Sentences with phrase «when documentary filmmaker»

When documentary filmmaker John Maloof bought his first box of Vivian Maier negatives, he had no idea who the photographer was — in fact neither did anyone else.

After Sophie is a proof - of - concept film about what happens when a documentary filmmaker investigating the story discovers that the details surrounding Sophie's suicide are both disturbing and supernatural.

It's 1997 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field.

In the wake of the sweatshop scandal, which peaked when documentary filmmaker Michael Moore attacked the company in one of his movies, Nike founder and then - chief executive Phil Knight pledged to make substantial changes.

When documentary filmmakers Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith set out to make a movie about people living in tiny homes, they became so intrigued with the lifestyle that they built their own 130 - square - foot cabin.

Not exact matches

In one of the scariest movies ever made, director William Friedkin uses his background as a documentary filmmaker to create horror that feels so real, some people fainted while watching the movie when it was first in theaters.

Filmmaker Meema Spadola made Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Lesbian and Gay Parents, because it was the type of movie that didn't exist when she was a child.

«When kids are born, they're already little scientists exploring the world,» said the filmmaker Estela Renner via a video conference from Brazil before a recent screening of her new documentary The Beginning of Life (streaming on Netflix) at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved.

City of Ghosts from documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) follows members of the RBSS (Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently), activists who banded together when ISIS took over their hometown in 2014.

The big difference in Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordeno's vibrant documentary portrait is that it surveys the lives of LGBTQ youth - of - color at a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national movement and trans rights is making a long - overdue entry into the political conversation.

However, when it comes to this new documentary from director Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) and producer Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, there's a unique angle as the latter Lord of the Rings filmmakers quietly funded the continuance of the investigation without which these three boys may never have been cleared.

It's actually somewhat enjoyable when following around the documentary crew (which includes Walsh's filmmaker and Callies» meteorologist), but the movie comes to a screeching halt every time it cuts away to one of the other subplots.

This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry, presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner — making, record — breaking, industry — changing achievement during any given year: Women Documentary Filmmakers — including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady («Detropia»), Lauren Greenfield («Queen of Versailles»), Alison Klayman («Ai Weiwei Never Sorry») and Sarah Burns («The Central Park Five»).

And it feels especially weird when when a movie like that, in this case a film called Unlocked, is directed by an acclaimed documentary filmmaker like Michael Apted (the Up series).

Finally, as far as documentaries, Dear Daddy by perennial fave Janks Morton gets the nod, which has me wondering when other filmmakers will figure out how to capture sisters so beautifully on camera and in such an emotionally - searing fashion.

Hence he can surprise his brother - in - law (Steve Coogan) and his lithe and toothsome ballerina of a documentary subject, each in the buff, and it is not stretch on the audience's part for Ned to see only a filmmaker at work, and neither is it a stretch to see only admiration for craft rather than smirking needling when he tells someone about it.

When the filmmakers remember to use it, it's done with flair and an understanding of how real documentaries are created.

It's the pseudonym Edward Snowden used when he first approached, over the Internet, documentary filmmaker and muckraking journalist Laura Poitras, hoping to find someone trustworthy and with a pulpit who could share with the world what he'd discovered about the outrageous mass surveillance the NSA is engaged in that makes Big Brother look like an amateur.

This was my original downtown bohemian pal Rose's reaction when she found out I'd just spent twenty minutes at the offices of Magnolia Pictures doing a beat - the - clock interview with Philippe Petit, the only person to ever dance across a high - wire between the Twin Towers, and filmmaker James Marsh, who profiled the legendary Frenchman and his «artistic crime of the century» in his appropriately uplifting documentary Man On Wire.

WILD MAN BLUES When Woody Allen toured Europe with his New Orleans - style jazz band in 1996, Oscar - winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple («Harlan County USA») hitched a ride and made this entertaining, affectionate documentary.

When it came to the normal cinematically inclined aspects of a typical rock star career — music videos and documentaries — Petty managed to luck out and find himself in the hands of some serious filmmakers and not merely the usual video hacks.

Matthew Heineman has, at an age when most filmmakers are just getting started, already made a deep dent in the documentary world.

Documentary filmmakers Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert must have faced a critical choice when they made Hoop Dreams: would they imprint their politics on the lives of two aspiring basketball stars from Cabrini - Green and West Garfield Park, or would they let a critique of American sports culture emerge from their chronicle, using the quiet tactic of editing?

A documentary exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real.

Two young documentary filmmakers are drawn into a shadowy world of secret societies when the subject of their film simply disappears.

Nevertheless, this never - before - seen footage is wonderful and all the short comings of this fairly random documentary are forgotten when the filmmakers simply play the footage of Burroughs's public readings, allowing his humour, radical ideas and originality to stand out effortlessly.

Sterritt **** Documentary about the uproar that ensued when student leaders at a mostly Mormon college invited filmmaker Michael Moore to give a talk on their Utah campus.

Okay, I don't know what to make of this show, which is apparently an American adaptation of an Israeli series called «Danny Hollywood,» but they had me at the phrase «romantic time - travel musical,» and they kept me when they revealed that it was about a documentary filmmaker who somehow time - travels to the»90s, falls in love with the rock star she's been making a film about, and, upon being thrust back to the present, struggles to find a way to get back to the past and save the rock star's life.

When Wim Wenders first met Pope Francis before shooting the documentary «Pope Francis: A Man of his Word,» the pontiff warmly greeted the German filmmaker before warning Wenders that he is no movie buff.

When a personal documentary is made, there is a special relationship between the subject and filmmaker, and that kind of relationship makes for a much different kind of viewing experience.

Filmmaker Richard Lanni, who produced TV documentaries about World War II, was preparing a World War I project when he discovered the true story of Stubby.

When the grounds are visited by a group of documentary filmmakers, they uncover an outdoor area where he has been arranging plants, rocks and leaves into elaborate patterns.

His work as a filmmaker earned national awards and his feature documentary about George Washington, When the Forest Ran Red, is a genre classic.

Apparently Donald Sturrock, a British documentary filmmaker and friend of the Dahl family, was set to finalize an authorized biography of the beloved author when he found an unexpected source: over 300 letters between Roald Dahl and his best friend, Charles Marsh.

I started out with a political magazine in Chicago, In These Times, as an editorial intern, moved up to the role of associate publisher, and went on to an organization called The Media Consortium, where my job was to not only foster editorial collaborations among the 50 different media outlets from book publishers to documentary filmmakers to daily news organizations but also to help them strategize for the future and help them shift their planning so they were able to not get knocked on their heels by the internet, when the internet happened.

Cross, who is a filmmaker, was working on a documentary at a Navajo reservation when she became all too aware of the appalling living conditions for stray and feral dogs in the rural, poverty - stricken south.

Tuttle onscreen: San Francisco filmmaker Chris Maybach faced a tricky challenge when he and Paul Gardner took the art of Richard Tuttle as a documentary subject.

When the owner's filmmaker husband visited Margate to make a documentary, he started to think that the Kent coastline would be a good alternative to their home in east London.