Carly Mattox

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I was asked to participate in this year's poll as I've spent the last eight months working with the Sight & Sound team, the first three of which were spent as a placement for my Masters' degree. Therefore, I feel I have a somewhat privileged position; many invitations arrive in voters' inboxes as a significant milestone in their career, a symbol of their important contributions to discourse, while I have only just embarked on this adventure into the industry.

In order to use this privilege wisely, to wield my power for good, I want to vote for films which I feel are underrepresented in previous iterations of the list; in my case, I spent my undergraduate career studying journalism and therefore documentary is a genre I know intimately. It has a unique capacity to change the world by holding a mirror up to society. There is an accessibility to the genre, as crews tend to be small and budgets tend to be low, and therefore there are many female documentarians who've made their mark on the genre, and on the world. These are the filmmakers I want to shine a spotlight on with my list.