Sentences with phrase «documentary film directed»

A new documentary film directed by Richard Kane, J. Fred Woell: An American Vision celebrates the pioneering metal artist who created work with wit, satire, and meaning.

In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, a documentary film directed by Tomas Leach, was released in 2013 to critical acclaim.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

New York Women in Film and Television is offering grants of in - kind post-production services to documentary films directed and produced by New York area — based women filmmakers.

Not exact matches

And in this new Hollywood, Scorsese directed some the best films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and concert documentary The Last Waltz.

Written, directed, and produced in Wake County, the documentary, «Certain Proof: A Question of Worth,» debuted in April at Colorado's Vail Film Festival and is slated for screening at four other film festivals.

Cornell University is bringing in film director Ava DuVernay, who directed «Selma» and the documentary «13th.»

The result was the 2010 documentary film Gasland, which went on to earn many accolades including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, a Best Documentary Directing Emmy and a Best Documentary Oscar documentary film Gasland, which went on to earn many accolades including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, a Best Documentary Directing Emmy and a Best Documentary Oscar Documentary Directing Emmy and a Best Documentary Oscar Documentary Oscar nomination.

Guests include Joel Greenberg, author of «A Feathered River Across the Sky» and documentary producer David Mrazek, who directed the film about the life and extinction of the passenger pigeon, «From Billions to None.»

Knowing the documentary would premiere on Cupid's big day, our friends at Single Edition invited us to an advanced screening in New York City, which featured a Q&A with Robert Kenner of the Oscar - nominated Food, Inc., who both directed and produced the film.

On the negative side there's Barry Braverman's pointless documentary «The Making of The Darjeeling Limited,» an unstructured 40 - minute slog of on - set footage where Anderson directs, the stars of the film wait around Indian locations, and the crew builds sets and manages local extras, all devoid of interviews or commentaries.

The film, a fusion of documentary and drama directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, is a fictional re-creation of the 20,000 th day of Mr. Cave's life, when he started recording his 2013 album, «Push the Sky Away.»

, the documentary film on Nina Simone (1933 - 2003), directed by Liz Garbus and recently released on Netflix, is an informative and often fascinating examination of the life and times of the singer and civil rights activist.

If acting, choreographing, and dancing were not enough, Carrie Ann also directs, writes and edits digital documentaries and films under the umbrella of her company EnterMediArts Inc..

Weinstein's background in cinematography (he was director of photography on the documentary «Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me» and directed «Flying on One Engine») is evident in the beautiful look of the film.

Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes film festival.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS And Everything Is Going Fine (Unrated) Steven Soderbergh directs this documentary chronicling the career of the late Spalding Gray (1941 - 2004), an actor / playwright and performance artist known for his minimalist monologues.

The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to: Alexandria Bombach for her film On Her Shoulders (Director: Alexandria Bombach, Producers: Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams)-- Nadia Murad, a 23 - year - old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS.

If you don't recognize the name of Seth Gordon, he also directed one of my favourite documentaries of the last decade — The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — and I can't wait to see what he ends up doing with a full narrative film.

Written and directed by Michele Soavi of Cemetery Man (1994) and The Church (1989) fame, this documentary from 1985 takes an in - depth look at Dario Argento, the master Italian director most well known for his «giallo» horror films.

The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Sandi Tan, for her film Shirkers (Director & Screenwriter: Sandi Tan, Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph)-- In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges — who then vanished with all the footage.

For everyone else, watch this fascinating clip from a new Criterion documentary about Scanners» special effects, directed by Michael Lennick and available as a supplement on our new edition of the film, out next week.

Accepting the World Cinema documentary directing prize, «Winnie» helmer Pascale Lamche pointedly said her film was «for those who know that history is not made by great men» — a sentiment echoed by one of the U.S. doc winners, «Step» director Amanda Lipitz, when she said, «These girls show that nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group of powerful women.»

For the second consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is partnering with DOXA Documentary Film Festival to present EDA Awards for best female - directed films at the 16th annual festival, to be held from May 4 to 14, in Vancouver, BC.

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

The festival nominated female - directed films for the EDA Awards in three categories: Best Female - Directed Narrative, Best Female - Directed Documentary and Best Female - Directed Short.

With experience in production management, directing, and writing, her primary passion is creative producing in documentary and hybrid doc - fiction films.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

DOXA programmers have nominated female - directed films in two EDA Awards categories: Best Female - Directed Feature Length Documentary and Best Female - Directed Documentary Short.

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman won the documentary directing award at this year's Sundance Film Festival for his riveting film, «Cartel Land.»

Hey Jude Productions is proud to present the US Theatrical release of ON THE MAP, a documentary film written and directed by Israeli Academy Award winning filmmaker Dani Menkin (39 Pounds of Love, Dolphin Boy, Is That You?)

The Elevate Grant provides funds to emerging women filmmakers of color directing feature - length documentary films that explore original, contemporary stories and integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process.

Produced by Netflix and Synthesis films, Making A Murderer, which follows the story of convicted murderer Steven Avery, took home four trophies, including outstanding documentary series, and nonfiction program writing, directing and editing.

The Lazarus Effect is directed by David Gelb, whose last feature film was — and I've rechecked this three times to make sure it's not an error — the fascinating 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about an old Japanese man who runs a tiny but renowned restaurant in Tokyo.

Heineman received both the 2015 Sundance Directing Award as well as the Special Jury Award for Cinematography in the US Documentary competition, and we are proud to help get the film the notice it deserves.

Six Catalyst films made waves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: Beach Rats (U.S. Dramatic Directing Award), Chasing Coral (U.S. Documentary Audience Award), The Force (U.S. Documentary Directing Award), Patti Cake $, Unrest (Special Jury Award for Editing) and Strong Island (Special Jury Award for Storytelling), which is also nominated for an Academy Award.

«Hitchcock / Truffaut» documentary film is directed by Kent Jones.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

THIS FILM FESTIVAL WINNING DOCUMENTARY directed by Julie Cohen (American Veteran, The Sturgeon Queens) and Betsy West (Constantine's Sword, The Lavender Scare) was a joy to watch.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

And it feels especially weird when when a movie like that, in this case a film called Unlocked, is directed by an acclaimed documentary filmmaker like Michael Apted (the Up series).

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.

A Special Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, directed by Constance Marks, an inspirational film that crosses cultures and generations

The film is written by Peter Craig, who recently penned Ben Affleck's «The Town» with director Asger Leth making his dramatic feature directing debut after his 2006 documentary «Ghosts of Cite Soleil.»

Tara Wood will direct the Quentin Tarantino documentary which follows her work on last year's similarly themed 21 Years: Richard Linklater, which focussed on the US director of films like Slacker, Before Sunrise and Boyhood.

Release: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 [ESPN] The minute I realized that «E» from Entourage would be directing one of ESPN's 30 - for - 30 documentary films, Big Shot, I was set on focusing my eyeballs on the nearest T.V. that would be showing it.

As the 1980s began she felt increasingly on the margins of the film industry, although she later co-wrote the script for Claire Denis's coming - of - age film set in 60s France, US Go Home (1994), and also directed a number of well - regarded television documentaries, such as Les Anges 1943, Histoire d'un Film (2004), on Bresson's Les Anges du Péché.

Criterion's brilliant Blu - ray set of «The Night of the Hunter» devotes an entire disc to a documentary composed of pristine rushes and outtakes from the film, most with background audio of Laughton directing his actors using both carrot (for the kids) and stick (on Shelley Winters).

: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR, a feature length documentary directed by Film Studies professor and independent filmmaker Marty Langford and executive produced by LA - based casting director / witness to the The Fantastic Four's 1994 filming: Mark Sikes.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»