Sentences with phrase «for documentary filmmaking»

For a film that beautifully tells the story of a truly incredible emotional and spiritual journey, the jury awards the grand prize for documentary filmmaking to Becoming Who I Was.

2017 proved to be quite a year for documentary filmmaking.

Not exact matches

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.

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

The result is a seamless, collaborative weave of documentary and narrative filmmaking in which every scene, even when heightened for dramatic effect, has a bone - deep authenticity.

Keanu Reeves proves a surprisingly engaging host for this documentary inquiry into the ongoing transition from celluloid to digital filmmaking.

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.

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.

During the 2018 Montclair Film Festival, the thrilling political documentary took home the David Carr Award for Truth in Non-Fiction Filmmaking.

Winner, Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking: Documentary, 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

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.

Hitchcock / Truffaut is a documentary film for all movie buffs that have ever considered magnifying their knowledge of the components in 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.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking was presented by Diane Weyermann to:

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.

Goldstein's most recent filmmaking credits include Les Rues de Mean Streets, a short documentary on the New York neighborhoood where director Martin Scorsese grew up, created for the French Blu - ray release of Mean Streets; and In the Footsteps of Speedy, a critically - acclaimed 30 - minute documentary on the making of Harold Lloyd's 1928 silent comedy Speedy, commissioned by the Criterion Collection.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

«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).

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking was presented to American Promise, directed by Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson — This intimate documentary follows the 12 - year journey of two African - American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking was presented to American Promise, directed by Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson — This intimate documentary follows the 12 - year journey of two African - American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of documentary follows the 12 - year journey of two African - American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of their sons.

For personal reasons, though, as well as personal tastes, Montage of Heck was 145 minutes of fascination, excitement, and enlightenment, a clear standout in a year where there were ample amounts of superb, documentary filmmaking.

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.

The idea for the documentary came just as the filmmaking team were finishing up a previous project.

«Amy,» «Listen to Me Marlon» and «The Look of Silence» have now been nominated for both of the top honors in non-fiction filmmaking, the Cinema Eye Honors and the International Documentary Association's IDA Awards.

Additional filmmaking talent attending for films in competition include: for Official Competition: Jerzy Skolimowski, Cary Fukunaga, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jonás Cuarón, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Lenny Abrahamson, Brie Larson, Terence Davies, László Nemes, Sean Baker; First Feature Competition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and Hanna Polak.

But for all its dreamy narrative qualities, Marczak's film is actually a lyrical, fluid - motion documentary that, in a very different way from «Kate Plays Christine» (see above) but no less profoundly, blurs the distinction between narrative and nonfiction filmmaking.

For such reasons, this year, while drawing attention to the importance of documentaries, I selected films which evoke questions of aesthetics within the community of Korean independent documentary filmmaking.

THE BLU - RAY DISC Cinematographer Benedict Neuenfels shot The Counterfeiters in Super16, and the lighter (compared to 35 mm) cameras allowed for a handheld shooting style that apes documentary - style filmmaking from shakycam operation to fast zooms — an occasionally distracting tactic.

In college, I made a documentary looking for women filmmaking role models called «Reel Inspiration.»

Additionally he graciously gave Courtney Cobb (Crafting a Nation) and me some documentary filmmaking tips while we were in pre-production for Pushing Cadence.

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.

Filmmaker Amanda Lipitz is psyched to win the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking for her documentary «SDocumentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking for her documentary «Sdocumentary «Step.»

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.

As one of my filmmaking projects I made a documentary for the Ministry of Agriculture on a watermelon ceremony that takes place each year in a town near Austin.

As noted by Prosper Hillairet and Sandy Flitterman - Lewis in Surimpressions, Dulac's The Seashell and the Clergyman already includes aspects of the kind of documentary filmmaking that she would dedicate herself to making in the 1930s for Gaumont.

Whether you like the film or not, this is a revealing portrait of how a film gets shot and how the realities of shooting conditions challenge the filmmakers and affect the finished production, and joins the growing list of superior documentaries on filmmaking created specifically for home video releases.

It «voices» her father's alternative position because his is a crucial perspective for her story, but fundamentally, Polley's self, Polley's story, and her theory of autobiography and documentary filmmaking is plural, choral.

In what may be his strongest narrative documentary to date, avant - garde filmmaker Bill Morrison never sacrifices the ethos of his singular filmmaking style for...

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.

«Coming from documentary filmmaking, one of the most important things for me is making sure that the real story and people are emphasized in everything I do,» the director explained.

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A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for For Social Impact Filmmaking was presented to: Trapped (Director: Dawn Porter)-- American abortion clinics are in a fight for survivfor For Social Impact Filmmaking was presented to: Trapped (Director: Dawn Porter)-- American abortion clinics are in a fight for survivFor Social Impact Filmmaking was presented to: Trapped (Director: Dawn Porter)-- American abortion clinics are in a fight for survivfor survival.

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 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.

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A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: Western (Directors: Bill Ross, Turner Ross)-- For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio Granfor Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: Western (Directors: Bill Ross, Turner Ross)-- For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio GranFor generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio Grande.

The Netflix hit is being submitted for Emmy consideration in a variety of nonfiction categories, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.

Courage In Filmmaking Laura Poitras: For bringing the Edward Snowden NSA revelations to light, driven into exile in Germany for doing so, and currently making a documentary about For bringing the Edward Snowden NSA revelations to light, driven into exile in Germany for doing so, and currently making a documentary about for doing so, and currently making a documentary about it.

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.