Sentences with phrase «while filming a documentary»

In the Gobi Desert of northern China, Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology accidentally stumbled upon a gigantic one - and - a-half-ton dinosaur while filming a documentary about a previous find.

While filming his documentary of Dal Dong Nae, the poverty - stricken neighborhood in Seoul, Su - man witnesses a murder scene where three men in masks killing a woman.

Her first novel, Cause Celeb, was based on her experience while filming documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief.

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While the creators first set out to make a feature film - length documentary, things changed when 16 - year - old Dassey was arrested for helping his uncle.

A fascinating new documentary film by Alex Gibney called «Zero Days» that premieres on Friday tells the story of Stuxnet, along with the frightening takeaway that, while this was the first cyber weapon, it will certainly not be the last.

Lindsay - Hogg is the eminent film, television and theatre director whose work includes the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be, about the band's recording of their final studio album, while Della Sciucca is a writer, director, designer and illustrator.

Bailey Pryor, Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, began his unconventional venture into the spirits industry in 2006 while producing a documentary film, currently running on PBS, about the life of the famous prohibition era Rum Runner, Captain Bill McCoy.

For those of you that don't know what Catfish is, it's a documentary that was made in 2010 about a young kid who falls in love with a girl over Facebook while his brother and friend film it.

I was working and traveling across the country to film a documentary based on one of my blog posts, all while I had a very sick toddler attached to my boob!

Struggling while going through a divorce, Newman, a documentary film - maker who had worked for the BBC, went to see a psychiatrist, who prescribed escitalopram (Lexapro).

The fruits of their labor, a documentary film titled «Mysore Yoga Traditions» presents us with a unique, behind - the - scenes look at Ashtanga yoga, while at the same time shedding light on the worldview and social background of the yoga community in Mysore.

As the pioneer of this new genre in the adult industry, Buck Angel Entertainment focuses on education through motivational speaking and award - winning documentary films, while striving to spread the message of empowerment through self - acceptance.

While 2002's Lost in La Mancha chronicled the disastrous 2000 attempt to get the film made, the planned sequel documentary will have to settle for the satisfaction of completion instead of critical triumph.

One of two upcoming WikiLeaks - themed projects (the other is We Steal Secrets, a documentary by Alex Gibney that is also expected in 2013), the next film from Dreamgirls and Breaking Dawn director Condon stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, while Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens will be a hacker on his WikiLeaks team.

Mami Sunada's documentary, while quite the insider's and fan's film, is also a deeply elegiac portrait of the labour and laboriousness, flecked with uncertainty and doubt, behind some of the finest art - and imagination - fuelled films of the past 30 years.

While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever features.

While Conlin's first screen role after graduation was grounded firmly in reality (she was chosen to appear in a documentary film detailing the lives of young actors in New York City), it was only after moving to Los Angeles that her career truly began to catch on.

Sadly, while the film is undeniably interesting on an anecdotal level, it often feels like an interesting special feature on a Criterion Blu - ray disc (it would have fit perfectly on their upcoming release of «The Graduate») more than it does a documentary feature that stands on its own.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

This year brings two Jarmusch films to theaters: his 13th, the Iggy Pop and the Stooges documentary Gim me Danger, is now playing, while his 14th, Paterson starring Adam Driver, will open the final week of December.

While the main event of the film certainly did happen, as well as some of the scenes (some of them, excerpted from the documentary, are shown during the end credits), the film as a whole does tend to traverse familiar territory as far as feel - good sports films go, especially with the final game where all of the loose ends comfortably fall into place.

And while that's definitely present in this drama of two buddies (Jean - Pierre Bacri and Jamel Debbouze) trying to make a documentary on a famous feminist author and journalist (Agnès Jaoui) making a run for politics, it lacks the gravitas and resonance of her previous films.

While 2013 may have seen foreign language films take a back seat to the large number of truly great English - language features and documentaries, Romanian cinema and its current king, Cristian Mungiu, hit 2013 with one of its truly great pictures.

The first trailer has been posted for «The Death of Superman Lives» which is due for release next Summer.The Kickstarter - funded documentary from filmmaker Jon Schnepp explores the failed gestation of the late 1990s film «Superman Lives» which collapsed while...

While the film does go its own way on a couple of fronts — playing up the Mr. Bojangles theory — anyone who's seen the documentaries will be hopelessly distracted.

The Kickstarter - funded documentary from filmmaker Jon Schnepp explores the failed gestation of the late 1990s film «Superman Lives» which collapsed while in development.

All we can do is go with what we've got, and while acknowledging and saluting and admiring these men and what they did on that train, the story as told here feels more suited for a hourlong documentary than a feature film.

The original A Nightmare on Elm Street also gets a Blu - ray debut this week, featuring all the supplements from the earlier DVD «Infinifilm Special Edition» release (two commentary tracks, alternate endings, three documentary featurettes), plus the Blu - ray exclusive interactive «Focus Points» mode, which allows instant access to alternate takes and behind the scenes footage while watching the film.

The article states it is one of the first docos made in 3D and while that may be true, the article seems to think 3D gives the Academy the «heebie - jeebies» and yet a) there have been 3D films nominated for Best Picture and b) apparently there have barely even been any 3D documentaries to make a proper correlative argument about it.

The more experimental documentaries have historically fared poorly in the Oscar race, and while making it onto the nine - film shortlist was a victory of its own, Johnson's film couldn't win over the voting body.

The acclaimed director spoke to ITV while promoting «Ready Player One» and responded to the idea of films like «Mudbound» and Ava DuVernay's documentary» 13th» being Oscar nominated.

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

One of the tricks they employ to make the film «feel as if it is a documentary» is to refocus the zoom and frame while the camera is running.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Guillermo del Toro's timely romantic fable, «The Shape of Water,» took home two top honors, Best Film and Best Director, while Varda's latest film, «Faces Places,» was crowned Best Documentary.

But while «I Am Chris Farley» is an enjoyable tribute that will make you want to spend the next few hours watching old «SNL» skits and film clips on YouTube, the documentary feels like it's just barely scratching the surface at times, especially in regards to Farley's struggle with substance abuse.

That said, while at times uneven, Grabham and Sharp's tone nevertheless creates something unique for both a genre exercise and a documentary: a science - fiction film that doesn't contain an ounce of fiction.

While low budget, «They All Come Out» is an interesting film that does offer a different point of view and look at the prison system, as well as an intersting blend of documentary and narrative filmmaking.

Loving is Jeff Nichols «fifth feature film outing in less than a decade and while Michael Shannon makes it five for five, this item, which is based in part on the Nancy Buirski's documentary «The Loving Story» is toplined by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.

Writer / director Lake Bell «s second feature, I Do... Until I Don't is her follow - up to the delightful 2013 film, In a World... While her first film was about the world of voiceover actors and a daughter and her father, her second is about marriage and a documentary filmmaker creating a little chaos.

The documentary includes clips from many of their major films and interviews with both Powell and Pressburger, separately and together, as well as rare clips with Michael Powell and director Francis Ford Coppola at Zoetrope Studios while he was making One From the Heart and Martin Scorsese, Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro on the set of King of Comedy.

They split up for a few days: she tours museums and ruins (in the film's most documentary, and also most moving, scenes, perhaps prefiguring the cinematic direction Rossellini would take with his history films fifteen years later) while he tries to hook up with younger women.

While CitizenFour won Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars, I never got a good sense of how the Academy felt re: the politics of the film.

While that hasn't stopped previous films from scoring wins here, the last time I thought the Academy would go for a film about people living in and around landfills, surviving off the detritus they find there (2006's Documentary Short Subject nominee Recycled Life), I lost an Oscar pool.

For such reasons, this year, while drawing attention to the importance of documentaries, I selected films which evoke questions of aesthetics within the community of Korean independent documentary filmmaking.

This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»

While it's nice for these films to be preserved in high definition, it's tough to see how they're worth your time and money as is and not bundled with a number of other like - minded space documentaries.

While HBO has followed the case of The West Memphis 3 throughout three different documentary films, it's director Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) and producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh who have delivered the definitive chronicle of a tragic misstep in our country's justice system.

4 Months, 3 Weeks 2 Days was NYFCO's choice for best foreign film, while best documentary honors went to Man on Wire.

For the fifth consecutive year, the directors of the twenty films in our Narrative Features and Documentary Features Competitions will stay at Meadowood Napa Valley while participating in our innovative Artists - In - Residence program.