Exclusive: The Sundance Institute has set the participants and projects for its Documentary Edit and Story Lab, which this year returns to Utah’s Sundance Resort after a two-year hiatus. The list consists of filmmaking partners Jude Chehab and Fahd Ahmed (Q), Jalena Keane-Lee and Diana Diroy (Standing Above the Clouds), Alessandra Sanguinetti and Soledad Salfate (The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer) and Edwin Martinez and Inés Vogelfang (The Monster and the Storm). The Institute also today named Diroy, Stephanie Andreou, Julie Gaynin, Alma Herrera-Pazmino and Luna X. Moya as the artists selected for the second edition of its Art of Editing Fellowship.
Designed to provide time and space to go deep into the language, form and meaning of indie nonfiction features, the Lab combines director and editor teams in the later stages of post-production with experienced documentary filmmakers, for the process of reimagining or reconceiving dramatic structures, exploring character and story development,...
Designed to provide time and space to go deep into the language, form and meaning of indie nonfiction features, the Lab combines director and editor teams in the later stages of post-production with experienced documentary filmmakers, for the process of reimagining or reconceiving dramatic structures, exploring character and story development,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
There are 30 projects in first physical event since 2019.
New works from One Child Nation director Jialing Zhang and Chuck Norris vs. Communism filmmaker Ilinca Calugareanu are among the 30 projects participating in Cph:forum, the financing and co-production market of Cph:dox film festival.
The Forum will run from March 28-31, and will be the first in-person edition since 2019.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
Massachusetts-based Chinese filmmaker Zhang is participating with German-Dutch co-production The Total Trust (working title), produced by Knut Jager through Germany’s Filmtank. The documentary will examine the growth of surveillance culture in China, from cameras to AI profiling.
New works from One Child Nation director Jialing Zhang and Chuck Norris vs. Communism filmmaker Ilinca Calugareanu are among the 30 projects participating in Cph:forum, the financing and co-production market of Cph:dox film festival.
The Forum will run from March 28-31, and will be the first in-person edition since 2019.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
Massachusetts-based Chinese filmmaker Zhang is participating with German-Dutch co-production The Total Trust (working title), produced by Knut Jager through Germany’s Filmtank. The documentary will examine the growth of surveillance culture in China, from cameras to AI profiling.
- 2/10/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 11th annual First Look festival at the Museum of the Moving Image released its star-studded lineup February 7.
The festival, which is set to take place March 16–20 at the MoMI museum in Astoria, Queens, will open with the New York City premiere of Camera d’Or winner “Murina.” Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović was honored with the title at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature, and the film is executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
“Murina” is a coming-of-age story set in a scenic coastal Croatian town. Also on March 16, Tsai Ming-Liang’s ode to Hong Kong, “The Night,” will host its New York premiere. Closing Night selection and 2021 Locarno Grand Prix winner “The Balcony Movie” finishes off the festival.
The First Look festival features “new and innovative international cinema.” Spotlight screenings include the New York premiere of “Zero Fucks Given,” starring Adèle Exarchopoulos as a flight attendant in crisis,...
The festival, which is set to take place March 16–20 at the MoMI museum in Astoria, Queens, will open with the New York City premiere of Camera d’Or winner “Murina.” Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović was honored with the title at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature, and the film is executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
“Murina” is a coming-of-age story set in a scenic coastal Croatian town. Also on March 16, Tsai Ming-Liang’s ode to Hong Kong, “The Night,” will host its New York premiere. Closing Night selection and 2021 Locarno Grand Prix winner “The Balcony Movie” finishes off the festival.
The First Look festival features “new and innovative international cinema.” Spotlight screenings include the New York premiere of “Zero Fucks Given,” starring Adèle Exarchopoulos as a flight attendant in crisis,...
- 2/7/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: New York’s Museum of the Moving Image announced the full lineup today for the 11th edition of First Look, its annual festival showcasing adventurous cinema from around the world.
The in-person festival, running March 16-20 at MoMI in Astoria, Queens, will kick off with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, a “simmering, sexually charged coming-of-age tale set in scenic coastal Croatia,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese. Murina won the Caméra d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, an award for Best First Feature.
First Look set The Balcony Movie as its closing night film, a documentary that director Pawel Lozinski shot entirely from the balcony of his apartment in Warsaw, Poland. The film, which MoMI calls “delightful and insightful,” won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival’s Critics Week.
In all, 38 films will screen at First Look [see full lineup below], a combination of features, shorts, fiction and nonfiction, “as well...
The in-person festival, running March 16-20 at MoMI in Astoria, Queens, will kick off with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, a “simmering, sexually charged coming-of-age tale set in scenic coastal Croatia,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese. Murina won the Caméra d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, an award for Best First Feature.
First Look set The Balcony Movie as its closing night film, a documentary that director Pawel Lozinski shot entirely from the balcony of his apartment in Warsaw, Poland. The film, which MoMI calls “delightful and insightful,” won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival’s Critics Week.
In all, 38 films will screen at First Look [see full lineup below], a combination of features, shorts, fiction and nonfiction, “as well...
- 2/7/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
“To suffer is one thing; another thing is to live with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate… Images transfix. Images anesthetize… But after repeated exposure to images, [an event] also becomes less real.”—Susan Sontag, On Photography
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz had an idea. The Israeli filmmaker sent out a notice at an American university about an experiment. He was looking for students who had in interest in his home country. Alexandrowicz compiled 40 short videos, half of which were from human-rights organizations like B’Tzelem,...
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz had an idea. The Israeli filmmaker sent out a notice at an American university about an experiment. He was looking for students who had in interest in his home country. Alexandrowicz compiled 40 short videos, half of which were from human-rights organizations like B’Tzelem,...
- 8/9/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
The Viewing Booth Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Writer: Ra’Anan Alexandrowicz Cast: Maia Levy, Ra’Anan Alexandrowicz Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/26/21 Opens: August 6, 2021 at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image (MoMi) Bear with me for these first two paragraphs: In considering […]
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- 8/1/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Volunteers respond to politically polarised film footage from Israel and the Palestinian territories in this critical look at interpretation
Even though he tries to maintain a cool, scientific demeanour, Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz finally lets slip a twinge of despair at the end of this interesting geopolitical Rorschach test. Alexandrowicz sits studiously behind a monitor as he invites a succession of volunteers to enter an adjacent booth. There, they have a choice of 40 clips to watch, snippets of life in Israel, while he asks them to share their thoughts on what they see. Half of the clips are from rightwing Israeli sources; the other half are from B’Tselem, an Israeli human-rights organisation that aims to document abuses of power in Palestinian territories.
Alexandrowicz quickly zeroes in on the pensive Maia, a Jewish American who supports Israel, but brings an insistent scepticism to everything she watches. He is the director of...
Even though he tries to maintain a cool, scientific demeanour, Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz finally lets slip a twinge of despair at the end of this interesting geopolitical Rorschach test. Alexandrowicz sits studiously behind a monitor as he invites a succession of volunteers to enter an adjacent booth. There, they have a choice of 40 clips to watch, snippets of life in Israel, while he asks them to share their thoughts on what they see. Half of the clips are from rightwing Israeli sources; the other half are from B’Tselem, an Israeli human-rights organisation that aims to document abuses of power in Palestinian territories.
Alexandrowicz quickly zeroes in on the pensive Maia, a Jewish American who supports Israel, but brings an insistent scepticism to everything she watches. He is the director of...
- 6/14/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Since the 1980s, the Israeli director Avi Mograbi has been making films about Israel’s occupation of Palestine. His latest documentary, The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for A Military Occupation (2021), his most incisive film to date, alternates between three types of telling. The first consists of the footage gathered by the organization Breaking the Silence, in which former Israeli soldiers detail the many forms of land and home ex-appropriation, intimidation, torture and killing of Palestinian civilians. In addition, Mograbi himself speaks extensively on camera, in direct address, as “your guide for this abbreviated manual for military occupation,” with Israel as a “paradigmatic case.” Mograbi gets help from another narrator in voiceover who, from time to time, injects a historical timeline: the start of the occupation, in 1967, the growth of settlements, the First and Second Intifada, Oslo Accords, the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, to present day. These threads are...
- 3/16/2021
- MUBI
Modernism, insofar as the painting world is concerned, was created in large part out of the invention of the camera. Here was a new device that captured life-like images from the world with the press of a button. We no longer had to sit in chairs and pose for portraits. We no longer had to view canvases of landscapes and architecture in order to behold the beauty of what each provided without physically standing before them ourselves. So painters began to reinterpret reality instead. They moved past realism to show the world what a camera couldn’t by seeking new ways of making their art relevant through subjectivity. Postmodernism followed closely behind as a reaction to and/or rejection of that progression—even via a full circle return towards photo-realism.
Suddenly an exacting depiction of painted reality was rendered as subjective as an impressionist riff upon it until objectivity was destroyed in the process.
Suddenly an exacting depiction of painted reality was rendered as subjective as an impressionist riff upon it until objectivity was destroyed in the process.
- 11/11/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The International Documentary Association has announced the shortlists for best feature and best short at the 36th annual Ida Documentary Awards.
The shortlist for possible nominees includes “Boys State,” “Crip Camp,” “Welcome to Chechnya,” “Gunda” and more. Up to 10 nominees in each of the feature and short documentary categories will be selected from the shortlist and announced on Nov. 24. The virtual awards ceremony will take place in January 2021.
This year, Ida received 1,056 submissions across all categories, including 365 documentary features from 67 countries, and 153 documentary shorts from 21 countries.
“It is exciting to see the IDA Awards Shortlist include so many films from around the globe,” said Simon Kilmurry, executive director of Ida. “The range of stories and of makers is as diverse as we have ever had. It reflects the broad range of approaches to documentary filmmaking and some of the most urgent issues of the day.”
Ida Documentary Awards Features Shortlist
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The shortlist for possible nominees includes “Boys State,” “Crip Camp,” “Welcome to Chechnya,” “Gunda” and more. Up to 10 nominees in each of the feature and short documentary categories will be selected from the shortlist and announced on Nov. 24. The virtual awards ceremony will take place in January 2021.
This year, Ida received 1,056 submissions across all categories, including 365 documentary features from 67 countries, and 153 documentary shorts from 21 countries.
“It is exciting to see the IDA Awards Shortlist include so many films from around the globe,” said Simon Kilmurry, executive director of Ida. “The range of stories and of makers is as diverse as we have ever had. It reflects the broad range of approaches to documentary filmmaking and some of the most urgent issues of the day.”
Ida Documentary Awards Features Shortlist
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- 10/28/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival and staple of the New York film community, announced the lineup for its 11th edition, running online November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The program includes new films about John Belushi, Pope Francis, Bill T. Jones, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more. The 2020 festival lineup includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by Bipoc directors (34% of the feature program).
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The first all-virtual edition of the Doc NYC festival of nonfiction films announced its 2020 lineup on Thursday, with 107 feature documentaries about everyone from John Belushi to Jamal Khashoggi and Pope Francis to Frank Zappa,
The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”
Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.
The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...
The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”
Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.
The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...
- 10/15/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are,” goes author Anaïs Nin’s frequently cited quote on human subjectivity. However overused, few summations could articulate the idea at the heart of Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s provocative non-fiction effort “The Viewing Booth” this precisely.
Capturing a viewer’s visceral and verbal responses to a series of short videos — all portraying devastating facets of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation — Alexandrowicz sets out to investigate what happens behind the eye of the beholder, while posing numerous queries as a result: Do we bring our own beliefs to what we watch? Is truth open to interpretation even if it’s supported by unassailable evidence? Does documentary film possess the power of changing hearts and minds for the better?
While these are hardly groundbreaking questions, asking and learning from them is perhaps more vital than it’s ever...
Capturing a viewer’s visceral and verbal responses to a series of short videos — all portraying devastating facets of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation — Alexandrowicz sets out to investigate what happens behind the eye of the beholder, while posing numerous queries as a result: Do we bring our own beliefs to what we watch? Is truth open to interpretation even if it’s supported by unassailable evidence? Does documentary film possess the power of changing hearts and minds for the better?
While these are hardly groundbreaking questions, asking and learning from them is perhaps more vital than it’s ever...
- 6/9/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the U.K.’s leading documentary festival, has unveiled its 2020 selection, with a line-up of 115 films, including 31 world premieres.
Due to coronavirus, this year’s festival is largely taking place online. The June event is also extending its activities throughout the rest of the year both in Sheffield and virtually.
The festival is launching a VOD platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects, on June 10 with pay-per-view and subscription options for U.K.-based public audiences including Q&As with filmmakers.
The Doc/Player, a film industry-oriented video library, is also being made available to festival passholders globally from today to August 31.
The festival is also organising weekend screenings in Sheffield cinemas in October – November.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
As announced previously, Sheffield Doc...
Due to coronavirus, this year’s festival is largely taking place online. The June event is also extending its activities throughout the rest of the year both in Sheffield and virtually.
The festival is launching a VOD platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects, on June 10 with pay-per-view and subscription options for U.K.-based public audiences including Q&As with filmmakers.
The Doc/Player, a film industry-oriented video library, is also being made available to festival passholders globally from today to August 31.
The festival is also organising weekend screenings in Sheffield cinemas in October – November.
In addition, Doc/Fest has partnered with BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and Mubi which will host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
As announced previously, Sheffield Doc...
- 6/8/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Letter to a FriendTwo of most memorable features I’ve seen this year in the Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded sidebars deal with the ongoing material devastation wrought by Israel during its occupation of Palestine. The first is Letter to a Friend, by the Palestinian-American artist Emily Jacir; the second The Viewing Booth, by the Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. While varied in their approaches, I was struck by how both films feature irony, as either an analytical device or as subterfuge. In Jacir’s film, irony is intellect’s key defense against despair. Meanwhile in Alexandrowicz’s, it informs a different defense mechanism, against absorbing another person’s pain.In the incredibly moving Letter to a Friend, Jacir creates a visual diary of her house in Bethlehem. It stands near a road that was closed off, when Israel raised the wall, in 2010. Jacir’s street is apparently featured in...
- 2/28/2020
- MUBI
New projects also selected from Oscar nominees and a Venice-winning duo.
Cph:dox has unveiled the 34 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event from March 24-26.
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The selection includes new projects from Oscar-nominated Laura Nix (Walk Run Cha-Cha) and Talal Derki (Of Fathers And Sons), Berlinale winner Adina Pintilie (Touch Me Not), Sundance winners Jialing Zhang (Born In China) and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Law in These Parts) and Venice winning team Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski (The Prince and the Dybbuk).
Titles include Her, a documentary about...
Cph:dox has unveiled the 34 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event from March 24-26.
Scroll down for full list of titles and descriptions
The selection includes new projects from Oscar-nominated Laura Nix (Walk Run Cha-Cha) and Talal Derki (Of Fathers And Sons), Berlinale winner Adina Pintilie (Touch Me Not), Sundance winners Jialing Zhang (Born In China) and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Law in These Parts) and Venice winning team Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski (The Prince and the Dybbuk).
Titles include Her, a documentary about...
- 2/13/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The strand’s 50th anniversary to open with a previously unfinished film by late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
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The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
- 1/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Institute today revealed the eight documentary projects chosen to participate in their 2014 Documentary Edit and Story Labs. 20 Fellows have been selected in total to take part. Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the sessions include Joelle Alexis ("The Green Prince"), Lewis Erskine ("Freedom Riders"), Mary Lampson ("Harlan County USA"), Jonathan Oppenheim ("The Oath"), Kate Amend ("The Case Against 8"), Joe Bini ("We Need to Talk About Kevin"), Pedro Kos ("The Square"). Directors serving as Creative Advisors are Ra'anan Alexandrowicz ("The Law In These Parts"), Jon Else ("Sing Faster!") and Jesse Moss ("The Overnighters"). Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Documentary Film Program, said in a statement, "This year's Fellows reflect a range of artistry, perspective and experience that is part of a vibrant contemporary dialogue about nonfiction storytelling. It is our hope that this rigorous lab environment strengthens each project and...
- 6/19/2014
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
"The Imposter" and "Searching for Sugar Man" each received 5 nods from the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. 31 features and 5 shorts will vie for the best of the best in documentary filmmaking. Check out the full list of nominees below including the Audience Award and Heterodox Award.
Winners of the 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will be announced on January 9, 2013 as Cinema Eye returns for a third year to New York City.s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
5 Broken Cameras
Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Detropia
Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson
The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
Produced by Dimitri Doganis
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
Directed by Matthew Akers
Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff...
Winners of the 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will be announced on January 9, 2013 as Cinema Eye returns for a third year to New York City.s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
5 Broken Cameras
Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Detropia
Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson
The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
Produced by Dimitri Doganis
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
Directed by Matthew Akers
Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff...
- 12/11/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Cinema Guild has released the trailer for the documentary "The Law in These Parts." The film, which won the grand jury prize for documentary world cinema at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, probes the military legal system Israel put in place more than 40 years ago to govern the occupied Palestinian terrorities. Directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, "The Law in These Parts" will be released in New York Nov. 14, then roll out nationally. The trailer can be viewed below. The Law in These Parts (Trailer) from Cinema Guild on Vimeo.
- 11/9/2012
- by Eric Mattina
- Indiewire
I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.
- 4/27/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
J Hoberman hasn't even broken his stride since the Village Voice let him go back in January. Not only does he carry on reviewing films week in and week out, only now at Artinfo, he's also turned in several amazing long-form pieces — on, for example, Geoff Dyer's Zona (and by extension, Tarkovsky's Stalker) in the New York Times (where Manohla Dargis and Ao Scott have asked him about the current state of film culture), on Terence Davies for the New York Review of Books and, in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, on Oliver Stone's Wall Street, which turns 25 this year: "Gordon Gekko, portrayed with vulpine, Oscar-winning gusto by Michael Douglas, has added a remarkably durable archetype to American mythology — the personification of capital." Watch Hoberman then segue into Mitt Romney via Karl Marx.
The other Marx is name-checked in another new piece, this one for Tablet, on the Jewishness of the original Three Stooges,...
The other Marx is name-checked in another new piece, this one for Tablet, on the Jewishness of the original Three Stooges,...
- 4/16/2012
- MUBI
Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Surrogate and The House I Live In among challenging award-winners at 2012 festival
A Louisiana-set drama about a father and his daughter threatened by the impact of global warming, the autobiographical tale of a man's quest to lose his virginity despite living out much of his life in an iron lung and a polemical documentary targeting America's war on drugs were among the top prize-winners as the Sundance film festival reached its denouement at the weekend.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a six-year-old girl living with her dad in the flood-threatened basins near the Mississippi delta, won both the jury prize for best Us drama and a cinematography prize. Benh Zeitlin's film features a cast of non-actors and has been praised by the Guardian's Damon Wise as "the first significant eco-threat movie to be seen through the eyes of the generation...
A Louisiana-set drama about a father and his daughter threatened by the impact of global warming, the autobiographical tale of a man's quest to lose his virginity despite living out much of his life in an iron lung and a polemical documentary targeting America's war on drugs were among the top prize-winners as the Sundance film festival reached its denouement at the weekend.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a six-year-old girl living with her dad in the flood-threatened basins near the Mississippi delta, won both the jury prize for best Us drama and a cinematography prize. Benh Zeitlin's film features a cast of non-actors and has been praised by the Guardian's Damon Wise as "the first significant eco-threat movie to be seen through the eyes of the generation...
- 1/30/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Parker Posey was all set to host last night's awards ceremony, but fell ill — and so, as live-bloggers Eric Hynes and Claiborne Smith report, Sundance festival director John Cooper reluctantly took the helm, choking up a bit right at the top as he drove himself through a remembrance of Bingham Ray. Rebounding, he brought on director and actress Katie Aselton as co-host and it was on to the awards. You can actually watch all this here (select "2012 Sundance Film Festival"). An overview of what the critics are saying about the winners:
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. The House I Live In, "a lucid, long-view unpacking of the War on Drugs from Eugene Jarecki, who ably dissected the lead-up to the Iraq War in Why We Fight." The Boston Globe's Ty Burr: "The movie marshals a wide selection of talking heads, from Oklahoma prison guards and Reagan-era appointees to street dealers and Jarecki's own nanny,...
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. The House I Live In, "a lucid, long-view unpacking of the War on Drugs from Eugene Jarecki, who ably dissected the lead-up to the Iraq War in Why We Fight." The Boston Globe's Ty Burr: "The movie marshals a wide selection of talking heads, from Oklahoma prison guards and Reagan-era appointees to street dealers and Jarecki's own nanny,...
- 1/30/2012
- MUBI
World Cinema Jury Special Prize, Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
World Cinema Documentary Editing: Indie Game: The Movie, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Can, Rasit Celikezer
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Drama: David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Lars Skree, Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
Best of Next Audience Award: Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia
Audience Award, Shorts: The Debutante Hunters, Maria White
Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
Audience Award, World Cinema: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed
Audience Award, U.S. Documentary: The Invisible War, Kirby Dick
Audience Award, U.S. Drama: The Surrogate, Ben Lewin
World Cinema Jury Prize, Drama: Violeta Went to Heaven
World Cinema Directing Award, Drama: Teddy Bear,...
World Cinema Documentary Editing: Indie Game: The Movie, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Can, Rasit Celikezer
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Drama: David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Lars Skree, Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
Best of Next Audience Award: Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia
Audience Award, Shorts: The Debutante Hunters, Maria White
Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
Audience Award, World Cinema: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed
Audience Award, U.S. Documentary: The Invisible War, Kirby Dick
Audience Award, U.S. Drama: The Surrogate, Ben Lewin
World Cinema Jury Prize, Drama: Violeta Went to Heaven
World Cinema Directing Award, Drama: Teddy Bear,...
- 1/29/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival have announced its juried and audience awards tonight at a ceremony in Park City, Utah. Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and Eugene Jarecki's "The House I Live In" won the grand jury prizes in the U.S. competitions, while Andres Wood's "Violeta Went To Heaven" and Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's "The Law in These Parts" won the world grand jury prizes. Indiewire has a full list of winners below: Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: "The House I Live In" World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic: "Violeta Went To Heaven" World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: "The Law In These Parts" Dramatic Audience Award: "The Surrogate" Documentary Audience Award: "The Invisible War" World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: "Valley...
- 1/29/2012
- Indiewire
Trailer roundups can grow to be rather unwieldy and slow to load, so I'm rounding up trailers for films screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival in two batches, the competitions and all the other programs.
Us Dramatic Competition
Ira Sachs's Keep the Lights On
Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere
Youssef Delara and Michael D Olmos's Filly Brown
Us Documentary Competition
Alison Klayman's Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Kirby Dick's The Invisible War
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's Detropia
Sam Pollard's Slavery by Another Name
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The trailer for Keiichi Kobayashi's About the Pink Sky is here.
Luciano Moura's Father's Chair (A Cadeira do Pai)
Babis Makridis's L
Armando Bó's The Last Elvis (El Ultimo Elvis)
David Trueba's Madrid, 1987
Andrés Wood's Violeta Went to Heaven
Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here
And the trailer for...
Us Dramatic Competition
Ira Sachs's Keep the Lights On
Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere
Youssef Delara and Michael D Olmos's Filly Brown
Us Documentary Competition
Alison Klayman's Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Kirby Dick's The Invisible War
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's Detropia
Sam Pollard's Slavery by Another Name
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The trailer for Keiichi Kobayashi's About the Pink Sky is here.
Luciano Moura's Father's Chair (A Cadeira do Pai)
Babis Makridis's L
Armando Bó's The Last Elvis (El Ultimo Elvis)
David Trueba's Madrid, 1987
Andrés Wood's Violeta Went to Heaven
Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here
And the trailer for...
- 1/16/2012
- MUBI
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, whose documentary "The Inner Tour" played at the 2012 edition of Sundance, is back this year with the ambitious "The Law In These Parts," a five chapter work that gets to the heart of Israel's moral quandary. What's it about? Through archival footage and interviews, "The Law in These Parts" unravels one of the most enduring and damaging conflicts of our time. Director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz says: "One of the things that happens when you make non-fiction cinema is that you touch people's lives with your camera and at the same time, your life is touched by the people and reality you document. In mid 2004, I got a phone call a boy who had just turned 16 who was in The Inner Tour. He was taken from his home in the middle of the night by masked Israeli soldiers and charged with throwing stones at a military Jeep and was...
- 1/9/2012
- Indiewire
The Sundance Institute have announced the Fellows for 2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab - some of these projects will find themselves on the public television, some may tour the film festival circuit starting with a debut at Sundance, and in the rare case, might turn out to be an acclaimed such as Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. This year's batch comes from the U.S., China, Israel/Palestinian Territories and the Philippines. - The Sundance Institute have announced the Fellows for 2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab - some of these projects will find themselves on the public television, some may tour the film festival circuit starting with a debut at Sundance, and in the rare case, might turn out to be an acclaimed such as Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. This year's batch comes from the U.S., China, Israel/Palestinian Territories and the Philippines.
- 6/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The Sundance Institute have announced the Fellows for 2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab - some of these projects will find themselves on the public television, some may tour the film festival circuit starting with a debut at Sundance, and in the rare case, might turn out to be an acclaimed such as Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. This year's batch comes from the U.S., China, Israel/Palestinian Territories and the Philippines. Here is the press release:. Lab Fellows in alphabetical order are: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Directing Fellow), Michael Collins (Directing Fellow), Heather Courtney (Directing Fellow - see pic above), Ramona Diaz (Directing Fellow), Ron Goldman (Editing Fellow), Kyle Henry (Editing Fellow), Stephen Maing (Directing Fellow), Leah Marino (Editing Fellow), Eric Daniel Metzgar (Editing Fellow), Jonathan Oppenheim (Editing Fellow), Trina Rodriquez (Editing Fellow), Marty Syjuco (Directing Fellow). These Fellows will be joined by six Creative Advisors, including Directors and Editors,...
- 6/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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