Candescent Films is an American film production company that produces and finances documentary and narrative films that explore social issues. History Candescent Films was founded in 2010 by producer and actress Lilly Hartley. Productions The Queen of Versailles was Candescent's first supported film. Directed by Lauren Greenfield, it premiered opening day of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a DGA Award, IDA Award and Critics' Choice Award. Sons of the Clouds, a 2012 documentary exploring human rights issues in Western Sahara, was Candescent's second release. Starring Javier Bardem, the film was directed by Alvaro Longoria and produced by Longoria, Hartley and Bardem. It won the 2013 Goya Award for Best Documentary Film. The film screened at the European Parliament in Brussels, and at the United Nations in New York for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. In 2013, Candescent produced Likeness, an eight-minute film about eating disorders and body image. It stars Elle Fanning and was directed by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. After being approached by Candescent to write and direct a short film with a social message that was personal to him, Prieto chose the subject of body image, since his daughter had previously struggled with an eating disorder. After premiering at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Likeness was released online via T: The New York Times Style Magazine. It was nominated for a 2014 Webby Award under the Drama: Long Form or Series category. Other projects include Who is Dayani Cristal? (produced and narrated by Gael García Bernal), Fed Up (produced and narrated by Katie Couric), and 1971 and Art and Craft, which both premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. 1971 won the ABCNews VideoSource Award at the 2015 International Documentary Association Awards, and the Spotlight Award at the 2015 Cinema Eye Honors. Art and Craft was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Cartel Land, 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets and Racing Extinction all premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Cartel Land won the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award: U.S. Documentary and U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets won the Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The Candescent-supported films Solitary and Vegas Baby both