Sentences with phrase «film documentary profiles»

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There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

In 2008, Christy began working on a documentary film profiling the status of maternal health worldwide.

Beautifully shot and edited, Wenders» latest nonetheless features his highest - profile documentary subject yet, and the film should attract substantial worldwide attention, especially in Latin America.

Metamorphosis: A behind - the - scenes documentary with Darren Aronofsky Behind the Curtain: An inside look at the ballet's influence on the film's costume and production design Ten Years in the Making: Natalie Portman and Darren Aronofsky discuss their creative journey Cast Profiles

TIFF will also feature a number of documentaries created by some high - profile filmmakers, including Jonathan Demme, Werner Herzog, Jia Zhang - ke, Julian Schnabel, Scott Hicks, and even one from film critic Todd McCarthy.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: No factual film came close to Nick Broomfield's tragic profile WHITNEY CAN I BE ME for emotional impact, but Brad Abrahams» alien abductee oddity Love and Saucers, Jedd and Todd Wilder's heartbreaking mystery God Knows Where I Am and Roger Donaldson's Formula 1 biopic McLaren were standout performers in limited / festival release.

Bustin» Down the Door The latest entry in the time - honored surfing documentary genre, joining the likes of «Step Into Liquid» and «Riding Giants,» this film profiles the group of brash Australians and South Africans who challenged Hawaiians at their own sport in the mid-1970s.

These films range from independent films, documentaries, short films to high profile Hollywood picks, foreign films and many other unique pieces of cinema.

The single - disc release includes a multi-part documentary on the making - of the film, a short sound featurette («The Sound of Terror»), cast and crew profiles, and a paltry two deleted scenes.

Among the many films screening at the festival is a sci - fi documentary called Jodorowsky's Dune, profiling Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune in the 1970s.

Both a documentary about the production of an issue of Vogue magazine and a profile of its editor Anna Wintour, this film struggles a bit to find some focus.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Teacher (Unrated) Matt Damon narrates this reverential documentary which pays tribute to the country's 3.2 million teachers by profiling the careers of a quartet of dedicated educators.

Orlowski's documentary profiles famed environmental photographer James Balog who, together with a small and dedicated team, has sought to capture on film the retreat of Earth's glaciers using an army of time - lapse cameras positioned across the globe — from Alaska and Glacier National Park in Montana to Iceland and Greenland.

«Breaker Morant» Special Features Audio commentary featuring Beresford from 2004 New interviews with Beresford, cinematographer Donald McAlpine, and actor Bryan Brown Interview with actor Edward Woodward from 2004 New piece about the Boer War with historian Stephen Miller «The Breaker,» a 1973 documentary profiling the real Harry «Breaker» Morant, with a 2010 statement by its director, Frank Shields Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard

The independent film festival also unveiled additional documentaries, including a profile of Boyhood director Richard Linklater, and Werner Herzog's latest

Spotlight Features and Commentary: Andrea Arnold on Wuthering Heights (Moira Macdonald at Seattle Times) «Secret Festival» Rebellion (David Schmader for The Stranger) Updated Release Dates for SIFF films (Moira Macdonald for The Seattle Times) Just Before Dawn: The First SIFF (Richard T. Jameson for Straight Shooting) Interview with director Drew Denny of The Most Fun I've Ever Had With My Pants On (Twitch) Q&A with Lynn Shelton (Brian Miller for Seattle Weekly) Lynn Shelton: «I never imagined I could be a filmmaker» (Moira Macdonald for Seattle Times) Scriptless in Seattle: A Filmmaker's Map (Lynn Shelton profile at The New York Times) Interview with Megan Griffiths at SXSW (Indiewire) Rick Stevenson's 10 - Year Documentary (Sean Axmaker for Seattle Weekly)

Countless other films have tackled or touched on this subject, including high - profile documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and its recent sequel.

Historical romance, literary adaptations, arthouse drama, star - studded comedies, children's pics, animated fare and a high - profile documentary are among the many German films and co-productions on offer at this year's Cannes Film Market.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

In some cases, the filmmaker's methods have, themselves, replicated the mad genius of those of Herzog's protagonists (the story of the filming of Fitzcarraldo, as profiled in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams, is at least as interesting as the movie, itself).

Iris, his profile of fashion icon Iris Apfel (and a film seemingly akin to his iconic Grey Gardens), has recently been released in cinemas in the United States, whilst his final film, In Transit, has gone the festival route, premiering at Tribeca, where it received a Special Jury Mention in the World Documentary section of the festival's program.

Produced by Walden Media, the same folks who backed the high - profile 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, this feel - good film has already courted controversy.

In addition to documentaries, feature films, and cultural programming, he has continuously created his own personal video art and worked on high - profile projects with other video artists.

He is one of the artists profiled in Maria Lino's 1988 documentary film Three Artist Profiles.

He figures in the recent books, 100 New York Painters by Cynthia M. Dantzic (Schiffer, 2006), Black Paris Profiles by Monique E. Wells (2012) and is also the subject of a projected film by the well - known documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.

Rodríguez is one of the artists profiled in Maria Lino's 1988 documentary film Three Artist Profiles.

In recognition of MoMA's recent acquisition of the Robert Frank film collection, The Contenders presents this wonderful and revealing new documentary profile of an artist who always preferred to express himself through his pictures and films.

Brito is one of the artists profiled in Maria Lino's 1988 documentary film, Three Artist Profiles.