Golden Globes Honors Documentary Prize Winners Eugene Jarecki and Ross McElwee

Documentary filmmakers Eugene Jarecki and Ross McElwee, winners of the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary, were feted at a cocktail reception in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.

The prize, founded by the Golden Globes and Artemis Rising Foundation, honors a non-fiction filmmaker whose work “demonstrates both exceptional creative merit and keen potential to inspire positive social change.”

Jarecki and McElwee each received a bespoke Golden Globes half-statuette with an inscription from Artemis Rising Foundation.

Artemis Rising Foundation founder and CEO Regina K. Scully said, “There is an urgent need for non-fiction stories to be made, recognized and seen. This prize is an extension of the work Artemis Rising Foundation has engaged in for decades to champion powerful stories about some of the most challenging social justice issues of our time; I hope it helps to push these incredible creative works further into the spotlight.”

Jarecki won the inaugural edition of the prize at Cannes Film Festival, where his documentary on Julian Assange, “The 6 Billion Dollar Man,” won the festival’s L’Œil d’or. At the Venice Film Festival, the prize was awarded to McElwee’s “Remake,” a deeply personal film exploring his journey as a filmmaker alongside the life of his son, Adrian, who was tragically lost to substance abuse.

A further key collaborator is Think-Film Impact Production, which has been central to the prize’s beginnings and the spotlights at Cannes and Venice film festivals, within its overall mission to “ensure powerful independent films resonate widely to change society for the better.”