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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.

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

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

The fruits of their labor, a documentary film titled «Mysore Yoga Traditions» presents us with a unique, behind - the - scenes look at Ashtanga yoga, while at the same time shedding light on the worldview and social background of the yoga community in Mysore.

His 1999 documentary «The Buena Vista Social Club» offered an invaluable glimpse at Cuba during the embargo, but only through the lens of individual musicians.

A documentary / fiction hybrid that's more effective as the former than the latter, Woodpeckers deserves to follow up its appearance in Sundance's World Dramatic competition section by serving time at festivals with a social conscience.

Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.

Language: English Genre: Documentary / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steve James Actors: Roger Ebert, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese Plot: A look at the life and cultural impact of Roger Ebert, one of the world's renowned film critics and social commentators - from his Pulitzer Prize film reviews, to his long career with Gene Siskel to his late - life battle with cancer - it a both a poignant and insightful look into Ebert's world.

Previously, she was the Director of Production at Big Mouth Films, a social issue documentary production company.

At Kartemquin, Gordon has created a legacy of making high - quality, social - issue documentaries such as Hoop Dreams (1994), The New Americans (2003), and The Interrupters (2011).

More worthwhile is «At the Waterfront After the Social: The Legacy of Sleepaway Camp», an engaging new 46 - minute HD documentary comprising fresh on - camera interviews with Rose, Rose's mother -LRB-!)

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.

Four Catalyst projects premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, including The Hunting Ground, Cartel Land (U.S. Documentary Directing and Cinematography Awards), 3 1/2 Minutes and Ten Bullets (Special Jury Award for Social Impact) and The Witch (U.S. Dramatic Directing Award).

At one point on the lineup at this January's Sundance Film Festival before being pulled, documentary Buena Vista Social Club: Adios will finally head to theaters FridaAt one point on the lineup at this January's Sundance Film Festival before being pulled, documentary Buena Vista Social Club: Adios will finally head to theaters Fridaat this January's Sundance Film Festival before being pulled, documentary Buena Vista Social Club: Adios will finally head to theaters Friday.

Warren's most recent nominated song «Til It Happens to You,» which came from The Hunting Ground, a documentary about rape and sexual violence on college campuses, also made a huge social impact on the Oscars and beyond, even to the point of having then - Vice President Joe Biden introduce Lady Gaga's performance at the 2016 Oscar show.

At once hugely influential — there is no Paul Greengrass without Clarke — and still relatively obscure, Clarke is singular among the British social realists, owing to his adaptability to a variety of sub-genres (within this sampling you will find women's pictures, war movies, prison dramas, documentaries, and even an hour - long about a dystopian roller rink) and a blazing empathy for the downtrodden that seem to go hand - on - hand.

Not to be confused with the documentary also titled Social Animals, which just premiered at SXSW, this is a quirky rom - com about a young woman who is trying to get her life in order.

Especially at this moment of social crisis, it seems a moot point to dismiss relevancy as an insignificant part of any film's power, something that goes double for a documentary about a subject of this sort.

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

And aside from the dream sequences — all of which enhance and are justified by the story — the authenticity, realism, and social relevance established by writer / director Geremy Jasper is such that, at times, you could almost think you were watching a documentary.

These documentaries look at the important part that social and emotional learning plays in reducing negative behaviors and improving academic achievement.

Opie was originally inspired by social documentary photographers like Lewis Hine, but outside of photojournalism, there aren't a lot of contemporary artists looking at the world the way Hine did.

His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

«A documentary photographer with a social conscience, at the Whitney.»

Located in SoHo, NY's historic photo building at 100 Crosby Street, the gallery represents a wide range of emerging and established photographers whose practices include landscape and architectural installation, abstract and concrete photography, experimental mixed media works, and social documentary.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Screening: Cao Fei's Haze and Fog and i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film at the Museum of Modern Art As part of its «Documentary Fortnight» series, MoMA is screening two films by Cao Fei, the Beijing - based artist and filmmaker who tackles Chinese economic and social issues.

«Recreation» includes portraits, self - portraits and social documentary images that explore how we reveal ourselves when playing in pools or at the beach.

Katherine Green is a social documentary photographer, who has recently exhibited at Kettle's Yard, National Portrait Gallery and The Lowry.

His use of color film in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

Additionally she studied Radio Documentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Physical Theater at the Dah International School in Belgrade, and Art and Social Engagement at The Kitchen's Sidney Kahn Summer Institute.

They are the recipients of numerous awards, including Creative Time's Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, the United Nations Association Film Festival Grand Jury Award, and Best Documentary Award at HBO Comedy Arts Festival.

Occupying uncertain territory between documentary and fiction, he lays bare hedonic reversal, a pleasure in pain that is foreign to him, a pleasure in social and cultural ruins: «I have been looking at how to construct ruins that don't carry this pain.

Ezra Winton holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Carleton University, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University where his research and teaching interests include radical and alternative media, social movements, documentary cinema, institutions and culture as well as global cinema and new media platforms.

«Songbook,» Alec Soth's current exhibition of documentary - style black - and - white environmental and ensemble portraiture at Sean Kelly Gallery is compellingly complicated in the aggregate, ultimately pointing to a deeply American dilemma of how physical and social space is negotiated.

The artist studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic, from 1970 to 1973, and has developed an international reputation for his innovative imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, and his input to photographic culture within the UK and abroad.

Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.

At Pace University, I launched a course in 2010 called Blogging a Better Planet and I co-teach a documentary production course in which each student film since 2010 has told the story of people trying to forge environmental and social progress — from a shrimp farmer cutting pollution in Belize to an organization trying to improve the lives of slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro.

Even noted film and media scholar Patricia Aufderheide, professor of Film and Media Arts in the School of Communication at American University and director of the Center for Social Media, noticed, tweeting: Dueling documentaries; looks like the big - biz folks aren't as good filmmakers... http://wapo.st/qwM4N7 @hotcoffeemovie

Fourth, Pat Aufderheide, director of social media at American University's School of Communication and person behind the many best practices guides on fair use for online video (remixes), education and documentary filmmaking, proudly shared her work.