Sentences with phrase «recently filmed a documentary»

It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.
She has also rescued horses from slaughter, adopting and fostering dogs and cats from the US and abroad, run spay / neuter clinics in Third World countries, starred in 5 PETA print campaigns, traveled to Japan with Sea Shepherd to work to ban dolphin slaughter, and recently filmed a documentary in Africa on banning poaching.

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A free documentary by The Guardian on life in solitary confinement was recently released and a new free short film on nomadic cultures throughout the world was released this Wednesday.
Gibney, a prolific documentary director who most recently made waves with his scathing film on The Church of Scientology, «Going Clear,» is not known for pulling punches.
That creativity is particularly evident in the work that Oren has done recently in connection with the documentary feature film he executive produced, called «Ready, Set, Bag!»
Robin was recently featured in the feature - length documentary, Hellbound, (which would be a great film to watch along with our series!)
Indeed, just recently I was a «Food Blogger for Hunger» in association with A Place at the Table, the excellent documentary film you cite above.
Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue, whose debut documentary film, The House of Nwapa premiered in the US at Harvard University recently, has kicked - off a new political party, urging young people in Nigeria to join hands with him to dethrone President Muhammadu Buhari.
More recently, a series of documentary films raised new allegations, and KI has reopened its inquiry.
Along with seeing patients at 360 - MD, she recently completed a documentary film on end of life care.
Dear friends, I recently gave an interview to a British documentary film company.
, the documentary film on Nina Simone (1933 - 2003), directed by Liz Garbus and recently released on Netflix, is an informative and often fascinating examination of the life and times of the singer and civil rights activist.
And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently at the helm of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.
In addition to a continued but sporadic film career that included the 1997 Canadian release Wounded, in which he played a recently rehabilitated alcoholic detective who helps solve the murder of a slain forest ranger, Greene appeared on - stage — most frequently in Toronto — and did television work that included hosting documentaries.
Sarah Polley's recently released Take this Waltz 68 wasn't as beloved as her debut film, Away from Her 88, but her latest (and first documentary) earned very good reviews at screenings in Venice and Toronto.
Transgender director Yance Ford recently scored an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature for his 2017 film «Strong Island»
Also, we recently had news that Gelb would be following up the film with a return to documentaries: «A Faster Horse,» for release in 2015, will be a love letter to the Ford Mustang.
Cartel Land recently topped the ITunes documentary charts in Latin America, which means lots of people are watching the film at home on computer screens.
His documentary film, «Cartel Land,» which was recently nominated for an Oscar and won a prestigious George Polk Award, made us — and many self - described drug war analysts — look like opinionated snobs.
Although Anderson is a veteran of music videos for artists like Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann and, most recently, Joanna Newsom, Junun marks both his first music documentary and debut documentary film in general.
The five films in question are Alfonso Cuarón's «Roma,» Jeremy Saulnier's «Hold the Dark,» Paul Greengrass» «Norway,» and two Orson Welles — related offerings: «The Other Side of the Wind,» his long - lost film that was recently completed, and Morgan Neville's documentary «They'll Love Me When I'm Dead.»
So far the film has taken home Cannes» Golden Eye Documentary prize, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. kudo, the New York Film Critics Circle award and recently scored an Independent Spirit nomination.
The film is written by Peter Craig, who recently penned Ben Affleck's «The Town» with director Asger Leth making his dramatic feature directing debut after his 2006 documentary «Ghosts of Cite Soleil.»
This disc features all four films, including a recently restored version of his final documentary for the armed services.
Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.
«Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a documentary that is both about her own life and about the very nature of documentary filmmaking.
The Popcornflix library includes more than 3,000 titles within a variety of genres, ranging from action and comedy to award - winning foreign films, TV series, National Geographic documentaries, classic cartoons and the recently added extreme sports category.
The director previously helmed the 1991 non-documentary film The Dark Wind, and most recently released his documentary Tabloid.
And I think what bothered Cukor was that the film was disturbing and blasphemous, as well as the fact I had recently won it for a little fucking documentary about two cops.»
Warren most recently received her eighth Oscar nomination for the original song «Til It Happens To You,» performed by Lady Gaga, from the critically acclaimed documentary The Hunting Ground and her seventh Oscar nomination for her original song «Grateful» performed by Rita Ora for the film Beyond the Lights.
But the sense I get here is that Crowe is less concerned with how his film plays to the industry than with how it rekindles his enthusiasm for the medium after taking such a beating for his last effort — that approach can go either way, but having also recently wrapped a pair of music documentaries (one of which, «Pearl Jam Twenty» will play Toronto next month), he's clearly in a productive frame of mind.
A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.
On the trail of hybrid documentaries, such as The Act of Killing and Kate Plays Christine, comes Casting JonBenét, a Netflix film by Australian director Kitty Green (Ukraine Is Not a Brothel) that recently premiered at Sundance and contains some funding from Screen Australia.
Robinson in Ruins, the latest film from British filmmaker Patrick Keiller, is an incredibly dense experimental documentary / cine - essay that tells a tale of the titular Robinson, recently released from prison and currently traveling through England photographing various landscapes while ruminating on a heady combination of historical, political, economic, agricultural, and architectural topics.
Previously available in a movie - only edition from MGM, Criterion delivers a stunning DVD and Blu - ray two - disc edition with a magnificent transfer and the correct aspect ratio (1.66:1, not the open - matte 1.33 as previously released, which reveals the top of the set in at least one scene), on a two - disc set featuring with commentary, an original 40 - minute documentary, new and archival interviews and clips, but the great treasure is the 159 - minute documentary Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter, an unprecedented look at a director directing composed almost entirely of recently discovered outtakes and production footage from the film.
To date, Cine - O - Matic has helped support over 3,000 feature films, documentaries, and TV series and has recently begun licensing and producing their own content for distribution.
Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.
His most recent project, the short film Atlantic City, was recently chosen for the inaugural Kodak + Kickstarter Film Initiative and his short documentary, The Giant Still Sleeps, premiered on PBS and the Washington Post.
Iris, his profile of fashion icon Iris Apfel (and a film seemingly akin to his iconic Grey Gardens), has recently been released in cinemas in the United States, whilst his final film, In Transit, has gone the festival route, premiering at Tribeca, where it received a Special Jury Mention in the World Documentary section of the festival's program.
He, alongside a bunch of other rich white folks who think that they know how to best serve our black or Latino children, recently produced a documentary film called
Land Rover recently took the Range Rover Sport to the Empty quarter Desert to set a timed record and we have documentary film of the adventure.
Picnic Films, which produces short documentaries and educational / corporate films, recently posted this video that takes viewers to NaturalMotion's Oxford office and introduces them to how knowledge and manipulation of physics, gravity, and momentum play into video game development.
In film, Zur recently scored the emotional documentary SABER ROCK as featured on CNN and the suspense - thriller RECLAIM (Lionsgate) starring John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre.
Most recently these have been drawn from publications of cinema history; film - stills, portraits of stars or documentary images on - set.
Her recently completed film project, HORACE TAPSCOTT: MUSICAL GRIOT is a documentary on musical genius, community activist and mentor to a generation of accomplished jazz musicians, Horace Tapscott.
A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION, Stanley Nelson, the film director who recently documented the practices of Gates and Nick Cave for ART21, was honored with a lifetime achievement award from DOC NYC, America's largest documentary film festival.
New Yorkers have recently been treated to a crop of new documentary films showing across town that feature close looks at contemporary artists.
Next week, a major retrospective of his work opens in Los Angeles at the dual locations of Lacma and the Getty Centre; next month, a new documentary is released; and a film adapted from rock star Patti Smith's memoir of her friendship with the artist, starring Doctor Who's Matt Smith, has recently been cast.
Sunday, Oct. 12: Honoring the 90th anniversary of James Baldwin «s birth, Karen Thorsen and Douglas Dempsey, the director and co-writer of the recently restored James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket,» «discuss and screen the documentary film at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Lung's upcoming film chronicles the longtime search for «Kukan,» the until recently lost Oscar - winning documentary and epic color film about war - torn China produced in collaboration between Chinese - American Li Ling - Ai and Scott's grandfather, Rey Scott, in 1941.
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