Press

Speaking & Press

The New York Times | Community Filmmaking in the Amazon: 5 Questions for Alex Pritz
Team Deakins Podcast | Season 2, Episode 9
KCRW Radio | The Territory: The Struggle to Save Indigenous Amazon Land
Variety | On Filming Subjects Burning the Rainforest
POV Magazine | Participatory Filmmaking in the Amazon
Documentary Magazine | The Territory Strikes a Balance of Filmmaking Power
Filmmaker Magazine | DP Alex Pritz on ‘The Territory’
Scottish Documentary Institute | In Conversation with Alex Pritz
American Cinematographer | ASC Clubhouse Conversation with Alex Pritz and Tangãi Uru-eu-wau-wau
The Film Stage | The Territory Director on Local Conflict, Narrative Control, and Ethical Choices

Awards

2023 Peabody Award
2023 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
2022 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award
2022 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft
2022 Seattle International Film Festival, Best Documentary
2022 CPH:DOX, Special Mention F:act Award
2022 Zurich Film Festival, Science Film Award
2022 Jackson Wild, Best Documentary
2022 Banff Mountain Film Festival, Grand Prize Documentary
2022 Critics Choice Awards, Nominated for Best Science Film, Best First Feature, Best Cinematography
2022 Cinema Eye Honors, Nominated for seven Cinema Eye Honors, winner for Outstanding Debut Film
2022 Producers Guild Awards, Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
2022 Gotham Awards, Nominated for Best Documentary Feature

Reviews for The Territory

“The film is gorgeously and sometimes ingeniously conceived, painting an intimate first-hand portrait of joy, pain, and community, before bursting with rip-roaring intensity as it captures a high-stakes struggle for survival unfolding in the moment.”
- IndieWire

“Vivid in its specificity, global in its implications”
- The Hollywood Reporter

”A runaway hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film is a gripping environmental saga. It’s a thrilling feat that sees art and activism collide.”
- POV

“The Territory” is more than meets the eye, revealing its most profound observations in stages across its running time. The film’s luscious cinematography captures the sun-dappled island of jungle where the Uru Eu Wau Wau reside, a land slowly being consumed by flames as farmers and other settlers illegally raze the forest for pastures, with few repercussions.”
- The New York Times

“One of the most impactful, moving, and consequential documentaries about climate change to be released since An Inconvenient Truth."
- Rotten Tomatoes Editorial

“Pritz delivers an emotionally engaging story filled with heart, heroes, and a bit of hope to hold onto. There is no more urgent film that demands your attention this year.”
- The Wrap

The Territory… [is] moving precisely because it goes right to the heart of what filmmaking can be – a tool to capture, control and explicate a unique world view.”
- Screen Daily

”An overwhelmingly evocative and emotional experience, reverentially delving into this unseen world just as it continually teeters on the edge of irreversible annihilation.”
- Collider

“By the end of “The Territory,” both sumptuous and enraging, Pritz reminds viewers how film can be for remembering and preserving as much for rebellion and art.”
- RogerEbert.com