Cinema Eye Nominees: Audience picks for the best non-fiction feature films from the past year.
Over 18,000 same-sex couples married in 2008 after
a long and fiery fight for the freedom to marry in
California. Six months later, Proposition 8 won the
popular vote and a ban on same-sex marriage was put
into law. Against all odds, the American Foundation for
Equal Rights, the plaintiffs—two likable and committed
couples who put their lives on the line for this historic
hearing—and lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies (from
opposing sides of Bush v. Gore), band together to take
the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Winner of the
Directing Award for US Documentary at the Sundance
Film Festival, The Case Against 8 investigates the inner
workings of this emotionally charged fight for equality
under the law. As plaintiff Paul reflects, “Prop 8 hurt,
it hurts to this day, but it emboldened a movement like
I’ve never seen.” Kathleen Mullen, Hot Docs
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