Sentences with phrase «personal documentary about»

Films included Oakland - based filmmakers Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush's Dogtown Redemption, a look at the homeless population in Oakland, California; Eli Alder and Blair Gershkow's personal documentary about the rise of the neo-Nazi party in Skokie, Illinois, Surviving Skokie; and Marlene «Mo» Morris» look at artist and activist Edythe Boone, A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone.

With Strong Island, he turns his smarts and skills to making in a highly personal documentary about the murder of his brother and the impact that heinous event had on his family.

The filmmaker describes the journey to making his new, deeply personal documentary about the murder of his brother, William Ford Jr..

Taiwan has submitted «Small Talk» a deeply personal documentary about director Huang Hui - chen's tense relationship with her mother, a lesbian Taoist priestess who never wanted children.

This is a personal documentary about his life and career.

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The documentary showed Prince Harry and Prince William looking through Diana's personal album, talking about childhood memories, and speaking about her «fun» parenting — she apparently used to smuggle them sweets.

Marisa Miller Wolfson, creator of the award winning documentary film Vegucated, took some time out to talk with me at the New York Green Festival about her film, her next projects, what inspires her, and easy first steps for people to take to transition to a healthier way of eating for personal health, the planet and the animals.

Though Zemeckis and Christopher Browne's script doesn't dig very deep into Petit's personal history (as Marsh's 2008 documentary revealed, he was a bit of a prick), that's not what the movie is about.

Almost overwhelming in its emotional kick, this documentary about the San Francisco Aids epidemic is so intensely personal that it's sometimes difficult to watch.

Between her upcoming HBO special and the Netflix documentary that was recently released about her, comedian Tig Notaro is having a 2015 that's a hell of a lot better than her 2012, when a series of personal catastrophes came very close to ending her life.

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (In Alphabetical Order) 13 Assassins Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Footnote Le Havre Point Blank Top 5 Documentaries (In Alphabetical Order) Born to be Wild Buck George Harrison: Living in the Material World Project Nim Senna Top 10 Independent Films (In Alphabetical Order) 50/50 Another Earth Beginners A Better Life Cedar Rapids Margin Call Shame Take Shelter We Need To Talk About Kevin Win Win «HUGO is such a personal film by Martin Scorsese,» said Annie Schulhof, NBR President.

(A personal favorite: Every time Josh tries to explain the premise of his stalled, six - and - a-half-hour, Shoah-esque documentary, he defaults to, «It's really about America.»)

Monday also saw two Irish films screen: Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal, a soulful drama about immigration set in Connemara, and The Beholder, Conor Horgan's documentary about three Irish portrait painters.

The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many with the director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to deal with public attention regarding the violent content in their films (this comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).

A personal touch is the greatest asset to this entertaining documentary about environmental activists The Yes Men.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

This documentary about Polley's own surprising family secrets — which includes some sneaky fictional or imaginative elements — might sound at first like a personal indulgence but becomes something much larger and subtler: A gripping investigation of the ultimately unknowable past, a meditation on how and whether we can actually know anything, and an act of profound love and generosity.

Criterion's «Director Approved» release includes the French - language documentaries Making of by Raphael Duroy (a 26 - minute portrait with Olivier Assayas, Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche) and Inventory (a 50 - minute doc about the film's unique and personal approach to art) and an original 28 - minute, English - language interview with Assayas discussing his inspirations and aspirations for the film.

The Audience Award: Documentary was presented to The Invisible War, directed by Kirby Dick, about: an investigative and powerfully emotional examination of the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that cover up its existence and the profound personal and social consequences that arise from it.

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man is a revealing documentary exploring the great director's most personal film, The Quiet Man (1952), about an Irish - American (John Wayne) reclaiming his place in his ancestral home.

Director Sarah Polley takes her personal exploration as a filmmaker inward to her family tree with Stories We Tell, a thoroughly delightful documentary about a secret buried by time.

With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal filmmaking and those of fiction - documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.

is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him.

Legendary director Wim Wenders» new documentary is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him.

Filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller — whose films include the Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Maggie's Plan — gets personal with this documentary about her father, the playwright behind the Crucible, Death of A Salesman, and other classics.

Documentary filmmaker Dinesh Sabu talks with Reel Honest Reviews» Pamela Powell about making this personal film, «Unbroken Glass.»

, Kedi (a documentary about street cats in Istanbul), Personal Shopper, Dawson City: Frozen Time, A Ghost Story, Call Me By Your Name, God's Own Country, The Other Side of Hope, The Square, The Lost City of Z, Okja, The Florida Project, Marjorie Prime, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, It Comes at Night, Wind River, Coco, Woodshock, The Devil's Candy, and The Lovers.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Orwell Award was presented to: Icarus (Director: Bryan Fogel)-- When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold — exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.

On a new documentary short about student debt, the best and worst jobs of 2012, Obama's personal tax rate and the top 10 accountant pet peeves.

- Name your donation levels in a clever and tied - in way (like The Loving Story, a documentary about the deeply personal side of the Civil Rights Movement that just reached funding on Kickstarter).

Since the beginning of 2013, he has been working on an ambitious personal project: (IN) VISIBLE CITIES, a documentary web series about African migrant communities in 12 different cities of the world.

Andrea Torrice is an award winning documentary and public television producer in Cincinnati who is currently working on a very personal new film about her mother.

In the autobiographic documentary, Dolce Vita Africana, Sidibé speaks candidly about his personal vision.

His work is summoned from unlikely places; be it street signage, American drain cleaning products, documentaries about motorcycle stuntmen, or an extensive archive of personal photographs.

Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with former Vice President Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked - about documentary of the year.

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