Sentences with phrase «about documentary programs»

In making judgements about documentary programs shouldn't Mr Dalton require a modicum of credibility and adherence to minimal journalistic standards, as well as looking for good entertainment?

Not exact matches

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

On Sunday night, Citizenfour, a film about Edward Snowden holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room revealing the global spying programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency, won the Oscar for best documentary for its chilling portrait of technology and surveillance.

«If I had been able to turn on the television and see a documentary or any kind of program about kids with other gay and lesbian parents,» she said, «that would have radically changed my life.»

This critical program has adapted Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein's ground - breaking documentary about birth in America for the university and college classroom setting.

In Lunch Line, a soon - to - be released documentary about the history of school lunch that premiered in Washington this week, we heard a lot of optimism about the future of the program, and the need to make changes soon, even if they're not perfect.

She then joined WGBH's pioneering science documentary series NOVA, producing such programs as «Death of a Disease,» the first long - form documentary about the worldwide eradication of smallpox.

A documentary about the Snow Leopard Trust's community - managed livestock insurance program was selected as the best film about «People & Big Cats» at the International Big Cats Film Festival, held to celebrate World Wildlife Day.

In addition to doing this workout program, I have seen a documentary about GSP called «The striking truth», and he really seems to be a down to earth and genuine guy.

I would love to have lunch with Lauren Parsekian Paul, one of the founders of Kind Campaign, a nonprofit that helps educate about the powerful belief in KINDness that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl - against - girl «crime» through documentary films and school based programs.

Go inside the FBI and see the training videos and documentaries about this US institution plus video programs from police agencies, the US Treasury and the military.

Like a very well - produced Nova special, or a Discovery channel in - depth program, this documentary about industrial design is interesting and chatty and slightly dry.

In Critics» Week, a program devoted to the discovery of new talent, the top prize, the Nespresso Grand Prix, went to «Makala,» Emmanuel Gras» documentary about a young Congolese man trying to make a living by producing charcoal.

Meet one of the Trailblazers From «Women Outward Bound», a Documentary About a Life - Changing Wilderness Program for Women

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Extras: Audio commentary from 1994 featuring Demme, Foster and Hopkins, screenwriter Ted Tally, and former FBI agent John Douglas; new interview with critic Maitland McDonagh; thirty - five minutes of deleted scenes; interview from 2005 with Demme and Foster; «Inside the Labyrinth,» a 2001 documentary; «Page to Screen,» a 2002 program about the adaptation; «Scoring The Silence,» a 2004 interview program featuring composer Howard Shore; «Understanding the Madness,» a 2008 program featuring interviews with retired FBI special agents; behind - the - scenes featurette; trailer; an essay by critic Amy Taubin along with, in the Blu - ray edition, a new introduction by Foster; an account of the origins of the character Hannibal Lecter by author Thomas Harris; and a 1991 interview with Demme.

Based on Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's nonfiction report of the same name, Robert Kenner's documentary looks at the scientists hired by corporations and conservative think - tanks to appear on news programs, touting skewed data about public health issues and climate change.

BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND The LAFF program is filled with movies about music, from Clint Eastwood's «Jersey Boys» and John Ridley's «Jimi: All Is By My Side» to a documentary about jazz musician Frank Morgan to an in - depth look at the videos for Beyonce's last album.

Controversial television programming like This Week's 1987 documentary Death on the Rock, about the shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar by the SAS, was banned outright or delayed until its news - value shelf life had long expired.

The second disc houses the abovementioned documentary along with recent interviews and reminiscences featuring the surviving Pythons in fine form, going on candidly about disappointments (Cleese had wanted to play Brian) and tensions, although the highlight is archival footage of a British chat program wherein the Pythons score points on a pair of Catholic assclowns.

While I'd prefer a documentary about Lemmon's life and work, «Magic Time» offers a fairly interesting program.

Emer Reynolds» inspirational documentary about NASA's Voyager program was unlike anything else we saw in cinemas last year.

The always - topical documentary category is likely to keep its crown as the newsiest bracket at the Oscars by nominating not one, but two features about Syria — festival favorite City of Ghosts, acquired by Amazon in a $ 2 million deal, and Last Men in Aleppo, winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize — as well as Icarus, an investigation into Russia's shady doping program (which should get a boost from the news that Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics), and Jane, a lyrical look at pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall, who spent years battling a scientific community that refused to take her seriously.

In this post, he tells us about our very special series of documentaries and panel discussions, DocDays, which he is responsible for programming and organising.

Blatt produced close to 100 programs for the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, including the popular statistics series Against All Odds, the discrete mathematics series For All Practical Purposes, and a primetime documentary, Surprises in Mind, about children's capacity for mathematical thinking.

A documentary film about dance in NYC public schools with a tool kit and resources for other districts to begin building dance programs

DL: Vaccine Nation is the story of an award - winning documentary filmmaker who is handed whistleblower evidence about the U.S. vaccination program, and then races to expose it before a megalomaniacal pharmaceutical company CEO can have her killed.

While the dig in New Mexico was certainly what had gotten the ball rolling for the program, that is not what the entire documentary is going to be about.

«The chief goal of the visual arts program,» Brian O'Doherty explained in a 1976 documentary about Artpark, «is to integrate artists, their methods, and works into the leisure activities of everyday people.»

In addition to the exhibition, the UAG will also present multiple programming events to include: «Q&A with the Artist: A Conversation with Wendy Red Star and Michelle Lanteri» on January 25, 2018, in the NMSU HSS Auditorium 101 at 6:00 pm; a screening of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, a feature documentary about Native American peoples» contributions to rock «n» roll history, on February 15, 2018, in the NMSU CMI Theatre at 5:30 pm; and «Considering Contemporary Art,» a panel featuring Julie Sasse, Chief Curator of Modern, Contemporary, and Latin American Art, Tucson Museum of Art; Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Guest Curator, Newark Museum and Art History PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center; and Michelle J. Lanteri on March 8, 2018, in the University Art Gallery at 5:30 pm.

February Events @ Schomburg Center Various Dates and Times, Harlem Programming ranges from a conversation about women in the context of Black Lives Matter, explorations of the legacy of August Wilson, a screening of a documentary about Congressman John Lewis, and an author talk about the history African Americans who have cooked for U.S. Presidents, to a conversation between models Pat Cleveland and Bethann Hardison, who is also a fashion advocate.

The 13 part series will be part of a bigger 3 hour block of weekly programming about living the vida verde that includes documentaries and short films (the juicy green details of which can be found here).

The talk will be preceded by a screening of «Dance of the Phoenix,» a short documentary about the Tea Fire by UCSB students Romero Castillo, Mayur Prajapati, and Jackson Carter, that was produced as part of the Carsey - Wolf Center's Blue Horizons program.

PBI talks to Perkins Coie's Leah Medway about her career, the firm's pro bono program, the access to justice culture in Seattle, the documentary «The Chance for a New Life — The Sara Kruzan Story,» and more.

After graduating from Duke, Erin spent a year and a half living in Nepal working for Save the Children US, designing rehabilitation and reintegration programs for women and girls who were victims of sexual trafficking and working on a multi-media documentary about human trafficking.