A Documentary Assembled From a Father's Footage Wins the Lavine/Ken Burns Prize

Once Upon a Time in Harlem, directed by David Greaves from footage shot by his late father, William Greaves, has taken the eighth annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. Deadline, which describes the documentary as Oscar-contending, reports that the honor comes from the Library of Congress, The Better Angels Society, Ken Burns, and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation. The award places a film built out of an earlier filmmaker's uncompleted material inside the institutional documentary tradition those names represent — a son finishing a project that belonged to his father, and a prize committee recognizing the result as part of the canon rather than a curiosity.