Showcasing our features and shorts that were nominated for the 40th News & Doc Emmys. 

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** 009: Emmy Flex
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* In 2022, all eyes will be on Qatar for the FIFA World Cup. In the meantime, migrant workers building the stadiums are competing in a soccer tournament of their own ([link removed]) , providing a bittersweet respite from the hard work in the labor camps. Nominated for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary.

* What is life like when a deadly virus sweeps through your country? Sierra Leonean filmmakers turn the camera on their fellow citizens ([link removed]) to capture how people coped in the face of the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Nominated for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary.

* Meet Nori Sharif, a nurse who stays put with his family in Iraq's "Triangle of Death," in the midst of ISIS' rise to power ([link removed]) . Nominated for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary.

* Eight years in the life of a black family from Philadelphia, this film is as much about grace in the face of hardship as it is about contemporary American life ([link removed]) . As A.O. Scott put it: "I’ve rarely seen a movie about citizenship as quietly eloquent" as this one.

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