Sentences with phrase «documentarians for»

The students profiled in this video acted as documentarians for their local community and its changing demographics, attitudes and experiences.

Although women continue to fare better in documentary work, Martha Lauzen's 2015 study shows that only 37 % of documentary producers, 34 % of executive producers, 29 % of directors, 29 % of writers, 23 % of editors, and 13 % of cinematographers are women.101 When it comes to the industry recognizing and awarding female documentarians for their directorial works, women are at a complete disadvantage.

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It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

Too many pregnant women assume a hospital birth assisted by a doctor is their best choice for delivery, according to two documentarians who want to spread the word about childbirth options, such as midwifery.

Documentarians Michael Moore (l.), Jon Alpert (c.) and Morgan Spurlock break ground Tuesday for a new cinema on Lafayette St. in an 1896 firehouse.

First - time documentarian Crystal Moselle won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her slow unveiling of the brothers» disturbing situation, flecked with surreal visions: a downbeat Batman stares longingly out at the world from behind the window bars of a high - rise.

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been noted for his ability to capture the nuances of life in American institutions such as prisons, hospitals, welfare offices, and high schools.

Considering how at ease Francis seems with the documentarian's spotlight, and how refreshingly direct he's been in the past, one can't help but wish Wenders» questions probed deeper into this thoughtful, unexpectedly forthcoming man, and the often opaque organization for which he speaks.

Although documentarian Kirby Dick is known for visually imaginative films («This Film Is Not Yet Rated,» «Outrage»), he wisely chooses to depend on the powerful stories told here.

For the most part, documentarians Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot do this potent story justice.

Soon, Jamie is sharing a financier, an editor, and a mentor (the still great Charles Grodin, as Cornelia's accomplished documentarian father) with Josh, who has been struggling for close to ten years to finish his own boring high - minded doc.

Documentarian Rohan Spong (T Is For Teacher, All the Way Through Evening, Winter At Westbeth) joins us as we wrap up the year that was.

In «All Things Must Pass,» Hanks, as documentarians and biographers often do, lets his affection for his subject run over.

It's unclear what drove Danish documentarian Jeppe Ronde to focus on this phenomenon for his first narrative film.

Much of the blame for this deadly comedy must rest on the shoulders of director, co-writer and co-producer Rick Friedberg, a one - time documentarian whose previous claims to fame were the rent - a-car commercials he did with Nielsen and the music videos he directed for Kenny G and Van Halen.

Though directors Chin and E. Chai Vaserhelyi take breaks to interview the wives, the documentarians want as many of the eighty - nine minutes taken up with close - ups of the climb, and in a feature that could snatch a nomination for cinematography, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk capture the rain and sleet and pour down on the group as though Mother Nature is determined to keep the summit of Meru pristine, untouched by human hands.

Oh, and lest I forget, as if there wasn't enough already going on, for the entire movie, there is a documentarian shooting all of this as footage for his documentary.

Having been stuck on the same arcane, decidedly non-commercial project for the past decade, Josh feels an entire career's worth of pride and self - doubt come bubbling to the surface as Jamie's first film enjoys instantaneous payoff — and worse, garners the approval of Cornelia's father, the renowned documentarian Leslie Breitbart (an excellent Charles Grodin).

For conservative wife / mother Liz (Emily Mortimer, sporting a spotty American accent), he uncovers infidelity in her douchey documentarian husband (Steve Coogan).

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997) Master documentarian Errol Morris takes on four different subjects in Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control and holds them up for the viewer to decide their interconnectedness.

This isn't someone, for example, who wants to showcase the looming specter of governmental distrust, and in doing so shoots scenes at Guantanamo Bay, adds a Washington, DC interview between a documentarian and a Marine willing to go to jail to avoid a second tour of duty in the Middle East, and caps it off with a shot of a mysterious thumb drive being entombed in fresh cement at an undisclosed location.

It was a memorable night for my class, following a strong semester with a wide array of guests and films, from documentarian Ondi Timoner (with her Russell Brand feature Brand: A Second Coming) to composer Harry Gregson - Williams (with The Martian), Oscar - winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (with Bridge of Spies), writer Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, who co-directed the offbeat animated feature Anomalisa.

One of Broomfield's hastier exposés (for starters, it was shot entirely on consumer DV instead of his typical 16 mm), Aileen 2 became a film more or less on the spur of the moment when the documentarian was subpoenaed to testify at one of Wuornos's pre-execution hearings.

The younger characters have been pushed to the wings to clear center stage for Zissou (Bill Murray), a once - famous underwater documentarian teetering on the brink of irrelevance.

Laura Poitras — «Citizenfour» Easily the most talked - about non-fiction film of the year, a front - runner for the Documentary Oscar (and even, some suggest, a dark horse for a Best Picture nomination), «Citizenfour» looks to make director Laura Poitras, if she wasn't already, one of the best known documentarians working today.

It's not without significance that Vivian's documentary, determined to expose weaknesses in marriages, only reinforces their strengths, but Bell's script seldom uses the documentarian's lens as a sincere mirror for relationship issues that are later exposed or discussed, and then later forgets her for large chunks of its running time.

Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi and actor Rutger Hauer have been selected to head juries for the upcoming Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.

Originally performed at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival as a tribute to the director, documentarian Mike Kaplan recorded a 2007 performance and, with the blessing of McDowell, supplements the performance with illustrative stills and film clips for this production.

After graduating as valedictorian of her film school, Laney (a luscious Winona Ryder) gets a job assisting unctuous morning - show host Grant Gubler (John Mahoney) but moonlights as an amateur documentarian, compulsively videotaping the goings - on of roommates Vickie (Janeane Garofalo) and Troy (Ethan Hawke) and gay fourth - wheel Sammy (Steve Zahn, a dead ringer in character for «Party of Five»'s Mitchell Anderson).

Legendary documentarians Barbara Kopple and Werner Herzog find themselves in the mix — as does the increasingly ambidextrous Ava DuVernay for her NYFF opener 13th — while well - received titles such as Under the Gun, The Eagle Huntress, and Strike a Pose (reviewed) are left on the sidelines.

Irish documentarian Ken Wardrop heads to Oklahoma for an examination of mother / son love with universal appeal despite its limited scope

Over the last eight years, the festival has provided opportunities for nearly 300 Asian and Asian American filmmakers and documentarians to share their vision, often providing the only venue for their films to be shown in Dallas.

Amy Berg, the documentarian responsible for the Academy Award - nominated Deliver Us From Evil and the West Memphis Three exposé West Of Memphis, directs.

Los Angeles, February 14 — The Cinema Audio Society Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing Motion Picture — Live Action was presented by Oscar ® nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy («Last Days in Vietnam») and Sound Mixer Mike Minkler, CAS to the sound mixing team of Thomas Varga, Jon Taylor, CAS, Frank A. Montaño, Gustavo Borner, Jason Oliver and John Sanacore, CAS from «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)».

Wang Bing Chinese documentarian Wang Bing won the Golden Leopard out of Locarno for this documentary about a woman dying of Alzheimer's in rural China.

It's from documentarian recently turned feature film director James Marsh, who doesn't do much for the story besides move it along.

It is, however, perhaps what a synthesis of documentarian Marsh's naturalistic impulses and Addica's manifest love for the taciturn cinema of the early -»70s was destined to yield.

Led by Jeremy Zipple, S.J., an award - winning documentarian and former producer for National Geographic, America Films is responsible for all aspects of America Media's video production.

Jury members for the Canadian awards consist of Mark Adams, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival; Canadian documentarian and Hillman Prize winner Min Sook Lee (Migrant Dreams); and artist, filmmaker and Black Women Film!

Frederick Wiseman is one of the most gifted and prolific documentarians in the world; this film is a cause for celebration.

But it's beautifully shot, filled with poster - worthy black - and - white images of young, affluent, disaffected South Africans partying, philosophizing, bullshitting among themselves, and trying to explain to a pushy young documentarian how they feel about a friend of theirs who live - streamed her suicide for an avid international audience.

Tabloid, a bizarre bio-pic about a good girl gone bad, is the latest offering from Oscar - winning documentarian Errol Morris (for Fog of War).

Whenever the great documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The New Americans) has a new doc, he shows it at SXSW, and it's always one of the festival highlights for me.

Oscar - nominated documentarian Lilibet Foster took on the task of filming Whitfield's life from that day on and the result is the film Be Here Now — which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year.

Seemingly inspired by two of the few modern documentarians you and I know by name, Michael Moore and Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock, Guggenheim opts for a buoyant tone, with a palpable sense of humor.

«Megan Leavey»: A first narrative for documentarian Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film is the story of a young woman (Kate Mara) who joins the Marines to escape her troubled circumstances, deploys to Iraq as a handler of a canine bomb detector, and saves hundreds of lives, including that of her beloved dog.

Riggen also talked at length with the documentarian about her experience finding her authority undermined on set, especially while making the fact - based drama «The 33,» where she said a white male unit director kept overruling her and setting the schedule for production, until it became an untenable situation that she couldn't get the producers to acknowledge.

Directed by documentarian Gabriela Cowperthwaite («Blackfish») the movie confines itself to the facts of Megan's story and smartly doesn't tackle any social or political issues like women in the military and the reasons for going to war with Iraq.

B + The Central Park Five Not Rated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Documentarian Ken Burns, famous for his award - winning stories about American history, tackles a great injustice played upon five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were arrested and convicted for raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989.

Hayek concluded her remarks by calling for more «equality, diversity, inclusion and intersectionality,» which were celebrated throughout the evening, from the visibility of Latino projects («The Shape of Water,» «Coco» and «A Fantastic Woman») and transgender artists (the actress Daniela Vega and the documentarian Yance Ford) to glorious appearances from such veterans Eva Marie Saint, Rita Moreno and screenwriter James Ivory, who became the oldest Oscar winner in history when he won the award for best adapted screenplay.