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He studied Documentary Filmmaking at Toronto's Documentary Film Institute at Seneca College.

Apart from Philosophy she studied Cinematography and Documentary Filmmaking at the Academy of Visual Arts, Tokyo and Munich Academy of Television and Film.

At its worst, «Finding Vivian Maier,» is documentary filmmaking at its least rigorous.

Not exact matches

Larry began filming for the Wings Documentary six years ago when he was studying Filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

It's as a documentary that Downtown 81 is most successful, particularly at those moments when the somewhat unfocused filmmaking allows us to look past the foreground characters and catch glimpses of a vanished cityscape.

Christopher Campbell, who covers documentaries at NonFics.com, has written an interesting report and commentary focusing on one important aspect of The Femsle Gaze discussion — that is whether the filmmaking industry — or to be more specific, the documentary film industry — requires the use of a Bechdel Test to establish equal opportunity for women.

Meanwhile, music documentary «Beware of Mr. Baker» and William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe» (which opens in July) were both highlights of SXSW, while Cuban drama «Una Noche» and Keanu Reeves «filmmaking documentary «Side By Side» were leading lights at Tribeca and Berlin.

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.

Writer - director George Ratliff has helmed feature - length documentaries in the past, but Joshua is his first real stab at narrative filmmaking.

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.

«At Berkeley» In theory, the 70th Venice Film Festival was something of a banner one for documentaries: two in competition, one of which, «Sacro GRA,» won the Golden Lion, several others in sidebars or out of competition, and a number of films - about - filmmaking in the Classics strand, including «A Fuller Life,» «Bertolucci On Bertolucci» and «Double Life: James Benning and Richard Linklater» (the latter two we didn't make it to, but heard good things about, and hope to catch up with in the near future).

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.

While low budget, «They All Come Out» is an interesting film that does offer a different point of view and look at the prison system, as well as an intersting blend of documentary and narrative filmmaking.

I was pleasantly surprised at this mix of documentary style filmmaking with a faux story thrown in.

Documentary Showcase Presented by 500 Walnut: Comprising the best in documentary filmmaking, these compelling films feature everything from stirring character studies to fascinating looks at current gloDocumentary Showcase Presented by 500 Walnut: Comprising the best in documentary filmmaking, these compelling films feature everything from stirring character studies to fascinating looks at current glodocumentary filmmaking, these compelling films feature everything from stirring character studies to fascinating looks at current global issues.

We arrive at the 16th annual Roger Ebert Film Festival and discuss Steve James» documentary, Life Itself, along with our thoughts on the future of digital filmmaking in response to the morning's panel.

Hot Docs knows the importance of documentary - filmmaking and activism, so they're highlighting a few important issues at this year's festival.

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AWFJ will again partner with the St Louis International Film Festival to recognize women's accomplishments in filmmaking, presenting AWFJ EDA Awards for the Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature and Best Female - Directed Documentary at the 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival will be held Nov. 5 - 15, 2015.

The scenes in the auto plant feature compelling shots of machines and men hard at work that recall both the verité documentaries of Frederick Wiseman and the gritty realism of 70s blaxploitation filmmaking.

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(1951), a film he got made by organizing the workers of Genoa into a filmmaking cooperative, and he returned to documentaries at the end of his career, making films about the great Italian directors he knew and admired: Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe De Santis.

The film was shortlisted for a 2015 Academy Award ® nomination and won a Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking: Documentary at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

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BEST DOCUMENTARIES: GROUNDBREAKER: A Walk To Beautiful: Mary Olive Smith ABOVE AND BEYOND: Wings Of Defeat: Risa Morimoto COURAGE IN FILMMAKING: Traces Of The Trade: Katrina Browne MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS Aaron Eckhart: Towelhead Sam Rockwell: Choke Larry Bishop: Hell Ride Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott: Role Models Jason Mewes: Zack And Miri Make a Porno TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired House Of The Sleeping Beauties The Women The Life Before Her Eyes The Hottie and the No ttie Savage Grace Made Of Honor The Family That Preys Hounddog Zack And Miri Make A Porno Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Film Slumdog Millionaire Best Direction Danny Boyle — Slumdog Millionaire Best Screenplay Original Wall - E — Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon Best Screenplay Adapted Frost / Nixon — Peter Morgan Best Documentary (Tie) Man On Wire — James Marsh Trouble The Water — Tia Lessen, Carl Deal Best Actress (Tie) Sally Hawkins — Happy - Go - Lucky Kate Winslet — The Reader and Revolutionary Road Best Actress In Supporting Role Viola Davis — Doubt Best Actor Sean Penn — Milk Best Actor in Supporting Role Heath Ledger — Dark Knight Best Ensemble Cast Rachel Getting Married Best Editing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall Best Foreign Film Tell No One EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS Best Woman Director Courtney Hunt — Frozen River Best Woman Screenwriter Jenny Lumet — Rachel Getting Married Best Breakthrough Performance Sally Hawkins — Happy - Go - Lucky Best Newcomer Misty Upham — Frozen River Women's Image Award Kristin Scott Thomas Hanging in There Award for Persistence Melissa Leo — Frozen River Actress Defying Age and Ageism Catherine Deneuve — A Christmas Tale 2008 Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry Sheila Nevins, Producing / Programming at HBO Lifetime Achievement Award Catherine Deneuve AWFJ Award For Humanitarian Activism All of the Women in Pray The Devil Back To Hell EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award 27 Dresses Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent Kate Hudson Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn't (Tie) Mamma Mia!

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I've never seen a year where my two favourite films (at this time) are documentaries, let alone ones that push the capabilities of documentary filmmaking and cinema itself into new directions.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: The Bad Kids / (Directors: Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe)-- At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futureAt a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futureat - risk students command of their own futures.

Agnes Varda, the 89 - year - old French filmmaking legend, won best documentary with her co-director JR for their «Faces Places,» also a nominee at Sunday's Oscars.

Nick Fraser on the current state of documentary filmmaking • Mint Productions on the Bertie documentary series • Pitching training event at the STF doc festival • Interview with documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin • Roundtable: The future of creative documentary • Pat Collins interview • Steve McQueen on Hunger • Gideon Koppel interview on Sleep Furiously • Loopline Film's doc courses • A doctor for docs • Nino Troppiano on Chippers

An assemblage of documentary clips and off - cuts, Frieze: An Underground Film is a tongue - in - cheek riff on the experimental filmmaking mode — the material includes a point of view shot from the rollercoaster ride at Luna Park in St Kilda (another iconic Melbourne façade), a young boy bouncing on a bed, a snowy field, a woman in a bikini, a poster of Jean - Paul Belmondo, and some behind the scenes footage from Violence in the Cinema.

Laura Poitras's Edward Snowden documentary CITIZENFOUR premiered at the New York Film Festival to extraordinary applause, reflecting not only the grip its subject matter exerts on the public but also the efficacy of the filmmaking.

Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this weekend, collects 175 pictures, vintage work prints, never - before - seen films and ephemera from Lyon's archives to take an in - depth look at his work as an immersive documentary storyteller who is just as engaged in writing, filmmaking and collage as is he in photography.

At Syracuse, where we had a cross-disciplinary program, Transmedia Studies, I studied with filmmaker Mišo Suchý, who taught me cinéma vérité and experimental documentary filmmaking with a particular emphasis on the Maysles brothers, who believed in empathically observing people.

Tickets: $ 12 general admission; $ 7 students with valid ID Tickets available in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/258310 FREE for MOCA and Los Angeles Filmforum members; must present current membership card to claim free tickets INFO 213/621 -1745 or [email protected] Mariah Garnett mixes documentary, narrative, and experimental filmmaking practices.

Moving fluidly between writing, blogging, producing video art, documentary filmmaking and curating, recent exhibitions include Breath of Freedom, a virtual group show presenting work by Tunisian artists created before and after the revolution, curated by Mohamed Ben Soltanein 2011, and Politiques / Politics at the National Center for Living Art in Tunis in 2012, organised by ismaël alongside artists Nidhal Chamekh, Ymene Chetouane, Fakhri El Ghazel, Maher Gnaoui, Malek Gnaoui, Atef Maatallah and Ibrahim Màtouss.

Claire Aguilar is the director of programming and industry engagement at Sheffield Doc / Fest, an international film festival that celebrates the art and business of documentary filmmaking.

Fourth, Pat Aufderheide, director of social media at American University's School of Communication and person behind the many best practices guides on fair use for online video (remixes), education and documentary filmmaking, proudly shared her work.

Joseph Lubin, cofounder of Ethereum — the most established cryptocurrency network after Bitcoin, shared his view at an Oct. 24 event in Manhattan hosted by the news outlet Quartz and non-profit documentary filmmaking outfit Retro Report.