Sentences with phrase «filming documentaries in»

Her first novel, Cause Celeb, was based on her experience while filming documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief.

They have since filmed a documentary in collaboration with American television broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) but their ultimate goal is to create the Museum of Compassion.

She has also rescued horses from slaughter, adopting and fostering dogs and cats from the US and abroad, run spay / neuter clinics in Third World countries, starred in 5 PETA print campaigns, traveled to Japan with Sea Shepherd to work to ban dolphin slaughter, and recently filmed a documentary in Africa on banning poaching.

COLLECTING MATISSE AND MODERN MASTERS / UNC - TV, North Carolina's public television network, filmed this documentary in HDTV at the Nasher Museum, telling the story of the Cone sisters and their special connection to North Carolina.

Not exact matches

«Amazing China» smashed box - office records for documentary films, raking in 456 million yuan ($ 72 million) in its first five weeks, according to ticketing website Maoyan.com.

«It will be an experience similar to entering a documentary film, one in which you will be able to look around, one you will be able to interact with and, moreover, encounter the surprises we have prepared for our viewers,» said Pazdur.

Before becoming «the Crowdsorceress,» Daly worked in documentary film.

The shoot there was shrouded in secrecy, and locals were told that the crew was filming a documentary.

Roberto Romano, co-director of documentary film, «The Dark Side of Chocolate,» discusses his findings of forced child labor in many of the foods Americans eat.

On Sunday night, Citizenfour, a film about Edward Snowden holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room revealing the global spying programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency, won the Oscar for best documentary for its chilling portrait of technology and surveillance.

Also, David Guggenheim, the film director behind An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for «Superman,» has been brought on to tell Malala's story in a documentary.

The paper says a small cinema industry operates in Riyadh, producing mostly feature films and documentaries.

On board long - haul flights, passengers can rent virtual reality headsets for $ 15 per flight to watch a selection of the latest films and documentaries in 3D, 2D and VR 180 °.

The Oscar - winning documentary film maker Michael Moore even suggested that Damon run for president back in 2012.

A free documentary by The Guardian on life in solitary confinement was recently released and a new free short film on nomadic cultures throughout the world was released this Wednesday.

This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

That cooperation, a subject of controversy ever since the film's release, is explored in «Secrets, Politics and Torture,» a documentary on PBS» «Frontline» program that aired Tuesday.

«This is an actor playing an actor in a film that's supposed to be a documentary,» Schiller told Business Insider.

«It was actually back in our early original content days and the red envelope entertainment, it's all we did was produce original stand - up comedy and acquired documentaries and foreign language films.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

Netflix triumphed in the documentary short - subject category for 40 - minute film «The White Helmets,» a look at rescue workers in war - torn Syria.

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 GurIn 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 Gurin Traverse City, Michigan, for a film - festival screening of his latest project, a new Netflix documentary called Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru.

Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.

In 2014, he founded Participant Media, a production company that finances and produces social - issue films and documentaries.

«In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel amused, neutral, or sad (by watching a comedy video, a nature documentary, or a film clip about cancer).

The latest example debuts on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of director Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN Films, the sports network's production company that is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary films.

According to the documentary film «Saving Mes Aynak,» the mine would in effect destroy the ancient city, though MCC and the Afghan government claim that they will «move» the city in order to extract the more than $ 100 billion of copper deposited directly beneath it.

There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

Last month, Ms. Powell Jobs and Mr. Guggenheim traveled to Washington with several young immigrants and their families who were featured in the film; the purpose of the trip was to screen the documentary for a group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

«Executives from Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Trump presidential campaign, have been caught on tape promising an extraordinary package of strategies to potential clients including filming opponents in compromising situations with Ukrainian sex workers,» The Daily Beast writes of U.K. station Channel 4's documentary.

Symphonies and experimental films and documentaries were out, and the «Battle of the Blades» was in.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

And now, after months of showings to audiences all over North America, from the AmDocs film festival in Palm Springs to Hot Docs in Toronto, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger's buzzed - about documentary is now available on Netflix, streaming to its 75 million members worldwide.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Super Size Me, first - time director Morgan Spurlock's documentary film in which he undergoes a self - imposed experiment to eat fast food exclusively for one month, makes its way to theaters.

The many causes of the housing crisis in Vancouver and how people are dealing with it are explored in the documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, which had its world premiere at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto.

That creativity is particularly evident in the work that Oren has done recently in connection with the documentary feature film he executive produced, called «Ready, Set, Bag!»

Elon Musk, co-founder, chief executive and product architect of Tesla Motors, poses at the premiere of the documentary film «Revenge of the Electric Car,» Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at Tesla Motors in Los Angeles.

There is a film documentary that is pretty good which you can see here in full for free, but it distorts and waters down the concepts a bit.

Those 10 years were laced with so many failures: quitting many times over, re-writing the edits of my re-write, working back in a cubicle, working back at the dream, trying to live in a retirement home to film a documentary, relationship debacles, a fire that almost burnt down my house and every other twist and turn of «God, where are you in this?»

And in this new Hollywood, Scorsese directed some the best films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and concert documentary The Last Waltz.

It could just as well have appeared in a documentary film.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

The film has won silver in the category Best Documentary in the 2009 IVCA (International Visual Communications Association) Awards.

Since then, Palatucci's fame has only grown: books, documentaries, and films have been devoted to his life; streets, buildings, and schools have been named after him; and awards have been presented in his name.

Baroness Kidron's 2013 documentary film InRealLife, in which she interviews several teenage porn users, offers a chilling insight into the entrenched depth of their engagement with porn and what it's doing to their views of relationships, women and the world.

A brilliant documentary film was made in 1984 of Leonard Bernstein conducting an orchestra and singers during rehearsals of his own composition, «West Side Story.»

These enormous trends toward centralization and homogeneity still do permit room for the occasional «auteur» film of individual artistry, the profoundly critical television documentary, the journalistic exposé of corruption in high places, and other examples of independent thinking or original art.