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Minding the Gap

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

Series

POV

Premiere Date

February 18, 2019

Length

90 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Winner

2018 Sundance Film Festival - U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking

Winner

2018 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Best Feature

Winner

2018 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Best Editing

Nominee

2019 Academy Awards - Best Documentary Feature

Winner

2018 Peabody Awards - George Foster Peabody Award

Nominee

2019 Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special

Bing Liu

Producer/Director

Bing Liu moved from China to Alabama to California to Illinois before he was eight. He received a B.A. in English literature from UIC in May of 2011. Since July 2011, Bing has been a member of the International Cinematographer's Guild, working on projects including Shameless, Empire, and Chiraq to fund his documentaries. In 2015, his short film about two Vietnamese immigrants, Nuoc, won Best Directed Documentary at the Collected Voices Film Festival. Since September 2015, Bing has been a Story Director and DP for a documentary mini-series on race and education directed by Steve James. He has taken his directorial feature, Minding the Gap, through Kartemquin’s Diverse Voices in Documentary, Tribeca All Access, Firelight Media’s Producer Lab, and Chicago Media Project’s DOC10 pitch session.
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Diane M. Quon

Producer

Academy Award-nominated Diane Quon is an independent producer, whose documentaries include: the Oscar-nominated Minding the Gap, aka Mr. Chow, Emmy Award-nominated Finding Yingying, Emmy Award-nominated Wuhan Wuhan, Oscar short-listed Bad Axe, Breaking the News, and Surf Nation. Diane is a member of AMPAS and the PGA.

Betsy Steinberg

Executive Producer

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