Sentences with phrase «winning documentary director»

Cecilia Aldarondo is an award - winning documentary director and producer whose films explore intimate, universal themes such as death, memory, family conflict, and cultural difference.

The resulting piece, «Selfie,» made by Academy - Award winning documentary director Cynthia Wade, was presented at the Women at Sundance Brunch during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and has attracted more than 5.6 million views on YouTube.

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«Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine,» a new documentary from the Oscar - winning director Alex Gibney, tries to find out why so many people felt close to Jobs, even when they had never met him.

In The Heretic documentary, director Andrew Morgan captures a normally cheery Rob Bell welling up with tears as he recounts the «death» he experienced immediately after Love Wins was released in 2011: «I did a club and theatre tour.

Here's the trailer for Oscar - winning director Daniel Junge's Fight Church, a very compelling, very controversial - looking documentary about MMA fighting and the Church, that probably also has some broader thoughts about...

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

Irena Salina, director of the award - winning documentary film, FLOW, about the world's dwindling water supplies, thinks it can be done if world leaders, international banks, the United Nations and other governmental organizations establish cooperative agreements for the use of bodies of water, including groundwater, and economic mechanisms to make sure those who need access to water can get it.

Debra Pascali - Bonaro, is the Founder & President of the revolutionary online childbirth class Pain to Power, which prepares expectant mothers, fathers, and partners to be positively prepared for birth, the Director of the award - winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best - Kept Secret and co-writer of «Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth» all of which explore the intimate and sacred nature of birth.

Debra is a Lamaze International childbirth educator, birth and postpartum doula trainer with DONA International, Director of the award - winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best - Kept Secret and co-writer of «Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth», and world renowned speaker and advocate for childbirth.

Directed by Oscar nominee and Grammy - winning director Susan Froemke, the documentary centers on efforts made by Dr. Fuster to spread cardiovascular health across the globe.

Capturing this story with unprecedented access, Academy Award ® winning director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.

There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Featurdocumentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary FeaturDocumentary Feature category.

HollywoodNews.com: «Smash His Camera,» the acclaimed new documentary from Academy Award winning director Leon Gast (When We Were Kings), has just released the official poster for the film.

He's coming off Emmy and Oscar nominations for his documentary Cartel Land, after winning Best Director prize at 2015 Sundance.

The raw material of this story is so powerful that even a mediocre dramatization would command our interest, but director James Marsh (who won an Oscar for his unconventional documentary Man on Wire), screenwriter McCarten, and the actors go above and beyond the norm.

Ahead of its UK release next month, a new poster has arrived online for Michael Moore's latest documentary Where to Invade Next; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Where to Invade Next Academy Award ® - winning director Michael Moore is back with WHERE TO INVADE NEXT: a provocative and hilarious comedy in which Moore will stop -LSB-...]

It came as no surprise when Matthew Heineman won Best Director for Documentary Award at Sundance Festival early this year.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

Nanette Burstein is an acclaimed filmmaker whose work has won her several awards, including an Academy Award nomination for her documentary «On The Ropes,» two Emmy awards for «NY77,» and a Sundance Best Director award for «American Teen.»

The Oscar - winning director of Taxi to the Darkside and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room tells Jason Solomons about his new documentary, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson

UNTITLED Whitney Houston documentary — TBD 2017 — from Oscar - winning director Kevin MacDonald and Miramax comes Whitney Houston's life story in a telling authorized and embraced by the legend's estate.

The winning documentaries of the second annual Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Awards, selected by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund with Hilton Worldwide, were: Revolutionary Optimists (Directors: Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger - Monsen) and Hungry (Director: Sandy McLeod).

Grace Lee is an independent producer / director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film.She directed the 2014 Peabody Award - winning documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution Of Grace Lee Boggs, which The Hollywood Reporter called» an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.»

Doug Nichol started out his career as a cinematographer on such music documentaries as Truth or Dare (Madonna) and Rattle and Hum (U2) and the director of hundreds of award - winning music videos and commercials.

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.»

Then, we revisit two interviews with first - time directors who could win major awards on Sunday: Yance Ford, whose film Strong Island is up for Best Documentary, and Greta Gerwig, a contender for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Lady Bird.

«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof, debuted last November at DOC NYC and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

«If Sundance gave an award for the most emotionally debilitating film of the festival, then Life Itself, a documentary from Hoop Dreams director Steve James about the life of Roger Ebert, would win it anew every screening... it's the movie that's moved and inspired me the most.»

An interesting new documentary on Cannes double - Palme winning Michael Haneke, the director who favours techniques that are both classical and experimental, but above all controversial.

(Italy) George Harrison: Living In The Material World, music documentary directed by Martin Scorsese (USA) Goodbye First Love, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.

The Departure: The second documentary by award - winning director Lana Wilson, a poetic and deeply moving film that contemplates death as a way of better understanding how we should live.

Internationally - acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke and the Academy and BAFTA award - winning Walter Salles will partner in a Screen Talk dedicated to discussing Salles» documentary JIA ZHANGKE: A GUY FROM FENYANG and their respective approaches to film making.

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.

: Award - winning documentary follows director and best - selling author Valentin Thurn on his quest around the world in search of ecologically and economically responsible methods of food production and distribution.

The Force won Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival, and won Best Bay Area Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival.

In addition, Pharrell Williams was one of the «Hidden Figures» producers nominated for best picture; Kimberly Steward, one of the producers of «Manchester by the Sea,» was also nominated for best picture, and Ezra Edelman, director and producer of «O.J.: Made in America,» won the Oscar for documentary feature.

STRAY DOG Director Debra Granik won praise (and put Jennifer Lawrence on the map) with her 2010 drama «Winter's Bone,» but this character study of a biker and Vietnam vet is her first documentary.

Meanwhile, speaking after her Edward Snowden film «Citizenfour» won the prize for documentary, director Laura Poitras noted that Snowden and the movie sought to «expose a threat [not only] to our privacy but to our democracy itself,» as she was flanked by investigative reporter and film subject Glenn Greenwald, as well as Snowden girlfriend Lindsay Mills.

The fieriest moment in the press room occurred when director Bryan Fogel and producer Dan Cogan arrived after winning Best Documentary for «Icarus,» the first Netflix - distributed feature to snag an Oscar.

If Mad Max doesn't win either best picture or director at Oscars this year, Iam going to start my own Awards Show and give every award to this movie including best documentary for best depiction of apocalyptic earth.

Among other prizes, Kopple has won two Academy Awards for documentary features (Harlan County U.S.A. and American Dream), three Directors Guild of America Awards, and Audience, Filmmaker, and Grand Jury prizes from the Sundance Film Festival.

For longtime fans and admirers who do know the details of Bob's life, Oscar - winning director Kevin Macdonald's (Last King of Scotland, One Day in September) documentary is a beautiful and reverent celebration of all that Marley was and has become in the eras since his passing.

In 2014, the TFCA established the Peter Wintonick Documentary Fund to commemorate the legacy of Peter Wintonick, a writer, director and editor whose films include Manufacturing Consent, and who won the 2006 Governor General's Award for Media.

Some Background: Director Marshall Curry is of course known for the success both of his previous documentary features have achieved — 2005's STREET FIGHT won awards at Tribeca, Hot Docs, and Silverdocs before going on to be nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy, while 2009's RACING DREAMS also won at Tribeca and is being remade as a narrative feature by DreamWorks.

I met with director Jon Kasbe on Saturday, April 21, at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, to discuss his debut feature documentary When Lambs Become Lions (which I also reviewed, and which won the festival's Best Editing in a Documentary Film Jdocumentary When Lambs Become Lions (which I also reviewed, and which won the festival's Best Editing in a Documentary Film JDocumentary Film Jury Award).

This documentary, from writer - turned - director Ron Nyswaner (The Painted Veil screenplay), tells the story of lifelong character actress Mary Louise Wilson (who finally won a Tony Award in 2007 after years on stage and screen) as she heads back to her native New Orleans to teach an acting class at Tulane University.

Other prestigious Jurors at NVFF 2013 included Dierk Sindermann, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press; Lissa Gibbs, producer of educational and network documentaries; Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer / director of the award winning Miss Representation; Musician and film director Dave Grohl; actresses Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Madeline Zima (Californication); Paul Duffy, Amazon Web Services executive; Ryan Tudhope, co-founder Atomic Fiction; and Neil Berkeley, founder of Brkly Productions (creative work includes: Project Runway, Top Chef, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, America's Next Great Restaurant and more).

Keith Maitland, director of the SXSW - winning documentary «Tower,» participates in a Sundance panel discussion on emotional content in documentaries at the SundanceTV house.

Brazilian director Da - Rin has been quietly gathering momentum on the festival circuit, starting with her acclaimed documentary «Lands,» which won at the Panorama Coisa De Cinema back in 2010.

Laura Poitras» «Risk,» a documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks from the Oscar - winning director of «Citizenfour,» will be in the doc conversation, though it'll hardly be the favorite her last film was.