Not exact matches
The ceremony
also featured «Surge: A City Recovers,» a 15 - minute documentary by
local filmmakers that showcased scenes and stories of survival and provided a retrospective of restoration efforts.
According to Focus Pictures, the
filmmakers went to some trouble to shoot in Abruzzo (
also the setting of the novel) to stimulate the
local economy and encourage tourism after the devastation of the 2009 earthquake.
As today's Turkish cinema is largely involved in
local political and social processes, I
also enjoyed the fact that the
filmmaker and his cast did not miss the opportunity to direct international attention to current affairs in Turkey.
The screening improved not only by the presence of the
filmmaker and the huntress herself, with her mother, father and (
local) eagles, but
also a brief featurette that revealed the actual difficulty of the stunning photography, which was so flawless in execution that it looked misleadingly easy.
The Centre
also encourages visiting artists and
filmmakers to give presentations or screenings of their work to
local visitors.
Holten is
also collaborating with
local documentary
filmmaker and writer Rebecca Snedeker on a water map of New Orleans for Rebecca Solnit's book, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (UC Press, 2013)- the follow up to her acclaimed book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.