Sentences with phrase «directed documentary feature»

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2007 Featured in «The Business of Being Born,» a documentary produced by Ricki Lake and directed by Abby Epstein, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, April 29, and has been shown all over the US and in many other countries.

Knowing the documentary would premiere on Cupid's big day, our friends at Single Edition invited us to an advanced screening in New York City, which featured a Q&A with Robert Kenner of the Oscar - nominated Food, Inc., who both directed and produced the film.

But he's also improbably directed 25 features and documentaries, not counting TV episodes and shorts, and I think I'm the only dummy on Earth who's sat through most of them — Child of God, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and almost two dozen others you've never heard of — before they've disappeared from the face of the Earth.

Colin Hanks makes his feature directing debut with this irresistible documentary about the evolution of the music business.

Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes film festival.

The award - winning feature documentary is written, edited and directed by Stevan Riley and produced by John Battsek, R.J. Cutler and George Chignell.

Picture: The Hurt Locker Directing: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes Documentary Feature: The Cove Animated Feature Film: Up Documentary Short: China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province Animated Short: A Matter of Loaf and Death Live Action Short: Instead of Abracadabra Film Editing: The Hurt Locker Art Direction: Sherlock Holmes Cinematography: The Hurt Locker Costume Design: The Young Victoria Makeup: Star Trek Score: Up Song: «The Weary Kind,» Crazy Heart Sound Editing: Avatar Sound Mixing: Avatar Visual Effects: Avatar

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

DOXA programmers have nominated female - directed films in two EDA Awards categories: Best Female - Directed Feature Length Documentary and Best Female - Directed Documentary Short.

The festival will open with a fundraising benefit night featuring Matthew Heineman's «Cartel Land,» which won the U.S. Documentary directing and Cinematography awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Elevate Grant provides funds to emerging women filmmakers of color directing feature - length documentary films that explore original, contemporary stories and integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process.

The Lazarus Effect is directed by David Gelb, whose last feature film was — and I've rechecked this three times to make sure it's not an error — the fascinating 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about an old Japanese man who runs a tiny but renowned restaurant in Tokyo.

«Get Out» directed by Jordan Peele: For white viewers, this debut feature from «Key & Peele» star Jordan Peele offers a glimpse at how the other half lives; for everyone else, it's more of a documentary in body horror movie drag.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

Freak Show is directed by English filmmaker Trudie Styler, an actress / producer making her feature directorial debut, after also co-directing The Sweatbox documentary.

Note: Because I'm currently producing and directing The Purdy Project — a feature documentary executive - produced by Ron Mann and distributed FilmsWeLike — I will not be reviewing FWL releases such as Ida.

She directed the acclaimed feature documentary The Trial of Saddam Hussein (PBS), an exposé about what really happened at the dictator's trial.

The film is written by Peter Craig, who recently penned Ben Affleck's «The Town» with director Asger Leth making his dramatic feature directing debut after his 2006 documentary «Ghosts of Cite Soleil.»

«2012: Time for Change» is a feature - length documentary, directed by Joao Amorim of Curious Pictures and featuring Daniel Pinchbeck, the bestselling author of «2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl» (Penguin, 2006).

The fund supports feature - length documentaries in postproduction, and previous winners include Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson's American Promise, Shaul Schwartz's Narco Cultura, and Zachary Heinzerling's Cutie and the Boxer, which won the Sundance Directing Award for documentary and is up for an Oscar this year for Best Documentary Ffeature - length documentaries in postproduction, and previous winners include Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson's American Promise, Shaul Schwartz's Narco Cultura, and Zachary Heinzerling's Cutie and the Boxer, which won the Sundance Directing Award for documentary and is up for an Oscar this year for Best Documentadocumentary and is up for an Oscar this year for Best DocumentaryDocumentary FeatureFeature.

: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR, a feature length documentary directed by Film Studies professor and independent filmmaker Marty Langford and executive produced by LA - based casting director / witness to the The Fantastic Four's 1994 filming: Mark Sikes.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»

• «Exit Through the Gift Shop», an inventive puzzle of a documentary about street art directed by the artist known as Bansky, won the Best First Feature prize in addition to the Allan King Documendocumentary about street art directed by the artist known as Bansky, won the Best First Feature prize in addition to the Allan King DocumentaryDocumentary Award.

Barbera admits to losing out in the battle over The Walk, the Robert Zemeckis - directed feature about Philippe Petit's high - wire walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 — already memorably covered in James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man on Wire.

Audience Award for Documentary Feature Film: «Skid Row Marathon,» directed by Mark Hayes.

Directing — 1 — Lady Bird Original Screenplay — 3 - Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, The Big Sick Adapted Screenplay — 1 — Mudbound Editing — 1 — I, Tonya Cinematography — 1 — Mudbound Production Design — 5 — Beauty and the Beast, Darkest Hour, Blade Runner 2049 Producing — 6 — Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread, The Post Costume — 3 — Beauty and the Beast, Darkest Hour, Victoria and Abdul Makeup and Hair — 2 — Darkest Hour, Victoria and Abdul Song — 3 — Mudbound, Coco, Marshall Documentary Feature — 2 — Abacus Too Small to Jail, Faces Places, Strong Island

Extras: New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson; «Making of The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods, Eugenides, and more; «Lick the Star,» a 1998 short film by Coppola; official music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola; trailer; an essay by novelist Megan Abbott.

He directed a television documentary about the new generation of immigrants in the U.S., America Becoming (1991); an Oprah Winfrey - produced miniseries for ABC, The Wedding (1998); and a quirky but insubstantial feature starring James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave, The Annihilation of Fish (still unreleased), among many other projects.

It features the new documentary «The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited,» directed by Robert Fischer and Wilfried Reichart, as a bonus program.

May 6, 2018 • Stacy Shapiro and her son are featured in the new documentary A Dangerous Son, directed by Liz Garbus.

Picture: Slumdog Millionaire Directing: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Actor: Sean Penn, Milk Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Actress in a Supporting Role: Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Original Screenplay: Milk Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire Foreign Language Film: The Class Documentary Feature: Man on Wire Animated Feature Film: WALL - E Documentary Short: Smile Pinki Animated Short: La Maison en Petits Cubes Live Action Short: Toyland Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire Costume Design: The Duchess Makeup: Hellboy II: The Golden Army Score: Slumdog Millionaire Song: «Jai Ho,» Slumdog Millionaire Sound Editing: Slumdog Millionaire Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Feature Winner: «Moonrise Kingdom» «Bernie» «The Loneliest Planet» «The Master» «Middle Of Nowhere» Best Documentary Winner: «How To Survive A Plague» «Detropia» «Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present» «Room 237» «The Waiting Room» Best Ensemble Performance Winner: «Your Sister's Sister» «Bernie» «Moonrise Kingdom» «Safety Not Guaranteed» «Silver Linings Playbook» Breakthrough Actor Winner: Emayatzy Corinealdi («Middle Of Nowhere») Mike Birbiglia («Sleepwalk With Me») Thure Lindhardt («Keep The Lights On») Melanie Lynskey («Hello, I Must Be Going») Quvenzhané Wallis («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Breakthrough Director Winner: Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Zal Batmanglij («Sound Of My Voice») Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky («Francine») Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin («Now, Forager») Antonio Méndez Esparza («Aquí y Allá») Calvin Klein Female Filmmaker Award Stacie Passon («Concussion») Bingham Ray Award Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You «An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty» (written and directed by Terence Nance) Gotham Independent Film Audience Award «Artifact»

That there are a plethora of women capable of directing narrative or documentary features is not the issue.

Her latest feature, The Queen of Versailles, premiered at Sundance in 2012, where Greenfield received the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary.

After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.

Women directed over a third of this year's features, won all four directing prizes: Sara Colangelo for The Kindergarten Teacher (US drama), Alexandria Bombach for On Her Shoulders (US documentary), Sandi Tan for Shirkers (international doc) and Ísold Uggadóttir for And Breathe Normally (international drama).

There are no supplements on the DVD but the Blu - ray has a substantial collection, including the well - made 50 - minute documentary «Michael Haneke: My Life,» which was made for German TV during the production of «The White Ribbon» and features interviews with stars of his previous films (including Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert), and the 38 - minute «Making Of The White Ribbon,» which features a wealth of revelatory footage with Haneke rehearsing his cast (especially with the kids) and directing on the set.

by Kam Williams Headline: Kam's Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema 2008 will be remembered as a breakout year for African - American females both in front of and behind the camera, with my # 1 picks for Best Feature (The Secret Life of Bees), Best Independent (I'm Through with White Girls) and Best Documentary (The Souls of Black Girls) all being directed by sisters.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: «Darkest Hour» (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick) BEST COSTUME DESIGN: «Phantom Thread» (Mark Bridges) BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «Icarus» (Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan) BEST SOUND EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Richard King, Alex Gibson) BEST SOUND MIXING: «Dunkirk» (Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten) BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: «The Shape of Water» (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «A Fantastic Woman» from Chile BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: «Dear Basketball» (Kobe Bryant, Glen Keane) BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: «Blade Runner 2049» (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover) BEST FILM EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Lee Smith) BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: «Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405» (Frank Stiefel) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: «The Silent Child» (Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: «Call Me by Your Name» (James Ivory) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: «Blade Runner 2049» (Roger Deakins) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: «The Shape of Water» (Alexandre Desplat) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: «Remember Me» from «Coco» BEST DIRECTING: Guillermo del Toro, «The Shape of Water» BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST PICTURE: «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Joshua Z Weinstein has directed the feature documentaries Drivers Wanted and Flying on One Engine.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (Unrated) WWII documentary examining Jew Suss, an anti-Semitic feature film produced by Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in 1940 and directed by Veit Harlan who was later tried for crimes against humanity but exonerated after raising the «I only followed orders» defense.

Often described as «the godmother of the French New Wave,» though she is more properly thought of as a member of the Left Bank movement, she made her feature directing debut with «La Pointe Courte» (1955), a portrait of a crumbling marriage set in a Mediterranean fishing village, steeped in documentary and neorealist techniques.

Filed Under: Film Interviews, Interviews with Female Directors Tagged With: Directing, Documentary, Female Directors, First Features, HotDocs, LGBTQ, Romance

The Gist: It's been well over a decade since seminal American filmmaker (and sometime Indiewire blogger) Bogdonavich directed a narrative feature, and even as he's remained busy with journalistic pursuits and documentary work, it's hard not to wonder what sort of stories the man behind «The Last Picture Show» could tell today.

The narrative feature «Found Memories,» directed by Julia Marat, and the documentary «The World Before Her,» directed by Nisha Pahuja, received Special Mentions from their respective juries.

The fest is something of an international sampler platter of feature films, documentaries, and shorts directed by and focused on women.

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

Douro, Faina Fluvial was followed by more documentary shorts, from 1932 to 1941, until he made his feature debut with the aforementioned Aniki - Bóbó in 1942, an allegorical tale shot in a spare, direct manner, with a cast composed for the most part of children.

Best Picture: The Artist (Thomas Langmann, Producer) Actor in a Leading Role: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Actress in a Leading Role: Viola Davis (The Help) Actor in a Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Actress in a Supporting Role: Berenice Bejo (The Artist) Animated Feature Film: Rango (Gore Verbinski) Cinematography: The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki) Art Direction: War Horse (Rick Carter, Lee Sandales) Costume Design: Hugo (Sandy Powell) Directing: Michael Hazanavicious (The Artist) Documentary Feature: Hell and Back Again (Dafung Dennis & Mike Lerner) Documentary Short: Saving Face (Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid - Chinoy) Film Editing: The Descendants (Kevin Tent) Foreign Language Film: A Separation (Iran)(Asghar Farhadi) Makeup: The Iron Lady (Mark Coulier & J. Roy Helland) Music (Original Score): The Artist (Ludovic Bource) Music (Original Song): «Man or Muppet» From The Muppets (Bret McKenzie) Short Film (Animated): La Luna (Enrico Casarosa) Short Film (Live): Raju (Max Zahle & Stefan Gieren) Sound Editing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Ren Klyce) Sound Mixing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Bo Persson) Visual Effects: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White & Daniel Barrett) Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Descendants (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash) Writing (Original Screenplay): Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)