Dogwoof recently launched a film investment fund - TDog Productions - focusing on the development and production
of feature docs and docu - series, gearing up the company towards vertically integration of production, sales and distribution.
Not exact matches
Dan Catullo is the creator, director, and executive producer
of Landmarks Live In Concert, the
docs - series that
features global superstars performing at monumental locations around the world.
In the last several weeks the internet giant has added a handful
of slick
features into its G Suite — Gmail,
Docs, Drive and Calendar — which use machine intelligence to automate tasks.
Not that everyone needs to be an expert to use them, but the advantages to using Teams is that it exposes everyone to all
of the
features available, far beyond Skype and a simple text chat and a way to share a Word
doc.
Editing documents and presentations with your co-workers doesn't have to involve a lot
of emails back - and - forth if you use Google + Hangouts» new Google
Docs feature.
Besides offering a plethora
of features, Add - Ons
feature in Google
Docs lets you enrich your experience with the help
of multifarious third - party tools that are completely compatible and seamless.
For clarity: When I refer to equity crowdfunding, I am referring to equity - based crowdfunding portals that will support non-accredited investors post-JOBS AngelList, a platform where startups can connect with investors and talent, announced the launch
of Docs yesterday, a
feature that allows startups to execute seed - round transactions online (techcrunch).
Boston Celtics head coach
Doc Rivers decided to give veteran Paul Pierce the night off against the Charlotte Bobcats in the midst
of a stretch
featuring 9 -
of - 11 games on the road.
Hopefully they release the new
features in the game soon, the best updates though are the additions
of Doc Emrick and the amazing arenas.
And opening this month is «
Doc McStuffins: The Exhibit» (Aug. 6), the result
of a partnership with Disney Junior that teaches kids about health and play; and «ScienceWorks» (Aug. 27), a reimagining
of one
of the museum's most popular exhibits about the scientific process,
featuring a new multifaceted water table, climbing wall and cave experience.
The kids LOVED the pop up booth at Just Play Toys which
featured their great line
of Minnie Mouse and
Doc McStuffins toys!
The Leibniz - Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) has now launched a project for the possible early detection
of Parkinson's that shares an important
feature with
Doc Brown's famous DeLorean.
This might also be a good time to consider the use
of alternate text input software such as voice typing How Voice Typing Is the New Best
Feature of Google
Docs How Voice Typing Is the New Best
Feature of Google
Docs Voice recognition has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years.
PRESS RELEASE — Aug 26 — Osiris Entertainment has set a DVD street date
of September 15 for its award - winning
feature doc «Single».
Layering the life
of Irish folk singer Joe Heaney through a flickering lens and leaning on the natural, unadorned voice
of the sean nos [old style] singer, this
doc /
feature hybrid film isn't perfect, but it is quite perfectly - made.
Extras are, per Anderson's M.O., exasperatingly abstract: The cover copy refers to the bonus
features as «special trailers,» but one is just a deleted scene
of Shasta and
Doc watching the waves lap against the shore at dusk (their lips are moving, but a dreamy Greenwood composition mutes everything they say), while the fourth and final, «Everything in this Dream,» is an artful 6 - minute montage
of cutting - room scraps, including a few shots
of Doc and Sauncho watching a schooner leave port that could be construed as the ending from Inherent Vice the novel.
Though the legacy
of Raimi's trilogy may have been marred a bit by the tepid reaction to the third installment (although for the record, I actually liked it quite a bit), it still contains some
of the best superhero movies to date, especially the well - received sequel
featuring Alfred Molina as classic Spidey villain
Doc Ock.
Venice showed a well - rounded range
of features and documentaries, including Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (my favorite
doc of the three I saw).
Subversive has loaded the disc with supplements, starting with a film - length yakker
featuring Cundey, Cimber, and Perkins — the same trio that appears in the disc's 35 - minute making -
of doc, «A Maiden's Voyage».
The IDA Enterprise
Doc Fund provides production and development funds to
feature - length documentary films taking on in - depth explorations
of original, contemporary stories and integrating journalistic practice into the filmmaking process.
Alongside a booklet
featuring essays from Graham Fuller, Peter von Bagh and the recollections
of neophyte actor Sweet, is the 1942
doc Listen to Britain, full
of wartime sights and sounds, and a 2001 video - installation piece
of the same name from artist Victor Burgin.
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY AlphaGo — Director: Greg Kohs (Submarine Entertainment / Moxie Pictures, Reel As Dirt) Disgraced — Director: Pat Kondelis (Showtime Networks / Bat Bridge Entertainment) Icarus — Director: Bryan Fogel (Netflix / Alex Productions, Diamond
Docs, Impact Partners) Speed Sisters — Director: Amber Fares (First Run
Features / SocDoc Studios) Take Every Wave: The Life
of Laird Hamilton — Director: Rory Kennedy (Sundance Selects / Moxie Firecracker Films) Trophy — Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz (CNN Films, The Orchard / Candescent Films, Pulse Films, Reel Peak Films)
The
feature - length making -
of doc «Luck, Trust & Ketchup» combines behind - the - scenes footage with on - set interviews
of the cast and crew, as well as Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, and portrait artist Don Bachardy.
The Robert Reich
doc «Inequality for All» lays out the problem
of wealth inequality in stark, yet humane ways — a double
feature with «Wolf
of Wall Street» would be stunningly sobering.
American Animals is the next film from Bart Layton, more
of a
feature than a
doc, but still a hybrid
of both, similar to his last film The Imposter.
«We Bought A Zoo» (2011) On the face
of it, Cameron's Crowe «s return to
feature filmmaking — after a brief detour with two music
docs, «Pearl Jam Twenty» and «The Union» — didn't seem promising.
After narrowing down a record - breaking 170 eligible
features to a remarkably strong shortlist
of 15
docs, the nonfiction branch whittled down that batch to five nominees: «Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,» «Faces Places,» «Icarus,» «Last Men in Aleppo» and «Strong Island.»
Away from the competition, the lineup offers numerous pockets
of interest beyond the red - carpet draws
of the Madonna and Soderbergh
features: the documentary lineup is particularly strong, with new offerings from American masters Jonathan Demme («I'm Carolyn Parker»), Ross McElwee («Photographic Memory») and Frederick Wiseman («Crazy Horse»), as well as two new works (one short, one
feature) from Pietro Marcello, whose «The Mouth
of the Wolf» was my single favorite
doc of 2010.
Bailey and Kennedy noted that the film had beach screenings at the Maui Film Festival as well as the Newport Film Festival, while Alec Baldwin moderated a talk in Montauk after a screening
of the
feature during the Hamptons Film Festival's summer
doc series.
The SD extras basically consist
of a
feature - length
doc (I timed it out at approximately 81 minutes) shattered into a million little pieces that could've been better consolidated so as to avoid talking about different aspects
of the same thing separately, e.g. the Maglev Escape, deconstructed no fewer than three times in the unique contexts
of vehicles, stunts, and special effects.
Ron Howard is nominated in the Best Director
of a Documentary
Feature category for «The Beatles: Eight Days a Week», and Morgan Spurlock is nominated for the equivalent Best Director
of a TV / Streaming
Doc for «Rats» from the Discovery Channel.
Among those that I recall once driving audiences wild here in México were «The Party» (1967), starring Peter Sellers, with all the guests falling into a pool full
of bubbles, and Peter Bogdanovich's zany screwball
feature «What's up
Doc?»
Special
features are modest, reflecting the set's affordable price: a handful
of audio commentaries, a few behind - the - scenes
docs and not a whole lot else.
In addition to reviewing films and writing interviews and
features about the industry, she helps anchor the Star's coverage
of the Toronto International Film Festival and Hot
Docs International and does First ReelMovies, a weekly webcast review at thestar.com with Star movie critic Peter Howell.
The
doc features video footage
of a campy Poseidon Adventure musical put on by some
of the picture's hardcore fans (a treat) but also dips into a 1972 making -
of featurette included among the disc's extras.
Women directed over a third
of this year's
features, won all four directing prizes: Sara Colangelo for The Kindergarten Teacher (US drama), Alexandria Bombach for On Her Shoulders (US documentary), Sandi Tan for Shirkers (international
doc) and Ísold Uggadóttir for And Breathe Normally (international drama).
SNUB: «City
of Ghosts» for Best Documentary
Feature:
Docs about the ongoing Syria crisis have been fertile ground for award winning docs like «Last Men In Aleppo» and last year's Best Short Doc winner, «The White Helmets.&ra
Docs about the ongoing Syria crisis have been fertile ground for award winning
docs like «Last Men In Aleppo» and last year's Best Short Doc winner, «The White Helmets.&ra
docs like «Last Men In Aleppo» and last year's Best Short
Doc winner, «The White Helmets.»
Baby Driver is an action flick that
features a young savant
of a car driver known as Baby (Ansel Elgort) who is hired by an ambitious crime boss (Kevin Spacey) to pilot the getaway car for
Doc's heists.
Each month Influence Film Club hand - picks one
of our favorite
docs as our club's
featured film to watch and discuss together.
Perhaps not (and let's face it, even the most dedicated Bugs fans will have disagreements on this score) but they are all landmarks in their own way and the selection includes my picks for greatest
of all Bugs Bunny cartoons: the hilarious highbrow farce «The Rabbit
of Seville» (1950), «Rabbit Fire» (1951), which
features the greatest verbal sparring (as well as the most insanely surreal identity swaps)
of any Bugs cartoon, and the brilliant Wagner parody «What's Opera,
Doc?»
, Syd Garon (CEH15, Outstanding Graphic Design, Jodorowsky's Dune), Eugene Hernandez (Deputy Director, Film Society at Lincoln Center), Eric Hynes (Associate Curator
of Film, Museum
of the Moving Image), Jason Ishikawa (Head
of International Sales, Cinetic Media), Steve James (CEH12 Winner, Outstanding
Feature & Direction, The Interrupters), Kirsten Johnson (CEH17 Winner, Outstanding
Feature & Cinematography, Cameraperson), John Kusiak (CEH12 Winner, Outstanding Score, Tabloid), Loira Limbal (Vice President, Firelight Media), Elizabeth Lo (CEH16 Winner, Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film, Hotel 22), Michal Marczak (CEH17 Winner, Heterodox Award, All These Sleepless Nights), Marilyn Ness (CEH17 Winner, Outstanding
Feature, Cameraperson), Dan Nuxoll (Artistic Director, Rooftop Films), Bill Ross (CEH13 Nominee, Outstanding Direction, Tchoupitoulas; CEH16 Nominee, Cinematography, Western), Kelli Scarr (CEH09 Nominee, Outstanding Score, In a Dream), Mo Scarpelli (CEH16 Nominee, Spotlight Award, Frame by Frame), Jess Search (Chief Executive, The
Doc Society), Signe, Byrge Sorensen (CEH16 Winner, Outstanding
Feature Film & Production, The Look
of Silence), Jean Tsien (Editor
of CEH17 Audience Nominee Miss Sharon Jones!)
Some Background: Director Marshall Curry is
of course known for the success both
of his previous documentary
features have achieved — 2005's STREET FIGHT won awards at Tribeca, Hot
Docs, and Silverdocs before going on to be nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy, while 2009's RACING DREAMS also won at Tribeca and is being remade as a narrative
feature by DreamWorks.
His 2004
doc The Fog
of War (which is a must - see) won the Best Documentary
Feature Oscar.
A surprise win came in Best Editing when the seven - hour ESPN
doc O.J.: Made in America took home the award over a number
of traditional narrative
features.
And in the Best Documentary
Feature category, where it can help to come out early in the year — that way you avoid being lost in the deluge
of screeners that voters in the Documentary Branch receive — we've already seen a strong contender in the political
doc «Weiner,» and a complete wild card in ESPN's five - part, seven - and - a-half-hour «O.J.: Made in America.»
I'm very happy about the two
feature films that won this year, but as always I wish more
of my favorite
docs were nominated.
«J. Davis was the only one at the time to read the draft... I've made some
docs and I learned from [my 2010
feature] Bass Akwards, but most
of that was improvised.»
Special
Features Conversation between director Robert Altman and actor Tim Robbins from 2004 Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country, a
feature - length 1993 documentary on the making
of Short Cuts To Write and Keep Kind, a 1992 PBS documentary on the life
of author Raymond Carver One - hour 1983 audio interview with Carver, conducted for the American Audio Prose Library Original demo recordings
of the film's
Doc Pomus Mac Rebennack songs, performed by Rebennack (Dr. John) Deleted scenes A look inside the marketing
of Short Cuts PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Wilmington
The radio - equivalent
of the contemporary B - roll promo
doc, a Lux Radio short from October
of 1946 joins To Have and Have Not's theatrical trailer (which is sharper than the
feature proper) in rounding out the presentation.
Special
Features Over 20 Minutes
of Extended and Deleted Scenes Mozart in a Go - Kart: Ansel Drives I Need A Killer Track: The Music That's My Baby: Edgar Wright Meet Your New Crew:
Doc's Gang Find Something Funky On There: The Choreography Devil Behind The Wheel: The Car Chases Animatics Ansel Elgort Audition Annotated Coffee Run Rehearsal Hair, Make Up & Costume Tests Mint Royale - «Blue Song» Music Video Complete Storyboard Gallery Director Commentary Filmmaker Commentary (Edgar Wright and Director
of Photography Bill Pope)