NYWIFT Members Nominated for the 2024 News and Documentary Emmy Awards

New York Women in Film & Television is happy to share that fifteen of our members have been nominated in a variety of categories for the 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards! 

The winners will be presented in two ceremonies on September 25th and 26th in New York. The news categories will be presented on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. The documentary categories will be presented on Thursday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m. EDT. 

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City, and will be streamed live on NATAS’ dedicated viewing platform powered by Vimeo, available on the web at watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku. 

See the full list of nominees

The nominations below are sorted by category. 


Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis: Editorial & Opinion

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We Went to Puerto Rico: The Inequality We Saw Will Shock You 

Producer & Host – NYWIFT Member Natasha Del Toro


Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form

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How a 1986 Student Protest Fueled A Chicano Rights Movement

Archival Producer – NYWIFT Member Rebecca Losick


Outstanding Recorded News Special

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How Saba Kept Singing

Archival Producer – NYWIFT Member Rebecca LoSick


Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis

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Nothing But the Truth

Associate Producer – NYWIFT Member Madeline Johnson


Outstanding Editing: News

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Failure at the Fence

Director & Producer – NYWIFT Member Gabrielle Schonder


Outstanding Business, Consumer, or Economic Coverage

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America’s Dangerous Trucks

Director, Writer & Producer – NYWIFT Member Gabrielle Schonder


Outstanding Crime and Justice and Coverage

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Inside Iran: What Happened to Iran’s Women-led Uprising?

Producer – NYWIFT Member Gelareh Kiazand


Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary

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Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely

Director – NYWIFT Member Yael Melamede

 

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Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court

Director – NYWIFT Member Dawn Porter


Outstanding Social Issue Documentary

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Every Body

Director – NYWIFT Member Julie Cohen


Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary

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Little Richard: I Am Everything

Director, Producer – NYWIFT Member Lisa Cortes

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis


Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary

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Chowchilla

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis


Outstanding Short Documentary 

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Deciding Vote

Cinematography – NYWIFT Member Karen Rodriguez

 

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Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins

Producer – NYWIFT Member Lauren Wimbush

 

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Last Song from Kabul

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins


Best Documentary

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Mourning in Lod

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Sheila Nevins


Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary

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Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Mala Chapple

 

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Science Fair: The Series

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Jessie Findlay


Outstanding Direction: Documentary

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Another Body

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Ruth Ann Harnisch

 

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Victim / Suspect

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Carolyn Hepburn 


Outstanding Research: Documentary

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Victim / Suspect

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Carolyn Hepburn

 

 

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The Lady Bird Diaries

Director – NYWIFT Member Dawn Porter


Outstanding Editing: Documentary

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Director, Producer – NYWIFT Member Lisa Cortes

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Amy Entelis


Outstanding Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design: Documentary

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Chowchilla

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Amy Entelis


Outstanding Sound: Documentary

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Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Mala Chapple

 


Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary

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Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

Executive Producer – NYWIFT Member Mala Chapple

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