Filmmaker wins Gabriel Award for Reinhold Niebuhr documentary

Martin Doblmeier, founder of Journey Films, won a Gabriel Award for his documentary An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story.

The Gabriel Awards, sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communications Arts Professionals, honor work in radio, television, new media, and film. An Amer­ican Conscience, which has been airing on PBS stations across the country, won in the category of television documentary.

“The film crackles with energy,” Jason Byassee wrote in a review for the Chris­tian Century. “Like his previous film on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Doblmeier does a good job showing the arc of a life.”