Marshall Curry has been nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar twice, once for “Street Fight” in 2006 and again for “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” in 2012, and his work has brought viewers into worlds both uncomfortable and intense. His Tribeca-winning documentary “Point and Shoot,” for instance, followed the first person account of the Libyan revolution against dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Read More:Why Marshall Curry’s ‘Point and Shoot’ is Due for a Hollywood Remake
The documentarian has again combined the political with the horrific for his new short documentary “A Night at the Garden,” which has officially made its debut on Field of Vision. The seven-minute film pieces together archival footage from 1939 to create a first-hand look at a Nazi rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden which attracted 22,000 Americans. The rally is rarely mentioned in the history books, making Marshall’s account a true dark and chilling revelation.
Read More:Why Marshall Curry’s ‘Point and Shoot’ is Due for a Hollywood Remake
The documentarian has again combined the political with the horrific for his new short documentary “A Night at the Garden,” which has officially made its debut on Field of Vision. The seven-minute film pieces together archival footage from 1939 to create a first-hand look at a Nazi rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden which attracted 22,000 Americans. The rally is rarely mentioned in the history books, making Marshall’s account a true dark and chilling revelation.
- 10/12/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The idea behind the Local Voices ad campaign is to capture the concerns that everyday Americans have about presidential hopeful Donald Trump in unscripted, personal commentaries that later air as one-minute ads in the same swing state communities where they were filmed. The key is to find voices who belong to community leaders who aren’t normal Hillary Clinton supporters, may they be conservatives or generally apolitical figures.
Read More about Local Voices: How Filmmakers Are Making a Difference in Swing States
In swing states where the voters have been confronted with constant barrage of political ads, the other key ingredient is authenticity, so they are not dismissed as just another manufactured political message.
To accomplish this, founder Lee Hirsch (“Bully”) turned to fellow documentary filmmakers and recruited some of the top filmmakers working in nonfiction, including Amir Bar-Lev (“Happy Valley, “The Tillman Story”), Amy Berg (“West of Memphis”), Marshall Curry (“Street Fight,...
Read More about Local Voices: How Filmmakers Are Making a Difference in Swing States
In swing states where the voters have been confronted with constant barrage of political ads, the other key ingredient is authenticity, so they are not dismissed as just another manufactured political message.
To accomplish this, founder Lee Hirsch (“Bully”) turned to fellow documentary filmmakers and recruited some of the top filmmakers working in nonfiction, including Amir Bar-Lev (“Happy Valley, “The Tillman Story”), Amy Berg (“West of Memphis”), Marshall Curry (“Street Fight,...
- 11/7/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The idea behind the Local Voices neighbor-to-neighbor campaign is simple: use a documentary approach to capture the concerns every day Americans have about Donald Trump in unscripted, personal commentaries and then air them as one-minute ads in the same swing state communities where they were filmed.
Filmmaker Lee Hirsch (“Bully”), who started the Local Voices Democratic Super Pac in 2008, has spent the last three election cycles studying and experimenting with how best to engage and motivate voters.
Read More: The Presidential Debate ‘Late Night’ Helped Prove That Seth Meyers is the Host Network TV Needs
“I’ve seen the same thing over and over again,” Hirsch wrote IndieWire, “election season is intense, and perceived community norms lead to an almost palpable intimidation that suppresses an honest public dialogue about the presidential candidates, and has the deepest affect on those who might be leaning towards the democratic ticket.”
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Filmmaker Lee Hirsch (“Bully”), who started the Local Voices Democratic Super Pac in 2008, has spent the last three election cycles studying and experimenting with how best to engage and motivate voters.
Read More: The Presidential Debate ‘Late Night’ Helped Prove That Seth Meyers is the Host Network TV Needs
“I’ve seen the same thing over and over again,” Hirsch wrote IndieWire, “election season is intense, and perceived community norms lead to an almost palpable intimidation that suppresses an honest public dialogue about the presidential candidates, and has the deepest affect on those who might be leaning towards the democratic ticket.”
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- 9/27/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
In recent decades, some of the best documentary films — including Oscar-winners such as Bowling for Columbine and Searching for Sugar Man, and, more recently, festival favorites Point and Shoot and Meet the Patels — have have relied on animation to tell compelling nonfiction stories in nontraditional ways. It’s a technique audiences have grown accustomed to and nonfiction filmmakers have learned to adopt with varying degrees of success. While in the past, documentary purists might have posited that animation had no place in non-fiction storytelling, it’s now largely accepted that even observational documentaries involve some degree of manipulation. If anything, by using animation in a documentary, the manipulation is more […]...
- 6/23/2016
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Good news for filmmakers looking for finishing funds to complete a feature-length documentary which highlights a social issue: The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund is open for submissions through February 5, 2016. Even better, there is no application fee. The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund will provide funding to four-to-10 feature-length documentaries. In addition, The AOL Charitable Foundation Award, a subset of the Fund, gives grants to four filmmakers whose feature-length documentaries illuminate the lives of women and youth around the globe. Previous grantees of The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund include Marshall Curry’s Point and Shoot, Marc Silver’s 3 1/2 Minutes, Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter […]...
- 12/7/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Good news for filmmakers looking for finishing funds to complete a feature-length documentary which highlights a social issue: The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund is open for submissions through February 5, 2016. Even better, there is no application fee. The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund will provide funding to four-to-10 feature-length documentaries. In addition, The AOL Charitable Foundation Award, a subset of the Fund, gives grants to four filmmakers whose feature-length documentaries illuminate the lives of women and youth around the globe. Previous grantees of The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund include Marshall Curry’s Point and Shoot, Marc Silver’s 3 1/2 Minutes, Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter […]...
- 12/7/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A few years ago I directed "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," a documentary about the rise and fall of a radical environmental group that committed dozens of acts of arson against timber companies, developers, polluters and others. The film included conversations with former Elf members, mainstream environmental activists, arson victims and the law enforcement team that sent the Elf members to prison. Read More: Tribeca Film Festival Review: Why Marshall Curry's 'Point and Shoot' Is Due For a Hollywood Remake After screenings of the film, I would often get comments about how "balanced" it was. But that word always made me wince. I didn't intend the film to be balanced; I intended it to be fair. To me, balanced sounds like lazy "he-said/she-said" journalism where, if one person says the earth is round, someone else is invited to say the earth is flat.
- 8/13/2015
- by Marshall Curry
- Indiewire
While not all receive the golden ticket for a Park City premiere, the invaluable support available at the Sundance Institute is ongoing and takes several shapes and forms. Last year’s batch of Documentary Edit and Story Labs attendees included Anna Sandilands & Ewan McNicol who trimmed Uncertain, while Lyric Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe spliced into shape (T)Error. As underlined in the press release, this year’s eight projects touches of subjects of transgender parents, the aftermath of Sandy Hook tragedy, exonerated death row inmates and AIDS. Among the noteworthy names attending (June 19-27 and July 3-11) we find Lost in La Mancha duo of Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe (see pic above) and Informant director Jamie Meltzer’s tentatively titled Freedom Fighters. Here are the participants and creative folk for ’15.
Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the June 19-27 session are Marshall Curry (Point and Shoot), Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The...
Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the June 19-27 session are Marshall Curry (Point and Shoot), Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The...
- 6/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Sundance Institute has announced the eight projects that will take part in their Documentary Edit and Story lab at the Sundance Resort in June and July. All participating projects are in the advanced stages of post-production and will work on their rough cuts in the two-part lab. This year’s Creative Advisors include Marshall Curry (Point and Shoot), Geoffrey Richman (Racing Extinction), Kate Amend (The Case Against 8), Richard Hankin (God Loves Uganda), Victor Livingston (The Queen of Versailles) and more. The full list of projects and synopses is below. The Bad Kids Director: Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe Editor: Jacob Bricca At […]...
- 6/15/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Sundance Institute has announced the eight projects that will take part in their Documentary Edit and Story lab at the Sundance Resort in June and July. All participating projects are in the advanced stages of post-production and will work on their rough cuts in the two-part lab. This year’s Creative Advisors include Marshall Curry (Point and Shoot), Geoffrey Richman (Racing Extinction), Kate Amend (The Case Against 8), Richard Hankin (God Loves Uganda), Victor Livingston (The Queen of Versailles) and more. The full list of projects and synopses is below. The Bad Kids Director: Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe Editor: Jacob Bricca At […]...
- 6/15/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Sundance Institute today announced the eight projects selected for its annual Documentary Edit and Story Labs, taking place in two sessions at the Sundance Resort in Utah from June 19-27 and July 3-11. The Documentary Edit and Story Labs support projects in later stages of post-production work to hone story, structure and character development. Director and editor teams unite under the stewardship of world-class doc filmmakers and Sundance Institute staff. Projects that have gone through these labs include "(T)Error," "The Queen of Versailles," "Rich Hill" and "The Kill Team." Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the June 19-27 session are Marshall Curry ("Point and Shoot"), Ra’anan Alexandrowicz ("The Law In These Parts"), Tom Haneke ("Where Soldiers Come From"), Mary Lampson ("Harlan County"), Geoffrey Richman ("Racing Extinction") and Jean Tsien ("Shut Up and Sing"). Editors...
- 6/15/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
It’s almost June and that means Netflix is about to give their content a refresh. Some of the notable titles leaving in June include Rain Man, Taxi Driver, and Donnie Brasco. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including the premiere of the Wachowskis’ show Sense8, the new season of Orange is the New Black, Nightcrawler, and Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater.
Available June 1
Employee of the Month (2006)
Hidden Kingdoms (2014)
La Dictadura Perfecta (2014)
R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly (2008)
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It (2007)
Sex Ed (2014)
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Orlando (2012)
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live From Atlanta (2013)
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Las Vegas (2014)
The Aviator...
Available June 1
Employee of the Month (2006)
Hidden Kingdoms (2014)
La Dictadura Perfecta (2014)
R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly (2008)
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It (2007)
Sex Ed (2014)
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Orlando (2012)
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live From Atlanta (2013)
Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Live from Las Vegas (2014)
The Aviator...
- 5/22/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
New on Netflix this June: "Sense8," the new sci-fi drama from Andy and Lana Wachowski ("The Matrix" trilogy) and "Babylon 5" creator J. Michael Straczynski, in which eight strangers suddenly find themselves mysteriously connected. Also, look for the return of Netflix original series "Orange Is the New Black" on June 12.
As for movies, you won't want to miss Jake Gyllenhaal's terrifyingly great turn in "Nightcrawler." Also new: "Life of Crime" and "Cake" with Jennifer Aniston; Philip Seymour Hoffman's last completed film, the spy thriller "A Most Wanted Man"; Gina Prince-Bythewood's acclaimed film "Beyond the Lights" starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a rising singer; not to mention the critically panned "Grace of Monaco," starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace.
Below is a full rundown of what's new on Netflix in June 2015, provided by Netflix. As always, all titles and dates are subject to change. We've also go you covered...
As for movies, you won't want to miss Jake Gyllenhaal's terrifyingly great turn in "Nightcrawler." Also new: "Life of Crime" and "Cake" with Jennifer Aniston; Philip Seymour Hoffman's last completed film, the spy thriller "A Most Wanted Man"; Gina Prince-Bythewood's acclaimed film "Beyond the Lights" starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a rising singer; not to mention the critically panned "Grace of Monaco," starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace.
Below is a full rundown of what's new on Netflix in June 2015, provided by Netflix. As always, all titles and dates are subject to change. We've also go you covered...
- 5/21/2015
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Andrew Herwitz will launch sales in New York this week on a quartet of titles led by A Ballerina’s Tale.
Nelson George’s film (pictured) traces the prodigious rise and potentially career-ending injury of the famed dancer Misty Copeland, the first African-American ballerina in a major company. Herwitz served as executive producer.
Erik Shirai’s documentary competition premiere The Birth Of Sake portrays the 144-year old Yoshida Brewery in Japan as it continues to weather changing times and maintain its reputation for excellence.
Director Jeanie Finlay’s Orion: The Man Who Would Be King charts the career of masked country singer Elvis Priestly, whose voice with its uncanny similarity to Elvis Presley’s and led people to believe the King lived on beyond his death.
In A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did, world-famous human rights lawyer and genocide expert Phillipe Sands retraces the steps of two high-ranking Nazi officers who ordered the incineration of the...
Nelson George’s film (pictured) traces the prodigious rise and potentially career-ending injury of the famed dancer Misty Copeland, the first African-American ballerina in a major company. Herwitz served as executive producer.
Erik Shirai’s documentary competition premiere The Birth Of Sake portrays the 144-year old Yoshida Brewery in Japan as it continues to weather changing times and maintain its reputation for excellence.
Director Jeanie Finlay’s Orion: The Man Who Would Be King charts the career of masked country singer Elvis Priestly, whose voice with its uncanny similarity to Elvis Presley’s and led people to believe the King lived on beyond his death.
In A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did, world-famous human rights lawyer and genocide expert Phillipe Sands retraces the steps of two high-ranking Nazi officers who ordered the incineration of the...
- 4/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Tribeca Film Festival Review: Why Marshall Curry's 'Point and Shoot' Is Due For a Hollywood Remake "Point and Shoot" producer and "star" Matthew VanDyke is heading out again, this time to fight Isis. According to The New York Times, VanDyke is one of a growing number of Americans, many of whom are veterans, who have volunteered in recent months for join the fight against Isis, even as the U.S. has, so far, refrained from sending in ground troops. VanDyke spent this past winter with four American veterans secretly training a militia of Assyrian Christians to resist and fight the Islamic State's advancements. "More than anything, they don't like Isis and want to help," said VanDyke of the American vets who've taken up this task. "A lot of guys did important stuff overseas and came home and got stuck in menial jobs, which can be really hard,...
- 3/12/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
This year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will honor two-time Academy Award-nominated documentary director/producer/cinematographer/editor Marshall Curry with the 2015 Tribute Award. The festival will present a retrospective of his work, along with a film series focusing on the complex moral questions around documentation, which will be curated by prolific and decorated documentary director/producer, Jennifer Baichwal. Read More: Academy Award-Nominated Marshall Curry on a Documentary Week to Remember Curry, whose most recent film "Point and Shoot" won Best Documentary at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, said of the announcement, "Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' [...] I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. [...] It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit." On her series on the ethics of representation in documentary film...
- 2/10/2015
- by Rosie Narasaki
- Indiewire
★★☆☆☆ Point and Shoot (2014) is a bizarrely fascinating documentary, recording the adventures of Matt VanDyke, a young American from Baltimore who ended up fighting in and filming the war in Libya that saw the overthrow of Col. Moammar Gadhafi. With a extensive use of his own footage and some animation and talking head interviews, we see VanDyke, a privileged young white male with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who was inspired by repeated watchings of Lawrence of Arabia to head off to North Africa in 2011 with a motorcycle and a camera. A 36,000-mile road trip ensues as VanDyke seeks out a what he describes as ‘crash course in manhood’.
- 1/24/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Matt VanDyke is a 27-year-old with obsessive compulsive disorder (Ocd). He left his Baltimore home to undertake a three-year trip across the Middle East and north Africa. Part of his adventure involved him talking his way into a job as a video reporter embedded with Us forces in Iraq. In this clip he talks candidly about how the soldiers' behaviour changed when the camera was on them. Point and Shoot was released in the Us last October and is out in the UK on 16 January Continue reading...
- 1/14/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Academy Awards
On December 2, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they’d whittled down the 134 eligible documentary submissions to a 15 film shortlist. The chosen films include:
Art and Craft – Purple Parrot Films
The Case Against 8 – Day in Court
Citizen Koch – Elsewhere Films
Citizenfour – Praxis Films
Finding Vivian Maier – Ravine Pictures
The Internet’s Own Boy – Luminant Media
Jodorowsky’s Dune – City Film
Keep on Keepin’ On – Absolute Clay Productions
The Kill Team – f/8 filmworks
Last Days in Vietnam – Moxie Firecracker Films
Life Itself – Kartemquin Films and Film Rites
The Overnighters – Mile End Films West
The Salt of the Earth – Decia Films
Tales of the Grim Sleeper – Lafayette Film
Virunga – Grain Media
EntreVues Belfort International Film Festival - France - November 22nd – November 30th
The 29th edition of the Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival jury members announced the 2014 Awards, giving Anna Roussillon’s Je suis le peuple,...
On December 2, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they’d whittled down the 134 eligible documentary submissions to a 15 film shortlist. The chosen films include:
Art and Craft – Purple Parrot Films
The Case Against 8 – Day in Court
Citizen Koch – Elsewhere Films
Citizenfour – Praxis Films
Finding Vivian Maier – Ravine Pictures
The Internet’s Own Boy – Luminant Media
Jodorowsky’s Dune – City Film
Keep on Keepin’ On – Absolute Clay Productions
The Kill Team – f/8 filmworks
Last Days in Vietnam – Moxie Firecracker Films
Life Itself – Kartemquin Films and Film Rites
The Overnighters – Mile End Films West
The Salt of the Earth – Decia Films
Tales of the Grim Sleeper – Lafayette Film
Virunga – Grain Media
EntreVues Belfort International Film Festival - France - November 22nd – November 30th
The 29th edition of the Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival jury members announced the 2014 Awards, giving Anna Roussillon’s Je suis le peuple,...
- 12/31/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon in the film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed‘s memoir of a life-changing hike, blazed a trail into solid box office territory, opening in 21 theaters over the weekend with a $630K gross. The feature, which Witherspoon also produced under her Pacific Standard label, was easily the weekend’s biggest newcomer with a $30K per-theater average. Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, meanwhile, once again took the weekend’s highest PTA numbers as it added locations in its second week.
The Searchlight title opened in New York and L.A. Wednesday, expanding for the weekend to 21 theaters in 7 markets. Director Jean-Marc Vallée‘s previous film, Dallas Buyers Club, opened in November 2013 with a nearly $29K PTA, and went on to cume nearly $27.3M and three Oscars, including Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey. Searchlight said it plans to keep Wild hiking through theaters for a lengthy period to come.
The Searchlight title opened in New York and L.A. Wednesday, expanding for the weekend to 21 theaters in 7 markets. Director Jean-Marc Vallée‘s previous film, Dallas Buyers Club, opened in November 2013 with a nearly $29K PTA, and went on to cume nearly $27.3M and three Oscars, including Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey. Searchlight said it plans to keep Wild hiking through theaters for a lengthy period to come.
- 12/7/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras's documentary on Edward Snowden, has been named best feature at the International Documentary Association awards.
The filmmaker was presented with the award on Friday night (December 5) in a ceremony held at the Paramount Studios lot.
"What [Snowden] did was probably the most extraordinary act I've ever seen so we could know more as citizens," Variety quotes Poitras as saying.
She met Snowden whilst working on an investigative programme into government surveillance following 9/11, receiving emails from Snowden under the alias "citizenfour."
Poitras eventually met Snowden, who handed over classified documents that revealed surveillance programmes being carried out by the Nsa.
Citizenfour beat Finding Vivian Maier, Point and Shoot, The Salt of the Earth and Tales of the Grim Sleeper to the title.
It has been announced that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Snowden in a new film to be directed by Oliver Stone.
It is believed the as-yet-untitled film...
The filmmaker was presented with the award on Friday night (December 5) in a ceremony held at the Paramount Studios lot.
"What [Snowden] did was probably the most extraordinary act I've ever seen so we could know more as citizens," Variety quotes Poitras as saying.
She met Snowden whilst working on an investigative programme into government surveillance following 9/11, receiving emails from Snowden under the alias "citizenfour."
Poitras eventually met Snowden, who handed over classified documents that revealed surveillance programmes being carried out by the Nsa.
Citizenfour beat Finding Vivian Maier, Point and Shoot, The Salt of the Earth and Tales of the Grim Sleeper to the title.
It has been announced that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Snowden in a new film to be directed by Oliver Stone.
It is believed the as-yet-untitled film...
- 12/6/2014
- Digital Spy
It's sort of a bummer to me that the two films at the forefront of this year's Best Documentary Oscar race — Laura Poitros' "Citizenfour" and Steve James' "Life Itself," each of which I like just fine — can't really hold a candle to some of the very best films in contention, whether "The Overnighters" (my favorite), "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," "Virunga," etc. Alas, that's how it's shaping up. And that's just, like, my opinion, man. But I get it. We must protect whistleblowers and the spotlight of the Oscars is important for this kind of thing, yada, yada, yada. (Not that there isn't a ton of nuance in this situation to be chewed on no matter what side of the political line you fall on.) But... Anyway, Poitros' film won the International Documentary Association's Best Feature prize Friday night, out of a field of nominees that included the aforementioned "Grim...
- 12/6/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Directed by two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry, Spectrum is pleased to announce the UK cinema release of Point And Shoot on January 16th 2015. Winner of the “Best Documentary” award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, Point And Shoot tells the story of Matt VanDyke, a timid 27-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood”. He bought a motorcycle, a video camera and begun a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While travelling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out, Matt joined his new found friend in the fight against Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in – and filmed – the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months.
- 12/5/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
As we head into December, awards season is well under way, and though we’ll have to wait until the spring for really big fish like the Oscars and the Golden Globes, this month has a respectable number of ceremonies of its own. Last night, celebrities gathered at Cipriani Wall Street in New York for the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards.
It was a long, casual ceremony for those in attendance, but when the night finally wrapped up, few could argue with the results. Birdman spread its wings and took home Best Feature, while Michael Keaton nabbed Best Actor for his revelatory role in the Alejandro G. Iñárritu-directed film. Meanwhile, Julianne Moore continued her unstoppable march to the Oscars, receiving Best Actress for her devastating work as an Alzheimer’s-afflicted linguistics professor in Still Alice. And Laura Poitras was awarded Best Documentary Feature for her eye-opening Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour.
Honored...
It was a long, casual ceremony for those in attendance, but when the night finally wrapped up, few could argue with the results. Birdman spread its wings and took home Best Feature, while Michael Keaton nabbed Best Actor for his revelatory role in the Alejandro G. Iñárritu-directed film. Meanwhile, Julianne Moore continued her unstoppable march to the Oscars, receiving Best Actress for her devastating work as an Alzheimer’s-afflicted linguistics professor in Still Alice. And Laura Poitras was awarded Best Documentary Feature for her eye-opening Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour.
Honored...
- 12/2/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Boyhood topped the Gotham Independent Film Awards nominations with four, but it was Birdman that took home the most awards with two, including Best Feature and Best Actor for Michael Keaton, which just so happen to be the only awards the film was nominated for. Winning for Best Actress was the presumed Oscar front-runner Julianne Moore for Still Alice, Best Documentary went to presumed Oscar front-runner Citizenfour and Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) took home Breakthrough Director and it was Tessa Thompson (Dear White People) taking home Breakthrough Actor for a film I really need to make sure I see. I have listed all the winners below and if you haven't checked it out yet, I did a little updating to my Oscar predictions in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories within the last 24 hours... give them a peek right here. Best Feature The...
- 12/2/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It may have taken one off the nose, but the competition just took one off the chin. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) claimed the Best Actor prize, and the Best Feature at the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards. Here are the winners & noms.
Best Feature
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
“Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Love Is Strange”
“Under the Skin”
Prediction: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Who Won: Boyhood
Who Should Have Won: “Under the Skin”
Best Actress
Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw in “Beyond the Lights”
Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin”
Mia Wasikowska in “Tracks”
Prediction: Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Who Won: Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Who Should Have Won: Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin”
Best Actor
Bill Hader in “The Skeleton Twins”
Ethan Hawke in “Boyhood”
Oscar Isaac in “A Most Violent Year...
Best Feature
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
“Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Love Is Strange”
“Under the Skin”
Prediction: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Who Won: Boyhood
Who Should Have Won: “Under the Skin”
Best Actress
Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw in “Beyond the Lights”
Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin”
Mia Wasikowska in “Tracks”
Prediction: Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Who Won: Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Who Should Have Won: Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin”
Best Actor
Bill Hader in “The Skeleton Twins”
Ethan Hawke in “Boyhood”
Oscar Isaac in “A Most Violent Year...
- 12/2/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2014 Gotham Awards were handed out Dec. 1, 2014 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. "Birdman" walked away the big winner on the night, taking Best Feature and Best Actor, for Michael Keaton. Check out the full list of nominees and winners below, and relive the evening at our live blog here. Best Feature "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" - Winner "Boyhood" "The Grand Budapest Hotel" "Love is Strange" "Under the Skin" Best Documentary "Actress" "Citizenfour" - Winner "Life Itself" "Manakamana" "Point and Shoot" Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award Ana Lily Amirpour ("A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night") - Winner James Ward Byrkit ("Coherence") Dan Gilroy ("Nightcrawler") Eliza Hittman ("It Felt Like Love") Justin Simien ("Dear White People") Best Actor Bill Hader ("The Skeleton Twins") Ethan Hawke ("Boyhood") Oscar Isaac ("A Most Violent Year") Michael Keaton ("Birdman") - Winner Miles Teller ("Whiplash") Best Actress Patricia Arquette ("Boyhood...
- 12/2/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
With year end lists already flooding the interwebs a full month before the actual year’s end, its hard to ignore the fact that awards season is now in full swing. Tons of documentary awards have already been handed out, whether its for Ida (not Pawel Pawlikowski’s gorgeous new film) or for Cinema Eye Honors, there are plenty of worthy films getting their due recognition. Plus, several international festivals have handed out major awards this month, including Idfa, which hosted their awards ceremony just minutes ago. The full roundup is just below:
Dok Leipzig – Germany – October 27th – November 2nd
At the close of the 57th edition of the German documentary festival the Golden Dove Award, the festival’s highest honor, was given to Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard’s Rules of the Game, while the Leipziger Ring Film Prize went to Laura Poitras’s Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour, the...
Dok Leipzig – Germany – October 27th – November 2nd
At the close of the 57th edition of the German documentary festival the Golden Dove Award, the festival’s highest honor, was given to Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard’s Rules of the Game, while the Leipziger Ring Film Prize went to Laura Poitras’s Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour, the...
- 11/29/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Today, for the next installment of my still weekly 2015 contender re-rundown, I’m moving on once again from the big eight categories (after starting this second part to the series with Best Animated Feature last week) and taking a look now at one of the in betweens, which happens this time to be the Best Documentary Feature race. Here now are the ten documentary films in particular that I have cracking the unofficial lineup at this later point in the year: 1. Citizenfour – Ever since this documentary burst on to the scene at the New York Film Festival, it’s essentially become the one to beat. A firsthand look at Edward Snowden as he became the world famous whistleblower we know him as today, it’s timely, unsettling, and gets people talking. That’s often a formula for victory here. I don’t think it’s unbeatable, but right now you...
- 11/24/2014
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Heavy-hitting holdovers Foxcatcher, The Theory Of Everything and Birdman were robust in expansion in the specialty release side of the box office this weekend. Meanwhile, a pair of limited-release newcomers, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and doc Monk With A Camera – both Kino Lorber releases – bowed with solid numbers.
A Girl, Ana Lily Amirpour’s self-described “Iranian vampire Western” that debuted at Sundance, opened in two theaters in New York and L.A., grossing $26K, for a $13K average.
Kino Lorber also opened Monk With A Camera, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary, with an exclusive run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in an 85-seat theater that had sell-out showings. The film grossed $10K Friday to Sunday.
“We’ve been waiting for this dual break all year,” said Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber Sunday. “Both a girl and monk connect with core audiences for our … releasing labels.
A Girl, Ana Lily Amirpour’s self-described “Iranian vampire Western” that debuted at Sundance, opened in two theaters in New York and L.A., grossing $26K, for a $13K average.
Kino Lorber also opened Monk With A Camera, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary, with an exclusive run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in an 85-seat theater that had sell-out showings. The film grossed $10K Friday to Sunday.
“We’ve been waiting for this dual break all year,” said Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber Sunday. “Both a girl and monk connect with core audiences for our … releasing labels.
- 11/23/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
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
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
There are just 11 days remaining before the Academy’s documentary branch must vote to determine which of 134 documentary features will make it onto a shortlist of 15 from which this year’s five Oscar nominees will be chosen. The general consensus of the dozens of doc-branch members with whom I’ve spoken at various events over the last couple of weeks —Rory Kennedy’s lunch at Aoc in West Hollywood for Point and Shoot‘s Marshall Curry, Pierce Brosnan’s dinner at his Malibu home for Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam, etc. — is that this year’s doc race is as deep and competitive as any in memory.
That has been my sense, too, as I’ve made my way through a sizable chunk of the longlist, and it is why I was so delighted when the Savannah Film Festival offered to host me...
The Hollywood Reporter
There are just 11 days remaining before the Academy’s documentary branch must vote to determine which of 134 documentary features will make it onto a shortlist of 15 from which this year’s five Oscar nominees will be chosen. The general consensus of the dozens of doc-branch members with whom I’ve spoken at various events over the last couple of weeks —Rory Kennedy’s lunch at Aoc in West Hollywood for Point and Shoot‘s Marshall Curry, Pierce Brosnan’s dinner at his Malibu home for Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam, etc. — is that this year’s doc race is as deep and competitive as any in memory.
That has been my sense, too, as I’ve made my way through a sizable chunk of the longlist, and it is why I was so delighted when the Savannah Film Festival offered to host me...
- 11/11/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
There are just 11 days remaining before the Academy's documentary branch must vote to determine which of 134 documentary features will make it onto a shortlist of 15 from which this year's five Oscar nominees will be chosen. The general consensus of the dozens of doc-branch members with whom I've spoken at various events over the last couple of weeks — Rory Kennedy's lunch at Aoc in West Hollywood for Point and Shoot's Marshall Curry, Pierce Brosnan's dinner at his Malibu home for Kennedy's Last Days in Vietnam, etc. — is that this year's doc race is as deep
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- 11/10/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Whoopsy. I forgot to share this list... Herewith the films that could be up for Best Documentary Feature this year. We'll get a finalist of 15 at some point next month followed by 5 nominees in January "until we crown A Winnah!" If we've reviewed the titles, you'll notice their pretty color which you can then click on to read about them. The magic of the internet. You can also see the animated and documentary Oscar charts here.
The 134 Semi-Finalists
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, Algorithms, Alive Inside, All You Need Is Love, Altina, America: Imagine the World without Her, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Anita, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Art and Craft, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, The Barefoot Artist, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Before You Know It, Bitter Honey, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi,...
The 134 Semi-Finalists
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, Algorithms, Alive Inside, All You Need Is Love, Altina, America: Imagine the World without Her, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Anita, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Art and Craft, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, The Barefoot Artist, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Before You Know It, Bitter Honey, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi,...
- 11/3/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?...
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?...
- 11/2/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Best of New Southeast Asian Cinema: Four Busan Film Fest Highlights Britannia Awards Are Popular Stop on Awards Circuit Cinema Eye Advances 15 Documentary Awards Contenders "Citizenfour" Tops Specialty Openers, "Birdman" Soars, Whither "Whiplash"? Documentary Voters Must Sift Through 134 Features, Changing Viewing Rules Eight Blood-Curdling Indies to Stream This Halloween Five Smart Moves from Shia Labeouf From Zimmer to Reznor, Tracking the Best Original Score Contenders How "Inherent Vice" and "Nightcrawler" Dp Robert Elswit Captures the Pulse of La How "Point and Shoot" Went from Elaborate Selfie to Doc Awards Contender Ida Nominations Impact the Oscar Documentary Shortlist "Interstellar" Q&A: Nolan Set Out to Make Modern Day "Close Encounters" "Laggies" Q&A: Lynn Shelton Changes Her Approach Marvel Responds to DC with Phase 3 Slate ...
- 11/1/2014
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
Citizenfour, Life Itself, Red Army, Warsaw Uprising among long-list contenters for the 87th Academy Awards.
The Salt Of The Earth, Happy Valley, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Food Chains and Point And Shoot are also named.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
20,000 Days On Earth
Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine The World Without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution Of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year On Ice
Art And Craft
Awake: The Life Of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards Of Baseball
Before You Know It
Bitter Honey
Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Botso The Teacher From Tbilisi
Captivated The Trials Of Pamela Smart
The Case Against 8
Cesar’s Last Fast
Citizen Koch
Citizenfour
Code Black
Concerning Violence
The Culture High
Cyber-Seniors
Damnation
Dancing In Jaffa
Death Metal Angola
The...
The Salt Of The Earth, Happy Valley, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Food Chains and Point And Shoot are also named.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
20,000 Days On Earth
Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine The World Without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution Of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year On Ice
Art And Craft
Awake: The Life Of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards Of Baseball
Before You Know It
Bitter Honey
Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Botso The Teacher From Tbilisi
Captivated The Trials Of Pamela Smart
The Case Against 8
Cesar’s Last Fast
Citizen Koch
Citizenfour
Code Black
Concerning Violence
The Culture High
Cyber-Seniors
Damnation
Dancing In Jaffa
Death Metal Angola
The...
- 10/31/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its list of 134 film vying for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar at the 87th Annual Academy Awards in February. A number of the nonfic hopefuls have yet to get their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Those that don’t will be cut from the contention. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December. Oscar noms will be revealed January 15, and ABC will broadcast Hollywood’s Big Night live on February 22 from the Dolby Theatre.
Here are the docu feature submissions:
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine the World without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Art and Craft
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards of Baseball...
Here are the docu feature submissions:
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine the World without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Art and Craft
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards of Baseball...
- 10/31/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®. Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category's other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December. Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories. The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar...
- 10/31/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
“Halloween may not be a great night to open a movie,” says documentarian Marshall Curry, “but the Hollywood Reporter did call it a ‘nonfiction thriller’ so I’ve been telling people it’s appropriate.” The appropriate movie is “Point and Shoot,” Curry’s multi-layered Mideast adventure-cum-cultural-critique on which he served as a kind of ghost writer with attitude: It was Matt VanDyke -- American adventurer, soldier-of-fortune, partisan in the Libyan War, Pow -- who brought back the footage that makes up “Point and Shoot,” and who turned a fascination with Arabia into a motorcycle trip from Europe to Africa; sojourns in various hotspots; a term as a freelance war correspondent embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq, and, almost immediately upon his return to the United States, a return to Libya to help his friends fight their war. But it was Curry who turned VanDyke’s remarkable footage into a movie with intellectual heft,...
- 10/31/2014
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Just in time for Halloween, Daniel Radcliffe gets some special powers and couple of appendages growing from his temples in Radius’ Horns, which will be this week’s biggest rollout among specialty newcomers. The title received a warm welcome at a Cinema Society event attended by its stars this week in New York. This week’s newbies are dominated by nonfiction fare, though with some exceptions. Kino Lorber is opening French/Swiss maestro Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language following a successful festival run. It has been critically acclaimed, and the company is expecting it to be a box office winner too. The 2014 Best Documentary winners from South by Southwest and Tribeca are going head-to-head in their theatrical debuts. Radius’ The Great Invisible (SXSW) opened in limited release Wednesday in an exclusively theatrical rollout, and The Orchard is bowing Point And Shoot (Tribeca) in a single NYC run. Submarine Deluxe...
- 10/31/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Today's top stories: Agnès Varda will receive the European Film Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award this year. Roman Polanski went to Poland and the Us tried to get authorities there to detain him. They refused. Nick Broomfield's Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel's Finding Vivian Maier, Laura Poitras's Citizenfour and Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's The Salt of the Earth have been nominated by the International Documentary Association for Best Feature Awards. Plus Scott Foundas on George Sluizer's Spoorloos (The Vanishing) and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/30/2014
- Keyframe
Today's top stories: Agnès Varda will receive the European Film Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award this year. Roman Polanski went to Poland and the Us tried to get authorities there to detain him. They refused. Nick Broomfield's Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel's Finding Vivian Maier, Laura Poitras's Citizenfour and Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's The Salt of the Earth have been nominated by the International Documentary Association for Best Feature Awards. Plus Scott Foundas on George Sluizer's Spoorloos (The Vanishing) and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Best Feature Award Citizenfour Director: Laura Poitras RADiUS-twc, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films Finding Vivian Maier Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel Sundance Selects Point and Shoot Director: Marshall Curry...
- 10/29/2014
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Wednesday morning, the International Documentary Association announced its nominees and select winners for the 2014 Ida Awards, an annual tribute to the best-of-the-best of non-fiction film and television. Pertinent to award season are the Best Feature contenders, including Lara Poitras’ recent hit “Citizenfour” “Point and Shoot,” an American filmmaker’s look inside Libyan prisons, “Finding Vivian Maier,” a portrait of the posthumously legendary photographer, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's artist profile “The Salt of the Earth,” and Nick Broomfield’s verite serial killer investigation, “Tales of the Grim Sleeper.” Unlike years past, all five films look like viable Best Documentary candidates come Oscar time, making the Ida Awards even more influential. Past winners include “The Square” (2013), “Searching for Sugar Man” (2012), “Nostalgia for Light” (2011), and “Waste Land” (2010). For his work founding the Sundance Institute and producing documentaries through Sundance Productions, the Ida Awards will honor Robert Redford with its career achievement award.
- 10/29/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
The International Documentary Association (Ida) has announced nominations for the 2014 Ida Documentary Awards today set to take place on December 5 in Los Angeles.
The five films nominated in Ida’s Feature category are:
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras;
Finding Vivian Maier, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel;
Point And Shoot, Marshall Curry;
The Salt Of The Earth, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado; and
Tales Of The Grim Sleeper (pictured), Nick Broomfield.
The five nominated films in the short category are:
Ghost Train, James Fleming and Kelly Hucker;
Our Curse, Tomasz Śliwiński;
Prison Terminal: The Last Days Of Private Jack Hall, Edgar Barens;
The Queen, Manuel Abramovich; and
Tashi And The Monk, Andrew Hinton and Johnny Burke.
“This year’s nominated and award-winning films and series are further testament to the growing importance of documentary storytelling in today’s rapidly changing and increasingly conflicted world,” said Ida executive director Michael Lumpkin.
“Our expansion of awards honouring excellence in series production...
The five films nominated in Ida’s Feature category are:
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras;
Finding Vivian Maier, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel;
Point And Shoot, Marshall Curry;
The Salt Of The Earth, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado; and
Tales Of The Grim Sleeper (pictured), Nick Broomfield.
The five nominated films in the short category are:
Ghost Train, James Fleming and Kelly Hucker;
Our Curse, Tomasz Śliwiński;
Prison Terminal: The Last Days Of Private Jack Hall, Edgar Barens;
The Queen, Manuel Abramovich; and
Tashi And The Monk, Andrew Hinton and Johnny Burke.
“This year’s nominated and award-winning films and series are further testament to the growing importance of documentary storytelling in today’s rapidly changing and increasingly conflicted world,” said Ida executive director Michael Lumpkin.
“Our expansion of awards honouring excellence in series production...
- 10/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The International Documentary Association (Ida) announced nominations for the 2014 Ida Documentary Awards today, with awards being bestowed December 5th at the Paramount Theatre on the studio lot. The top films nominated in the best feature category include the critically-acclaimed Citizenfour from filmmaker Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and the state of surveillance of civilians post 9/11 which has been enjoying a theatrical run and Nick Broomfield’s Tales Of The Grim Sleeper about the serial killer who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over 25 years. In the limited series category is Playtone’s CNN doc The Sixties, among others. Best episodic include Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class and HBO’s Vice exec produced by Bill Maher (and others). In addition, Robert Redford will receive the Career Achievement award from the Ida.
Winners in the Best Feature and Best Short categories are selected by Ida’s international membership. Screening committees of industry professionals based in New York City,...
Winners in the Best Feature and Best Short categories are selected by Ida’s international membership. Screening committees of industry professionals based in New York City,...
- 10/29/2014
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline
The International Documentary Association on Wednesday announced nominations for the 2014 Ida Documentary Awards, set to take place Dec. 5 at the Paramount Theatre at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Vying for best feature documentary will be Citizenfour, Laura Poitras' portrait of whistleblower Edward Snowden and the state of surveillance of civilians in the post-9/11 age; Finding Vivian Maier, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s accounting of the discovery in an abandoned storage locker of what would turn out to be the work of one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers; Point and Shoot, from Marshall Curry, the firsthand account of Matt
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- 10/29/2014
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Laura Poitras’ Edward Snowden documentary “CitizenFour” and John Maloof's and Charlie Siskel's investigation into a neglected photographer, “Finding Vivian Maier,” are among the five nominees for the year's best documentary at the International Documentary Associations Ida Awards, the Ida announced on Wednesday. Also nominated were Marshall Curry's portrait of an American filmmaker who fought and was imprisoned in Libya, “Point and Shoot”; Wim Wenders’ and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's look at Salgago's photographer father, “The Salt of the Earth”; and Nick Broomfield's “Tales of the Grim Sleeper,” the British documentarian's investigation of a series of murders in South Central Los Angeles.
- 10/29/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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