's also the least watched trailer of the nominees in this field. As I've written about the nominees from POV, it's difficult to win when people aren't watching.
The final nominee in this category is Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo | Official Trailer | HBO.
Dark truths come to light. Exposing the sins within a megachurch. Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo is streaming on HBO Max December 6.I had never even heard of La Luz Del Mundo/The Light of the World until I watched this trailer. Once again, it's always a good day when I learn something new, even if it's as disturbing as this.
I'm returning to 'Retrograde' about the final 9 months of the U.S. in Afghanistan earned 6 nominations at the News & Doc Emmy Awards for Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story's other nomination.
For completeness, here's Shark Week 2022: Get Your Heart Pumping | Starts July 24!Shark Week didn't win last year. Instead 9/11: One Day in America won this category. Since the same people produced and directed Retrograde as 9/11: One Day in America, I now think it actually has a shot at winning.Outstanding Promotional AnnouncementShark Week regularly earns nominations and usually wins this category, so I'm picking it now. Again, I reserve the right to change my mind, but I'm not sure I'll have to.
Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story Captive Audience “Shocking” Trailer Hulu
NOVA Augmented PBS
Retrograde National Geographic
Shark Week “Seal Cam” / Shark Week 2022 Discovery Channel
Super/Natural National Geographic
Yikes! That's quite the jump scare! That might just be enough to get the news and documentary people to vote for it, so I still think it's my pick to win.
Stay tuned for the next installment of this series, which will likely be about the nominees for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary, possibly combined with Master of Light. That should make for a good Sunday entertainment feature.
Previous posts about the 2023 News & Documentary Emmy Awards
- R.I.P. Sinéad O'Connor, who died one day before 'Nothing Compares' earned two News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations
- '100 Foot Wave' has the most nominations but experts think 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' and 'The 1619 Project' have best chances to win Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series at the Emmy Awards
- 'Super/Natural,' 'Wildcat,' and other nature nominees at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards for International Tiger Day
- 'Good Night Oppy' has six nominations at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary and Best Documentary
- HBO dramas and 'SNL' split the nominees for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series at the 2023 Emmy Awards
- 'Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain' no longer listed among News & Documentary Emmy nominees
- Two Emmy-nominated documentaries about Watergate for Veep Day
- GameStop, Carl Icahn, TikTok, Cuban baseball, and Victoria's Secret subjects of Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
- Emmy-nominated documentary 'Escape from Kabul' for the fall of Kabul two years later
- 'The Janes' about pre-Roe America is nominated in four categories at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards
- 'Retrograde' about the final 9 months of the U.S. in Afghanistan earned 6 nominations at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
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