Sentences with phrase «social issue documentaries»

Like other social issue documentaries, it aims to increase awareness and spur action.

While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, «Virunga» stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

«While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, VIRUNGA stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

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

Up the Yangtze had a robust theatrical release in 2008 and China Heavyweight had a theatrical release in over 200 mainland China cinemas — a first for a social issue documentary.

Not exact matches

In 2014, he founded Participant Media, a production company that finances and produces social - issue films and documentaries.

His production company produces earnest social - issue documentaries and runs the millennial - focused cable network Pivot.

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.

Anjum Anwar was speaking after the documentary, called «What British Muslims Really Think», surveyed 1000 British Muslims and explored their beliefs about various social issues including national identity, violence, sexuality and gender relations.

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.

* documentary filmmaker - I make films about social issues * teacher - I teach socially conscious filmmaking to children...

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).

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.

Even more unlikely, «Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton» is directed by Oscar - nominated Rory Kennedy, best known for committed social - issue documentaries like «Last Days In Vietnam,» «Shouting Fire» and the Emmy - winning «Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.»

Stray Dog is not one of those single - issue documentaries dealing with a big public social issue, but many of these issues come up naturally, and the film presents them in a way that leaves it up to the viewers to come to their own positions.

Supported projects emphasize human rights, democracy, and social issues around the world, including: An African Spring (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), Out of State (Ciara Lacy), The Overnighters (Jesse Moss), and Rich Hill (Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo), the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Award Winner for Best Documentary (U.S.).

Ron Levine, Prisoners of Age >> Specializing in documentary photography spanning decades, Ron Levine's work is internationally known for spurring introspection as well as inspection of relevant social issues.

Intimate documentary 16 June Danny Lyon, known for his work in the style of photographic New Journalism, has always taken an interest in tackling social and political issues, whether he's taking a picture, making a film or writing a piece.

Collage, documentary photography, poetic text, painting, needlepoint, crochet, textile work and animation are all methods enlisted by these artists to create works that deal with various social issues.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Screening: Cao Fei's Haze and Fog and i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film at the Museum of Modern Art As part of its «Documentary Fortnight» series, MoMA is screening two films by Cao Fei, the Beijing - based artist and filmmaker who tackles Chinese economic and social issues.

Tushikur Rahman (b. 1987) is a documentary photographer who prefers to work with social issues both urban and rural.

The Tate show includes the opportunity to watch clips of the series, next to a blown - up magazine interview Clark gave to himself in which he defends the BBC but despairs of the number of documentaries on social issues.

Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada spearheaded a social activist documentary initiative placing film skills into the hands of the people to tackle poverty, environmental, first nations and women's issues.

Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) spearheaded a social activist documentary initiative placing film skills into the hands of the people to tackle poverty, environmental, first nations and women's issues.

I'm making note of this because our Pace University environmental documentary in 2014, «Green vs. Gold: Brazil's Race to Balance its Sports - Fueled Tourism Boom,» provided an early snapshot of the pollution issues (and social concerns) surrounding Brazil's big sports push, which that year included the World Cup.