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@ascensiondocumentary directed by Jessica Kingdon and produced by Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell, has been nominated for six Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director, and has also been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2021 Gotham Awards.

‘Ascension’ has also made the 2021 Doc NYC Short List, and the IDA Documentary Awards Short List for Best Feature.

In November, the film will be playing at the Denver Film Festival and the Sydney Film Festival, and will be opening in theaters in the Bay Area on November 12th.

‘Ascension’ is an impressionistic portrait of China’s industrial supply chain that reveals the country’s growing class divide through staggering observations of labor, consumerism and wealth.