Press & Awards

Press & Awards

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Top 10 Audience Award – Hot Docs
Cultural Spirit Award – New Hope Film Festival
Best Documentary – DC Black Film Festival
Best Documentary – San Francisco Black Film Festival
DOXX Award for Best Documentary  –  Tallgrass Film Festival
Best Documentary – CineFAM Film Festival
Canada’s Top 10 Films – TIFF
Inspirational Griot Award – Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival

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Nominations

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary  – SXSW
Best Documentary – Bentonville Film Festival
Best Canadian Documentary – Calgary International Film Festival
Mind the Gap Award – Mill Valley Film Festival
Spirit Award – Mill Valley Film Festival
Gordan Parks Black Excellence in Filmmaking – Tallgrass Film Festival
Best Documentary Audience Award – American Black Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature – Denton Black Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature – Pan African Film Festival
Best Writing – Writers Guild of Canada

"Jennifer Holness’ Subjects of Desire is an eye-opening, and often powerful analysis of the history of beauty with regards to Black women."
Roger Ebert Subjects of Desire Documentary Review
"Next Big Thing: 10 Rising Doc Filmmakers Who Speak Truth to Power”
the hollywood reporter Subjects of Desire Documentary Review
“Both critical and celebratory, Jennifer Holness’ packed and penetrating documentary Subjects of Desire provides a superb overview of how Black culture has influenced, and been influenced by, contemporary beauty ideals from Civil War times to #BlackGirlMagic and beyond."
variety Subjects of Desire Documentary Review
"Jennifer Holness’s Subjects Of Desire, the sole documentary to make the cut, is an utterly of-the-moment examination of how the systemic racism baked into the North American ideal of beauty so often excludes Black women."
now magazine Subjects of Desire Documentary Review

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