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The Hollywood Reporter: ‘This World Is Not My Own’ Review: The Story of a Self-Taught Artist Breaks From Doc Tradition in Rewarding Ways

Golden Globe Awards: Docs: “This World Is Not My Own” Uses One Artist’s Life to Explore How Society Impacts Identity

PRINT Magazine - The Daily Heller: To document a very special “folk/self-taught” artist, filmmakers Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell of Opendox were approached in 2016 [by] the Judith Alexander Foundation (named for Nellie Mae’s eccentric art dealer and close friend). But who was Nellie Mae Rowe?

POV - Canada’s Documentary Magazine: A bold, brave work, This World Is Not My Own is a shining example of how the merging of many facets of non-fiction filmmaking can be integrated to elevate a story, not to simply mask the core elements under a slathering of formal experimentation.

ARTNET News: A New Documentary on Nellie Mae Rowe Explores the Life and Times of the Self-Taught Artist Who Made Art Against All Odds

The Geek Show, UK: Receiving its world premiere at the SXSW festival this week is This World Is Not My Own, a film about a remarkable artist you’ve probably never heard of, yet by the time the credits roll she may well become a new favourite.

OutsideLeft Screen: In the first of this year's reports from SXSW, Film Editor Lake views a documentary on the artist Nellie Mae Rowe.

SunshineState Cineplex: It’s hard to watch the film and not feel extremely connected and excited about Rowe’s body of work. She earns her place among the great American artists of the last fifty years. Hopefully, the world will know her name as this wonderful encapsulation of her work finds its audience.

Fox 7 Austin: Director Petter Ringbom and producer Ruchi Mital talk about the film which reimagines the life of artist Nellie Mae Rowe

Film-Book.com: Extraordinary journey deep into the heart of an American folk artist close to perfection

Blog Critics: This is a rewarding documentary with an approach that takes the genre in surprisingly unique directions.

The Spool: The title of Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell’s dazzling documentary, This World Is Not My Own, could be the epigraph for this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival. 

Hammer to Nail: Plato believed that art is a divine inspiration or a realized example of what the world could be through the lens of the artist. For Nellie Mae Rowe, a folk artist raised in 1900 outside Atlanta, Georgia, her version of the world was her own. 

Kuwait Times: US filmmakers in Kuwait film a documentary about Nellie Mae Rowe