BEST VIDEO, 2020

Epigrams

 

Darnell Frazier operates her cell phone video to capture, what quickly became, because of it, of such great social impact, that it’s hard to describe. But that’s the deal with a camera – it can describe everything so well as to have far more veracity than any person.

The George Holliday video, and Ms. Frazer’s had nothing to do with being a professional journalist or documentary filmmaker. There were no production value at all, simply raw, continuous footage of, coincidentally, very similar events.