Sentences with phrase «on documentary filmmaking»

Last fall he taught a course on documentary filmmaking and this current semester is teaching a course, «World on a Wire: 12 Films, 12 Filmmakers,» in which he has invited 12 contemporary filmmakers to screen and discuss their recent films, screenings that were opened to the public.

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Tokyo Olympiad is a stunning testament - both to the Olympic athletes it focuses on, and the craft of artistic documentary filmmaking.

Getting his start working on TV commercials, Mann took his rapid - paced, flash - cut approach into documentary filmmaking, producing an award - winning short on the 1968 French student riots, Janpuri.Mann's fragmented - image technique further manifested itself on such TV detective series of the»70s such as Starsky and Hutch and Vegas, both of which utilized his scripts (though they were directed by others in the standard conventional style of the period).

Insightful all the way through, «Side By Side» is a great documentary, filled with tons of well - known celebrities as they talk about their thoughts on the conversion from digital filmmaking and the future of the industry.

While borrowing too much from the Ken Burns school of documentary filmmaking (admittedly it does open it up a little but the music is definitely overkill), the documentary does an adequate job of linking their case to today via the immigrant issue and the war on terror.

Christopher Campbell, who covers documentaries at NonFics.com, has written an interesting report and commentary focusing on one important aspect of The Femsle Gaze discussion — that is whether the filmmaking industry — or to be more specific, the documentary film industry — requires the use of a Bechdel Test to establish equal opportunity for women.

His scenes detailing documentary filmmaking and some of the inherent comedy there is spot on, but there's a vomit sequence that feels out of a completely different movie.

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

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.

It's a documentary that truly puts you in the heart of the filmmaking process and what it takes to balance being a director on set and having your family live with you for six months on location in Bangkok.

Goldstein's most recent filmmaking credits include Les Rues de Mean Streets, a short documentary on the New York neighborhoood where director Martin Scorsese grew up, created for the French Blu - ray release of Mean Streets; and In the Footsteps of Speedy, a critically - acclaimed 30 - minute documentary on the making of Harold Lloyd's 1928 silent comedy Speedy, commissioned by the Criterion Collection.

«The Good Postman»: Fans of documentaries with excellent real - life comedy, political relevance and superb filmmaking can not miss «The Good Postman,» a film about a Bulgarian village's mayoral election, and the two men with contrasting takes on how Syrian refugees should be treated.

«A Filmmaking Journey» (1:04:13) is a long general documentary on the movie's creation.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

«At Berkeley» In theory, the 70th Venice Film Festival was something of a banner one for documentaries: two in competition, one of which, «Sacro GRA,» won the Golden Lion, several others in sidebars or out of competition, and a number of films - about - filmmaking in the Classics strand, including «A Fuller Life,» «Bertolucci On Bertolucci» and «Double Life: James Benning and Richard Linklater» (the latter two we didn't make it to, but heard good things about, and hope to catch up with in the near future).

Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people with a filmmaking that combined a documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors) with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.

At this year's DOC NYC festival, 15 of the filmmakers behind the year's buzziest documentaries sat down to answer questions about their filmmaking process, offering wisdom and perspective on the craft of documentary.

A legend in New York and documentary filmmaking, Albert Maysles» posthumous «In Transit» tugs appropriate heartstrings as it follows passengers on the nation's most highly trafficked train route «The Empire Builder.»

Documentary filmmaking duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman present their first feature length movie, based on the infamous career of 70s porn starlet and Deep Throat actress Linda Boreman aka Linda Lovelace.

Friedkin came from documentary and television filmmaking and knew how to capture life on the street.

There are no retrospectives this year, but there's a promising sidebar titled «Film on Film» that features documentaries about filmmaking, plus one pseudo-documentary titled «Hitler in Hollywood.»

La última película: Inspired by The Last Movie, this filmmaking portrait offers a movie within a movie, a blurring of documentary and fiction, and an on - screen dose of Listen Up Philip director Alex Ross Perry.

With his late brother David, Maysles pioneered a house style of documentary filmmaking that took fly - on - the - wall observation to an often troublesome extreme.

We arrive at the 16th annual Roger Ebert Film Festival and discuss Steve James» documentary, Life Itself, along with our thoughts on the future of digital filmmaking in response to the morning's panel.

Heineman takes a very you - are - there approach to documentary filmmaking, taking us on night patrols with Foley and to raids with Mireles.

Filmmaker Dawn Porter's Trapped, the abortion rights film that won Sundance Film Festival 2016 ′ s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking, is set to open theatrically on March 4, with subsequent broadcast dates in June on Independent Lens.

As one of my filmmaking projects I made a documentary for the Ministry of Agriculture on a watermelon ceremony that takes place each year in a town near Austin.

Whether you like the film or not, this is a revealing portrait of how a film gets shot and how the realities of shooting conditions challenge the filmmakers and affect the finished production, and joins the growing list of superior documentaries on filmmaking created specifically for home video releases.

Jim McBride's influential 1967 «David Holzman's Diary» (Lorber Films), a faux - documentary portrait of personal filmmaking as narcissistic self - involvement, debuts on DVD and Blu - ray following a recent theatrical revival.

Baker picked up on Bigelow's idea of a fact / fiction hybrid by adding, «It's the cinema that I'm really finding the most fascinating right now and the most interesting, where that line is blurred between narrative fiction filmmaking and documentary - style filmmaking.»

Even if his agenda wasn't so clear (and it probably isn't, since predictable is never a term associated with him), Kaufman is one of the unique filmmaking voices of his generation, and even if he were to direct a documentary on sloth mucus, we'd come running.

BEST DOCUMENTARIES: GROUNDBREAKER: A Walk To Beautiful: Mary Olive Smith ABOVE AND BEYOND: Wings Of Defeat: Risa Morimoto COURAGE IN FILMMAKING: Traces Of The Trade: Katrina Browne MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS Aaron Eckhart: Towelhead Sam Rockwell: Choke Larry Bishop: Hell Ride Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott: Role Models Jason Mewes: Zack And Miri Make a Porno TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired House Of The Sleeping Beauties The Women The Life Before Her Eyes The Hottie and the No ttie Savage Grace Made Of Honor The Family That Preys Hounddog Zack And Miri Make A Porno Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Film Slumdog Millionaire Best Direction Danny Boyle — Slumdog Millionaire Best Screenplay Original Wall - E — Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon Best Screenplay Adapted Frost / Nixon — Peter Morgan Best Documentary (Tie) Man On Wire — James Marsh Trouble The Water — Tia Lessen, Carl Deal Best Actress (Tie) Sally Hawkins — Happy - Go - Lucky Kate Winslet — The Reader and Revolutionary Road Best Actress In Supporting Role Viola Davis — Doubt Best Actor Sean Penn — Milk Best Actor in Supporting Role Heath Ledger — Dark Knight Best Ensemble Cast Rachel Getting Married Best Editing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall Best Foreign Film Tell No One EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS Best Woman Director Courtney Hunt — Frozen River Best Woman Screenwriter Jenny Lumet — Rachel Getting Married Best Breakthrough Performance Sally Hawkins — Happy - Go - Lucky Best Newcomer Misty Upham — Frozen River Women's Image Award Kristin Scott Thomas Hanging in There Award for Persistence Melissa Leo — Frozen River Actress Defying Age and Ageism Catherine Deneuve — A Christmas Tale 2008 Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry Sheila Nevins, Producing / Programming at HBO Lifetime Achievement Award Catherine Deneuve AWFJ Award For Humanitarian Activism All of the Women in Pray The Devil Back To Hell EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award 27 Dresses Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent Kate Hudson Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn't (Tie) Mamma Mia!

In the top category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking, «Citizenfour» will compete against the Steve James» Roger Ebert documentary, «Life Itself»; Ian Forsythe's and Jane's Pollard's «20,000 Days on Earth,» about musician Nick Cave; Jesse Moss» «The Overnighters,» about workers flocking to oil fields in North Dakota; and Orlando von Einsiedel's «Virunga,» which deals with threats to a national park in the Congo.

This documentary focuses on the explosion of Australian cinema that occurred from the 1960s through to the 1980s, bringing about some of the best underground filmmaking that the country had to offer.

Nick Fraser on the current state of documentary filmmaking • Mint Productions on the Bertie documentary series • Pitching training event at the STF doc festival • Interview with documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin • Roundtable: The future of creative documentary • Pat Collins interview • Steve McQueen on Hunger • Gideon Koppel interview on Sleep Furiously • Loopline Film's doc courses • A doctor for docs • Nino Troppiano on Chippers

An assemblage of documentary clips and off - cuts, Frieze: An Underground Film is a tongue - in - cheek riff on the experimental filmmaking mode — the material includes a point of view shot from the rollercoaster ride at Luna Park in St Kilda (another iconic Melbourne façade), a young boy bouncing on a bed, a snowy field, a woman in a bikini, a poster of Jean - Paul Belmondo, and some behind the scenes footage from Violence in the Cinema.

Laura Poitras's Edward Snowden documentary CITIZENFOUR premiered at the New York Film Festival to extraordinary applause, reflecting not only the grip its subject matter exerts on the public but also the efficacy of the filmmaking.

French filmmaking legend Agnes Varda teamed up with young street artist JR to cover France's villages in meaningful street art — and their project and friendship are caught on film in this documentary.

Director Robert Greene started filming Burre as she tried to start acting again, showing the difficult process while exploring some fascinating themes on subjectivity in our own lives as well as documentary filmmaking.

Exclusive to the Blu - ray edition is the 2009 documentary It Came From Kuchar, on the underground filmmaking brother George and Mike Kuchar, and a bonus DVD with rate short films, interviews, and audition footage and outtakes from Thundercrack!

This year's theme is REMAKE / RIP OFF / RAMPAGE, inspired by the Fantastic Fest 2015 film REMAKE, REMIX, RIP OFF, a shocking, hilarious and illuminating documentary on the no - rules, brazenly plagiaristic Turkish filmmaking scene of the «70s and «80s.

We learn where Moskowitz went to school, her brief stints in academia and documentary filmmaking, her six years on the New York city council.

At Syracuse, where we had a cross-disciplinary program, Transmedia Studies, I studied with filmmaker Mišo Suchý, who taught me cinéma vérité and experimental documentary filmmaking with a particular emphasis on the Maysles brothers, who believed in empathically observing people.

Drawing on varied genres including documentary filmmaking, music video, experimental film and theatrical performance, these artworks dispense with straightforward storytelling and unfold in a manner akin to musical compositions.

It was on this path, a few years into her 26 - year stint working for Newsday as a writer and art critic and her other job of writing television essays for Public Television's «The MacNeil / Lehrer Report» that she met the artist Louise Bourgeois and then found her way into the world of documentary filmmaking.

Stephanie Acosta is a multidisciplinary artist focused on the exploration of the experiential, incorporating concrete objects, created environments, solo and ensemble performances, along with experimental and documentary filmmaking as modes of inquiry.

Fusing art, documentary filmmaking, journalism and ethnographic research, Sekula immersed himself in the world of international shipping, journeying on board commercial vessels around the world between major ports such as Athens and Yokohama.

«The Age of Stupid» is the product of six years of improvisational fund - raising, filmmaking and distribution work by Franny Armstrong, a Briton best known for McLibel, her documentary on a seven - year court battle between McDonald's and two vegetarian anti-meat, anti-corporate campaigners.

I apologize for 10 days of blog silence while I co-led our Pace University documentary production class on a filmmaking trip in Brazil.