Asif Kapadia, the Oscar-winning guest curator for 2022’s Sheffield DocFest, has unveiled his program A Documentary Journey with Asif Kapadia.
Kapadia, who is best known for his documentaries ‘Amy,’ about Amy Winehouse, and ‘Senna’ about Brazilian motor-racing champion Ayrton Senna, opened the last in-person iteration of Sheffield DocFest in 2019 with his feature about legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.
The festival, now in its 29th year, was digital only in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
Featuring “films that have had significant impact for him, inspiring his own style and creative choices as a filmmaker,” Kapadia has selected eight documentaries for the series, including “When We Were Kings” about Muhammad Ali (pictured above).
“Without this film, there would be no ‘Amy.’ There would be no ‘Senna.’ There would be no ‘Diego Maradona,’” said Kapadia of the Ali feature.
“This selection is personal to me, as someone who grew up in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s,...
Kapadia, who is best known for his documentaries ‘Amy,’ about Amy Winehouse, and ‘Senna’ about Brazilian motor-racing champion Ayrton Senna, opened the last in-person iteration of Sheffield DocFest in 2019 with his feature about legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.
The festival, now in its 29th year, was digital only in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
Featuring “films that have had significant impact for him, inspiring his own style and creative choices as a filmmaker,” Kapadia has selected eight documentaries for the series, including “When We Were Kings” about Muhammad Ali (pictured above).
“Without this film, there would be no ‘Amy.’ There would be no ‘Senna.’ There would be no ‘Diego Maradona,’” said Kapadia of the Ali feature.
“This selection is personal to me, as someone who grew up in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s,...
- 5/9/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
We Are Not Ghouls Review — We Are Not Ghouls (2022) Film Review from the 29th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by Chris James Thompson and starring Yvonne Bradley, Clive Stafford Smith, Darrel Vandeveld, Janet Hamlin, Stephen Grey, Cori Crider, Pam Bradley, Dick Blau and Rowan Crider. A truly haunting documentary [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: We Are Not Ghouls: A Powerful Documentary About a Long Fight for Justice [SXSW 2022]...
Continue reading: Film Review: We Are Not Ghouls: A Powerful Documentary About a Long Fight for Justice [SXSW 2022]...
- 3/22/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
The actor discusses his role as one of the narrators in an animated film, Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes
Actors David Morrissey and Peter Capaldi narrate Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes using the words of those still held inside. Here, Morrissey talks about his involvement.
Why did you decide to do the film?
I've always been a supporter of Clive Stafford Smith and Reprieve [the organisation Stafford Smith founded in 1999 to provide legal support to prisoners who are unable to pay for it themselves]. I first became aware of Clive after seeing the 1988 film Fourteen Days in May [Paul Hamann's documentary featuring Stafford Smith about a man on death row in the Us], and I got involved with Reprieve about five years ago. He's just a great campaigner for human rights and has been fighting for those on death row for a long time. This animated film about Guantánamo Bay is part of an effort to keep the men who are prisoners there and the hunger strikes that are going on [as a protest against the conditions they are kept in] in our minds and at the forefront of a very packed news agenda.
Why...
Actors David Morrissey and Peter Capaldi narrate Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes using the words of those still held inside. Here, Morrissey talks about his involvement.
Why did you decide to do the film?
I've always been a supporter of Clive Stafford Smith and Reprieve [the organisation Stafford Smith founded in 1999 to provide legal support to prisoners who are unable to pay for it themselves]. I first became aware of Clive after seeing the 1988 film Fourteen Days in May [Paul Hamann's documentary featuring Stafford Smith about a man on death row in the Us], and I got involved with Reprieve about five years ago. He's just a great campaigner for human rights and has been fighting for those on death row for a long time. This animated film about Guantánamo Bay is part of an effort to keep the men who are prisoners there and the hunger strikes that are going on [as a protest against the conditions they are kept in] in our minds and at the forefront of a very packed news agenda.
Why...
- 10/13/2013
- by Mark Townsend
- The Guardian - Film News
Few outside the Us military have even seen, let alone recorded, what goes on inside the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. Now, using the words of the detainees themselves, an extraordinary animated film aims to show the brutality and claustrophobia of daily life there. This is the fascinating story behind its making…
Click here to watch Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes
For Sami al-Hajj, the scenes in the film he is watching at his home in Doha, Qatar, take him back to his darkest hours. Twice a day, for 16 months, al-Hajj was strapped down and force-fed inside Guantánamo Bay. Today, viewing a film representation of the procedure in Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes – an animated short made by two British journalists – induces a familiar sensation of torment.
"It reminds me of the painful suffering during my hunger strike. It was painful in every sense of the word. I felt at the...
Click here to watch Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes
For Sami al-Hajj, the scenes in the film he is watching at his home in Doha, Qatar, take him back to his darkest hours. Twice a day, for 16 months, al-Hajj was strapped down and force-fed inside Guantánamo Bay. Today, viewing a film representation of the procedure in Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes – an animated short made by two British journalists – induces a familiar sensation of torment.
"It reminds me of the painful suffering during my hunger strike. It was painful in every sense of the word. I felt at the...
- 10/13/2013
- by Mark Townsend
- The Guardian - Film News
Acclaimed British singer Pj Harvey has released a new song, and its an ode to a Guantanamo Bay detainee. The track is called "Shaker Aamer," named for the man being held at the controversial detention camp.
The haunting lyrics describe inmates' time at Guantanamo, as Harvey sings, "No water for three days / I cannot sleep, or stay awake / Four months hunger strike / Am I dead, or am I alive? / With metal tubes we are force fed / I honestly wish, I wish was dead." Take a listen to "Shaker Aamer" above.
Aamer is a former British resident who has been held in Guantanamo for 11 years, despite being cleared for release in 2007, according to Rolling Stone. Aamer has reportedly been a part of the group of detainees who are participating in an ongoing hunger strike, which has led to the controversial practice of force-feeding.
"We hope that people listen to this song...
The haunting lyrics describe inmates' time at Guantanamo, as Harvey sings, "No water for three days / I cannot sleep, or stay awake / Four months hunger strike / Am I dead, or am I alive? / With metal tubes we are force fed / I honestly wish, I wish was dead." Take a listen to "Shaker Aamer" above.
Aamer is a former British resident who has been held in Guantanamo for 11 years, despite being cleared for release in 2007, according to Rolling Stone. Aamer has reportedly been a part of the group of detainees who are participating in an ongoing hunger strike, which has led to the controversial practice of force-feeding.
"We hope that people listen to this song...
- 8/5/2013
- by Madeline Boardman
- Huffington Post
Frankie Boyle has been live tweeting his hunger strike in solidarity with Guantánamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer, claiming it's starting to feel "a bit like being drunk".
The Scottish comedian stopped eating two days ago after Aamer's lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who had already been fasting for seven days, passed the baton on to him.
Frankie Boyle
Aamer is the last British resident imprisoned in Guantánamo, where he has been held without charge since 2002.
On day two of his hunger strike, Boyle tweeted:
Day 2 of hunger strike feels a bit like being drunk. Feel pretty good, but no doubt I'll wake up to find myself in bathroom eating soap.
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) July 18, 2013
He previously posted:
Well Day 1 of hunger not too bad. But let's remember who's really suffering. My local pizza shop. I jest. Have a read
http://t.co/lGTHxcH54w
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) July 17, 2013
Writing for The Huffington Post UK,...
The Scottish comedian stopped eating two days ago after Aamer's lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who had already been fasting for seven days, passed the baton on to him.
Frankie Boyle
Aamer is the last British resident imprisoned in Guantánamo, where he has been held without charge since 2002.
On day two of his hunger strike, Boyle tweeted:
Day 2 of hunger strike feels a bit like being drunk. Feel pretty good, but no doubt I'll wake up to find myself in bathroom eating soap.
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) July 18, 2013
He previously posted:
Well Day 1 of hunger not too bad. But let's remember who's really suffering. My local pizza shop. I jest. Have a read
http://t.co/lGTHxcH54w
— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) July 17, 2013
Writing for The Huffington Post UK,...
- 7/19/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Comic hints that a high-profile hunger strike might be on the cards. And if that wasn't confusing enough, Sunday is now a day of atheism and Jo Brand a product of patriarchy
This week's comedy news
Is Frankie Boyle about to go on hunger strike? As reported by the Guardian last week, the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is currently hunger-striking in solidarity with his client Shaker Aamer, who is imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay and has been striking for 150 days. In an interview last Thursday on Radio Scotland, and again the following day on this website, Stafford Smith claimed the standup and ex-Mock the Week star is lined up to "take over from me when I fail" – ie starve himself to raise awareness of the plight of inmates at Guantánamo. The move would represent a strong break with Boyle's cynical public image, but all his management will say...
This week's comedy news
Is Frankie Boyle about to go on hunger strike? As reported by the Guardian last week, the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is currently hunger-striking in solidarity with his client Shaker Aamer, who is imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay and has been striking for 150 days. In an interview last Thursday on Radio Scotland, and again the following day on this website, Stafford Smith claimed the standup and ex-Mock the Week star is lined up to "take over from me when I fail" – ie starve himself to raise awareness of the plight of inmates at Guantánamo. The move would represent a strong break with Boyle's cynical public image, but all his management will say...
- 7/16/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
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