As Academy Documentary Branch voters ponder their nomination ballots, they have no fewer than three Neon features to consider on the Oscar shortlist—Honeyland, The Biggest Little Farm, and Apollo 11.
The latter film, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, became the top nonfiction box office hit of 2019, making more than…
Made by CNN Films and Statement Pictures, with Neon looking after worldwide theatrical rights, Apollo 11 lovingly retells the story of mankind's mission to the moon in 1969. Director, producer and editor Todd Douglas Miller painstakingly wrestled thousands of hours of archive audio and footage, much of it unseen, into…
Neon came to Contenders London with their Sundance hit Apollo 11, a visually stunning documentary tracing the 1969 moon mission helmed by Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins. Whittled down from over 300 hours of archival footage, some of it on 70mm, Todd Douglas Miller's film has, so far, grossed $11m at…
