Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary “Flee” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2021 at the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which were presented on Tuesday night in New York City. “The Rescue,” about the efforts to retrieve a Thai youth soccer team from a flooded cave, won the Audience Choice Prize.
The Neon release “Flee,” which uses animation to give anonymity to a young gay man who escaped Afghanistan as a teenager and made his way to Denmark, also won the award for graphic design and animation. It is nominated for Oscars in the documentary, animated-feature and international-feature categories.
Robert Greene won the directing award for “Procession,” while Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman and Leslie Norville took the producing prize for “The First Wave.”
Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension” won the most Cinema Eye awards, three, taking the prizes for debut feature, cinematography and score.
Other winners included “Summer of Soul...
The Neon release “Flee,” which uses animation to give anonymity to a young gay man who escaped Afghanistan as a teenager and made his way to Denmark, also won the award for graphic design and animation. It is nominated for Oscars in the documentary, animated-feature and international-feature categories.
Robert Greene won the directing award for “Procession,” while Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman and Leslie Norville took the producing prize for “The First Wave.”
Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension” won the most Cinema Eye awards, three, taking the prizes for debut feature, cinematography and score.
Other winners included “Summer of Soul...
- 3/2/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Heading to a book party for screenwriter-novelist Tom Epperson’s latest, a South American journalistic thriller called Roberto To The Dark Tower Came, I got to wondering: Will there ever be another great Hollywood book? You know, the kind that makes you catch your breath, slap the beach chair, and gasp, “Did they really do that stuff?”
Mostly, they did—witness the photograph of Robert Towne lounging in the sand with his naked Amazons, as he did some sort of prep for Personal Best, in 1981. The snapshot is tucked in the middle of Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Published in 1998, it was, for me, the last truly great movie business book. Biskind dished shovel-loads of gossip within a cultural arc, as he told how film greats like Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and, of course, Towne, reached for...
Mostly, they did—witness the photograph of Robert Towne lounging in the sand with his naked Amazons, as he did some sort of prep for Personal Best, in 1981. The snapshot is tucked in the middle of Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Published in 1998, it was, for me, the last truly great movie business book. Biskind dished shovel-loads of gossip within a cultural arc, as he told how film greats like Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and, of course, Towne, reached for...
- 6/9/2018
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a scene in Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking 1996 debut, “The Watermelon Woman” in which Dunye is hassled by two police officers. Playing a fictionalized version of herself, the Black lesbian endures their harassment as they mistake her for a man and call her a “crackhead.” The scene is a short one; after the cops search her, they let her go, and she doesn’t mention the encounter again. It’s a moment of head-shaking, not skull-cracking.
In a recent conversation with IndieWire, Dunye recalled a Q&a in which a young viewer marveled at how the filmmaker could have been so prescient in trumpeting “Black Lives Matter” issues. “That was an issue then!,” she said with a laugh, not dwelling on the pain underlying her statement. “I think that speaks to the power and the double-edged nature of this moment. This was happening before me, you’re just seeing...
In a recent conversation with IndieWire, Dunye recalled a Q&a in which a young viewer marveled at how the filmmaker could have been so prescient in trumpeting “Black Lives Matter” issues. “That was an issue then!,” she said with a laugh, not dwelling on the pain underlying her statement. “I think that speaks to the power and the double-edged nature of this moment. This was happening before me, you’re just seeing...
- 11/14/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
There’s a scene in Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking 1996 debut, “The Watermelon Woman” in which Dunye is hassled by two police officers. Playing a fictionalized version of herself, the black lesbian endures their harassment as they mistake her for a man and call her a “crackhead.” The scene is a short one; after the cops search her, they let her go, and she doesn’t mention the encounter again. It’s a moment of head shaking, not skull cracking.
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In a recent conversation, Dunye recalled a Q&A in which a young viewer marveled at how the filmmaker could have been so prescient in trumpeting “Black Lives Matter” issues. “That was an issue then!” She laughed, not dwelling on the pain underlying her statement. “I think that speaks to the power and the double-edged nature of this moment.
Read More: National Coming Out Day: 5 Online Shorts That Celebrate Queer Lives
In a recent conversation, Dunye recalled a Q&A in which a young viewer marveled at how the filmmaker could have been so prescient in trumpeting “Black Lives Matter” issues. “That was an issue then!” She laughed, not dwelling on the pain underlying her statement. “I think that speaks to the power and the double-edged nature of this moment.
- 11/14/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Film industry veteran Bobbi Thompson (who created the concept of Producer Rep while installing William Morris Agency with her brand of independent film representation), is creating an Andy Warhol inspired, site specific visual arts center combining arthouse cinema, gallery and studio space.
A weekend-long Pop Up Art & Movie show at Bergamot Station launches the nonprofit with a group show titled Brain States, featuring artwork from Dtla’s Ecf Art Centers, Project Onward of Chicago, Il. And Little City Center for the Arts in Palatine Il.
Opening Night's Reception, free to all on Saturday December 5th 6pm-8pm, honors the directors of these three Arts Centers dedicated to advancing the work of artists of exceptional talents living with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
The evening concludes with a screening at 8:00 pm of the controversial “Jason and Shirley," recently acquired by Moma. Filmmaker Stephen Winter will be on hand for a Q&A led by Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies and film critic Alexandra Juhasz who is also an expert on feminist cinema.
Known for nurturing the careers of James Cameron, Tim Burton, Ang Lee, Gus van Sant and Trey Parker, Bobbi Thompson championed the films of maverick talents like Robert Altman , Stephan Elliott, and John Cameron Mitchell, Bobbi states, “When I have a clear vision of what is the best in each artist and their work,” says Thompson, “I want you see what I see -- and to respond to it actively. I am excited to continue to present radical cinema, 2-D art created by some of the most extraordinary creative minds today, and I hope you will come to build your contemporary collection.
Right now I’m working on all the last details for the show. I cannot believe I am really doing this, but here it all is and people are being incredibly generous with time and goods, actually donating money on my nonprofit site and being very encouraging about the concept. Tomorrow I am meeting at the gallery to go over tasks for installation and at the reception with some of my volunteers who have been introduced to me from three programs that provide transition-to-employment skills training for young adults living with autism and other brain-based difference. They are all emerging artists themselves.”
Gallery hours on Sunday are 11:30-5pm. Sunday’s Matinee screening begins at 2pm.
Visit www.joyfactorygallery.com for information on ticketing for the screening.
A weekend-long Pop Up Art & Movie show at Bergamot Station launches the nonprofit with a group show titled Brain States, featuring artwork from Dtla’s Ecf Art Centers, Project Onward of Chicago, Il. And Little City Center for the Arts in Palatine Il.
Opening Night's Reception, free to all on Saturday December 5th 6pm-8pm, honors the directors of these three Arts Centers dedicated to advancing the work of artists of exceptional talents living with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
The evening concludes with a screening at 8:00 pm of the controversial “Jason and Shirley," recently acquired by Moma. Filmmaker Stephen Winter will be on hand for a Q&A led by Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies and film critic Alexandra Juhasz who is also an expert on feminist cinema.
Known for nurturing the careers of James Cameron, Tim Burton, Ang Lee, Gus van Sant and Trey Parker, Bobbi Thompson championed the films of maverick talents like Robert Altman , Stephan Elliott, and John Cameron Mitchell, Bobbi states, “When I have a clear vision of what is the best in each artist and their work,” says Thompson, “I want you see what I see -- and to respond to it actively. I am excited to continue to present radical cinema, 2-D art created by some of the most extraordinary creative minds today, and I hope you will come to build your contemporary collection.
Right now I’m working on all the last details for the show. I cannot believe I am really doing this, but here it all is and people are being incredibly generous with time and goods, actually donating money on my nonprofit site and being very encouraging about the concept. Tomorrow I am meeting at the gallery to go over tasks for installation and at the reception with some of my volunteers who have been introduced to me from three programs that provide transition-to-employment skills training for young adults living with autism and other brain-based difference. They are all emerging artists themselves.”
Gallery hours on Sunday are 11:30-5pm. Sunday’s Matinee screening begins at 2pm.
Visit www.joyfactorygallery.com for information on ticketing for the screening.
- 11/25/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Here at Outfest with her latest film, the docu-thriller "The Owls" (Owls standing for "older, wiser, lesbians"), Cheryl Dunye (left) brought her family to the screening, including Alexandra Juhasz (center), who served as a producer on the film. Introducing the film, Outfest Executive Director Kirsten Schaffer (right) recounted a story when Dunye brought her short films to Schaffer's college campus when not a single lesbian film was set to be shown ...
- 7/13/2010
- Indiewire
Actress-filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the Redcat in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of Dunye’s 1996 feature The Watermelon Woman on Monday, May 11, at 8:30 pm. The film will be screened in Beta Sp. A fundraiser for the restoration of The Watermelon Woman will be held earlier that day (6:00-7:30 pm) at the Phyllis Stein Art, also in downtown La. (More information below.) Called both a “saucy, daring, insidiously smart debut” (The Boston Phoenix) and "flotsam floating down a sewer" (Christian right-winger Jesse Helms) The Watermelon Woman is, according to the Redcat press release, "the first-ever theatrical feature directed by an African American [actually born in Liberia] lesbian." The film tells the story of Cheryl (Dunye), who becomes fascinated with a fictitious 1930s actress and blues singer named Fae Richards—a character stuck in “Mammy” roles in movies directed by a Dorothy Arzner type. The...
- 4/14/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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