My colleagues and I at Garfield High School have began collaborating with the New York Consortium for Performance Based Assessment (The partnership is portrayed in one
section of the new documentary, Beyond Measure).
Not exact matches
From executive producers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein (The Business
of Being Born), this topical
new documentary, directed by Brigid Maher, examines a growing shift in the birthing industry: the rise
of Caesarean
sections.
His
new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard
section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and
documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary
of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
Finally, the
documentary section has received a boost, with Bill Cunningham
New York, Joan Rivers: A Piece
Of Work and the Adrian Grenier - helmed Teenage Paparazzo among the best known pieces.
Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner
of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man
of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize
of the Un Certain Regard
section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award,
of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his
new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's
documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»
Emblematic
of the festival's initiative to spotlight films on a global scale is its «Global Visions»
section, which boasts an array
of narrative and
documentary films from Japan (Wonderful World End), Brazil (The Second Mother), Germany (Stations
of the Cross), China (Red Amnesia), the United Kingdom (Luna), South Korea (A Hard Day), France (Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey),
New Zealand (The Dark Horse), and many more countries with exciting, emerging filmmakers and films worthy
of our undivided attention.
Same as it ever was but more so is a fair description
of the Sundance Film Festival in 2003: more movies (thanks to the
new World Cinema
Documentary section), more subscribers, more stars and starstruck gawkers, more patrons, more parties, more corporate sponsors and hangers - on, more swag, more press, more pr companies, more traffic, more drunken frat boys clogging up the highways and by - ways.