A retired Wisconsin sheriff’s detective, Andrew Colborn, is suing Netflix for defamation, alleging that the hit docu-series Making a Murderer falsely claims he planted evidence to frame Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey for murder, Variety reports.
The suit, filed in Manitowoc County Circuit Court in Wisconsin, alleges that the series and its filmmakers “omitted, distorted, and falsified material and significant facts in an effort to portray [Colborn] as a corrupt police officer who planted evidence to frame an innocent man. Defendants did so with actual malice and in order to...
The suit, filed in Manitowoc County Circuit Court in Wisconsin, alleges that the series and its filmmakers “omitted, distorted, and falsified material and significant facts in an effort to portray [Colborn] as a corrupt police officer who planted evidence to frame an innocent man. Defendants did so with actual malice and in order to...
- 12/18/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
New initiatives at Cph:dox include Britdoc’s Good Pitch event, a cultural summit and tech innovation pitches at Propeller Springboard.
Cph:dox has awarded its Dox:award to Last Men in Aleppo, directed by Feras Fayyad and co-directed by Steen Johannessen.
The jury said the film, about volunteers in the war-torn Syrian city, is “a film whose devastating emotional immediacy plunges us into a Shakespearean tragedy of a people striving to retain their humanity in the face of impossible realities.”
The film previously won the grand jury prize in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary competition.
Special mentions went to Gray House by Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth and The John Dalli Mystery by Jeppe Rønde.
The F:act Award, for a film involving in-depth journalistic investigation, went to Reber Dosky’s Radio Kobani, about a young woman’s struggle to run a local radio station in war-torn northern Syria.
A special mention went to Trophy by Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau...
Cph:dox has awarded its Dox:award to Last Men in Aleppo, directed by Feras Fayyad and co-directed by Steen Johannessen.
The jury said the film, about volunteers in the war-torn Syrian city, is “a film whose devastating emotional immediacy plunges us into a Shakespearean tragedy of a people striving to retain their humanity in the face of impossible realities.”
The film previously won the grand jury prize in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary competition.
Special mentions went to Gray House by Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth and The John Dalli Mystery by Jeppe Rønde.
The F:act Award, for a film involving in-depth journalistic investigation, went to Reber Dosky’s Radio Kobani, about a young woman’s struggle to run a local radio station in war-torn northern Syria.
A special mention went to Trophy by Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau...
- 3/25/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The 2015 Woodstock “Fiercely Independent” Film Festival celebrated its Sweet 16, and came to a close on October 4.
The awards went to:
Best Feature Narrative: "Oliver’s Deal" directed by Barney Elliott
Honorable Mention: "It Had to be You" directed by Sasha Gordon.
Best Feature Documentary: "Incorruptible" directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
Honorable Mention: "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" directed by Holly Morris, co-directed by Anne Bogart.
Best Animation: "The Five Minute Museum" directed by Paul Bush.
Honorable Mention: "Religatio" directed by Jaime Giraldo.
Best Short Narrative: "Stanhope" directed by Solvan "Slick" Naim.
Honorable Mention: "Welcome" (Bienvenidos) directed by Javier Fesser.
Best Short Student Short Film: "Against the Night" directed by Stefan Kubicki.
Best Short Documentary: "All About Amy" directed by Samuel Centore.
Honorable Mention: "Naneek" directed by Neal Steeno.
The Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography: "Bob and the Trees" directed by Diego Ongaro with cinematography by Chris Teague and Danny Vecchione.
James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Narrative: "Oliver’s Deal" directed by Barney Elliott and edited by J.L. Romeu and Roberto Benavides.
Honorable Mention: "Touched With Fire" directed by Paul Dalio and edited by Paul Dalio and Lee Percy.
James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Documentary: "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" directed by Holly Morris and edited by Michael Taylor, Richard Howard, and Mary Manhardt
Honorable Mention: "I Will Not Be Silenced" directed by Judy Rymer and edited by Paul Hamilton.
Ultra Indie Award: "Lamb" directed by Ross Partridge.
Honorable Mention: "Bob and the Trees" directed by Diego Ongaro.
The World Cinema Award: "Meet Me in Venice" directed by Eddy Terstall.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Roberta Petzoldt ("Meet Me in Venice").
Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for Best Female Feature Director: Linda-Maria Birbeck director of "There Should be Rules."
Carpe Diem Award Andretta Award for Best Film: "Waffle Street" directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms.
Fiercely Independent Award was presented by Atom Egoyan to Guy Maddin
Honorary Maverick Award was presented by Guy Maddin to Atom Egoyan.
For more information about the Woodstock Film Festival: http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/
Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell teaches screenwriting at Purchase College Suny, and presents international seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog...
The awards went to:
Best Feature Narrative: "Oliver’s Deal" directed by Barney Elliott
Honorable Mention: "It Had to be You" directed by Sasha Gordon.
Best Feature Documentary: "Incorruptible" directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
Honorable Mention: "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" directed by Holly Morris, co-directed by Anne Bogart.
Best Animation: "The Five Minute Museum" directed by Paul Bush.
Honorable Mention: "Religatio" directed by Jaime Giraldo.
Best Short Narrative: "Stanhope" directed by Solvan "Slick" Naim.
Honorable Mention: "Welcome" (Bienvenidos) directed by Javier Fesser.
Best Short Student Short Film: "Against the Night" directed by Stefan Kubicki.
Best Short Documentary: "All About Amy" directed by Samuel Centore.
Honorable Mention: "Naneek" directed by Neal Steeno.
The Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography: "Bob and the Trees" directed by Diego Ongaro with cinematography by Chris Teague and Danny Vecchione.
James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Narrative: "Oliver’s Deal" directed by Barney Elliott and edited by J.L. Romeu and Roberto Benavides.
Honorable Mention: "Touched With Fire" directed by Paul Dalio and edited by Paul Dalio and Lee Percy.
James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Documentary: "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" directed by Holly Morris and edited by Michael Taylor, Richard Howard, and Mary Manhardt
Honorable Mention: "I Will Not Be Silenced" directed by Judy Rymer and edited by Paul Hamilton.
Ultra Indie Award: "Lamb" directed by Ross Partridge.
Honorable Mention: "Bob and the Trees" directed by Diego Ongaro.
The World Cinema Award: "Meet Me in Venice" directed by Eddy Terstall.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Roberta Petzoldt ("Meet Me in Venice").
Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for Best Female Feature Director: Linda-Maria Birbeck director of "There Should be Rules."
Carpe Diem Award Andretta Award for Best Film: "Waffle Street" directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms.
Fiercely Independent Award was presented by Atom Egoyan to Guy Maddin
Honorary Maverick Award was presented by Guy Maddin to Atom Egoyan.
For more information about the Woodstock Film Festival: http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/
Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell teaches screenwriting at Purchase College Suny, and presents international seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog...
- 10/6/2015
- by Susan Kouguell
- Sydney's Buzz
Read More: 5 Questions for Jennie Livingston, Director of "Paris Is Burning" and "Who's The Top?" On Saturday, April 18, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship hosted a half-day of panel discussions with a gathering of documentary film editors, directors and producers to discuss the art of editing. The goal of the day and future events is to shine a light on the role of the editor in the filmmaking process, build community and celebrate an under-explored and often misunderstood collaboration between director and editor. Panelists included editors Toby Shimin ("How to Dance in Ohio"), Nels Bangerter ("Let the Fire Burn"), Mona Davis ("Running from Crazy"), Colin Nusbaum ("Tough Love"), and Mary Manhardt ("American Promise") and moderators Tom Roston ("Doc Soup") and Doug Block ("112 Weddings"). The day began with a Keynote from...
- 4/30/2015
- by Jonathan Oppenheim
- Indiewire
Chicago – In its final days, the 48th Annual Chicago International Film Festival is poised to close with a glorious bang. Chicago native Robert Zemeckis (of “Back to the Future” and “Forrest Gump” fame) will return to the festival for the closing night screening of “Flight,” a thriller starring Denzel Washington. It’s Zemeckis’s first live-action feature since 2000’s “Cast Away.” Here are the highlights covering the remaining days of the festival, from October 18th to October 25th, 2012.
Zemeckis isn’t the only exciting guest scheduled to attend the festival in the days ahead. David O. Russell (“Three Kings,” “The Fighter”) will be on hand for the October 23rd screening of his widely celebrated dramedy, “The Silver Linings Playbook,” which has been singled out as a major awards season player, according to festival buzz. On the heels of his Guillermo del Toro-produced chiller, “The Orphanage,” filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona...
Zemeckis isn’t the only exciting guest scheduled to attend the festival in the days ahead. David O. Russell (“Three Kings,” “The Fighter”) will be on hand for the October 23rd screening of his widely celebrated dramedy, “The Silver Linings Playbook,” which has been singled out as a major awards season player, according to festival buzz. On the heels of his Guillermo del Toro-produced chiller, “The Orphanage,” filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona...
- 10/18/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Since Rebel Without a Cause, high school kids have been trying to figure out who they are in movies and documentaries. In American Teen, Nanette Burstein chronicles the senior year of four 17-year-olds in Warsaw, Ind. Perhaps because the issues never really change for teenagers, the film seems both revealing and superficial. It's a slickly made and entertaining slice of life that could be a big hit among kids who never get tired of seeing themselves on screen. Paramount Vantage picked up the film at Sundance.
Burstein was searching for an economically mixed town with one high school in the Midwest that reflected American values. She found it in Warsaw Community High School and proceeded to film four students and their friends for the next 10 months.
For her subjects, Burstein chose a rich popular girl, a nerdy guy, an artistic outsider and a jock, following them into locker rooms, classrooms, parties and hang outs. Her patience pays off, and she manages to insinuate herself into their lives, sometimes too much so. To watch the free-spirited and good-natured Hannah, who dreams of going to California to make movies, sobbing after she's broken up with her boyfriend feels a little like an invasion of privacy.
One wonders if events are ever the same when the camera watches them. Intimate scenes, like when Gordy's father explains to him that either he excels on the basketball court and gets a college scholarship or else he's going into the Army, seem more staged than spontaneous. And in the interest of keeping the film breezy and tying the stories together, the editing style tends to smooth out the rough edges. So even when the kids are having serious meltdowns, it doesn't feel like it matters that much.
Soul searching here is reduced to a series of animated segments where we literally get to move inside the characters' eyes to supposedly see what makes them tick. It's a clever device, looks great and it's fun, but it isn't very revealing.
So what if Megan, the privileged rich kid, has more problems then you might imagine and a dark secret that explains her psychic wounds? Perhaps the least interesting character is Jake, the video game geek and marching band member who has an awful case of adolescent acne that is probably going to scar him for life, but it's not explored.
For all of its access and exposure, American Teen seems skin-deep. It's well shot, with good production values and lots of cool music. But it's fun and facile in much the same way reality TV is. You may have a good time, but you'll hate yourself in the morning.
AMERICAN TEEN
A&E IndieFilms
Credits:
Director: Nanette Burstein
Producers: Nanette Burstein, Jordan Roberts, Eli Gonda, Chris Huddleston
Executive producers: Elisa Pugliese, Patrick Morris, Molly Thompson, Nancy Dubuc, Rob Sharenow
Directors of cinematography: Laela Kilbourn, Wolfgang Held, Robert Hanna
Music: Michael Penn
Editors: Mary Manhardt, Tom Haneke, Nanette Burstein
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Since Rebel Without a Cause, high school kids have been trying to figure out who they are in movies and documentaries. In American Teen, Nanette Burstein chronicles the senior year of four 17-year-olds in Warsaw, Ind. Perhaps because the issues never really change for teenagers, the film seems both revealing and superficial. It's a slickly made and entertaining slice of life that could be a big hit among kids who never get tired of seeing themselves on screen. Paramount Vantage picked up the film at Sundance.
Burstein was searching for an economically mixed town with one high school in the Midwest that reflected American values. She found it in Warsaw Community High School and proceeded to film four students and their friends for the next 10 months.
For her subjects, Burstein chose a rich popular girl, a nerdy guy, an artistic outsider and a jock, following them into locker rooms, classrooms, parties and hang outs. Her patience pays off, and she manages to insinuate herself into their lives, sometimes too much so. To watch the free-spirited and good-natured Hannah, who dreams of going to California to make movies, sobbing after she's broken up with her boyfriend feels a little like an invasion of privacy.
One wonders if events are ever the same when the camera watches them. Intimate scenes, like when Gordy's father explains to him that either he excels on the basketball court and gets a college scholarship or else he's going into the Army, seem more staged than spontaneous. And in the interest of keeping the film breezy and tying the stories together, the editing style tends to smooth out the rough edges. So even when the kids are having serious meltdowns, it doesn't feel like it matters that much.
Soul searching here is reduced to a series of animated segments where we literally get to move inside the characters' eyes to supposedly see what makes them tick. It's a clever device, looks great and it's fun, but it isn't very revealing.
So what if Megan, the privileged rich kid, has more problems then you might imagine and a dark secret that explains her psychic wounds? Perhaps the least interesting character is Jake, the video game geek and marching band member who has an awful case of adolescent acne that is probably going to scar him for life, but it's not explored.
For all of its access and exposure, American Teen seems skin-deep. It's well shot, with good production values and lots of cool music. But it's fun and facile in much the same way reality TV is. You may have a good time, but you'll hate yourself in the morning.
AMERICAN TEEN
A&E IndieFilms
Credits:
Director: Nanette Burstein
Producers: Nanette Burstein, Jordan Roberts, Eli Gonda, Chris Huddleston
Executive producers: Elisa Pugliese, Patrick Morris, Molly Thompson, Nancy Dubuc, Rob Sharenow
Directors of cinematography: Laela Kilbourn, Wolfgang Held, Robert Hanna
Music: Michael Penn
Editors: Mary Manhardt, Tom Haneke, Nanette Burstein
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/31/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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