Sentences with phrase «nonfiction filmmaking»

Nonfiction filmmaking refers to the process of creating a documentary or factual film that is based on real events, people, and places. Full definition
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?
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.
Whether you caught it on TV or in theaters, it towered over the year in nonfiction filmmaking.
And while we're on the topic of fascinating nonfiction filmmaking, we're also taking a look at a new lis...
Morris» re-creations have always irked doc purists, and early word on Wormwood is that it blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction filmmaking even more than usual.
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.
I should probably watch more documentaries at Sundance, especially given the big deal I made recently about how our film culture marginalizes nonfiction filmmaking.
Art of the Real will also host a series of «Artist Spotlights,» four presentations and career - spanning conversations with visual artists whose work resonates with nonfiction filmmaking.
Like its predecessor, «Under the Gun» potently combines statistics, expert commentary and personal stories into a well - researched and easy - to - consume piece of nonfiction filmmaking.
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.
A film that examines both our collective memory and the performative nature of nonfiction filmmaking, CASTING JONBENET is a gripping, stylized exploration of the world's most sensational child - murder case, the still unsolved death of six - year - old American beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey...
The Cinema Eye Honors were established in 2007 to honor all facets of nonfiction filmmaking.
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.
His great achievement with this film is not that it transcends the quirky indie doc subgenre, but that it works equally well as an honest piece of nonfiction filmmaking and as a terrifying horror film.
The Cinema Eye Honors were launched in 2007 by filmmaker and journalist A.J. Schnack and documentary programmer Thom Powers, who wanted to create documentary awards that would honor the entire creative team and all facets of nonfiction filmmaking.
But Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki's documentary — made after Sniadecki had left Harvard University's Sensory Ethnography Lab, which is devoted to pushing the aesthetic boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking — often veers toward the avant - garde in its approach to exploring the desert and the topic of immigration.
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