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«Life Itself,» Steve James's documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize - winning film critic Roger Ebert, won the Best Documentary prize at the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

«Bombay Beach» took the top documentary prize at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and received a «Truer Than Fiction» Spirit Award nomination.

It also earned a Jury Prize at the Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand and the Best Documentary prize at the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

Winner of the 2015 Grand Jury Documentary prize at Sundance this past January, this film — produced and edited by women, and with a mostly - female crew — tells the story of the six young Angulo brothers, who were raised in New York City with little to no contact with the outside world.

Not exact matches

Social worker Jennifer Wortham of Washington Heights won first prize for her documentary «A Workshop in the Delta» at...

He's coming off Emmy and Oscar nominations for his documentary Cartel Land, after winning Best Director prize at 2015 Sundance.

NEW YORK — A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night.

It's a good thing that «Sacro GRA» won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, yesterday (making it the first documentary to win the top prize in the 70 - year history of the festival).

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

It debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was the winner of the U.S. documentary grand jury prize.

Aside from trying to get the public WiFi to work, my second biggest hobby at Sundance this year was babbling to fellow fest - goers about «Shirkers,» a World Cinema Documentary entry that rightfully won a special Directing prize this past Saturday.

The main festival initiated a documentary prize two festivals ago, which has resulted in a very minimal increase in the nonfiction presence at the festival.

The four top jury prizes at Sundance 2010 were awarded Saturday night to Debra Granik's «Winter's Bone» for best U. S. drama, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's «Restrepo» for U. S. documentary, David Michôd's «Animal Kingdom» for world drama, and Mads Brügger's «The Red Chapel» for world documentary.

Musician - driven documentaries have fared well at the Oscars in recent years, with «Searching for Sugar Man» winning the documentary prize in 2013 and «Twenty Feet From Stardom» doing so in 2014.

The movie won the documentary prize when it premiered at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival.

After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.

The company's ascent up Hollywood's awards ladder began at the 2016 Academy Awards, where Brie Larson picked up the best actress Oscar for Room, Amy was named best documentary, and Ex Machina got the prize for best visual effects — all A24 films.

Notably, the top films in both the narrative and documentary categories differ from the ones that took home the grand jury prizes, which singled out «I don't feel at home in this world anymore» and «Dina» in the American categories.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

The Laos adventure The Rocket and the Afghanistan War documentary The Kill Team have taken top prizes at the Tribeca Film Festival.

«Talya Lavie's Zero Motivation, a dark comedy about the life of Israel's female soldiers, took the jury prize for best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, the account of a young American caught up in the Libyan Revolution, was named best documentary feature.

That top prize was given to a film called Fire at Sea, a documentary from filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi about migrants crossing the Mediterranean and the refugee crisis affecting Europe and the Middle East.

We honored the documentary, which has the power to ignite a vital discussion at a crucial moment, with a prize for social impact.

Winner of the Audience Award and Best Canadian Film prizes at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, this is a film I saw twice on the big screen this past year (and was moved to tears both times, I proudly attest) and one that eloquently makes its case early in the film when an early Charley Patton recording is played and lands like lightning.

Rio Ferdinand was close to tears when he accepted the prize for Best Single Documentary at the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards, held at The Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday night.

DINA — A Review by Cynthia Flores U.S. documentary grand prize winner at Sundance 2017, Dina, is the story of a...

Kino Lorber is heading out with Keith Maitland's partially animated documentary Tower, which won jury and audience prizes at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, while Roadside Attractions is launching drama Priceless, spearheaded by Christian rock band King & Country.

The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award, and went on to receive another 70 prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award, the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature, a Gotham Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors.

The film won the «best documentary» prize in 2012 at the San Antonio Independent Film Festival, a Christian - oriented movie showcase, and is sold on the Web site of Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who, the report says, views public schools as» «part of a wicked plan» by «sick deviants» to enslave humanity under a satanic New World Order» that worships Lucifer.

Last week the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals severed its links with Crufts after a BBC documentary revealed how dogs had won prizes at Crufts despite suffering serious health problems due to inbreeding.

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His 1989 documentary - drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

At 83, having had an extraordinary life in which he became an innovative fashion photographer at US Vogue, a documentary film - maker, a fine artist working in mixed - media and having had solo exhibitions and won prizes all over the world, William Klein lives in Paris with his wife and collaborator Janine, whom he met and married after being discharged from the US army there in 194At 83, having had an extraordinary life in which he became an innovative fashion photographer at US Vogue, a documentary film - maker, a fine artist working in mixed - media and having had solo exhibitions and won prizes all over the world, William Klein lives in Paris with his wife and collaborator Janine, whom he met and married after being discharged from the US army there in 194at US Vogue, a documentary film - maker, a fine artist working in mixed - media and having had solo exhibitions and won prizes all over the world, William Klein lives in Paris with his wife and collaborator Janine, whom he met and married after being discharged from the US army there in 1948.

He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Absolut Art Award (2011), the Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris (2000), the Best Documentary Film Award from the Filmfest in Tirana (2000); and the International Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela (1999).

A prize of $ 10,000 is given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to support documentary artists, working alone or in teams, who are involved in ongoing fieldwork projects that fully exploit the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation ofDocumentary Studies at Duke University to support documentary artists, working alone or in teams, who are involved in ongoing fieldwork projects that fully exploit the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation ofdocumentary artists, working alone or in teams, who are involved in ongoing fieldwork projects that fully exploit the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation of a subject.

On the environment beat, look back at «The Big Melt» series in 2005 (along with the prize - winning «Arctic Rush» Discovery - Times documentary) and the 2006 - 7 «Energy Challenge» reports.

«The cow is the worst environmental problem in the Amazon, and in the world,» says Greenpeace's Paulo Adario, speaking out in a new documentary which this April won the One Hour prize at the Film Research and Sustainable Development Festival -LRB-(FReDD) earlier this month.