On January 24, DGA members enjoyed the 2020 edition of the Meet the Nominees: Documentary event in the Guild’s Los Angeles Theater. Following a welcome from DGA Past President Taylor Hackford, DGA Documentary Host Committee Co-Chair James Moll, who served as moderator of the event, introduced the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Award nominees for 2019: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (American Factory) and Alex Holmes (Maiden). Illustrated by clips from each film, the nominees joined Moll in a lively and entertaining conversation about their work.

The event was followed by a reception where the nominees mingled with DGA members and guests. Nominees Feras Fayyad (The Cave), Ljubomir Stefanov & Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland) and Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang (One Child Nation) were unable to attend.