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.
Writer / Director / Producer Charles Burnett shares his career development process in narrative and
documentary filmmaking with Killer of Sheep (1978), his seminal film, which was definitive in highlighting African American cultural experience.
Master Class in
Documentary Filmmaking with Jeffrey Brown May 19, 2018 9am - 6 pm Note: Walk - in registrations available.
Not exact matches
With documentary filmmaking, often the film is not the struggle.
Here's the caption @nascarcasm claims goes
with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (Actress In A Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject
Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy Awards, which honor achievement in
filmmaking.
In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving
documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion
with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of
filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.
Insightful all the way through, «Side By Side» is a great
documentary, filled
with tons of well - known celebrities as they talk about their thoughts on the conversion from digital
filmmaking and the future of the industry.
Made in America is a somewhat special case, as many
documentaries are, blending an episodic structure
with the more epic scope of
filmmaking.
Doc Soup Man talks
with Sundance Institute's
documentary program director, Tabitha Jackson, who says she wants make sure «that the doors are opened more widely» for artistic expression in
documentary filmmaking.
Eventually I enrolled in a sound and image course where I had the opportunity to experience
filmmaking with a great teacher — award winning video artist Joan Braderman — and a whole new world opened up for me — not the world of cinema fantasy but the world of
documentary.
It's a
documentary that truly puts you in the heart of the
filmmaking process and what it takes to balance being a director on set and having your family live
with you for six months on location in Bangkok.
«The Good Postman»: Fans of
documentaries with excellent real - life comedy, political relevance and superb
filmmaking can not miss «The Good Postman,» a film about a Bulgarian village's mayoral election, and the two men
with contrasting takes on how Syrian refugees should be treated.
Just as modernist painting bears the traces of the painter's movements and presence, and modernist literature has moved toward the first - person essay, the autobiography, and the diary, so the strain of modernist
filmmaking that was launched
with the French New Wave has integrated the filmmaker's methods
with the movie itself, and turned fictions into
documentaries about their making.
«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).
Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning
with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people
with a
filmmaking that combined a
documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors)
with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.
Even
with its naggingly implausible timeline, this film feels almost shockingly realistic, using urgent
documentary filmmaking techniques to tell a story that seems to have come straight from the headlines.
I was pleasantly surprised at this mix of
documentary style
filmmaking with a faux story thrown in.
Anatomy of a Killer Theme Song» new interview
with the original members of the American punk band, The Dickies; «The Chiodos Walk Among Us: Adventures in Super 8
Filmmaking» new
documentary highlighting the making of the Chiodo Brothers childhood films, from the giant monster epics made in their basement to their experiments in college; new HD transfers of the complete collection of the Chiodo Brothers 8 mm and Super 8 films, including «Land of Terror,» «Free Inside,» «Beast from the Egg», and more; «Tales of Tobacco» interview
with star Grant Cramer; «Debbie's Big Night» interview
with star Suzanne Snyder; «Bringing Life to These Things» tour of Chiodo Bros..
Return to Waterloo marks the cinematic debut of writer / director Ray Davies and,
with the exception of a few subsequent
documentaries, it's his only
filmmaking effort.
Whether you're looking for Keanu Reeves - led blockbuster hits, racing epics, something to watch
with the kids, or intelligent
documentaries about
filmmaking greats, you've covered this month.
What's especially interesting here is that, due to the extremely tight schedule, Yates decided to use even the scenes
with Mitchum's less - than - perfect deliveries, which ultimately gave the film an obvious rawness and imperfection that accentuated the desired feel of authenticity and gritty, unpolished
documentary - style
filmmaking that Yates and the crew were going for.
Folayan, a former pre-med student in New York City, now a
documentary filmmaker, talked
with me about why she dropped her pre-med path to pursue
filmmaking, her influences in life, and why she made this particular film.
With his late brother David, Maysles pioneered a house style of
documentary filmmaking that took fly - on - the - wall observation to an often troublesome extreme.
Instead of making this film a
documentary, McKay mixes
documentary style
filmmaking with everyday
filmmaking.
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.
Heineman takes a very you - are - there approach to
documentary filmmaking, taking us on night patrols
with Foley and to raids
with Mireles.
We could have devoted this entire week to praising
documentaries — Dana and Amy and Kam, you've championed Wormwood and Casting JonBenet and The Work — so I'm going to go to bat for a movie that has stayed
with me as
filmmaking, as storytelling, and as an act of personal courage, Strong Island.
Since then, Kawase has continued to hone a
documentary - realism style of
filmmaking that combines poetic lyricism and quiet reflection
with shrewd insight into the human condition.
Filmmaker Dawn Porter's Trapped, the abortion rights film that won Sundance Film Festival 2016 ′ s U.S.
Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact
Filmmaking, is set to open theatrically on March 4,
with subsequent broadcast dates in June on Independent Lens.
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.
Titillation and drive - in exploitation tactics are readily employed to keep the viewer watching,
with a
filmmaking approach coasting along in a psychedelic
documentary mode.
Not all of these films are, strictly speaking, children's films, and some are
documentaries; but most of them feature children, and in many respects they establish a particular kind of
filmmaking that The White Balloon exemplifies: loosely scripted narratives
with documentary elements that employ mainly nonprofessional actors.
Even if his agenda wasn't so clear (and it probably isn't, since predictable is never a term associated
with him), Kaufman is one of the unique
filmmaking voices of his generation, and even if he were to direct a
documentary on sloth mucus, we'd come running.
El Canto del Colibrí empowers its subjects, both the fathers and their children,
with a simple, conventional approach to
documentary filmmaking.
With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal
filmmaking and those of fiction -
documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.
Bonus: Disc One • Audio Commentary
with Director / Co-Writer Roland Emmerich and Producer Mark Gordon • Audio Commentary
with Co-Writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Director of Photography Ueli Steiger, Editor David Brenner, and Production Designer Barry Chusid • Trailers Disc Two • «Two Kings and a Scribe: A
Filmmaking Conversation»
Documentary • «The Force of Destiny: The Science and Politics of Climate Change»
Documentary • 10 Deleted Scenes
with Optional Commentary • 2 Pre-Production Featurettes • 3 Post-Production Featurettes • «Audio Anatomy» Interactive Sound Demo • Storyboard and Concept Art Galleries • Trailers
Varda has experimented
with all forms of
filmmaking from shorts to
documentaries to narrative feature films during her more than 60 - year career, including such works as the New Wave classic Cleo from 5 to 7, and Le Bonheur.
The
documentary engages in a candid discussion
with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of
filmmaking and his experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as respected veteran.
Along
with Lost in La Mancha, about director Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt Don Quixote, Jodorowsky's Dune ranks as one of the best
documentaries about
filmmaking ever made.
In the top category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction
Filmmaking, «Citizenfour» will compete against the Steve James» Roger Ebert
documentary, «Life Itself»; Ian Forsythe's and Jane's Pollard's «20,000 Days on Earth,» about musician Nick Cave; Jesse Moss» «The Overnighters,» about workers flocking to oil fields in North Dakota; and Orlando von Einsiedel's «Virunga,» which deals
with threats to a national park in the Congo.
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.
Great Directors (Unrated)
Filmmaking is the focus of this
documentary comprised of conversations
with ten of the best living directors: John Sayles, David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci, Richard Linklater, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Catherine Breillat, Todd Haynes, Agnes Varda and Liliana Cavani.
I actually started in
filmmaking with a narrative short and thought that I'd make narrative features, but the
documentary format is a really good fit, obviously,
with my training.
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
As you would guess, «Shooting for Perfection: Hyatt & JetBlue Behind - the - Scenes» (4:52) supplies similar treatment for the film's other two ads,
with Spurlock explaining how they took shape and how making them differs from
documentary filmmaking.
French
filmmaking legend Agnes Varda teamed up
with young street artist JR to cover France's villages in meaningful street art — and their project and friendship are caught on film in this
documentary.
French
filmmaking legend Agnés Varda teamed up
with street artist JR for this moving
documentary about France's «faces and places» and Varda's own history.
Exclusive to the Blu - ray edition is the 2009
documentary It Came From Kuchar, on the underground
filmmaking brother George and Mike Kuchar, and a bonus DVD
with rate short films, interviews, and audition footage and outtakes from Thundercrack!
In 1976, scholar Calvin Pryluck struggled
with the ethics of
documentary film ‐ making in an article titled: Ultimately, We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filmmak
documentary film ‐ making in an article titled: Ultimately, We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of
Documentary Filmmak
Documentary Filmmaking.»
Jeremy Robins / Echoes of Incarceration provides training in
documentary filmmaking and activism for youth
with incarcerated parents.