Sentences with phrase «of social documentary»

Inspired by a blend of social documentary, figurative portraiture, and family album - style snapshots, her images explore visual expression and identity in black culture.

The ideas driving her practice sit within the realm of social documentary, community, memory and the contribution environment makes on social relationships.

Her unique form of social documentary photography has led her to create work about subjects ranging from lesbian families and San Francisco's S&M community to high school football players and surfers.

Itochu Aoyama Art Square presents «Since That Day,» a solo exhibition of social documentary photographer Magdalena Solé's haunting photographs of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami aftermath.

«Life and Labor: The Photographs of Milton Rogovin,» drawn entirely from the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, is deeply in the tradition of social documentary.

Opie has long been one of the preeminent inheritors of the social documentary tradition.

Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier uses the conventions of social documentary to probe and upend traditional narratives of urban growth and the triumph of industry.

Looking to forbears such as Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Dorothea Lange, Opie's work continues in the lineage of social documentary but with a profound emphasis on community.

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Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, the mogul reflected on his desire to «amplify» discussions around issues of social justice, and the decision to produce documentaries about Kalief Browder and Trayvon Martin.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made more progress in changing their attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.

This is a month - long online seminar program hosted by authors, speakers, and social justice activists Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis, who was featured in the documentary film, The Color of Fear, with help from a community of people who want and are willing to help us understand the reality of racism by telling their stories and sharing their resources.

A short documentary to show Government's commitment to the aged, by the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection was screened.

Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, the Dayton Accords, the East Africa bombings, the emergence of al - Qaeda as a transnational threat, and the secret plan with Gingrich to reform Social Security — all receive only scant mention in this documentary.

When the documentary programme Dispatches announced their expose of the group, the group got ahead of the problem, briefing the programme's revelations in advance to newspapers and releasing shareable «prebuttals» on social media.

Social worker Jennifer Wortham of Washington Heights won first prize for her documentary «A Workshop in the Delta» at...

In what was more pronounced in the social media, Nigerians took turns to further query the federal government on how the documentary meant to launder the image of the president will end the fuel crisis.

Seis del Sur: BARRIOS is a photographic group exhibition featuring both the vintage and contemporary photojournalistic and social documentary work of the six members of the Seis del Sur photo collective: Joe Conzo, Ricky Flores, Ángel Franco, David González, Edwin Pagán, and Francisco Molina -LSB-...]

WHEN the documentary film March of the Penguins came out in 2005, some Christians tried to exploit it to promote a conservative social agenda.

But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking.

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

«There are few studies that describe the effect of documentaries on collective behaviors and social movement campaigns,» Vasi says.

The fruits of their labor, a documentary film titled «Mysore Yoga Traditions» presents us with a unique, behind - the - scenes look at Ashtanga yoga, while at the same time shedding light on the worldview and social background of the yoga community in Mysore.

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The four fiction films that follow the documentaries were all made for politically motivated anthologies, and they focus on themes of social change and personal identity.

A documentary whatsit acutely aware of the inherent performance people put into social discourse to maintain appearances.

His 1999 documentary «The Buena Vista Social Club» offered an invaluable glimpse at Cuba during the embargo, but only through the lens of individual musicians.

Even though he's put out hits and misses, German director Wim Wenders has had an extraordinary career, balancing innovative narrative films like Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire with memorable documentaries The Buena Vista Social Club and Pina.

Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact was presented to: Crime + Punishment (Director: Stephen Maing)-- Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities.

Language: English Genre: Documentary / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steve James Actors: Roger Ebert, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese Plot: A look at the life and cultural impact of Roger Ebert, one of the world's renowned film critics and social commentators - from his Pulitzer Prize film reviews, to his long career with Gene Siskel to his late - life battle with cancer - it a both a poignant and insightful look into Ebert's world.

Though the future of Walker's «Untitled Buena Vista Social Club Documentary» seems very uncertain, the director has hinted that a resolution could be forthcoming very soon.

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In the last few years, films made by first - timers with tiny budgets have tended to dominate, together with worthy documentaries examining social problems and global warming, the latter one of Redford's favourite hobby horses.

Previously, she was the Director of Production at Big Mouth Films, a social issue documentary production company.

At Kartemquin, Gordon has created a legacy of making high - quality, social - issue documentaries such as Hoop Dreams (1994), The New Americans (2003), and The Interrupters (2011).

More worthwhile is «At the Waterfront After the Social: The Legacy of Sleepaway Camp», an engaging new 46 - minute HD documentary comprising fresh on - camera interviews with Rose, Rose's mother -LRB-!)

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

Television Distribution / HBO Documentary Films, Vermilion Films) Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — Directors: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens (HBO / Bloomfish Pictures, HBO Documentary Films, Insurgent Docs, RatPac Documentary Films) California Typewriter — Director: Doug Nichol (Gravitas Ventures / American Buffalo Pictures) Chasing Coral — Director: Jeff Orlowski (Netflix / Exposure Labs) City of Ghosts — Director: Matthew Heineman (Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, IFC Films / Our Time Projects) Cries From Syria — Director: Evgeny Afineevsky (HBO / Afineevsky — Tolmor Production, Cinepost Barrandov, Levy Entertainment Group, Studio Malibu) Dawson City: Frozen Time — Director: Bill Morrison (Kino Lorber / Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures) Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis — Director: Colin Hanks (HBO / Live Nation Productions, Company Name) Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — Director: Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah Films) Faces Places — Directors: Agnès Varda & JR (Cohen Media Group / Ciné Tamaris, Social Animals, Rouge International, Arte France Cinéma, Arches Films) Jane — Director: Brett Morgen (National Geographic Documentary Films / National Geographic Studios, Public Road Productions) Kedi — Director: Ceyda Torun (Oscilloscope Laboratories, YouTube Red / Termite Films) One of Us — Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady (Netflix / Loki Films) Spettacolo — Directors: Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen (Grasshopper Film / Open Face) Strong Island — Director: Yance Ford (Netflix / Yanceville Films, Louverture Films)

Of the politically and socially motivated standouts, The Social Network (d. David Fincher) and Black Venus (d. Abdellatif Kechiche) treated us to fictionalised accounts, vastly different in tone and aesthetic, of historical events (of which more below); while Post Mortem (d. Pablo Larrain) offered a fictional personal story set in the time of and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more belowOf the politically and socially motivated standouts, The Social Network (d. David Fincher) and Black Venus (d. Abdellatif Kechiche) treated us to fictionalised accounts, vastly different in tone and aesthetic, of historical events (of which more below); while Post Mortem (d. Pablo Larrain) offered a fictional personal story set in the time of and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more belowof historical events (of which more below); while Post Mortem (d. Pablo Larrain) offered a fictional personal story set in the time of and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more belowof which more below); while Post Mortem (d. Pablo Larrain) offered a fictional personal story set in the time of and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more belowof and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more belowof the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more belowof 2009 (again, more below).

Consider them a reminder to re-watch one of modern film's best documentaries, and maybe even share them on your social media.

It was like a Fredrick Wiseman documentary for public TV, with ever - present cameras that would, ostensibly, get past the social pose and formal control and see what's under the surface of suburban America through the lives of the Loud family.

The ESPN 30 for 30 Collector's Set Blu - ray is an outstanding collection of sports documentaries that is rife with social commentary and almost sure to have something for sports and / or documentary fans alike.

«Four Christmases» wants to dig into the same bleakly funny morass of American social expectations as Gordon's flawless video - game documentary, «The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.»

This documentary film recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

Regardless of Trump's overall viability in the social spectrum as we wind closer to the ’16 elections, Matthew Heineman's documentary Cartel Land won't make the subject any less translucent or easy to explain.

What turns this fairly ordinary - sounding family drama into something on the edge of epic is its use of landscape and setting — the desert Southwest, California's San Fernando Valley (also the setting for Wenders's 1997 The End of Violence), and the concrete canyons of Houston — reinforced by the stunning cinematography of regular early collaborator Robby Müller and a plangent slide - guitar score by Ry Cooder (with whom Wenders would later make the Oscar - nominated documentary Buena Vista Social Club).

Four of the nominated films lean hard on pressing social issues, always a plus, and no two overlap in subject matter, but the best documentary in this category, Lucy Walker's Waste Land, doesn't lean hard on our social issues.