Sentences with phrase «film documentary project»

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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.

As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.

In late July, Robbins was in Traverse City, Michigan, for a film - festival screening of his latest project, a new Netflix documentary called Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru.

Marisa Miller Wolfson, creator of the award winning documentary film Vegucated, took some time out to talk with me at the New York Green Festival about her film, her next projects, what inspires her, and easy first steps for people to take to transition to a healthier way of eating for personal health, the planet and the animals.

This documentary project was developed and produced with funding from THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS THE FLEDGLING FUND SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CAL HUMANITIES BERKELEY FILM FUND OHIO ARTS COUNCIL And individual supporters from our community through KICKSTARTER

The Human Longevity Project is a first - of - it's - kind 9 part online documentary filmed over 2 years, in over 50 locations, with over 90 expert interviews!

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Also some variants 70 mm film is projected at 48 fps (Disney's «Soaring» Ride and some of the documentaries put out in the 1990s if I'm not mistaken and it also looks amazing, and certainly didn't have anyone complaining.

One of two upcoming WikiLeaks - themed projects (the other is We Steal Secrets, a documentary by Alex Gibney that is also expected in 2013), the next film from Dreamgirls and Breaking Dawn director Condon stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, while Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens will be a hacker on his WikiLeaks team.

Robert Greene's film follows the actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares to play Chubbuck in a project that's part documentary, part fiction and a bit too much navel - gazing.

After an unfocused 2010 that saw a mix of very good and very bad films, Roadside Attractions managed to boost its average Metascore by over 7 points last year, thanks to a generally improved slate that featured a pair of acclaimed documentaries (Project Nim and Thunder Soul) and the timely thriller Margin Call 76.

Finally, in the World Documentary category we'll see films about a «chubby, dance - obsessed private - detective» named The Bengali Detective, the fall of U.S. capitalism, through animation and more in The Flaw, a 12 year story of bare knuckles fighting in KNUCKLE, the team behind Man on Wire reveals a special chimpanzee in Project Nim and in Shut Up Little Man!

For the past 7 years, she led media engagement and social impact initiatives supporting documentary film and is now bringing her expertise to narrative projects as Advisor on Impact & Social Innovation for Killer Content and their new creative studio venture Level Forward in partnership with filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney.

Josh doesn't fully buy into Jamie's documentary idea — tracking down an old high school friend who submits a Facebook friend request for a filmed candid real life encounter — but he goes along for the ride and is surprised to see the project take a life of its own, when the subject turns out to be a decorated Army veteran traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan.

As a result of the first five years of Catalyst Forum gatherings, more than $ 20 million has been raised for 67 documentary and fiction film projects.

Matt Schrader talks at length about his one - of - a-kind project, SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY — this definitive doc gets inside the mind of Henry Jackman, Steve Jablonsky, Harry Gregson - Williams, and dozens of influential composers.

«Life Itself,» Steve James» widely praised documentary on the life and career of film critic Roger Ebert, went un-nominated, though another Chicago - derived project, «Finding Vivian Maier,» received a documentary nomination.

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (In Alphabetical Order) 13 Assassins Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Footnote Le Havre Point Blank Top 5 Documentaries (In Alphabetical Order) Born to be Wild Buck George Harrison: Living in the Material World Project Nim Senna Top 10 Independent Films (In Alphabetical Order) 50/50 Another Earth Beginners A Better Life Cedar Rapids Margin Call Shame Take Shelter We Need To Talk About Kevin Win Win «HUGO is such a personal film by Martin Scorsese,» said Annie Schulhof, NBR President.

Two films currently enrolled in Filmmaker360's project development program will go head to head in the U.S. documentary competition.

Making history, however, are the foreign film «A Fantastic Woman» and feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the work of an openly trans person could earn one of the industry's top prizes in March.

Sundance Institute reserves the right to solicit film projects at its sole discretion at any time related to Institute or Documentary Film Program priorities.

The new season of the show won't be available on Netflix until May 26, but fans of the series can check out the new film, The Arrested Development Documentary Project now on demand!

To connect film financiers dedicated to women artists with highly anticipated Sundance Institute — supported feature and documentary projects.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

A «Producer's Cut» of the film, one honoring most of Fincher's intended vision for the project, was released on DVD more than a decade ago, along with a very candid documentary chronicling the infamous production.

A tireless explorer of cinema's discarded past, Bill Morrison brings his unique approach to found - footage filmmaking to his latest project, a documentary about lost reels of nitrate film found in Canada's Yukon Territory.

A couple enacts a break - up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description.

The box set's excellent making - of documentary makes it clear that the people who made this film went into the project knowing next to nothing about their subject.

* This figure of $ 168 million represents the Irish expenditure for all projects which went into production this year in the categories of independent film, TV drama, animation and feature documentary only.

This year the IFB supported twelve Irish feature films, six creative feature co-productions, seventeen feature documentaries, two TV dramas and eight animated projects.

DuVernay's 13th also earned a Best Documentary Feature nomination, along with the widely praised seven - plus hour O.J.: Made In America, film festival favorite Tickled, the uncomfortable look at disgraced politician Anthony Weiner in Weiner, andCameraperson, a compendium of the film projects of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson.

Other prestigious Jurors at NVFF 2013 included Dierk Sindermann, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press; Lissa Gibbs, producer of educational and network documentaries; Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer / director of the award winning Miss Representation; Musician and film director Dave Grohl; actresses Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Madeline Zima (Californication); Paul Duffy, Amazon Web Services executive; Ryan Tudhope, co-founder Atomic Fiction; and Neil Berkeley, founder of Brkly Productions (creative work includes: Project Runway, Top Chef, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, America's Next Great Restaurant and more).

A «rough cut» mock - up of the Tamblyn character Tibby's documentary project on «losers,» Suckumentary, is amusing but a trifle when taken out of context in the film.

Today Lance Burton is happily retired and is currently working on a number of documentary and narrative film projects.

When The Blair Witch Project hit multiplexes in 1999, it not only became a summer blockbuster and box - office phenomenon, it rewrote the grammar of horror films — a lot of viewers thought it was a documentary.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

So we've put together a list of 20 off - the - beaten - path films coming out between now and the end of August that will satisfy your alternative - viewing needs — the documentaries, indies, foreign - language flicks and a few straight - up unclassifiable projects that will also be coming to a theater near you soon.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

Most of the national films selected for Indie over its ten - year history have been documentary or essay projects with limited commercial clout, and often go unseen outside the festival circuit.

Despite being what some might have seen as a niche project, it has emerged as one of the most acclaimed films (a Metacritic score of 89 speaks for itself), not to mention one of the top - grossing documentaries, of the year.

Worst - case scenario: The project turns out like a number of Clooney productions and / or fiction - film remakes of documentaries: dutiful, well intentioned, kinda lifeless.

The documentary - style film isn't the kind of project that usually commands a nine - figure budget, but the 2010 oil rig disaster had elements straight out of a movie.

Gilliam's Quixote project took on mythical status in 2002 with the release of Lost in La Mancha, the making - of documentary about Gilliam's first attempt to make the film.

The Florida Project is the latest offering from Sean Baker, a director with a distinctive comic - book documentary style (the film that propelled him to prominence: Tangerine, was shot using only iPhones), taking the viewer on a journey through his young characters» lives.

The auteur is alive and well, arthouse and blockbusters are plentiful, documentary films are on fire, genre films are stronger than ever, and let's just echo it all once more for posterity: female - led projects are popular, bankable, and breathtaking, as are strong women characters.

For the French, it's something else entirely, and the proof is in «Faces Places,» the sweetly moving documentary chronicling the cross-country art project undertaken by then 33 - year - old photo - muralist / poster artist JR and 88 - year - old film director Agnes Varda, one of the giants of the French New Wave.

While I have a feeling that the movie is about as much of documentary as The Blair Witch Project, the film still makes for an interesting and even thought - provoking experience.

As often happens, documentary tendencies ran through some of the festival's best fictions, notably The Florida Project by Sean Baker (whose previous film was the astonishing Tangerine) and The Rider by Chloé Zhao: the first an excursion into the candy - colored stucco dilapidation of the residence motels and junk shops clustered a few streets away from Disney World, the second a trip into the ranches and rodeo arenas of South Dakota's High Plains.

LOS ANGELES (September 10, 2017)-- Participant Media has elevated Jonathan King and Diane Weyermann to the newly established roles of Presidents, with King overseeing narrative film and television projects, and Weyermann handling film and television documentaries.

Cutler continues her work in documentary film composition, with several projects yet to be released.