★★★★☆ Upon viewing Farida Pacha's quietly lyrical and earth-bound documentary My Name Is Salt (2013), the comparison to Jean-François Millet's painting The Gleaners springs to mind. Both depict farmers or peasants, combing the land for its natural goods. Both extol the virtue and necessity of breaking one's back in order to acquire even a minimal result of success. Finally, both portraits are painted in stark realism, enlightening the viewer to a way of life that is not commonly seen. In the film's case Pacha, along with cinematographer Lutz Konermann, vividly brings to life the existence of a farming family working the salt flats of Gujarat, India.
- 3/12/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Following the Ida Awards nominations last month, the year’s top documentary contenders come into crisper focus with Thursday’s announcement of Cinema Eye’s 8th Annual Nonfiction Film Awards nominations. Laura Poitras’ "Citizenfour" leads the pack with six nominations, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. The inside look at Edward Snowden’s Nsa leak also earned praise in Directing, Editing, Production, Cinematography, and the Audience Choice category. Poitras is no stranger to Cinema Eye’s awards — she won the 2011 Directing Award for "The Oath." Familiar faces rounded out the Oustanding Feature category, including Steve James’ Roger Ebert portrait "Life Itself," Jesse Moss’ tale of a North Dakota oil boom town, "The Overnighters," Iain Forsythe & Jane Pollard’s "20,000 Days on Earth," a look musician Nick Cave, and Orlando von Einsiedel’s environment-minded "Virunga." Thirty-six feature films and six shorts will vie for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Other...
- 11/13/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Further reminding us that the Academy Awards are irrelevant in year-end discussions for the best in documentary film, according to the experts at the Cinema Eye Honors’ voting committee, Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, Steve James’ Life Itself and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth would be among the best docu films of the year, leading the pack in almost all categories. Not to be overlooked, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters and Robert Greene’s Actress received kudos in Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in Direction while the major surprise of the noms belongs to Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga (presented at the Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Fests) grabbing a total of three. Left completely off the scorecard, Manakamana failed to produce a single nom. The Cinema Eye Honors winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 7 at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image.
- 11/13/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Richard Linklater's Boyhood won best feature and Daniel Ziv took the documentary prize for Jalanan in the People.s Choice awards at the 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival.
Argentine director Manuel Abramovich.s The Queen was named best short and Eddy Bell.s Grey Bull was best Australian short.
The Swinburne Award for emerging Australian filmmaker went to Ben Briand for Blood Pulls a Gun, a short which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Boyhood follows a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as he grows up in front of the cameras. Featuring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as his parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister, the Universal film previews this weekend and next weekend before its September 4 launch.
Jalanan looks at three charismatic buskers . Boni, Ho and Titi . over a five-year period as they navigate the economic,...
Argentine director Manuel Abramovich.s The Queen was named best short and Eddy Bell.s Grey Bull was best Australian short.
The Swinburne Award for emerging Australian filmmaker went to Ben Briand for Blood Pulls a Gun, a short which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Boyhood follows a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as he grows up in front of the cameras. Featuring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as his parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister, the Universal film previews this weekend and next weekend before its September 4 launch.
Jalanan looks at three charismatic buskers . Boni, Ho and Titi . over a five-year period as they navigate the economic,...
- 8/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Still from Children of The Pyre
The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival, which began on July 31 and will go on till August 17, is screening a total of 11 Indian films in different categories.
The lineup includes recent films like Kanu Behl’s Titli (world premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2014) and Avinash Arun’s Killa (world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2014) as well as festival favourites like Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry.
A specially curated section at the festival, India in Flux: Living Resistance, will screen some of the most important Indian documentaries of recent times including Ashim Ahluwalia’s John & Jane, Rajesh Jala’s Children of the Pyre, Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade, Deepa Dhanraj’s Invoking Justice, Farida Pacha’s My Name is Salt, Avijit Mukul Kishore’s Vertical City and Ranu Ghosh’s Quarter Number 4/11. These documentaries showcase the history of dissent and engagement with the ‘real’ while discussing matters of politics,...
The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival, which began on July 31 and will go on till August 17, is screening a total of 11 Indian films in different categories.
The lineup includes recent films like Kanu Behl’s Titli (world premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2014) and Avinash Arun’s Killa (world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2014) as well as festival favourites like Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry.
A specially curated section at the festival, India in Flux: Living Resistance, will screen some of the most important Indian documentaries of recent times including Ashim Ahluwalia’s John & Jane, Rajesh Jala’s Children of the Pyre, Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade, Deepa Dhanraj’s Invoking Justice, Farida Pacha’s My Name is Salt, Avijit Mukul Kishore’s Vertical City and Ranu Ghosh’s Quarter Number 4/11. These documentaries showcase the history of dissent and engagement with the ‘real’ while discussing matters of politics,...
- 8/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Update: Tony Benn doc wins audience award; Hide and Seek wins Michael Powell Award, Ice Poison takes international prize.
Joanna Coates’s drama Hide and Seek has won The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which has revealed its winners today.
Walking on Sunshine star Hannah Arterton, sister of Gemma, is among the cast of the film about four fragile youngsters who flee London to start an unconventional utopia.
Coates wrote the film with Daniel Metz, who also stars in the film and produces.
The Michael Powell jury, chaired by director Amos Gitai with actors Nina Hoss and Michael Smiley, described the film as “innovative” and “exceptional.”
On Sunday, Skip Kite’s documentary Tony Benn: Will & Testament won the audience award.
The award for Best Film in the International Competition went to Midi Z’s Ice Poison (Taiwan, Myanmar), which charts the economic despair in the rural and developing...
Joanna Coates’s drama Hide and Seek has won The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which has revealed its winners today.
Walking on Sunshine star Hannah Arterton, sister of Gemma, is among the cast of the film about four fragile youngsters who flee London to start an unconventional utopia.
Coates wrote the film with Daniel Metz, who also stars in the film and produces.
The Michael Powell jury, chaired by director Amos Gitai with actors Nina Hoss and Michael Smiley, described the film as “innovative” and “exceptional.”
On Sunday, Skip Kite’s documentary Tony Benn: Will & Testament won the audience award.
The award for Best Film in the International Competition went to Midi Z’s Ice Poison (Taiwan, Myanmar), which charts the economic despair in the rural and developing...
- 6/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Hide And Seek won the Michael Powell award Ice Poison, My Name Is Salt, Hide And Seek and actor Eddie Marsan were named as winners at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, held at Filmhouse today, hosted by Moviejuice presenter Grant Lauchlan.
The ceremony took place ahead of Sunday’s Closing Night, which concludes the 12-day Festival with the International Premiere of We'll Never Have Paris, and which will see the announcement of the Eiff Audience Award.
The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film was awarded to Joanna Coates’s Hide And Seek, which received its world premiere at the Festival. Her drama about a group of youngsters who experiment with non-monogamy wins one of the longest-running film awards in the UK, honouring imagination and creativity in British filmmaking. The award carries a cash prize of £20,000.
The winner was chosen by the Michael Powell Jury, chaired by director...
The ceremony took place ahead of Sunday’s Closing Night, which concludes the 12-day Festival with the International Premiere of We'll Never Have Paris, and which will see the announcement of the Eiff Audience Award.
The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film was awarded to Joanna Coates’s Hide And Seek, which received its world premiere at the Festival. Her drama about a group of youngsters who experiment with non-monogamy wins one of the longest-running film awards in the UK, honouring imagination and creativity in British filmmaking. The award carries a cash prize of £20,000.
The winner was chosen by the Michael Powell Jury, chaired by director...
- 6/27/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Farida Pacha's new documentary "My Name is Salt" is certainly ambitious. It covers the salt people of India; a group of 40,000 whom year after year, for an eight-month period, move to the desert to extract salt from the burning earth. It investigates why they consistently return to this harsh climate and devote themselves, their lives, to this goal. It screened at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14th. [Editor's Note: Indiewire reached out to filmmakers with films playing at the 20th La Film Festival (June 11-19) to ask them about how they shot their indie, and what advice they had for other filmmakers. We'll be posting their responses throughout the run of the festival. Go Here for the master list.] What camera and lens did you use? Sony EX1-r, fixed zoom lens What was the most difficult shoot on your movie and how did you pull it off? The most difficult bit was to get an elevated perspective as the desert is completely flat. To the amusement of our...
- 6/20/2014
- by Oliver MacMahon
- Indiewire
The full line-up for the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival was announced this morning at a press conference with artistic director Chris Fujiwara.
This year’s instalment, which takes place at various venues across the Capital from June 18th to the 29th, will showcase 156 features including the previously announced opening and closing night films Hyena and We’ll Never Have Paris.
Highlights elsewhere in the festival include: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer; Life After Beth, starring Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza; Cold in July, directed by Jim Mickle; animated adventure The Nut Job; and Nicolas Cage’s bleak star vehicle Joe.
There will also be three competition strands this year. The Michael Powell Award returns with UK premieres of Set Fire to the Stars, We Are Monster, Still Life and many more, while International Feature Film will include screenings of X/Y, To Kill a Man and Club Sandwich, amongst others.
This year’s instalment, which takes place at various venues across the Capital from June 18th to the 29th, will showcase 156 features including the previously announced opening and closing night films Hyena and We’ll Never Have Paris.
Highlights elsewhere in the festival include: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer; Life After Beth, starring Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza; Cold in July, directed by Jim Mickle; animated adventure The Nut Job; and Nicolas Cage’s bleak star vehicle Joe.
There will also be three competition strands this year. The Michael Powell Award returns with UK premieres of Set Fire to the Stars, We Are Monster, Still Life and many more, while International Feature Film will include screenings of X/Y, To Kill a Man and Club Sandwich, amongst others.
- 5/28/2014
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Highlights include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Abel Ferrara’s controversial Dsk feature Welcome To New York.
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
- 5/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sudabeh Mortezai’s Macondo won the Firebird Award in the Young Cinema Competition of this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff), while Tetsuichiro Tsuta’s The Tale Of Iya took the Jury Prize.
The jury praised Macondo, an Austrian drama centring on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee, for its “simplicity and humanity [which] show great sensitivity to universal human problems”. Ayumi Sakamoto’s Forma received a special mention in the Young Cinema Competition.
The Firebird Award in the Documentary Competition went to Farida Pacha’s My Name Is Salt, while the Jury Prize went to Gu Tao’s The Last Moose Of Aoluguya and Bernard Bloch’s Meat And Milk received a special mention.
Hu Wei’s The Butter Lamp, about Tibetan nomads, won the Firebird Award in the Short Film Competition. The Jury Prize went to Leo Woodhead’s Cold Snap, while Janie Geiser’s Kriminalistik won the Internet Audience Award and Reka Bucsi’s [link...
The jury praised Macondo, an Austrian drama centring on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee, for its “simplicity and humanity [which] show great sensitivity to universal human problems”. Ayumi Sakamoto’s Forma received a special mention in the Young Cinema Competition.
The Firebird Award in the Documentary Competition went to Farida Pacha’s My Name Is Salt, while the Jury Prize went to Gu Tao’s The Last Moose Of Aoluguya and Bernard Bloch’s Meat And Milk received a special mention.
Hu Wei’s The Butter Lamp, about Tibetan nomads, won the Firebird Award in the Short Film Competition. The Jury Prize went to Leo Woodhead’s Cold Snap, while Janie Geiser’s Kriminalistik won the Internet Audience Award and Reka Bucsi’s [link...
- 4/8/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
A still from My Name is Salt
My Name is Salt, directed by Farida Pacha, won the Firebird award in Documentary competition at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival that concludes today.
A Jury consisting of Japanese documentary filmmaker Soda Kazuhiro; Lee Daw-Ming, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Filmmaking, Taipei National University of the Arts; and Hong Kong based filmmaker Angie Chen awarded the Firebird award of Usd 3,000.
My Name is Salt had also won the First Appearance award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) 2013. The India/Switzerland co-production revolves around the families that move to a barren desert in India year after year. They work for eight months straight to produce the “whitest salt in the world”, until monsoon season is upon them. The documentary patiently observes the intense work done by a family of salt pan workers.
The other Indian films that screened...
My Name is Salt, directed by Farida Pacha, won the Firebird award in Documentary competition at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival that concludes today.
A Jury consisting of Japanese documentary filmmaker Soda Kazuhiro; Lee Daw-Ming, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Filmmaking, Taipei National University of the Arts; and Hong Kong based filmmaker Angie Chen awarded the Firebird award of Usd 3,000.
My Name is Salt had also won the First Appearance award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) 2013. The India/Switzerland co-production revolves around the families that move to a barren desert in India year after year. They work for eight months straight to produce the “whitest salt in the world”, until monsoon season is upon them. The documentary patiently observes the intense work done by a family of salt pan workers.
The other Indian films that screened...
- 4/7/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Hong Kong, March 1: Three Indian movies will be screened at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff) here March 27 March-April 7.
Amit Kumar's Bollywood film "Monsoon Shootout" and Farida Pacha's Swiss-Indian documentary "My Name Is Salt" will have their Asian premiere at the fest. Richie Mehta's Indo-Canadian feature "Siddharth" will also be screened at the gala.
Anurag Kashyap-backed "Monsoon Shootout", featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannishtha Chatterjee, was earlier screened at the Cannes International Film Festival.
"My Name is Salt", an observational documentary,.
Amit Kumar's Bollywood film "Monsoon Shootout" and Farida Pacha's Swiss-Indian documentary "My Name Is Salt" will have their Asian premiere at the fest. Richie Mehta's Indo-Canadian feature "Siddharth" will also be screened at the gala.
Anurag Kashyap-backed "Monsoon Shootout", featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannishtha Chatterjee, was earlier screened at the Cannes International Film Festival.
"My Name is Salt", an observational documentary,.
- 3/1/2014
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
The nominations in the various competition sections have been announced at the documentary festival.
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has announced the nominees for its 26th edition. Winners will be named on Friday evening in Amsterdam.
The jury of the Idfa Competition for First Appearance will also present an extra Award in memory of Peter Wintonick, who died earlier this month.
The BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award, worth €5,000, and the Idfa Music Audience Award, worth €2,500, will then also be presented.
In addition, the Mediafonds Kids & Docs Award 2013, which consists of € 15,000 with which to develop a new youth documentary, will be presented by a youth jury.
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary (€12,500)
Ai Weiwei The Fake Case by Andreas Johnson (Denmark);Ne Me Quitte Pas by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden (the Netherlands / Belgium);Song from the Forest by Michael Obert (Germany).
Idfa Competition for Mid-Length Documentary (€10,000)
Kismet by Nina Maria Paschalidou (Greece / Cyprus);Pussy Versus...
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has announced the nominees for its 26th edition. Winners will be named on Friday evening in Amsterdam.
The jury of the Idfa Competition for First Appearance will also present an extra Award in memory of Peter Wintonick, who died earlier this month.
The BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award, worth €5,000, and the Idfa Music Audience Award, worth €2,500, will then also be presented.
In addition, the Mediafonds Kids & Docs Award 2013, which consists of € 15,000 with which to develop a new youth documentary, will be presented by a youth jury.
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary (€12,500)
Ai Weiwei The Fake Case by Andreas Johnson (Denmark);Ne Me Quitte Pas by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden (the Netherlands / Belgium);Song from the Forest by Michael Obert (Germany).
Idfa Competition for Mid-Length Documentary (€10,000)
Kismet by Nina Maria Paschalidou (Greece / Cyprus);Pussy Versus...
- 11/27/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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