Sentences with phrase «documentary film was made»

A documentary film was made about the artist and his process, The Ivory Knife, produced by Red Parrot — the Martha Jackson film company that documented artists in their studios and artist interviews — which received the Gold Eagle Award in the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

A brilliant documentary film was made in 1984 of Leonard Bernstein conducting an orchestra and singers during rehearsals of his own composition, «West Side Story.»

Nine documentary films were made about the projects of Christo and Jeanne - Claude.

Not exact matches

We make project - management software for other software developers, not documentary films, so this idea was precisely the kind of monumental distraction that every venture capitalist warns you to avoid like the plague.

So here was my stupid idea: Why not make a documentary film about it?

While the creators first set out to make a feature film - length documentary, things changed when 16 - year - old Dassey was arrested for helping his uncle.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

The latest example debuts on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of director Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN Films, the sports network's production company that is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary films.

Gibney, a prolific documentary director who most recently made waves with his scathing film on The Church of Scientology, «Going Clear,» is not known for pulling punches.

Jonathan Nossiter is a film - maker who first came to the attention of wine lovers when he released his epic hand - made documentary Mondovino about five years ago.

For those of you that don't know what Catfish is, it's a documentary that was made in 2010 about a young kid who falls in love with a girl over Facebook while his brother and friend film it.

In a neat piece of narrative structuring on Tanovic's part, this David - and - Goliath story is told partially through the eyes of a film crew making a documentary on Ayan's astonishing findings.

When introducing his latest documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, director Alex Gibney joked that he was leaning towards keeping the name of his «mostly finished but not quite done» work the «Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film» because he'd never before made a film where he was «so uncertain about where [he] was going... and what the conclusions would be,» given the «divisive» nature of his subject.

Former home secretary Jacqui Smith, who claimed on expenses for two adult films watched by her husband, is making a documentary about the porn industry.

Two African American producers based in Atlanta have been filming the SpelBots to make a documentary about the team and their experiences at the RoboCup events.

A: We're going to make two versions of the film — the Laramie one will be a short, 20 - minute documentary.

Irena Salina, director of the award - winning documentary film, FLOW, about the world's dwindling water supplies, thinks it can be done if world leaders, international banks, the United Nations and other governmental organizations establish cooperative agreements for the use of bodies of water, including groundwater, and economic mechanisms to make sure those who need access to water can get it.

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

The entire journey was also filmed on video, and the footage will soon be used to make a documentary.

And because I'm a sort of odd bloke, I decided to throw a juicer in the back of a truck, hire a camera crew to follow me as I drove across the United States, and make a movie about it — Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, a documentary film about my journey.

In this documentary, plant - based diets are also shown to have a significant impact on our environment — the film subtly evolves from a narrative around nutrition and into a discussion around climate change, arguing that the decision to reduce meat consumption is perhaps the most profound choice an individual can make to reduce their impact on the earth.

She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing and appears in a new film, Forks Over Knives, which played in major theaters throughout North America in 2011.

Fashion films and documentaries make for excellent and intriguing viewing, which is why I decided to put together a list of my personal favourites!

There are viral zombies that are the result of «real» zombie virus; the classic walking dead zombies made popular in the documentary films of George Romero.

About Blog Lights film school is an online learning environment where film makers come together to learn how to make great films and documentaries.

The four fiction films that follow the documentaries were all made for politically motivated anthologies, and they focus on themes of social change and personal identity.

I could make a film about any person or organization and only interview the people that hate you or it with no inclusion of the good things a person or organization does and present it as a documentary and you know what people would believe you're entirely evil and you know why?

The cool variation comes in the form of his drug - addled brother who believes the film crew that's following him around is documenting his big comeback — when they're really making a documentary on the effects of drug addiction and using his name as former contender to add impact.

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 - making might not be particularly polished, but the subject matter of this documentary is wrenching.

That's all well and good but Sony's Anniversary Edition DVD from 2004 had a lot more: an hour - long documentary on the making of the film, a lengthy doc about real - life AIDS victims, and Bruce Springsteen's «Streets of Philadelphia» music video.

PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.

Although not known for enjoying interviews, Clifford was keenly interested in film history and made appearances in two documentaries on the subject: the 1984 Ulster Television program A Seat in the Stars: The Cinema and Ireland and historian Anthony Slide's ground - breaking The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors.

Also, there is some new bonus material, including a documentary on how techniques for making space films has evolved in the last 100 years or so.

George Michael: Freedom: The story of legendary international recording artist George Michael, filmed before Michael's untimely passing, the documentary is narrated by the singer, who was heavily involved in the making of the film that serves as his final work.

And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently at the helm of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.

Even the founders themselves, in a making - of documentary that aired in Japan, stated that their mission was to «make films that embody the spirit of Studio Ghibli.»

We sat down with Boston - area library maven Margaret Willison to talk about the film, the 2014 documentary that partly inspired it, and how hard it is to make a comedy in which there's a lot of physical abuse.

Mr. Berardini's packed documentary makes its case early and often, perhaps too often, but it's more chilling than your average issue film.

There's also an odd episode or two that is more documentary than drama, which is an odd mix since the film makes no attempt at realism.

THR's David Rooney believes Whitney is a «haunting, richly contextualized documentary portrait,» and Owen Gleiberman of Variety writes, «The film captures the quality that made Whitney Houston magical, but more than that it puts together the warring sides of her soul.»

The cast is made up of an actual family, including his father Tim Jandreau and his sister Lilly Jandreau, which is perhaps why their performances feel so authentic and why this film seems like an intimate, verité - style documentary at times.

This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.

The documentary, which originally aired on television, is a fascinating account of not only the Watergate investigation, but the making of the film as well, and is highlighted by its exhaustive research and bizarre archival footage of Nixon.

It's this documentary approach, coupled with intriguing sci - fi, that makes the film so interesting.

Obviously, the film leans in the direction of peace, but it's as subjective as a documentary could possibly be on this subject, and it definitely makes one think of the true consequences of war, the nature of American imperialism, and how it all relates to our current situation in Iraq and the rest of the world.

Its filmed with fluid motion photography which at first makes you unsure whether this is a motion picture of a documentary.

Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth were previously commissioned by Cave to film 14 short making - of documentaries packaged with the recent reissue of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds» discography.

The documentary is accompanied by a number of interesting films: three shorts made at the Champion studio from 1910 to 1913, an early documentary short about Fort Lee by Theodore Huff and Mark A. Borgotta, a feature called The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy, an early Mack Sennett comedy short, and a 31 - minute version of Robin Hood released by Éclair America in 1912.

And while that's definitely present in this drama of two buddies (Jean - Pierre Bacri and Jamel Debbouze) trying to make a documentary on a famous feminist author and journalist (Agnès Jaoui) making a run for politics, it lacks the gravitas and resonance of her previous films.