The Cinema Eye Honors are the most extensive awards
for nonfiction filmmaking, handing out prizes in directing, producing, cinematography, editing, music and graphic design or animation, in addition to overall film awards.
But before I turn from a Movie Club participant into a Movie Club reader, I'd really like to know what you all thought of how strong a year 2013 was
for nonfiction filmmaking.
Not exact matches
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?
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.
Jessica Oreck's fantastical work combines animation, traditional storytelling, and contemporary
nonfiction filmmaking styles to recount the Slavic folktale of the frightful Baba Yaga, a witch said to live in a woodland hut perched on chicken legs who roasts her guests
for dinner.
The Netflix hit is being submitted
for Emmy consideration in a variety of
nonfiction categories, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary
Filmmaking.