The film won a number of AACTAs - Australia’s answer to the Oscars - including Best Documentary Feature. Green is an Australian documentarian with one feature under her belt: the 2013 documentary Ukraine is Not a Brothel, for which she lived with and documented the feminist protest group FEMEN, known for its topless protests. Casting JonBenét is about Boulder, Colorado, more than the Ramsey case Simpson case - which itself got two treatments last year, one docudrama and one documentary - and still pops up in headlines sometimes, two decades later.īut Green didn’t want to make a docudrama or a straightforward documentary. After all, the story dominated tabloids for months, and was almost as famous as the O.J. The sensational, decades-old case of the 6-year-old beauty queen found murdered in her family’s home on Christmas night in 1996 is a popular subject for filmmakers looking to capitalize on the current taste for “true crime” documentaries and docudramas. And according to director Kitty Green, that’s exactly the point. The thing to know going into Casting JonBenét is that you won’t get any answers.
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