A documentary cameraperson, often working with a hand - held camera and natural light, has to have «people skills,» she said.
Not exact matches
Cameraperson» is a thoughtful examination of the role of the
documentary - maker, showing us how it feels to be that person behind the camera.
Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson's formally adventurous
documentary earned heaps of praise for its cine - journal style and personal take on going once more unto the breach of political hotspots — but its commendably unclassifiable quality may have worked against it come awards time.
Best Film: Manchester by the Sea Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits Best Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman Best
Documentary: O.J.: Made in America Best Ensemble: Hidden Figures Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg NBR Freedom of Expression Award:
Cameraperson
Cameraperson (Unrated) Reverential
documentary chronicling the career of Kirsten Johnson, cinematographer of the Oscar - winning,
documentary Citizenfour and other groundbreaking exposes.
«
Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are
documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a
documentary that is both about her own life and about the very nature of
documentary filmmaking.
Cameraperson is without a doubt the best
documentary of 2016, and just maybe the best film of the year, period.
Cameraperson is the most extraordinary of
documentaries.
Congratulations to Kirsten Johnson and the whole
Cameraperson team on their Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best
Documentary!
Other
documentary highlights include
Cameraperson, taking viewers inside the global career of cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson; and The Eagle Huntress set in the mountains of Mongolia where a teenage heroine learns the ancient - and previously male - only - art of falconry.
«
Cameraperson» — This
documentary feels very little like a fully composed film at all, and yet that's really the beauty of it.
More openings:
Cameraperson, a personal
documentary from filmmaker Kirsten Johnson and A Man Called Ove (winner of the Golden Space Needle for Best Actor) at SIFF Cinema Uptown
The Best
Documentary category includes Cameraperson; I Am Not Your Negro; Life, Animated; Weiner and the epic - length ESPN documentary OJ: Made
Documentary category includes
Cameraperson; I Am Not Your Negro; Life, Animated; Weiner and the epic - length ESPN
documentary OJ: Made
documentary OJ: Made In America.
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016) If there was one genre of film that felt truly innovative this year, it was
documentary, and these three films stood out as revolutionary in their own way; even more importantly, all are intensely passionate and emotional.
Cameraperson, a personal
documentary from filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, screens at SIFF Cinema Uptown on Wednesday, September 28 with a Skype Q&A with the filmmaker.
Bostic's vocals can currently be heard on cinematographer Kirsten Johnson's directorial debut «
Cameraperson,» released last year, and she has several
documentary projects due to be released soon.
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Plenty of high - quality
documentaries from the States to choose from, still
Cameraperson easily won over, probably as it had the strongest effect on me — as someone who is engaged in the politics of images and as a working mother.
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Similar in structure to Depardon's wonderful Journal de France (2012), but more achingly personal as it unspools, Kirsten Johnson (I didn't know her before this either) is a camera craftswoman from the top
documentary shelf.
Additional celebrities at SIFF this year included Academy Award - winning director Morgan Neville with his
documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; award - winning writer and director James Schamus of Indignation; award - winning cinematographer Kirsten Johnson with her directorial debut
Cameraperson; acclaimed actor Clea DuVall with her directorial debut The Intervention; directors Miles B. Miller and Joshua H. Miller, producer Kathryn Tucker, and actor Paul Sparks of All the Birds Have Flown South; actor Craig Robinson in Morris From America; director Jonathan Parker, producers Catherine di Napoli and Deborah Parker, and actor Eric McCormack with The Architect; Mike Birbiglia, director of Don't Think Twice; YouTube sensation and
documentary subject of Presenting Princess Shaw Samantha Montgomery, who performed at the Opening Night Gala; Irish drag queen and marriage equality advocate Panti Bliss, subject of the
documentary The Queen of Ireland, as well as director Conor Horgan; director Martin Spirit and subject Spencer Haywood of Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story; irector Ned Crowley and actor Jim O'Heir of Middle Man; director James Redford with his new
documentary Resilience; Pearl Jam founding member and Gleason composer Mike McCready; actor Laura Carmichael and director Chanya Button with the US premiere of Burn Burn Burn; director Iwai Shunji of A Bride for Rip Van Winkle; Joshua Marston, director of Complete Unknown; actor Corentin Fila of Being 17; Andreas Öhman, director of Eternal Summer; Ti West, director of In A Valley of Violence; director Roger Ross Williams and subject Ron Suskind of Life, Animated; director Nathan Adloff, actor Tim Boardman and producers Stephen Israel and Ash Christian of Miles; director Linas Phillips and producer Ian Bugno of Rainbow Time; Richard Tanne, director of Southside With You; Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of The Dressmaker; Brent Hodge, director of The Pistol Shrimps.
The Best Foreign Language Film category is a race between Elle, The Handmaiden and Toni Erdmann, while
Cameraperson, O.J. Made in America and 13th occupy the Best
Documentary slots.