I recommend watching Citizenfour, the documentary about Snowden that won the Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars.
Based on Tobias Schneebaum's book, the film went on to play in over 37 international film festivals winning many major awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best New Director (2001), the Special Jury Award at IDFA (2000), Best
Documentary Feature at the Hamptons Film festival (2000) and a Special Critics Award At LAFF (2000).
Oscar - nominated documentarian Lilibet Foster took on the task of filming Whitfield's life from that day on and the result is the film Be Here Now — which won the Audience Award for Best
Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year.
«The Peacemaker» won Best
Documentary Feature at MNFF3.
While CitizenFour won Best
Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars, I never got a good sense of how the Academy felt re: the politics of the film.
A touching documentary about a life well lived, it's going to compete for Best
Documentary Feature at the Oscars, though it's already won a place in many of our hearts.
Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui are thrilled that Asif Kapadia's «Amy» was named the Best
Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards.
Not exact matches
At the 2003 Academy Awards, Bowling for Columbine won the Oscar for best
feature documentary.
CNBC
at night
features a mix of new realityprogramming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC anda number of distinctive in - house
documentaries.
The Bright bonanza is part of $ 5 billion that Netflix will spend on programming this year alone, including
at least 60 original shows, a dozen
documentaries, and eight
feature films.
Pollock, whose
documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered
at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape
featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative
feature films, five
documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed
at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and
featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the
Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers
at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what
at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.
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.
June to October
at the Wiener Library Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry This
documentary is the first
feature - length film to give a detailed insight into the life of internationally renowned Chinese activist Ai Weiwei.
Dioramas might seem old - fashioned, but they allow visitors «to walk right up to the glass to check out individual
features in a way you would never be able to do in a TV
documentary,» says Ross MacPhee, a mammalogy curator
at the museum.
GMI stars in National Geographic TV Special «Lincoln's Secret Killer» which premiered on President's Day, 2011 «Lincoln's Secret Killer,» a
documentary prepared by National Geographic, premiered on Monday, February 21,
at 10:00 pm on The National Geographic Channel,
featuring Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Hardis Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute and GMI's Director of the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, and members of her lab, Mohammed S. Orloff, PhD, Project Scientist, and Todd Romigh, MS, Lab Manager.
These findings
feature for the first time in a Channel 4
documentary on Sunday 17th August
at 9 pm.
His
documentary feature film My Prague Spring won the Gold Award
at the 1993 Houston International Film Festival, Best of Festival
at the Berkeley Video Festival and the Cine Eagle.
R29
Features is a premiere
documentary series that brings viewers unprecedented stories about some of the most important moments, powerful women and pressing issues of our time, aimed
at fostering change, educating audiences and inspiring change - makers everywhere.
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 you have to wonder about the wisdom of returning, with no significant new contemporary perspective, to events covered multiple times in narrative
features including Victory
at Entebbe, Raid on Entebbe and Operation Thunderbolt, not to mention several
documentaries.
This
feature length
documentary captures a never - before - seen look
at the Division 1 football teams
at the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis, rigorous programs of military training, elite classroom education and athletic preparation for their cadets and midshipmen that culminates each year in the Army - Navy Football Game, an institution in American sports.
In his growing years as a
feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and
documentaries,
at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.
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.
There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories
at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the
documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Featur
documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best
Documentary Featur
Documentary Feature category.
A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing
documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking
feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to
at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.
And so we're tweaking our «Best of the 21st Century» formula (check out our Horror Films, Animated and Music
Documentary features) to look instead
at the top - grossing films of the century to date, and seeing how, in this season of bottom lines and billions and box office bombs, the 25 reigning champions of the century stack up against each other in terms of quality.
The
documentary is accompanied by a number of interesting films: three shorts made
at the Champion studio from 1910 to 1913, an early
documentary short about Fort Lee by Theodore Huff and Mark A. Borgotta, a
feature called The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy, an early Mack Sennett comedy short, and a 31 - minute version of Robin Hood released by Éclair America in 1912.
At the closing ceremony the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) presented EDA Awards for Best Female - Directed Narrative
Feature and Best Female - Directed
Documentary.
An extended featurette section
features four
documentary shorts (ranging from five minutes to nine) that go from a general «making of» to detailed looks
at the set design, costuming, and cowboy camp preparation.
This week we field queries concerning «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,»
documentary features aimed
at the Best Picture category, «Black Swan»» s Oscar potential and Lesley Manville's lead actress campaign for «Another Year.»
An African Election / Switzerland, U.S.A. (Director: Jarreth Merz)-- The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a backdrop for this
feature documentary that looks behind the scenes
at the complex, political machinery of a third - world democracy struggling to avoid civil war and establish stability for good.
Iannotta doesn't have a
feature film to his name yet, but he's got a credit that isn't just handed to any man or woman with a movie camera — his
documentary short, My Big Red Purse, was selected to play
at last month's South by Southwest Film Festival, beating out hundreds of competitors in the process.
Between his narrative and
documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our first look
at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...
In Cannes and Venice it is about discovering emerging talent through first and second
features, and,
at Locarno,
documentaries.
AWFJ's EDA Awards festival program for 2016 included presentation of the Best Female - Directed
Documentary Feature and Best Female - Directed
Documentary Short
at DOXA Film Festival in Vancouver in May and IDFA in November.
Josh premiered two projects
at Sundance 2018: Monsters and Men (Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First
Feature) and the live
documentary A Thousand Thoughts.
(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min)
documentary featuring the premiere
at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.
There is a behind - the - scenes
documentary for The Wave that talks about all aspects of the
feature, but only
at a surface level, it is more of a bird's eye view featurette than a talking head
documentary.
Indeed, «Fire
At Sea» has already showed strong support from the Academy, having made the shortlist for Best
Documentary Feature.
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They also raise eyebrows
at the absence of Life Itself, about the late film critic Roger Ebert, from the best
documentary feature award.
Although it's hard to pick just one highlight from the treasure trove of special
features, the 12 - part «Spider - Man 2»
documentary «Making the Amazing» is an incredibly in - depth look
at the amount of work that went into making the film.
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 mor
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 mor
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.
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative
feature films, five
documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed
at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
LOS ANGELES, CA (October 3, 2017) The second annual Critics» Choice
Documentary Awards, honoring the finest achievements in documentary features and non-fiction television, will be presented Thursday, November 2, 2017 at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York, hosted by magician / illusionist, comedian, actor and best - selling author Pen
Documentary Awards, honoring the finest achievements in
documentary features and non-fiction television, will be presented Thursday, November 2, 2017 at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York, hosted by magician / illusionist, comedian, actor and best - selling author Pen
documentary features and non-fiction television, will be presented Thursday, November 2, 2017
at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York, hosted by magician / illusionist, comedian, actor and best - selling author Penn Jillette.
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.
Features: generally excellent Audio Commentaries [various configurations of producers, writers, directors and cast comment on all eight episodes]; Take a Look
at the Lawman — a one hour making of
documentary split between discs one and two; Interview Clip with Bharat Nalluri [director for the first two episodes]; The Music of Life On Mars — composer Ed Butt takes us through the surprisingly complex task of composing and arranging the series» theme music; Get Sykes — featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and a [sadly] pretty average Outtakes Reel.
«People's Republic of Desire» had its world premiere March 10 and won the
Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award
at SXSW 2018.