The winner of Sundance 2020’s Directing Award: U.S. Documentary is heading to Amazon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon Studios acquired Garrett Bradley’s “Time” for $5 million.
Filmed over two decades, “Time” follows Fox Rich, a modern-day abolitionist, as she fights to free her incarcerated husband, who received a 60-year sentence. The documentary received raves following its January 25 premiere at Sundance.
Bradley recently signed on to direct a Netflix docuseries depicting a “pivotal year” in the life of tennis star Naomi Osaka. Features “Cover Me” and “Below Dreams” and an episode of “Queen Sugar” are among her other credits. She won a Sundance Jury Award and was shortlisted for an Oscar for her doc short “Alone.”
The source also confirms another woman-directed Sundance winner, “Boys State,” went to Apple for $12 million. From Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, the doc chronicles an experiment in which a thousand teenage boys work together to create a representative government. The pic took home Sundance’s U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.
Concordia Studio produced both “Time” and “Boys State.”
“Boys State” marks McBaine’s feature directorial debut. She, alongside Moss, previously helmed an episode of crime docuseries “The Investigators.” Her producing credits include “The Investigators,” “Boys State,” and docs “The Bandit” and “The Overnighters.”
