• HONOREES •

Mati Diop

DAHOMEY

Mati Diop is a French film director and actress. As an actress, she is known for the drama film 35 SHOTS OF RUM (2008). She won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film debut, the supernatural romantic drama, ATLANTICS, and the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival for her second feature film, the documentary DAHOMEY. 

About DAHOMEY — In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

Read more about the film: Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Variety Interview, Indiewire

Brett Story + Steve Maing

UNION

Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker and writer whose work pushes the formal boundaries of political cinema. Her films have screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including at Sundance, CPH-DOX, and SXSW. She is the director of the feature films THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES (2016) and THE HOTTEST AUGUST (2019), and author of the book Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. Brett has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sundance Institute. She holds a PhD in geography and is currently an assistant professor of Media Praxis at the University of Toronto.

Steve Maing is an Emmy-award winning director and cinematographer whose films explore societal phenomena, complex power structures and the fascinating individuals who challenge them. His feature documentary CRIME + PUNISHMENT won a Special Jury Award at Sundance, an Emmy, and was Oscar-shortlisted for Best Documentary. His previous films HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE and THE SURRENDER have screened internationally and were released on PBS (P.O.V. and Field of Vision). Steve has held fellowships from United States Artists, Sundance Institute, NBC Original Voices, John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Reporting, and was a recipient of the IDA's prestigious Courage Under Fire Award. He is a frequent visiting artist, mentor, musician and educator based in Ridgewood, Queens.

About UNION... This intimately observed and stunningly captured documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of workers to organize low-wage employees at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Led by the charismatic but underestimated Chris Smalls, this small band of workers start the Amazon Labor Union, an independent grassroots union intent on taking on one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. The odds are stacked against them, as the group finds itself up against a tech industry giant with unlimited resources, without major support from national unions or politicians, and while also navigating internal divisions within their own ranks. Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing document the struggle from day one, offering a gripping human drama about the struggle for power and dignity in today's globalized economic landscape. 

Read more about the film: IDA, Variety, MSN

Basel Adra + Hamdan Ballal + Yuval Abraham + Rachel Szor

NO OTHER LAND

Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. As an activist and documentary director, he is fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community.

Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian photographer and farmer from Susya in the West Bank and has worked as a researcher for several human rights groups opposed to the Israeli occupation.

Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist who currently lives in Jerusalem.

Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor and director who currently lives in Jerusalem.

About NO OTHER LAND... Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel's occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. He meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, who supports him in his efforts and an unlikely alliance develops. But the relationship between the two is strained by the enormous inequality between them: Basel lives under military occupation while Yuval lives freely and without restrictions. This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice.

Read more about the film: Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire

• 2024 ALBIE AWARDS •

• CHAIRS •

Jennifer Ash Rudick • Laura Coxson • Beth Earl • Rebekah Maysles • Cameron Yates

• CO-CHAIRS •

Bruni Burres • Lisa Cortés • Bronwyn Cosgrave & John Sloss • Jenny Raskin

• HOST COMMITTEE •

Jenna Bond

6:30PM — Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres

7:30PM — Dinner and Award Ceremony with special tributes to be announced

9:30PM — After-Party across the street at Maysles Documentary Center.

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More details to come!

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About the Albie Awards

The Albie Awards, created in the name of our late founder, Albert Maysles, is Maysles Documentary Center's most important fundraiser of the year. The award honors filmmakers who have inspired us with their work and broader contributions as mentors, role models, and champions for social justice. All proceeds support Maysles Documentary Center's filmmaking education programs for youth from Harlem and the South Bronx, as well as our 50-seat theater, the only arthouse cinema north of 96th Street.