Sentences with phrase «nonfiction film»

The critics also named The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson as best screenplay and chose Citizenfour as best nonfiction film.

The third entry in a series of nonfiction films from directors David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud about first - person experiences of combat, Danger Close is atypical for a war documentary.

The little - noticed ACID section yields a mesmerizingly beautiful nonfiction film about an Argentine jack - of - all - trades

The Unforgettables (Non-competitive Honor, previously announced) The year's most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects

Cinema Eye included the film on its annual list dubbed «The Unforgettables,» highlighting «the year's most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects.»

Filmmaker Peter Nicks, director of the documentary «The Force,» participates in a Sundance panel on emotional content in nonfiction films Monday, January 23, 2017.

Sundance Institute has a long history and firm commitment to championing the most distinctive nonfiction films from around the world.

(As she told Indiewire this year, «I'd like the conversation around nonfiction film to be as exciting as the form itself.»)

Tribeca All Access program provides year - round support to 10 fiction and nonfiction films annually

Surprisingly, this is the first nonfiction film to tackle the subject and Miller manages to find the parallels to contemporary times without being too pedantic or heavy - handed.

From the fly - on - the - wall, cinéma - vérité style of the»60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid -»70s, «Mixtape» is a wide slice of nonfiction film history.

Laura Poitra's «Citizenfour» received nonfiction film honors.

The doc also garnered an award at Full Frame, one of North America's most prestigious nonfiction film festivals.

Besides cherry - picking from the globe's best festivals» lineups to create one - stop - shopping for world - class documentaries, True / False has premiered superb new nonfiction films the last couple years, not to mention screening one of last year's finest movies, I Am Not Your Negro.

Before then, there were hit music documentaries like «Woodstock» but most other nonfiction films could expect short runs in few theaters before dutiful audiences.

The Dardenne Brothers, now in their fifties, learned their trade as documentarians (Belgium has a strong, gritty nonfiction film tradition).

Presented by the BFCA and BTJA, the critics organizations behind the annual Critics Choice Movie Awards (to be presented on December 11), the documentary awards covered nonfiction films with theatrical releases and those shown on television or via online streaming.

We are awash in war films, and why is it that nonfiction films such as Dirty Wars or Iraq in Fragments increasingly resort to the dramatizing techniques of narrative film, while fiction films strain toward procedure, as if to avoid the sticky business of interpretation altogether?

Sarah Menzies» terrific nonfiction film is every bit as keenly observed, and its visual storytelling every bit as rich, as the most absorbing narrative fiction feature.

The award - winning director of the groundbreaking documentary Roger & Me, which became the largest grossing nonfiction film of all time, Moore is the creator and host of the Emmy - winning series TV Nation and The Awful Truth.

The 2010 edition of Documentary Fortnight, MoMA «s ninth annual festival of international nonfiction film, includes 20 feature and 23 mid-length and short documentaries that represent the wide range of creative categories that extend the idea of the documentary form.

Established in 2001, MoMA «s annual two - week showcase of recent nonfiction film and video takes place each February.

Laura Poitras» documentary on Edward Snowden, «Citizenfour,» was chosen best nonfiction film.

Looking over the impressive crop of nonfiction films this year, it seems like the most noteworthy ones were those that collapsed the boundaries between reality and fiction, or passive documentation and active storytelling, or cinema and television.

The Staircase is the scariest portrait of criminal justice since the nonfiction film that helped launch the modern innocence movement, Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line.

Terence Davies» «Of Time and the City,» which is both a documentary and a personal narrative, was chosen as best «nonfiction film.»

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

Like the nonfiction film, «Devil's Knot» focuses on West Memphis's rush to judgment.

The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentary genre.

Membership gives filmmakers access to the nonfiction film community through the IDA's member directory, discounts on training and professional development, networking opportunities, and other valuable benefits.

Membership gives filmmakers access to the nonfiction film community through the IDA's member directory, discounts on training and professional development, networking opportunities, and other valuable benefit...

Another documentary on the verge of a genre breakdown was Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, a nonfiction film stitched together crazy - quilt style out of outtakes from footage the director, a documentary camera operator and cinematographer, has shot over the course of 25 years.

Now screening as part of the U.S. Documentary Competition, it says a lot about where the festival and audiences are willing to go with a nonfiction film.

As proof positive of the trending interest in nonfiction film, the first - ever Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA) were presented on November 3, 2016, at a gala event attended by leading documentary filmmakers, distributors and film critics.

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A nonfiction film about the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.

Other highlights included Susan Sarandon, born in Jackson Heights, Queens, presenting the award for best nonfiction film to Frederick Wiseman's In Jackson Heights.

Also at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell» was named best nonfiction film and Bruno Delbonnel received best cinematographer for «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

Even when a nonfiction film lacks narration, a storyline, or Michael Moore, someone has to decide what to leave in and what to leave out.

He recently did sound work on the nonfiction films The Iron Ministry (2014), Leviathan (2014), and Manakamana (2013), which were all produced in the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, where, as a lecturer on anthropology, he currently teaches a class on sonic ethnography.

Burckhardt doesn't tell you this, and that is the remarkable thing in both his photographs and his nonfiction films.