Still from untitled work-in-progress, S-16mm
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McElwee has made seven feature-length documentaries as well as a number of shorter films. Sherman’s March has won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at
the Sundance Film Festival. Time Indefinite and Six O’Clock News won a number of festival awards before being distributed theatrically throughout the United States. McElwee’s films have been included in the festivals of New York, Berlin, Toronto, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Florence, and Sydney. McElwee has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, the LEF Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Four of his films were featured in a selection of western documentaries shown for the first time in Tehran. Sherman’s March was also chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2000 as a “historically significant American motion picture.” Bright Leaves premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight before being distributed theatrically in Europe and the United States. Bright Leaves was nominated for Best Documentary of 2004 by both the Director’s Guild of America and the Writer’s Guild of America. In 2005, complete retrospectives of McElwee’s films were presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the International Festival of Documentary Cinema in Lisbon. McElwee received the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s Career Award in 2007.
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