Sentences with phrase «documentary filmmakers working»

Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award — nominated and Emmy — winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman, City of Ghosts is a singularly powerful cinematic experience that is sure to shake audiences to their core as it elevates the canon of one of the most talented documentary filmmakers working today.

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Eventually, Powell Jobs and Davis Guggenheim — a filmmaker who's also working on the project — plan to use these self - shot videos to compose a documentary about the need for immigration reform.
Riot also employs four documentary filmmakers to chronicle the hard work of all the creative employees for LoL's fans.
The soft - spoken Hawaiian had worked as a writer, actress and filmmaker; her 2006 award - winning documentary, Then There Were None, recounted the colonization of Hawaii.
Meanwhile, the famed filmmaker will soon join in on the trend himself, with a new Netflix documentary series he has in the works that he says «has an element of true crime in it.»
Working with Dan O'Meara and Chris Romano, Troutwine assembled a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
This weekend, Fuse will air the new documentary from filmmaker Dan Parris about the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, the Ferguson protests and how young activists are working for change.
They still end up doing most of the caretaking and household chores, even if they work full time,» says Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman, who is working on a documentary called Apartners: Living Happily Ever Apart.
A Bronx - born filmmaker is working on a documentary about New York accents.
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar is a documentary on Federico Fellini's life and work by filmmaker Damian Pettigrew, who combines vintage interview footage of Fellini, new conversations with those who worked with him (including actors Donald Sutherland and Terence Stamp), and excerpts from Fellini's films (some of them previously unseen outtakes) to create an insightful portrait of a remarkable creative mind.
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.
It's clear immediately that filmmaker Peter Berg is looking to ape the feel and tone of Paul Greengrass» work, as Deepwater Horizon boasts a documentary - like feel that's heightened by its low - key performances and general lack of context - with scripters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, in terms of the latter, delivering dialogue that tends to emphasize authenticity over exposition (ie much of this stuff sounds as though it was pulled directly from real - life transcripts).
Rachel is a freelance marketing and distribution consultant for educational videos, working with independent documentary filmmakers to expand their audience.
These comprehensive juxtapositions between on - the - scene and off - the - cuff moments reveal an inherent contradiction between filmmaker and subject; while the team members claim they work from evidence first, then reach conclusions, Chevigny and Kauffman have set out to make a hagiographic observational documentary that is more interested in putting a human face on an organization than it is operating with a more rigorous, journalistic precision.
This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.
Filmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen dFilmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen dfilmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen documents.
Documentary telling the bizarre story of the kidnapping of South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang - ok and actress Choi Eun - hee by North Korean agents working for Kim Jong - il.
Nanette Burstein is an acclaimed filmmaker whose work has won her several awards, including an Academy Award nomination for her documentary «On The Ropes,» two Emmy awards for «NY77,» and a Sundance Best Director award for «American Teen.»
The documentary filmmaker Les Blank, who died in 2013, left behind a body of work celebrating American roots culture, food and music.
An essential documentary for movie fans, this exploration of the work of iconic filmmaker Roger Corman revels in the joy of exploitation movies made on a minuscule budget with lashings of gore, explosions and nudity...
Agnes Varda's Faces Places Is a Work of Art About Art — David Sims enjoys the legendary French filmmaker's collaboration with the photographer JR, a wonderful documentary about communities, memory, and her own history.
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.
Documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Kirsten Johnson and chief creative officer of Fork Films Gini Reticker, presented the Amicus Award to Fork Films CEO Abigail Disney in recognition of her work in support of peacebuilding and advancing women's roles in the public sphere.
Our works - in - progress screening series offers the public and members of the film community advance access to new documentaries in progress and the opportunity to provide feedback and to participate in behind - the - scenes conversation with filmmakers and creators.
To mark the birthday of a filmmaker who's provided some of cinema's most memorable and quotable moments, we've taken a look back over his directorial career (excluding his recent documentary work).
As filmmaker and critic Jeff Reichert put it in his January / February 2017 Film Comment feature on Steve Bannon's documentary work, «We could dismiss Bannon as the Rainer Werner Fassbinder of shoddily made straight - to - video white supremacist documentary.
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.
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.
In both her documentary and fiction work, Chilean filmmaker Marcela Said returns to stories that explore the ongoing impact of the brutal Pinochet regime on Chilean society.
«He was a documentary filmmaker who made The Eternal Jew, a really nasty piece of work.
On a lower floor is an unhappily married couple: Wilder (Luke Evans) is a struggling documentary filmmaker who works in television to pay the bills, and Helen (Elisabeth Moss) is raising two kids while she's pregnant with a third.
As part of a retrospective marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Mitchum's birth, NYFF will also present a work - in - progress screening of «Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast,» a documentary about Mitchum from photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber.
This new documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders sheds more light on today's Pope and on why he has taken a more unconventional approach to his work.
(British filmmaker Rebecca Marshall is currently working on a documentary about Agafia, you can read more here)
Helene Klodawsky is a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose works include Motherhood (1994), Family Motel (2007) and Malls R Us (2009).
The Gist: It's been well over a decade since seminal American filmmaker (and sometime Indiewire blogger) Bogdonavich directed a narrative feature, and even as he's remained busy with journalistic pursuits and documentary work, it's hard not to wonder what sort of stories the man behind «The Last Picture Show» could tell today.
Featuring interviews from some of the biggest names in genre cinema including Joe Dante, Robert Forster and Fred Williamson, this documentary tells the story of one of the best and hardest working exploitation filmmakers.
The four main characters are stellar personalities, and each one stands out for a different reason: Becca is the young filmmaker who takes her work very seriously, carefully crafting frames and cinematic scenes for her documentary; Pop Pop takes extreme pride in being a strong farmworker, but struggles greatly with his increasing age; Nana is kind and fun - loving, baking cookies and playing hide and seek with her grandchildren, but fights to retain control of her faculties in the evening.
The Austrian filmmaker, who regularly works in the documentary mode, discusses The Dreamed Ones, a narrative film that metatextually stages the correspondences between authors Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann during their romance.
For those not familiar with Christine Choy, she's a Korean - American filmmaker whose most prolific period of work was during the 80s and 90s, best remembered for the Oscar - nominated documentary, «Who Killed Vincent Chin?»
Noah Baumbach (Mistress in America) and Jake Paltrow's (The Good Night) acclaimed documentary De Palma — which explores the life and work of the legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma — is set for release here in the UK next week, and StudioCanal has debuted a new poster and trailer for the film; check them out -LSB-...]
In addition to his background in documentary, Greene has worked as an editor for Alex Ross Perry on Listen Up Philip (2014) and Queen of Earth (2015), and this film announces his potential to become a major American independent filmmaker.
Participant's upcoming film slate includes the stirring documentary Human Flow from celebrated artist, activist, filmmaker Ai Weiwei, and narrative films including Stephen Chbosky's Wonder starring Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, and Julia Roberts; Andy Serkis» Breathe which premieres at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival; Steven Spielberg's The Post; the thriller Entebbe from Jose Padilha and Working Title; and Rupert Wyatt's Captive State.
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary international filmmakers working today.
Once Upon A Time star Sarah Bolger holds down the «scream queen» slot, but has little else to work with, since her character - documentary filmmaker Eva - is an enigma the movie only hints at, but never commits to exploring.
The movie works best as a satire of pretentious documentaries made by filmmakers who aren't above pulling a few strings.
An essential documentary for movie fans, this exploration of the work of iconic filmmaker Roger...
Opening Dec. 2, AWFJ's Movie of the Week is Hitchcock / Truffaut, filmmaker Kent Jones» documentary about director Francois Truffaut's 1966 book Cinema According to Hitchcock, and how it has influenced the work of myriad filmmakers.
As an aspiring new filmmaker, her experience ranges working in small roles to key positions in major motion pictures, documentaries and independent films.
The film is pieced together from outtakes from the long - time documentary filmmaker / cinematographer's extensive body of work, but beyond occasionally hearing her voice behind the camera (and one shot towards the end in which we finally see her face as she points the camera toward herself), Johnson forgoes the safety net of voiceover narration to tie all this footage together.
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