Accolades for Barbara Forever continue with Matt Hixon winning the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The news was reported in the Hollywood Reporter and other platforms. Read the Sundance Festival press release here.
The jury citation captures the impact of Hixon’s work beautifully: “Drawing on an artist’s deep archive of original work and forming exquisite connections between history and biography, art and life, this intimate and expansive portrait gives a pioneering figure in queer experimental filmmaking her rightful due.”