"Imagination is an underrated quality in nonfiction cinema. And when a film which insists on documentary as an artform immerses us in a community most often represented through the lens of social realism, poetry becomes political, the very gesture of filmmaking becomes an act of radical compassion - and the film itself, absolutely electrifying. So for a film that does not look, and does not feel, like any other, we are delighted to give the award for the international competition to RaMell Ross for Hale County This Morning, This Evening."
