The 22nd HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles will announce its jury award winners on Sunday, with the Best Documentary Short prize among four categories that qualify recipients for Academy Award consideration. Organisers describe this year's documentary line-up as one of the strongest in the festival's history, with entries covering themes ranging from the criminal justice system to family history.

Among the contenders are I Got My Brother, directed by Victor K. Gabriel, about siblings Jarrett and Baylon Harper's journey through foster care and Jarrett's eventual imprisonment and release after protecting his brother from abuse; The Second Life of Freddie Nole, directed by Dana Nachman, following a man who spent 50 years in prison and later founded a charity to support newly released prisoners; and The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers, directed by Rosella Tursi, which recounts a 1983 Montreal hostage incident involving the director's grandmother, drawing on family recollections and a tracked-down interview with one of the perpetrators decades later.