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15 Documentaries Named to New Shortlist; Festival Programmers, Doc Insiders Unveil New Nonfiction Aw
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' recent announcement of the short list of films competing for the best documentary Oscar stirred frustration among a community of filmmakers and insiders back in November. Fueled by online discussion via blogs, a coalition within the nonfiction and fil...
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PARK CITY '08 INTERVIEW | "Anvil! The True Story of Anvil" Director Sacha Gervasi
EDITORS NOTE: This is the first in a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling first-time feature directors who have films screening at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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DOC COLUMN | Expectations Exceed Business for Docs in 2007
A quick glance at the box office numbers for documentaries released this year shows Michael Moore's "Sicko" as the top doc, but at $24.5 million, the take is significantly lower than recent hits "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "March of the Penguins" at $120 million and $77 million. You have to scroll pretty ...
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Remembering St. Clair Bourne: 1943 - 2007
Acclaimed filmmaker St. Clair Bourne passed away yesterday (Saturday) at the age of 64. The documentarian, who died from complications following surgery, had been working on a film about civil rights photographer Ernest Withers, according to an obituary by Richard Prince (fourth item), in addition t...
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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "A Walk Into The Sea" Director Esther Robinson
Winner of the 2007 Teddy Award for best documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival, Esther Robinson's "A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory" is a personal journey into the story behind Esther's uncle Danny Williams 1966 disappearence. At the time, Danny was Andy Warh...
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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "Nanking" Producer Ted Leonsis
Producer Ted Leonsis' "Nanking" (directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman) tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China, in the early days of World War II. As part of a campaign to conquer all of China, the Japanese subjected Nanking, which was then China's capital, to months of aeri...
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iW NEWS | "A Walk to Beautiful" Wins Top IDA Doc Prize
Mary Olive Smith's "A Walk to Beautiful" won the top prize at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Friday night in Los Angeles. It is described as the story of "five courageous women in Ethiopia who have suffered from devastating childbirth injuries and have been shunned by their family and villages." Yoni Brook's "A Son's Sacrifice" won the short documentary award, Paul Taylor's "We Are Together" won the inaugural Alan Ett Music Documentary Award, and Ken Burns' longtime collaborator Buddy Squires received the IDA Outstanding Documentary Cinematography Award. Producer/Director Spike ...
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REVIEW | The Kid Is Alright: Jennifer Venditti's "Billy the Kid"
Like its protagonist, Jennifer Venditti's acclaimed documentary "Billy the Kid" is both pretty hard to dislike and difficult to parse. It's already scooped up awards at Edinburgh, Los Angeles, and South by Southwest film festivals, and it's easy to see why: this compelling, ingratiating portrait of ...
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iW NEWS | "Stranded," "Smiling" Win Top IDFA Prizes
Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded," the story of the survivors of a 1972 plane crash, won the VPRO Joris Ivens Award, the top prize at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The film, reported on earlier this week in indieWIRE, is headed for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in January. At tonight's ceremony, Tamar Varom's "To See If I'm Smiling," about women in the Israeli army, won both the Silver Wolf competition and the festival's audience award. The Silver Cub for short docs went to Oscar Perez's "The Tailor." The First Appearance Award for new filmmakers went to Robert Nugent for "End of the Rainbow." Nitzan Gilady's "Jerusa...
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DISPATCH FROM AMSTERDAM | "Stranded" in the Wild With No Help; and Taking on the Establishment in "F
Days after its world premiere screening in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam's ornate and cavernous main venue at the Cinema Tuschinski in the city center, fest-goers were still talking about Uruguayan director Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded." Though the film, at least for now, comes...
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