“She changed the face of the documentary.” After losing her battle with cancer, Weyermann’s champions sent IndieWire a flood of tributes. Read them here.
The Participant CCO and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died Thursday of cancer in New York. She was 66.
Participant launched a campaign that married Hollywood spectacle with a visible role model to help inspire social action.
New multicultural film fund AUM Group is the latest to aim for social change while being lucrative.
Weyermann helped shape the company’s acclaimed documentary projects over the last 15 years.
The annual event will include two brand new awards this year: the TIFF Impact Award and the Mary Pickford Award.
The director had three sacred principles in making this film, and they could be keys to Oscar success in February.
The film will open in New York theaters this Friday, January 27 .
In a behind-the-scenes video, director Lluis Quilez explains why he shot his short film at the nuclear site.
The channel goes dark in the face of a changing media environment, Participant’s failure to latch on to a strategy that worked and a fickle young audience.
The companies join forces to offer audiences positive and inspirational content across all platforms.
The film will be in theaters starting on July 8.
