Not exact matches
The streaming service also earned three nominations for its
documentaries «Icarus,» «Strong
Island,» and «Heroin (e),» and one nod for the foreign language
film «On Body and Soul.»
He received a Best
Documentary Feature nomination for his
film Strong
Island earlier this week.
Transgender director Yance Ford recently scored an Academy Award nomination for Best
Documentary Feature for his 2017
film «Strong
Island»
Six Catalyst
films made waves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: Beach Rats (U.S. Dramatic Directing Award), Chasing Coral (U.S.
Documentary Audience Award), The Force (U.S.
Documentary Directing Award), Patti Cake $, Unrest (Special Jury Award for Editing) and Strong
Island (Special Jury Award for Storytelling), which is also nominated for an Academy Award.
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.
Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the
documentary category where the black male director of «Strong
Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a
film nominated, and in foreign - language
film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.
Then, we revisit two interviews with first - time directors who could win major awards on Sunday: Yance Ford, whose
film Strong
Island is up for Best
Documentary, and Greta Gerwig, a contender for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Lady Bird.
· First runner - up: A Separation · Second runner - up: Starbuck Cadillac People's Choice Award for Best
Documentary: The
Island President Cadillac People's Choice for Midnight Madness: The Raid Int» l Critics Special Presentations Prize: The First Man Int» l Critics Discovery Programme Prize: Avalon Best Canadian Feature: Monsieur Lazhar SKYY Vodka Award for Best First Canadian feature: Edwin Boyd Best CDN short
film goes to: Ian Harnarine's Doubles With Slight Pepper
Films indispensable for appreciating the art of cinema, may not be the «desert
island films,» but a list of my indispensible
films, off the top of my head, would be almost any
documentary with a conscience, like Food, Inc..
Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive
film about a group of teens on an unnamed
island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate
documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest
film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.
Eric Walter is the director of the new
film surrounding Long
Island, NY's famous haunted house with the
documentary «My Amityville Horror».
The visually stunning IMAX
documentary Under The Sea travels to the Great Barrier Reef, South Australia, and the Coral Triangle
islands to
film some of
After its first screening, Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans, the
Documentary Grand Prize winner, became as hot a ticket as any fiction
film, the result of its sensational subject (a middle - class, Long
Island, Jewish family is destroyed when the father and one of the sons are arrested, tried, and imprisoned for multiple counts of child sexual molestation).
Two of the five Best
Documentary Feature nominees are Netflix
films: Icarus, Bryan Fogel's exploration of a major doping conspiracy, and Strong
Island, Yance Ford's account of her brother's unlawful murder.
Extras like: Bay On Action — an in - depth interview with Michael Bay about his vision and approach to the
film's high - octane action sequences; the eight - part making of
documentary, Evolution Within, Extinction and an Angry Birds Transformers trailer «where birds and pigs turn into Autobots and Deceptihogs, creating havoc on Piggy
Island» — and that's just for starters.
«Exploiting the free access to an incredible local learning environment (in the form of the
island, including 12th Century priory, beaches, sand dunes, castle, and harbour) the children regularly produce video
documentaries, plays and
films, which are edited and then produced with the help of parents.
Shelter
Island Films is proud to announce the development phase of a new
documentary film about puppy mill survivor Lil Olive.
In 1966 Gerd Koch, a German anthropologist, carried out research at Graciosa Bay on Nendö
Island (Ndende / Ndeni) in the Santa Cruz
Islands and on Pileni and Fenualoa in the Reef
Islands, and returned with
documentary film, photographic and audio material.
Coming soon, We will feature a new 12 minutes mini
documentary film about the modern day Gili Trawangan
island, with footage above and underwater, how to get to the Gili
islands, what activities to do on the
island, -LSB-...]
Coming soon, We will feature a new 12 minutes mini
documentary film about the modern day Gili Trawangan
island, with footage above and underwater, how to get to the Gili
islands, what activities to do on the
island, Trawangan accommodation choices, Trawangan nightlife, Trawangan's latest hip restaurants, show you the dive centers and marine life, and how to get around the
island by local horse and cart.
The sponsorships include: Construction, installation, materials, coral attachment, power supply and cable connection of a BioRock reef, teaching materials and maintenance techniques.Sponsors logo on workshop T - shirts, posters, banners, advert through
film and
documentary recorded during the workshop.Participants can be chosen by the Gili
islands sponsors and can attend the 6th BioRock
Coming soon, We will feature a new 12 minutes mini
documentary film about the modern day Gili Trawangan
island, with footage above and underwater, how to get to the Gili
islands, what activities to do on the
island, Trawangan accommodation choices, Trawangan nightlife, Trawangan's latest hip restauarants, show you the dive centres and marine life, and how to get around the
island by local horse and cart.
Coming soon, We will feature a new 12 minutes mini
documentary film about the modern day Gili Trawangan
island, with footage above and underwater, how to get to the Gili
islands,...
Rosa Barba's
film Outwardly from Earths Center (2007) merges the filmic genres of
documentary and science fiction to create an ambiguous journey to Gotska Sandön, an
island off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea.
The
island life allows her to finish upcoming projects, including a
film called A Love Letter to My People, also a
documentary on Gerald Vizenor, and a book called Violence No More (Arp Press), as well as an anthology of Indigenous curatorial writing and more.
He has created in addition to his paintings,
documentary films, «Last Days of 42nd Street», «Last Days of Hotel Pennsylvania», and «Last Days of Coney
Island».
Huyghe has ventured on a science vessel to Antarctica in search of an uncharted
island and its albino penguin, directed a shot - by - shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954), planted a temporary (and very unusual) garden in Madrid,
filmed a
documentary about the early New York hip - hop scene, invented holidays, created a weather - generating machine, taken students on vacation, and used bees, dogs, ants, spiders, and an art dealer infected with the flu as living readymades.
Akerman directed an experimental
documentary film, FINISTERE in a residency through The Rhode
Island School of Design (2009).
Commenting on this new work Ross Keane, Director of the Irish
Film Institute said; «The Village is a fascinating ethnographic
documentary looking at how modernisation affected the inhabitants of Dún Chaoin and their relationship with the unpopulated Blasket
Islands, and we are delighted that Duncan Campbell found inspiration for his latest work from this
film and through his research into our collection at the IFI Irish
Film Archive.»
Nasheed, who in February was forced to resign his presidency, is visiting the U.S. to meet with government officials as well as to push for climate action during the release of a new
documentary film about his presidency, entitled The
Island President.