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From filmmaker Steve Hoover and executive producer Terrence Malick, the documentary Almost Holy follows a vigilante pastor in the Ukraine nicknamed «Crocodile Gennadiy» who goes to extreme — at times controversial — measure to save orphaned, street children from drug addition and predators.

Here's a look at a new documentary about The Avett Brothers from filmmakers Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio.

Home birth advocate Ricki Lake and filmmaker Abby Epstein sat down for a question - and - answer session Saturday afternoon at the Music Box Theatre after screening their provocative documentary «The Business of Being Born,» which compares home and hospital births.

A handful of young children reveal their thoughts in Bay Area filmmaker Ellen Bruno's wonderful documentary, «Split,» which is, at times, heart - wrenching in its honesty although it's clear that parental conflict causes them the most stress, not the divorce per se, and not being able to see their father as much as they'd like.

In an interview, documentary filmmaker Maureen Palmer explained where the trend to sexualize girls at younger and younger ages has come from:

Fallon Community Health Plan is event sponsor (STURBRIDGE, MA)-- July 23, 2013: - Award - winning composer John Williams will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, August 15 at the living history museum.

(Sturbridge, Mass.) November 14, 2012 — NBC News Special Correspondent and award - winning author Tom Brokaw will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at the living history museum on Tuesday, November 27.

Fallon Community Health Plan sponsors sold - out event (Sturbridge, Mass.) November 14, 2012 — NBC News Special Correspondent and award - winning author Tom Brokaw will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at the living history museum on Tuesday, November 27.

«When kids are born, they're already little scientists exploring the world,» said the filmmaker Estela Renner via a video conference from Brazil before a recent screening of her new documentary The Beginning of Life (streaming on Netflix) at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue, whose debut documentary film, The House of Nwapa premiered in the US at Harvard University recently, has kicked - off a new political party, urging young people in Nigeria to join hands with him to dethrone President Muhammadu Buhari.

At 6 p.m., state Sen. Jesse Hamilton hosts free screening of «In Our Backyard: A Documentary on Sex Trafficking in Brooklyn» and panel discussion with filmmaker Danielle Rose, survivor and advocate Iryna, and ECPAT USA's Director of Private Engagement Michelle Guelbart, Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.

In episode 304, Jenny freaks out after Moira disappears all night; Bette takes on Washington; Carmen spins for Russell Simmons; Billie Jean King interviews Dana at a tennis match; Kit wonders if she has made the right choice with The Planet's new charge d'affaires; Helena falls for a straight documentary filmmaker.

Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved.

The big difference in Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordeno's vibrant documentary portrait is that it surveys the lives of LGBTQ youth - of - color at a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national movement and trans rights is making a long - overdue entry into the political conversation.

One is a documentary filmmaker; presumably this at least to some degree represents Sachs himself.

In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.

Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.

In the second, an aspiring documentary filmmaker (Paul Giamatti) takes a look at a well - off suburban family and the high school the kids attend.

Long a pariah, Hopper was suddenly hailed as a major new filmmaker, and his success became so great that in 1971 he appeared in an autobiographical documentary, American Dreamer, exploring his life and times.The true follow - up to Easy Rider, however, was 1971's The Last Movie, an excessive, self - indulgent mess that, while acclaimed by jurors at the Venice Film Festival, was otherwise savaged by critics and snubbed by audiences.

Indeed, given the Hasidic community's not - exactly active embrace of documentary filmmakers, this is likely to be the closest look we get at their world for some time.

Joe Berlinger is an American filmmaker who often collaborates with fellow director Bruce Sinofsky on documentaries, which include the Paradise Lost trilogy, following the West Memphis Three, and Some Kind of Monster, a behind - the - scenes look at Metallica.

And their efforts at deconstructing each fateful turn of events are monitored by a fledgling filmmaker (Wilmer Valderrama) who tags along to make a documentary.

Dern stars as a loosely fictionalized version of documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox, who must come to terms with the fact that she was abused at age 13 by her beloved track coach and horse - riding instructor — a relationship she had convinced herself for decades was consensual and romantic.

Asif Kapadia, the filmmaker behind Senna, is debuting a documentary about British pop singer Amy Winehouse at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Albert Maysles, who died on March 6 at the age of 88, was an American treasure, a documentary filmmaker for whom anything was a potential subject, simply because it happened, and who discovered poetry in the...

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

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

Sundance has been absolutely amazing to me as a filmmaker and an artist, starting with Documentary Film Fund grants for my previous film Escape Fire [co-directed by Susan Froemke], which premiered at the Festival.

Uniquely filmmaker Sophie Fiennes does not go the normal documentary route (archival footage, interviews, stats) with this look at the enigmatic androgynous Ms. Jones that was shot over a 10 - year stretch.

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.

Filmmaker Raoul Peck had a box office hit last year with his Oscar - nominated box office success I Am Not Your Negro, which incidentally took Best Documentary at the recent BAFTAs.

Sundance Institute is delighted to introduce our six new Women at Sundance Fellows, a diverse group of filmmakers working as producers and directors in the documentary and narrative fields.

The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documenDocumentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentarydocumentary genre.

Angela is also the Senior Manager of Artist Development at Film Independent where she oversees the filmmaker labs program including Screenwriting, Directing, Producing, Episodic, Documentary Labs and the Fast Track Finance Market.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

Indo - British filmmaker Asif Kapadia won the best documentary Oscar for «Amy», a poignant examination of singer Amy Winehouse's life and her tragic death at the age of 27.

At the same time, Rivers» second solo feature is the closest to «conventional» that his work as ever come — the term being used very loosely here, given that The Sky Trembles opens as a somewhat absurd behind - the - scenes documentary before following Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe off into the unknown.

Awards: Special Jury Award for «Visionary Storytelling» at the Indie Memphis Film Festival The Unforgettable Award for the subject of our film, Peter Anton: CinemaEye Honors, NYC The Audience Award at the EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF) in Seoul, South Korea The Top 6 Audience - Rated Film at the Sheffield Doc / Fest in Sheffield, England Special Jury Award for «Complex, Hands - on Storytelling» at the Sarasota Film Festival Best of the Fest at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival The Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Geneva Film Festival The Best Exploration of Documentary Ethics Award by the Columbia Daily Tribune in their coverage of the True / False Film Festival

At this year's DOC NYC festival, 15 of the filmmakers behind the year's buzziest documentaries sat down to answer questions about their filmmaking process, offering wisdom and perspective on the craft of documentary.

For a documentary about (visual) memory the dominant theme resonating is strangely that of absence: Mick's trips away from the family, Mick's family not at his wedding, Mick's self isolation later in life, and, most, poignantly, the absence of the elusive Mick in his own films, a constant elided «other» as the filmmaker behind the camera.

A brother of one of Santoalla's filmmakers first heard the story that is at the center of the documentary Oscilloscope is releasing this weekend while volunteering at a farm in 2010.

Hence he can surprise his brother - in - law (Steve Coogan) and his lithe and toothsome ballerina of a documentary subject, each in the buff, and it is not stretch on the audience's part for Ned to see only a filmmaker at work, and neither is it a stretch to see only admiration for craft rather than smirking needling when he tells someone about it.

First - time filmmaker Jason Osder's riveting documentary brilliantly re-creates that day entirely through live local broadcasts and a televised city hearing months later that investigated who was at fault.

Borrowing from the best but, at the same time, forging a bold style all his own, British filmmaker Bart Layton, known for his highly successful, U.S. - set 2012 documentary The Imposter, again turns to the history of bizarre American crimes to relate a story that would be hard to invent.

This was my original downtown bohemian pal Rose's reaction when she found out I'd just spent twenty minutes at the offices of Magnolia Pictures doing a beat - the - clock interview with Philippe Petit, the only person to ever dance across a high - wire between the Twin Towers, and filmmaker James Marsh, who profiled the legendary Frenchman and his «artistic crime of the century» in his appropriately uplifting documentary Man On Wire.

Best Feature Winner: «Moonrise Kingdom» «Bernie» «The Loneliest Planet» «The Master» «Middle Of Nowhere» Best Documentary Winner: «How To Survive A Plague» «Detropia» «Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present» «Room 237» «The Waiting Room» Best Ensemble Performance Winner: «Your Sister's Sister» «Bernie» «Moonrise Kingdom» «Safety Not Guaranteed» «Silver Linings Playbook» Breakthrough Actor Winner: Emayatzy Corinealdi («Middle Of Nowhere») Mike Birbiglia («Sleepwalk With Me») Thure Lindhardt («Keep The Lights On») Melanie Lynskey («Hello, I Must Be Going») Quvenzhané Wallis («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Breakthrough Director Winner: Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Zal Batmanglij («Sound Of My Voice») Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky («Francine») Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin («Now, Forager») Antonio Méndez Esparza («Aquí y Allá») Calvin Klein Female Filmmaker Award Stacie Passon («Concussion») Bingham Ray Award Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You «An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty» (written and directed by Terence Nance) Gotham Independent Film Audience Award «Artifact»

Among the many films screening at the festival is a sci - fi documentary called Jodorowsky's Dune, profiling Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune in the 1970s.

Jessica Beshir, director of the short documentary «Hairat,» at the Sundance press and filmmaker reception on Wednesday, January 25, 2017.

After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.