Tribeca Film Institute in association with the JustFilms initiative have awarded interactive projects 6X9, Argus Panoptes and Red Red Roll grants from the 2015/2016 Tfi New Media Fund.
Each $50,000 award will enable the creators to explore socially charged issues through transmedia storytelling.
Subjects cover police brutality, sensory deprivation and sexual assault.
An advisory board comprised of filmmaker Julia Bacha, producer Sandi Dubowski of A Jihad For Love, Lisa Steiman, Jenni Wolfson and filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall of Thank You For Playing selected the grantees.
“The creativity of our Tfi New Media Fund applicants each year is beyond inspiring and this year was no different,” said senior director of interactive programs at Tfi Opeyemi Olukemi. “The three selected projects tackle vital social issues while encapsulating the power of transmedia storytelling.”
“We see the power of moving image storytelling as an important component to disrupt dominant cultural narratives that drive inequality around the world,” said director...
Each $50,000 award will enable the creators to explore socially charged issues through transmedia storytelling.
Subjects cover police brutality, sensory deprivation and sexual assault.
An advisory board comprised of filmmaker Julia Bacha, producer Sandi Dubowski of A Jihad For Love, Lisa Steiman, Jenni Wolfson and filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall of Thank You For Playing selected the grantees.
“The creativity of our Tfi New Media Fund applicants each year is beyond inspiring and this year was no different,” said senior director of interactive programs at Tfi Opeyemi Olukemi. “The three selected projects tackle vital social issues while encapsulating the power of transmedia storytelling.”
“We see the power of moving image storytelling as an important component to disrupt dominant cultural narratives that drive inequality around the world,” said director...
- 12/8/2015
- ScreenDaily
It is forbidden. Like a good Muslim, Parvez Sharma ("A Jihad for Love") was ready to take his pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. As someone who documents his life, for his second documentary, he decided to shoot his journey. In 2011, he went alone, accompanied only by his iPhone4S. Now that the film is finished and hitting screens, he is paying a heavy price. Was it worth it? Chills went up my spine when I saw his footage of the Ka'ba, the Great Mosque, surrounded by a giant mass of humanity. Sharma joined the swirl, steered himself to the holy stone cube at the center, and filmed himself touching it. Over the course of his haj security guards stopped him from filming and even deleted video several times, but fortunately they always returned his iPhone. Some footage survived. "A Sinner in Mecca" puts Sharma front and center as the subject and the filmmaker,...
- 8/28/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It seems like the latest line-up for the Hot Docs Film Festival will include a host of some of the biggest documentaries on the festival circuit once again.
The line-up for the festival was released on Tuesday and featured some hits from the on-going Tribeca Film Festival as well as SXSW this year. The festival opens on Friday with the premiere of Tig, which follows comedian Tig Notaro, and features a question and answers session with her following the showing.
The rest of the line-up includes Uncertain. This film follows a southern gothic tale set on the Texas/Louisiana boarder in a town called Uncertain, population 94. As the town struggles to save their lake, and livelihood, from an invasive aquatic weed, three men battle their own demons in search of forgiveness and redemption.
Also showing is A Sinner in Mecca, Speed Sisters, and Peace Officer.
A Sinner in Mecca is...
The line-up for the festival was released on Tuesday and featured some hits from the on-going Tribeca Film Festival as well as SXSW this year. The festival opens on Friday with the premiere of Tig, which follows comedian Tig Notaro, and features a question and answers session with her following the showing.
The rest of the line-up includes Uncertain. This film follows a southern gothic tale set on the Texas/Louisiana boarder in a town called Uncertain, population 94. As the town struggles to save their lake, and livelihood, from an invasive aquatic weed, three men battle their own demons in search of forgiveness and redemption.
Also showing is A Sinner in Mecca, Speed Sisters, and Peace Officer.
A Sinner in Mecca is...
- 4/21/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
The Tribeca Film Festival have announced the juries for each category of competition. A host of actors, directors and journalists have been selected that include Evan Rachel Wood, Paul Haggis, Josh Radnor, Eva Longoria and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The members selected will be judging the films that fall within their respective categories, and you can check out the list below. Make sure to check back with us for all the latest from Tribeca including reviews, interviews and more! The festival runs from April 17th – April 28th in New York City.
World Competition Categories
The jurors for the 2013 World Narrative Competition are:
Kenny Lonergan: Academy Award®-nominated playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter. Credits include You Can Count On Me,Gangs of New York, and Margaret. His stage credits include Lobby Hero, The Waverly Gallery and This is Our Youth. He is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York.
The members selected will be judging the films that fall within their respective categories, and you can check out the list below. Make sure to check back with us for all the latest from Tribeca including reviews, interviews and more! The festival runs from April 17th – April 28th in New York City.
World Competition Categories
The jurors for the 2013 World Narrative Competition are:
Kenny Lonergan: Academy Award®-nominated playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter. Credits include You Can Count On Me,Gangs of New York, and Margaret. His stage credits include Lobby Hero, The Waverly Gallery and This is Our Youth. He is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York.
- 4/15/2013
- by Damen Norton
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Tribeca Film Festival announced today that it has selected 42 jurors for this year’s festival. The jurors include members of the filmmaking community — including Bryce Dallas Howard, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Haggis, Taraji P. Henson, Kenneth Lonergan, Eva Longoria, Josh Radnor, and Evan Rachel Wood — as well as policy makers and entertainment business leaders.
According to a press release, the seven juries will award $180,000 in cash and prizes during the Festival (April 17-28). Tribeca All Access (Taa) Creative Promise Awards will award an additional $20,000 — $10,000 for narrative and $10,000 for documentary. All winners will also receive a work of original art by...
According to a press release, the seven juries will award $180,000 in cash and prizes during the Festival (April 17-28). Tribeca All Access (Taa) Creative Promise Awards will award an additional $20,000 — $10,000 for narrative and $10,000 for documentary. All winners will also receive a work of original art by...
- 4/10/2013
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside Movies
Looking for a must-see list of great gay documentaries? We've got you covered. We recently asked our readers to nominate up to five of their favorite documentary films via write-in vote. Thousands responded and we tabulated the results to bring you the top 25 here. All of these films are definitely worth a look and to help you learn more about titles you might not be familiar with, we've included trailers, links to reviews, official film websites and more. Plus, for three of the titles we've even embedded the full movie thanks to the Logo Docs library.
So here they are, the 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries. Which ones have you already seen? Which ones do you need to see?
25. Saint of 9/11
Summary: Sir Ian McKellen narrates this inspiring portrait of Father Mychal Judge, a New York City Fire Department Chaplain who wrestled with his sexuality, his genuine dedication to life as a priest,...
So here they are, the 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries. Which ones have you already seen? Which ones do you need to see?
25. Saint of 9/11
Summary: Sir Ian McKellen narrates this inspiring portrait of Father Mychal Judge, a New York City Fire Department Chaplain who wrestled with his sexuality, his genuine dedication to life as a priest,...
- 9/10/2012
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
A Tribeca Film Institute Panel at the New School this week mulled over just this topic. From the program:
You’ve completed your school work and made a few films in school, and now you need to figure out your next steps. What career options exist for filmmakers? How can you develop and raise money for a film project and still cover your living expenses? This panel addresses these questions and provides examples and answers relevant to all makers of film and other media.
The panelists:
Sharon Badal (Moderator) is head short film programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sandi DuBowski is the Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus.
Macky Alston is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, an educator on issues of media and religion, an organizer within the worlds of philanthropy and media-making, and a regular writer and reviewer on film and religion
Moon Molson?...
You’ve completed your school work and made a few films in school, and now you need to figure out your next steps. What career options exist for filmmakers? How can you develop and raise money for a film project and still cover your living expenses? This panel addresses these questions and provides examples and answers relevant to all makers of film and other media.
The panelists:
Sharon Badal (Moderator) is head short film programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sandi DuBowski is the Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus.
Macky Alston is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, an educator on issues of media and religion, an organizer within the worlds of philanthropy and media-making, and a regular writer and reviewer on film and religion
Moon Molson?...
- 3/8/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sandi Dubowski (Trembling Before G-d, A Jihad for Love) whose Budrus is now premiering at the Panorama section of the Berlinale (where a total of 54 films from 29 countries have been selected, of which 31 are world premieres and 18 directorial debuts) spoke at Sundance Ff's panel discussion on new modes of distribution entitled Is There A Doctor In The House moderated by IndieWire's beloved Eugene Hernandez, unselfishly offered these links to organizations which support social issue docs:
Active Voice (link), Bavc Producer’s Institute for New Technologies (link), Brave New Films (link), Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation (link), Chicken and Egg Productions (link), Cinereach (link), The Fledgling Fund (link), The Good Pitch (link), Impact Partners (link), the Sundance Documentary Fund (link), Tribeca All Access and the Tribeca Gucci Documentary Fund (link), Workbook Project (link), and many more.
Active Voice (link), Bavc Producer’s Institute for New Technologies (link), Brave New Films (link), Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation (link), Chicken and Egg Productions (link), Cinereach (link), The Fledgling Fund (link), The Good Pitch (link), Impact Partners (link), the Sundance Documentary Fund (link), Tribeca All Access and the Tribeca Gucci Documentary Fund (link), Workbook Project (link), and many more.
- 2/4/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love The Ten Commandments: Most Important Religion Films of All Time The first film on the Film Snobbery list not featuring Judeo-Christian issues is, at #14, Satyajit Ray’s Devi (1960), which deals with "the tragic implications of religious obsession in this dark drama of a man who believes his young daughter is an incarnation of a Hindu goddess." Among the few "other religion" films on the list are Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love (2007), about the obstacles gays face in Islamic countries; Kon Ichikawa’s anti-war drama The Burmese Harp (1955), in which a World War II Japanese soldier adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk (we should have more such soldiers in real [...]...
- 1/7/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
MattCanada here with a bit of an overview and Best-Of Gay films for the last decade.
Gay cinema over the last ten years has been intrinsically tied to both the political gains made by gay activists and the intense battles surrounding everything from the worldwide fight for gay marriage to nationally specific issues like America's Dadt and Doma, and Britain's repeal of Section 28. The relationship between the political and the cinematic is always most pronounced in the medium's relationship to minority groups and their texts.
The Aughts have seen gay-rights become the most visible"social values" issue in America, and this has been reflected in a number of high profile American films dealing frankly, sexually, and politically with what it means to be gay in America. Milk, Far From Heaven, and Mysterious Skin employ gay filmmaking traditions, like those of Affirmation Documentaries (Richard Dyer's term), Sirkian melodrama, and New Queer Cinema,...
Gay cinema over the last ten years has been intrinsically tied to both the political gains made by gay activists and the intense battles surrounding everything from the worldwide fight for gay marriage to nationally specific issues like America's Dadt and Doma, and Britain's repeal of Section 28. The relationship between the political and the cinematic is always most pronounced in the medium's relationship to minority groups and their texts.
The Aughts have seen gay-rights become the most visible"social values" issue in America, and this has been reflected in a number of high profile American films dealing frankly, sexually, and politically with what it means to be gay in America. Milk, Far From Heaven, and Mysterious Skin employ gay filmmaking traditions, like those of Affirmation Documentaries (Richard Dyer's term), Sirkian melodrama, and New Queer Cinema,...
- 12/22/2009
- by CanadaMatt
- FilmExperience
Talent Show Contestant Lima Sahar In Director Havana Marking'S Afghan Star. Courtesy Zeitgeist Films. Following in the footsteps of such filmmakers as James Marsh (Man on Wire), Stephen Walker (Young@Heart) and Parvez Sharma (A Jihad For Love), Havana Marking is the latest director of a British TV-funded documentary to find her film in the theatrical spotlight Stateside. The intrepid director went to school in Dorset, England, before studying Anthropology at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Subsequently, she began working in documentary television, progressing from researcher through to producer, on shows as disparate as Himalaya with Michael Palin, the Gordon Ramsay studio cooking show The F Word, and...
- 7/8/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Jake Silbermann and Van Hansis accept GLAAD award on behalf of As the World Turns
The queer and queer-friendly media elite gathered for the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday. Recognition awards were handed out in dozens categories, but some notable honorees included Tyra Banks, who received this year's "Excellence in Media Award," As the World Turns, for "Outstanding Daily Drama," Keith Olbermann won "Outstanding TV Journalism Segment" for his emotional "Special Comment: Gay Mariage is a Question of Love," and in the "Outstanding Independent Film" category it was a tie, with both Shelter, and Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom receiving awards.
You can find the full list of recipients after the break as well as scads of red carpet photos of the event.
Ps: We'll have exclusive red carpet interviews with Van Hansis, Jake Silbermann, Clay Aiken, Brad Rowe and others in the next few...
The queer and queer-friendly media elite gathered for the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday. Recognition awards were handed out in dozens categories, but some notable honorees included Tyra Banks, who received this year's "Excellence in Media Award," As the World Turns, for "Outstanding Daily Drama," Keith Olbermann won "Outstanding TV Journalism Segment" for his emotional "Special Comment: Gay Mariage is a Question of Love," and in the "Outstanding Independent Film" category it was a tie, with both Shelter, and Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom receiving awards.
You can find the full list of recipients after the break as well as scads of red carpet photos of the event.
Ps: We'll have exclusive red carpet interviews with Van Hansis, Jake Silbermann, Clay Aiken, Brad Rowe and others in the next few...
- 3/30/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom and Shelter tied for the Outstanding Film prize at Saturday's Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) Media Awards in New York.
A Special Recognition Award was presented to The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard, a two-hour radio documentary, which aired on Sirius Xm Radio.
Tyra Banks received the Excellence in Media Award, which was presented by singer Clay Aiken, who 'came out' as a gay man last year.
Other winners included A Jihad For Love (Outstanding Documentary), U.S. TV soap As The World Turns (Outstanding Daily Drama) and kd lang (Outstanding Music Artist).
A Special Recognition Award was presented to The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later - The Lasting Legacy of Matthew Shepard, a two-hour radio documentary, which aired on Sirius Xm Radio.
Tyra Banks received the Excellence in Media Award, which was presented by singer Clay Aiken, who 'came out' as a gay man last year.
Other winners included A Jihad For Love (Outstanding Documentary), U.S. TV soap As The World Turns (Outstanding Daily Drama) and kd lang (Outstanding Music Artist).
- 3/29/2009
- WENN
Two films -- Patrik-Ian Polk's "Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom" and Jonah Markowitz's "Shelter" -- tied for the award for limited-release film at the 20th annual GLAAD Media Awards, held Saturday at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Parvez Sharma's "A Jihad for Love" was named outstanding documentary.
At the awards ceremony, Clay Aiken presented Tyra Banks with the Excellence in Media Award, and T.R. Knight presented Suze Orman with the Vito Russo Award.
In all, 29 awards were handed out. Additional GLAAD honors will be announced April 18 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles and on May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco.
A complete list of winners can be found on the next page.
GLAAD Media Awards winners
Excellence in Media
Tyra Banks
Vito Russo Award
Suze Orman
Outstanding Film -- Limited Release (tie)
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom"
"Shelter"
Outstanding Documentary
"A Jihad For Love...
Parvez Sharma's "A Jihad for Love" was named outstanding documentary.
At the awards ceremony, Clay Aiken presented Tyra Banks with the Excellence in Media Award, and T.R. Knight presented Suze Orman with the Vito Russo Award.
In all, 29 awards were handed out. Additional GLAAD honors will be announced April 18 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles and on May 9 at the Hilton San Francisco.
A complete list of winners can be found on the next page.
GLAAD Media Awards winners
Excellence in Media
Tyra Banks
Vito Russo Award
Suze Orman
Outstanding Film -- Limited Release (tie)
"Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom"
"Shelter"
Outstanding Documentary
"A Jihad For Love...
- 3/29/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sandi DuBowski's 2001 documentary Trembling Before G-d dealt soberly and relatively non-judgmentally with the dilemma of gay men and women who identify themselves as Orthodox Jews. Now DuBowski serves as a producer on Parvez Sharma's A Jihad For Love, about the even more tenuous position of observant Muslims who choose to be openly gay. While Jewish homosexuals can at least have long, analytical talks with their rabbis about whether being gay and devout is a contradiction, in some Islamic cultures, coming out means risking a death sentence. Jumping from country to country, Sharma finds gay men and lesbians living in exile from their original homes, and lets them tell their stories about growing up feeling different from their peers, then trying to suppress their desires by getting married, then fleeing their community when the truth comes out. Sharma frames Jihad's subjects tightly, isolating them from their communities, and because.
- 5/29/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
It's a battle of filmmaking titans this week, the kind of event that comes around once in a lifetime . Steven Spielberg and Uwe Boll will duke it out at the multiplexes. (Forgive us, but that might've been our only opportunity to ever get to put those two names in the same sentence.)
"The Children of Huang Shi"
Set during the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s, this sweeping historical epic comes from Roger Spottiswoode, the director behind both "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" and the narrative remake of "Shake Hands with the Devil." The first official co-production between Australia and China, the film tells the true story of Australian nurse (Radha Mitchell), who with the aid of a British journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), escorts 60 orphaned children 700 miles through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains to evade Japanese secret police. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" co-stars Michelle Yeoh...
It's a battle of filmmaking titans this week, the kind of event that comes around once in a lifetime . Steven Spielberg and Uwe Boll will duke it out at the multiplexes. (Forgive us, but that might've been our only opportunity to ever get to put those two names in the same sentence.)
"The Children of Huang Shi"
Set during the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s, this sweeping historical epic comes from Roger Spottiswoode, the director behind both "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" and the narrative remake of "Shake Hands with the Devil." The first official co-production between Australia and China, the film tells the true story of Australian nurse (Radha Mitchell), who with the aid of a British journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), escorts 60 orphaned children 700 miles through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains to evade Japanese secret police. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" co-stars Michelle Yeoh...
- 5/19/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
COLOGNE, Germany -- Sex, politics and rock 'n' roll are the themes running through this year's Panorama, the Berlin International Film Festival's main sidebar.
Parvez Sharma's A Jihad For Love, which will open Panorama's documentary section, Dokumente, looks at the conflict between sexuality and religion by examining the lives of devout Muslims who are homosexual. The film was produced by Sandi Dubowski, who looked at similar issues among gay orthodox Jews in Trembling Before G-d. That film debuted in Panorama in 2001 and won Berlin's Teddy award for the best film with a homosexual theme.
Sexual politics are at the core of several Dokumente entries including Dondu Kilic's The Other Istanbul, Suddenly, Last Winter from Italian directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, Jochen Hick's East/West and "Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians" by Berlin's own Rosa von Praunheim.
Middle East politics is the focus of Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree, the drama that opens the Panorama Special section. The film looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of a Palestinian woman who inherits a lemon grove bordering on Israeli territory.
Other high-profile Panorama Special screenings include Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, featuring Woody Harrelson, Thomas Kretschmann and Ben Kingsley, and the world premiere of Madonna's directorial debut, Filth & Wisdom starring Richard E. Grant.
Madonna won't be the only pop star featured on this year's Panorama. Legendary punk princess Patti Smith will give a concert in the German capital to support the Panorama debut of Steven Sebring's documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life. Ceri Levy's Bananaz follows Britpop regulars Damon Alban and Jamie Hewlett, creators of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Parvez Sharma's A Jihad For Love, which will open Panorama's documentary section, Dokumente, looks at the conflict between sexuality and religion by examining the lives of devout Muslims who are homosexual. The film was produced by Sandi Dubowski, who looked at similar issues among gay orthodox Jews in Trembling Before G-d. That film debuted in Panorama in 2001 and won Berlin's Teddy award for the best film with a homosexual theme.
Sexual politics are at the core of several Dokumente entries including Dondu Kilic's The Other Istanbul, Suddenly, Last Winter from Italian directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, Jochen Hick's East/West and "Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians" by Berlin's own Rosa von Praunheim.
Middle East politics is the focus of Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree, the drama that opens the Panorama Special section. The film looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of a Palestinian woman who inherits a lemon grove bordering on Israeli territory.
Other high-profile Panorama Special screenings include Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, featuring Woody Harrelson, Thomas Kretschmann and Ben Kingsley, and the world premiere of Madonna's directorial debut, Filth & Wisdom starring Richard E. Grant.
Madonna won't be the only pop star featured on this year's Panorama. Legendary punk princess Patti Smith will give a concert in the German capital to support the Panorama debut of Steven Sebring's documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life. Ceri Levy's Bananaz follows Britpop regulars Damon Alban and Jamie Hewlett, creators of the virtual band Gorillaz.
- 1/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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