Sentences with phrase «documentary about the journalists»

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John Hughes, vice president of Albright Stonebridge, and Joe Cardona, journalist and documentary filmmaker, talk about President Trump's Cuba policy ahead of his remarks in Miami.

It's being heavily promoted by its producers, TV journalist Katie Couric and Laurie David, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's campaign about climate change.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

History is made behind the camera in this detached documentary about the world's first citizen journalists.

, COWBOYS, the directorial debut of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust and Bone co-writer Thomas Bidegain; the breathtaking ethnographic Colombian Amazon odyssey EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT; James Ponsoldt's THE END OF THE TOUR starring Jason Segel as writer David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky in this engrossing two - hander; Writer - Director Jayro Bustamante's IXCANUL VOLCANO, the European Premiere Stevan Riley's enthralling Marlon Brando documentary LISTEN TO ME MARLON; Jia Zhangke's ambitious, astute and humane MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART; the European Premiere of Sylvia Chang's often - ethereal magic - realist drama love story, MURMUR OF THE HEARTS; the European Premiere of THE NEW CLASSMATE about a single mum in India battling to ensure her daughter's future; SEMBÈNE!

It's the pseudonym Edward Snowden used when he first approached, over the Internet, documentary filmmaker and muckraking journalist Laura Poitras, hoping to find someone trustworthy and with a pulpit who could share with the world what he'd discovered about the outrageous mass surveillance the NSA is engaged in that makes Big Brother look like an amateur.

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

Snowden contacted a few journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, an American reporter for The Guardian based in Rio de Janeiro, Scotland's Ewen MacAskill, and Laura Poitras, a filmmaker who declares this the final chapter in her trilogy of documentaries about post-9 / 11 America.

* Alex Gibney's HBO Films documentary «Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief» based on Austin journalist Lawrence Wright's amazing book of the same name, premiered Sunday at Sundance and made waves almost instantly, with Marlow Stern of the Daily Beast reporting, somewhat breathlessly, «it is a scathing exposé on Scientology and makes some startling accusations about its most famous member, Tom Cruise.»

The canniest and most overwhelming documentary to date about the ongoing Syrian civil war, Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts contrasts the story of a heroic group of citizen journalists with a grim view of the international community they desperately need to galvanize.

EXTRAS: In addition to a pair of audio commentaries (a 2007 track featuring directors Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh, and a 1987 track featuring film scholar Howard Suber), there are new interviews with actor Dustin Hoffman, producer Lawrence Turman and writer Buck Henry, a 1992 featurette about making the film, a 2007 short documentary on the film's influence, an essay by journalist Frank Rich and more.

I stay in Afghanistan for film # 2 of the day, this time with French journalist Sonia Kronlund making her feature directorial debut with Nothingwood, a documentary about the country's infamous film star Salim Shaheen.

CITIZENFOUR This sure - to - be-incendiary documentary is by Laura Poitras, the filmmaker - journalist to whom Edward Snowden leaked mindblowing information about the NSA and the eye - opening reach of global surveillance.

He's the author of two books of poetry, Swing in The Hollow (2002) and Two Bits (2007), and co-author of a collection of short fiction (Cars, 2002); he has also published widely as a journalist and essayist, and has produced, written and performed radio monologues and documentaries about blindness for the CBC.

Yeah, someone (maybe some game journalist) should make a documentary about this.

Join Recode's Kara Swisher who will speak with activist and journalist Maria Shriver, along with her daughter Christina Schwarzenegger, about their new Netflix documentary, Take Your Pills.

Taiwan About Blog Lizane Louw is a South African visual journalist, documentary filmmaker and photographer currently residing in Taiwan.