Distribution platform Gathr and documentary distribution agency Roco Films have teamed to create Roco Voices, a new speakers bureau.
Roco Voices, launching Nov. 14, will offer live speaking engagements with filmmakers and subject matter experts from Roco Film’s docu film catalog. The initial cohort of filmmakers to debut with Roco Voices include Academy Award winners and nominees Oliver Stone (“Nuclear Now”), Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”), Justine Shapiro (“Promises”), Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”), David France (“How to Survive a Plague”), Geralyn Dreyfous (“The Square”), and Roger Weisberg (“Sound and Fury”). (All Roco clients have the opportunity to opt-in.)
Powering Roco Voices is Gathr’s talent booking technology. (The company started beta-testing earlier this year.) The collaboration is a one-stop shop for Roco Films’ customers to search, discover, negotiate, and book filmmakers, doc talent and subject matter experts while also licensing impact-driven and educational film screenings.
“The shared experience of...
Roco Voices, launching Nov. 14, will offer live speaking engagements with filmmakers and subject matter experts from Roco Film’s docu film catalog. The initial cohort of filmmakers to debut with Roco Voices include Academy Award winners and nominees Oliver Stone (“Nuclear Now”), Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”), Justine Shapiro (“Promises”), Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”), David France (“How to Survive a Plague”), Geralyn Dreyfous (“The Square”), and Roger Weisberg (“Sound and Fury”). (All Roco clients have the opportunity to opt-in.)
Powering Roco Voices is Gathr’s talent booking technology. (The company started beta-testing earlier this year.) The collaboration is a one-stop shop for Roco Films’ customers to search, discover, negotiate, and book filmmakers, doc talent and subject matter experts while also licensing impact-driven and educational film screenings.
“The shared experience of...
- 11/14/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Sophia Loren is hospitalized and in recovery after a severe fall on Sunday, which led to several fractures, including her hip and femur.
The incident, which occurred in her Swiss home and was confirmed by an Instagram post from a restaurant she was due to open in Bari on Sept. 26, required surgery. The legendary Italian actress, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, “will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process,” the announcement read.
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Translated to English from its Italian text, the post in full reads: “Today, a fall at her home in Geneva caused Mrs. Loren to suffer hip fractures. Having undergone a successful operation, she will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process. Fortunately everything went well and the Lady will be back with us very soon.
The incident, which occurred in her Swiss home and was confirmed by an Instagram post from a restaurant she was due to open in Bari on Sept. 26, required surgery. The legendary Italian actress, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, “will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process,” the announcement read.
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Translated to English from its Italian text, the post in full reads: “Today, a fall at her home in Geneva caused Mrs. Loren to suffer hip fractures. Having undergone a successful operation, she will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process. Fortunately everything went well and the Lady will be back with us very soon.
- 9/25/2023
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
Jeremy Strong as Irving Graff and Anne Hathaway as Esther Graff in ‘Armageddon Time’ (Photo Courtesy of Focus Features)
Writer/director James Gray’s Armageddon Time will open the 2022 San Diego International Film Festival on October 19th and writer/director Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light has been selected as the festival’s closing night film. The 21st annual SDiFF’s lineup will also include the San Diego premiere of Taurus as well as screenings of Close, Good Night Oppy, and The Banshees of Inisherin.
This year’s festival will honor Taurus star Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) with the Spotlight Award. Baker, who made his acting debut in the Showtime series Roadies, will be presented with the honor following a special Spotlight Screening of Taurus from writer/director Tim Sutton on October 23rd.
“This year, our slate has been curated from over 3000 film submissions from 82 countries with compelling Social...
Writer/director James Gray’s Armageddon Time will open the 2022 San Diego International Film Festival on October 19th and writer/director Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light has been selected as the festival’s closing night film. The 21st annual SDiFF’s lineup will also include the San Diego premiere of Taurus as well as screenings of Close, Good Night Oppy, and The Banshees of Inisherin.
This year’s festival will honor Taurus star Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) with the Spotlight Award. Baker, who made his acting debut in the Showtime series Roadies, will be presented with the honor following a special Spotlight Screening of Taurus from writer/director Tim Sutton on October 23rd.
“This year, our slate has been curated from over 3000 film submissions from 82 countries with compelling Social...
- 9/7/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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In 1928, when Alexander Fleming returned home from holiday, he found his lab in a state of disarray. Tools crowded his desk. Petri dishes were stacked on top of one another. Fleming was not the most organized researcher, and this would prove to be lifesaving. He noticed that mold had colonized his bacterial culture and killed it. He had just discovered penicillin. In response to the finding, Fleming simply remarked: “That’s funny.”
Dr. Carl June, the oncologist whose quest to cure cancer fuels Ross Kauffman’s fascinating Tribeca documentary Of Medicine and Miracles, shares Fleming’s amusingly casual wonder at happenstance. When June retells the story of Fleming’s discovery, he sees it as a lesson: “Chance favors the prepared,” he said. “If you do enough experiments, you’ll find things in the unexpected.” About his efforts to reprogram T-cells to fight cancerous masses,...
In 1928, when Alexander Fleming returned home from holiday, he found his lab in a state of disarray. Tools crowded his desk. Petri dishes were stacked on top of one another. Fleming was not the most organized researcher, and this would prove to be lifesaving. He noticed that mold had colonized his bacterial culture and killed it. He had just discovered penicillin. In response to the finding, Fleming simply remarked: “That’s funny.”
Dr. Carl June, the oncologist whose quest to cure cancer fuels Ross Kauffman’s fascinating Tribeca documentary Of Medicine and Miracles, shares Fleming’s amusingly casual wonder at happenstance. When June retells the story of Fleming’s discovery, he sees it as a lesson: “Chance favors the prepared,” he said. “If you do enough experiments, you’ll find things in the unexpected.” About his efforts to reprogram T-cells to fight cancerous masses,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Of Medicine and Miracles” could have been a podcast. It could have been a newspaper feature. It could have been a book, even. It didn’t need to be a documentary. Saying so brings me no pleasure; dumping Ross Kauffman’s latest into the same bucket as countless modern docs that don’t justify themselves as cinema feels brutish, given the subject matter. The story of how the immunologist Carl June figured out how to train T cells to fight cancer, and how his research ultimately saved young Emily Whitehead, sentenced with a mortal leukemia diagnosis at six years old, is remarkable and moving, and worth attending even a decade after her miraculous full remission.
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Continue reading ‘Of Medicine and Miracles’ Is A Documentary Too Little And Too Late [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 6/17/2022
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
In the first minutes of “Born into Brothels” director Ross Kauffman’s “Of Medicine and Miracles,” one of the world’s foremost cellular engineers stares into the camera and shakes his head. “It’s hard to say that you’re trying to cure cancer,” he says. “It sounds foolish coming out of your mouth… may not even ethically sound.” His name is Carl H. June, and he’s been fighting cancer for more than 40 years. Not in himself, but in his patients, in his late wife, and in the research laboratory where he rechanneled his energies after the grief made it too difficult for him to interface with sick people directly. He knows better than anyone that his foe is beyond formidable. Maybe even unbeatable. But you never know. Life finds a way.
Not always. Almost never, in some cases. Sometimes so rarely that even the world’s most determined...
Not always. Almost never, in some cases. Sometimes so rarely that even the world’s most determined...
- 6/15/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
This weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival, Academy Award-winning documentarian Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”) debuts his newest documentary, “Of Medicine and Miracles,” to the world. The film tells parallel stories of an incredibly resilient child battling a rare form of leukemia and the researcher who pioneered her treatment.
The doc chronicles the monumental task of curing cancer, as seen through the harrowing experiences of one young girl, her family, and a doctor on a mission, but “Of Medicine and Miracles” is so much more than just a patient’s cancer journey.
Continue reading ‘Of Medicine and Miracles’ Clip: Academy Award-Winner Ross Kauffman Follows The Story Of Cancer Pioneers & Survivors [Tribeca Exclusive] at The Playlist.
The doc chronicles the monumental task of curing cancer, as seen through the harrowing experiences of one young girl, her family, and a doctor on a mission, but “Of Medicine and Miracles” is so much more than just a patient’s cancer journey.
Continue reading ‘Of Medicine and Miracles’ Clip: Academy Award-Winner Ross Kauffman Follows The Story Of Cancer Pioneers & Survivors [Tribeca Exclusive] at The Playlist.
- 6/11/2022
- by Jamie Rogers
- The Playlist
Diane Weyermann, chief content officer at Participant and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died Thursday of cancer in New York. She was 66.
For the last three decades, Weyermann played a seminal role in supporting the documentary community and shaping the nonfiction landscape during stints at Participant and the Sundance Institute. Oscar winning docus including Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006), Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour” (2014) and “American Factory” (2019) are among the many projects that Weyermann helped shepherd.
Weyermann joined Participant in 2005 – one year after Jeff Skoll founded the socially conscious production company. For 12 years, she was responsible for the production company’s documentary feature film and television slate. In 2017, Weyermann was promoted to president, and in 2019 named chief content officer of the L.A.-based media house, where she was responsible for Participant’s documentary, feature film and television slate.
During her tenure at Participant, Weyermann oversaw production of docus,...
For the last three decades, Weyermann played a seminal role in supporting the documentary community and shaping the nonfiction landscape during stints at Participant and the Sundance Institute. Oscar winning docus including Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006), Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour” (2014) and “American Factory” (2019) are among the many projects that Weyermann helped shepherd.
Weyermann joined Participant in 2005 – one year after Jeff Skoll founded the socially conscious production company. For 12 years, she was responsible for the production company’s documentary feature film and television slate. In 2017, Weyermann was promoted to president, and in 2019 named chief content officer of the L.A.-based media house, where she was responsible for Participant’s documentary, feature film and television slate.
During her tenure at Participant, Weyermann oversaw production of docus,...
- 10/15/2021
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Documentary Short Film
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Netflix has three contenders, all of which have the goods to win the category. The prestige of “What Would Sophia Loren Do” will keep it in the conversation while the charms of “Speed...
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Documentary Short Film
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Netflix has three contenders, all of which have the goods to win the category. The prestige of “What Would Sophia Loren Do” will keep it in the conversation while the charms of “Speed...
- 2/25/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
"Now there's a lady!" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for a 30-minute fun short documentary called What Would Sophia Loren Do?, directed by filmmaker Ross Kauffman. The film introduces us to Nancy "Vincenza" Kulik, an Italian-American mother and grandmother living in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Her life's philosophy has been based around the phrase "What Would Sophia Loren Do?" Nancy has seen her share of life’s challenges, but has always been able to stay joyful and resilient, inspired in part by a different Italian mother, Sophia Loren. Netflix is also releasing Loren's latest film, an Italian drama titled The Life Ahead. The two women reminisce about the ups and downs of life, discussing how to overcome challenges and what has kept them going. "Through the experiences of these two extraordinary women, we come to understand what it means to face life’s challenges with resilience & love, and to age with courage,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
On Thursday, Netflix released the trailer for What Would Sophia Loren Do?, a 32-minute documentary short that explores the life and legacy of the Italian icon. The film premieres Friday, January 15th on the streaming platform.
What Would Sophia Loren Do? looks at Loren’s impact through the eyes of Nancy “Vincenza” Kulik, an Italian-American mother and grandmother living in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Kulik describes how Loren has been a guiding force as she’s dealt with her own challenges in life. In 2016, Kulik’s 51-year-old son passed away suddenly,...
What Would Sophia Loren Do? looks at Loren’s impact through the eyes of Nancy “Vincenza” Kulik, an Italian-American mother and grandmother living in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Kulik describes how Loren has been a guiding force as she’s dealt with her own challenges in life. In 2016, Kulik’s 51-year-old son passed away suddenly,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Producers Lily Blavin and Niki Koss have launched a new production company, Lightning Strikes Productions, and are developing Dave Pelzer’s best-selling memoir “A Child Called ‘It’: One Child’s Courage to Survive.”
“A Child Called ‘It'” was published in 1995 and detailed the abuse Pelzer suffered as a child from his alcoholic mother. The book was on The New York Times’ bestseller list for several years. The project will focus on a child’s unyielding courage for survival enabling him to overcome extreme life-threatening odds.
Blavin is producing along with Paul Blavin, David Goldblum and Karen Kehela Sherwood. Goldblum and Tamlin Hall are writing the script.
Blavin and Koss have set up Lightning Strikes with a focus on telling stories that contribute to changing the world in a positive way, while serving as a cathartic escape. As part of the launch, they are currently in pre-production on an untitled documentary directed by Ross Kauffman,...
“A Child Called ‘It'” was published in 1995 and detailed the abuse Pelzer suffered as a child from his alcoholic mother. The book was on The New York Times’ bestseller list for several years. The project will focus on a child’s unyielding courage for survival enabling him to overcome extreme life-threatening odds.
Blavin is producing along with Paul Blavin, David Goldblum and Karen Kehela Sherwood. Goldblum and Tamlin Hall are writing the script.
Blavin and Koss have set up Lightning Strikes with a focus on telling stories that contribute to changing the world in a positive way, while serving as a cathartic escape. As part of the launch, they are currently in pre-production on an untitled documentary directed by Ross Kauffman,...
- 11/11/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Women may be the gatekeepers of the documentary arm of the entertainment industry, but this year marks the first time they have helmed the majority of awards season’s high-profile documentaries.
The filmmakers include Irene Taylor Brodsky (“Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements”), Petra Costa (“The Edge of Democracy”), Lauren Greenfield (“The Kingmaker”), Barbara Kopple (“Desert One”), Rachel Lears (“Knock Down the House”), Nancy Schwartzman (“Roll Red Roll”), Nanfu Wang and Lynn Zhang (“One Child Nation”).
In addition, there are also documentary frontrunners co-directed by women, including “Advocate” (Rachel Leah Jones), “After Parkland” (Emily Taguchi), “American Factory” (Julia Reichert), “For Sama” (Waad Al-Khateab), “The Great Hack” (Jehane Noujaim) and “Honeyland” (Tamara Kotevska).
In late October, when the Intl. Documentary Assn. announced the nominees for the 35th annual Ida awards, six of the 10 best doc nods and all of the films nominated in the inaugural director category were directed or co-directed by women.
The filmmakers include Irene Taylor Brodsky (“Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements”), Petra Costa (“The Edge of Democracy”), Lauren Greenfield (“The Kingmaker”), Barbara Kopple (“Desert One”), Rachel Lears (“Knock Down the House”), Nancy Schwartzman (“Roll Red Roll”), Nanfu Wang and Lynn Zhang (“One Child Nation”).
In addition, there are also documentary frontrunners co-directed by women, including “Advocate” (Rachel Leah Jones), “After Parkland” (Emily Taguchi), “American Factory” (Julia Reichert), “For Sama” (Waad Al-Khateab), “The Great Hack” (Jehane Noujaim) and “Honeyland” (Tamara Kotevska).
In late October, when the Intl. Documentary Assn. announced the nominees for the 35th annual Ida awards, six of the 10 best doc nods and all of the films nominated in the inaugural director category were directed or co-directed by women.
- 11/5/2019
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Ross Kauffman’s (“Born Into Brothels” and “E-Team”) haunted and harrowing new documentary about one of nature’s most majestic and deadly creatures, “Tigerland,” gets off on rocky footing. The film starts with a strange monologue from a child-narrator about the splendor of tigers and how they once dominated the lands they roamed and how they’ve since been pushed to the edge of extinction.
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- 3/23/2019
- by Gary Garrison
- The Playlist
‘Tigerland’ Review: Harrowing and Essential Doc Follows Tigers and Those Fighting For Their Survival
You’ll have to wait a while before “Tigerland” introduces its eponymous stars, but like many elements of Ross Kauffman’s emotional, often harrowing new documentary, the eventual reveal will be worth it. The “E-Team” and “Born Into Brothels” filmmaker has always been concerned with shining a light on those in need of help (or common decency), and for his third feature, Kauffman turns his interest toward a threatened animal population and the humans trying to save them. While “Tigerland” takes some time to find its footing, kicking off with an odd kid-voiced monologue that attempts to spell out the historical meaning of the tiger and then looping together two seemingly different stories, Kauffman eventually finds connections that go far beyond the superficial.
Still, it’s the tigers that bind everything, and when Kauffman finally reveals one out in the wild — after plenty of gazing at dusty paw prints, squinting through brush,...
Still, it’s the tigers that bind everything, and when Kauffman finally reveals one out in the wild — after plenty of gazing at dusty paw prints, squinting through brush,...
- 3/21/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A century ago, 100,000 tigers existed in the wild; now just about 4% remain. The threat of extinction of the species — one that historically has fascinated mankind — is always present in “Tigerland,” which finds “Born into Brothels” director Ross Kauffman looking at preservation efforts in Russia and India, two of the big cats’ primary remaining territories. This Discovery Channel documentary is higher on entertainment than educational value, but should please viewers when it premieres on the network March 30.
Apart from the tawny mammals themselves, the principal subjects are two leading conservationists: The affable Pavel Fomenko who, for a decade, has largely dedicated his life to the preservation of nature’s most “beautiful killing machine”; and Kailash Sankhala, who died in 1994 at age 69 after pioneering concepts of preservation and protection in India, often against stiff opposition.
Plentiful archival materials show what Sankhala was up against: In British Raj culture, bagging a tiger — or...
Apart from the tawny mammals themselves, the principal subjects are two leading conservationists: The affable Pavel Fomenko who, for a decade, has largely dedicated his life to the preservation of nature’s most “beautiful killing machine”; and Kailash Sankhala, who died in 1994 at age 69 after pioneering concepts of preservation and protection in India, often against stiff opposition.
Plentiful archival materials show what Sankhala was up against: In British Raj culture, bagging a tiger — or...
- 2/13/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Discovery and World Wildlife Fund Us (WWF-Us) will partner on a matching donation campaign to help preserve Bikin National Park in Russia, the partners said at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday. The announcement comes as Discovery is in Park City, Utah for the premiere of the company’s new documentary “Tigerland,” a look at the threats that tigers face from human encroachment on their natural habitat. Bikin National Park boasts 10% of all Amur tigers in the wild. The preserved area is featured prominently in “Tigerland,” which tracks activists, scientists, and everyday people around the world who are working to save these big cats.
“I was trying to figure out how we could make a film that was different than activist-oriented films about poaching and the decimation of different species,” said Ross Kauffman, the film’s director. “Many of those movies are great, but I wanted to focus more...
“I was trying to figure out how we could make a film that was different than activist-oriented films about poaching and the decimation of different species,” said Ross Kauffman, the film’s director. “Many of those movies are great, but I wanted to focus more...
- 1/27/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In a new clip from the documentary Tigerland, we see activist track down tigers in Russia — and it is quite riveting. The docu is set to premiere Jan. 27 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City and then will debut on Discovery on March 30 in the U.S. and in countries and territories around the world.
Directed by Academy Award-winning Ross Kauffman (Born into Brothels) and produced by Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens (The Cove), the two filmmakers take their documentary intrigue to spotlight tigers, animals that have long been the subject of myths and folktales, poetry and art. Half a century ago, in the jungles of India, a young forest officer rallied the world to save tigers from extinction. Today, the creed is carried on in Far East Russia by the guardians of the last Siberian tigers, who risk everything to save the species. Tigerland explores two passionate activists separated...
Directed by Academy Award-winning Ross Kauffman (Born into Brothels) and produced by Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens (The Cove), the two filmmakers take their documentary intrigue to spotlight tigers, animals that have long been the subject of myths and folktales, poetry and art. Half a century ago, in the jungles of India, a young forest officer rallied the world to save tigers from extinction. Today, the creed is carried on in Far East Russia by the guardians of the last Siberian tigers, who risk everything to save the species. Tigerland explores two passionate activists separated...
- 1/22/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and Marielle Heller’s Melissa McCarthy-starrer Can You Ever Forgive Me? will get Centerpiece slots at next month’s Hamptons Film Festival.
The fest released its full line-up today, adding Steve McQueen’s Widows and the East Coast premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy to the previously announced slate.
Lanthimos’ The Favourite stars Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman in the tale of two cousins fighting to be the court favorite of Queen Anne. The film will be the fest’s Friday Centerpiece, while Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? takes the Sunday Centerpiece slot.
The Hamptons fest runs Oct. 4-8.
In addition to the previously announced films, the Narrative Competition films will include the New York Premiere of Yen Tan’s 1985, the U.S. Premiere of Eva Trobisch’s All Good, Ali Abbasi’s Border, the U.S. Premiere of Zsófia Szilágyi’s One Day,...
The fest released its full line-up today, adding Steve McQueen’s Widows and the East Coast premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy to the previously announced slate.
Lanthimos’ The Favourite stars Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman in the tale of two cousins fighting to be the court favorite of Queen Anne. The film will be the fest’s Friday Centerpiece, while Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? takes the Sunday Centerpiece slot.
The Hamptons fest runs Oct. 4-8.
In addition to the previously announced films, the Narrative Competition films will include the New York Premiere of Yen Tan’s 1985, the U.S. Premiere of Eva Trobisch’s All Good, Ali Abbasi’s Border, the U.S. Premiere of Zsófia Szilágyi’s One Day,...
- 9/17/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Rich Ross, Discovery Channel and Science Channel group president, announced today at the networks’ annual Sundance Film Festival reception that Oscar-winning filmmakers Fisher Stevens and Ross Kauffman will be making the upcoming documentary Taken by the Tiger. Kauffman won an Oscar for the 2004 feature doc Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids, while Fisher took home an Academy Award for producing the 2009 feature doc The Cove. Kauffman will direct with Stevens…...
- 1/21/2018
- Deadline TV
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Nyff Bible: All the Reviews, Interviews and News Posted During The Festival After the Nyff world premiere of their three new short documentaries, Oscar-winning documentary director Ross Kauffman ("Born Into Brothels") and Oscar nominee Kief Davidson ("Open Heart") participated in a panel discussion moderated by Bob Garfield, host of NPR's "On The Media," and featuring Marjorie Schussel, Toyota Integrated Brand Communications Director -- Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steve James ("Life Itself") was not able to attend the panel, but his film "116 Innovators" did premiere. The panel explored how content marketing campaigns are marrying creative freedom with meaningful brand communications to tell stories that matter. The films were all received very well, with the overall audience agreement that they felt more like documentaries than commercials. From the beginning, the directors were asked...
- 9/30/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
Actors Emmy Rossum and Michael Pena joined Film Independent president Josh Welsh on Saturday to announce the winners of the 2015 Spirit Awards Grants, which honors emerging filmmakers with $25,000 in unrestricted funds.
The grants were handed out at the organization’s annual Spirit Awards nominees brunch, held at West Hollywood’s Boa Steakhouse, and saw Chris Ohlson, Dan Krauss and Rania Attich and Daniel Garcia take top spots.
“At Film Independent our mission is to support independent filmmakers all year long, helping them to get their films made and to build the audience for their work,” Welsh said.
“One of the...
The grants were handed out at the organization’s annual Spirit Awards nominees brunch, held at West Hollywood’s Boa Steakhouse, and saw Chris Ohlson, Dan Krauss and Rania Attich and Daniel Garcia take top spots.
“At Film Independent our mission is to support independent filmmakers all year long, helping them to get their films made and to build the audience for their work,” Welsh said.
“One of the...
- 1/10/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
This year’s Oscar race could make history with two possible best picture nominees directed by women — Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. If both women are nominated for best director, that would also be a historical moment. But though these accomplishments in the narrative field are possible, more women directors are breaking into the documentary categories. Four of the 15 shortlisted documentaries feature women at the helm: Jennifer Grausman (co-directed with Sam Cullman and Mark Becker) with Art and Craft, Tia Lessin (co-directed with Carl Deal) with Citizen Koch, Laura Poitras with Citizenfour and Rory Kennedy with Last Days in Vietnam. Additionally, three of the eight shortlisted documentary shorts feature female directors: Ellen Goosenberg Kent with Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Aneta Kopacz with Joanna and Lucy Walker with The Lion’s Mouth Opens. More often than not, women directors tend to...
Managing Editor
This year’s Oscar race could make history with two possible best picture nominees directed by women — Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. If both women are nominated for best director, that would also be a historical moment. But though these accomplishments in the narrative field are possible, more women directors are breaking into the documentary categories. Four of the 15 shortlisted documentaries feature women at the helm: Jennifer Grausman (co-directed with Sam Cullman and Mark Becker) with Art and Craft, Tia Lessin (co-directed with Carl Deal) with Citizen Koch, Laura Poitras with Citizenfour and Rory Kennedy with Last Days in Vietnam. Additionally, three of the eight shortlisted documentary shorts feature female directors: Ellen Goosenberg Kent with Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Aneta Kopacz with Joanna and Lucy Walker with The Lion’s Mouth Opens. More often than not, women directors tend to...
- 12/16/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Voting ends today for the Academy’s documentary branch who must narrow the list of 134 documentaries vying for a spot in the Oscar race to a shortlist of 15 films, which will be released in December. Of the 15 films, five Oscar nominees will be chosen in January.
Though a number of film festivals, such as the Savannah Film Fest, are becoming documentary hotspots, a number of Oscar-nominated documentaries premiere at the Sundance Film Festival each year. In the 21st century, seven of the Oscar winners have debuted in Utah: Born into Brothels (2004), March of the Penguins (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Man on Wire (2008), The Cove (2009), Searching for Sugar Man (2012) and 20 Feet from Stardom (2013).
The rest of the documentary winners were unveiled in the states (2000’s Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and 2001’s Murder on Sunday Morning) and at the Cannes, (2002’s Bowling for Columbine,...
Managing Editor
Voting ends today for the Academy’s documentary branch who must narrow the list of 134 documentaries vying for a spot in the Oscar race to a shortlist of 15 films, which will be released in December. Of the 15 films, five Oscar nominees will be chosen in January.
Though a number of film festivals, such as the Savannah Film Fest, are becoming documentary hotspots, a number of Oscar-nominated documentaries premiere at the Sundance Film Festival each year. In the 21st century, seven of the Oscar winners have debuted in Utah: Born into Brothels (2004), March of the Penguins (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Man on Wire (2008), The Cove (2009), Searching for Sugar Man (2012) and 20 Feet from Stardom (2013).
The rest of the documentary winners were unveiled in the states (2000’s Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and 2001’s Murder on Sunday Morning) and at the Cannes, (2002’s Bowling for Columbine,...
- 11/21/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Barbara Kopple in conversation with E-Team directors Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman at the Core Club: "You were in a situation that probably put you in great danger." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
While Doc NYC's opening night screening of David Thorpe's Do I Sound Gay was going on downtown, Barbara Kopple (Running From Crazy and Harlan County U.S.A.) was hosting a conversation with E-Team directors Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman uptown at the Core Club. D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, who are receiving Lifetime Achievement Awards together with Albert Maysles, were among those attending the reception and screening.
Last month, I spoke with the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo about his role in pursuing justice. The E-Team is another important force in collecting evidence to bring to light ongoing violations of human rights.
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus speak with Ross Kauffman...
While Doc NYC's opening night screening of David Thorpe's Do I Sound Gay was going on downtown, Barbara Kopple (Running From Crazy and Harlan County U.S.A.) was hosting a conversation with E-Team directors Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman uptown at the Core Club. D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, who are receiving Lifetime Achievement Awards together with Albert Maysles, were among those attending the reception and screening.
Last month, I spoke with the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo about his role in pursuing justice. The E-Team is another important force in collecting evidence to bring to light ongoing violations of human rights.
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus speak with Ross Kauffman...
- 11/14/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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
"Citizenfour," Poitras' first-person account of Edward Snowden’s Nsa leaks, was nominated in six categories including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. Iain Forsythe & Jane Pollard’s look at musician Nick Cave, "20,000 Days on Earth" and Steve James' Roger Ebert biodoc "Life Itself" follow with five apiece. They are joined in the Nonfiction Feature Film category by Jesse Moss's "The Overnighters," a portrait of a North Dakota oil boom town, which has two nominations, and "Virunga," Orlando von Einsiedel’s story of an African National Park under siege, which scored three. Thirty-six feature films and six shorts will vie for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Kate Amend, Nick Broomfield, Nanette Burstein, Nick Cave, Edwyn Collins, Marshall Curry, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Kirsten Johnson, Ross Kauffman, James Lapine, Frank Rich, Bill Simmons and Lucy Walker among this year’s...
- 11/12/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Well-known both for its political activities and for its long-running film festival, Human Rights Watch becomes the subject of a documentary itself in E-Team. Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman's film isn't a broad portrait of the organization. Instead, it focuses on four Europe-based case workers on the Hrw emergency team: Anna Neistat; her husband, Ole Solvang; Peter Bouckaert; and Fred Abrahams. Starting in 2011, they investigated human rights abuses in Syria and Libya. Initially, these are presented almost as if E-Team were a fictional adventure film and Neistat a female Indiana Jones. The emphasis on the team's daring amid mass chaos seems a bit off: This threatens to become yet another film about white Americans and Europeans telling the stories of Thi...
- 10/22/2014
- Village Voice
Jean-Marc Vallée’s awards contender Wild will receive its East Coast Premiere as the opening night screening at the festival, set to run from October 9-13.
Organisers announced that Laura Dern will be the focus of an on-stage conversation on October 11.
Bennett Miller’s awards contender Foxcatcher will screen on October 11 as the Saturday Centerpiece. Star Mark Ruffalo will take part in an on-stage interview the following day.
As previously announced, the East Coast premiere of The Homesman is the Sunday Centerpiece on October 12.
“Bennett Miller and Jean-Marc Vallée are two of the most exciting filmmakers working today, each of whose last films were nominated for the Academy Award for best picture,” said Hiff artistic director David Nugent. “Their latest films continue their evolution as artists and we are so proud to share their work with our audiences.”
The 15th year of Films of Conflict & Resolution programme comprises four documentaries and a narrative film, one of which...
Organisers announced that Laura Dern will be the focus of an on-stage conversation on October 11.
Bennett Miller’s awards contender Foxcatcher will screen on October 11 as the Saturday Centerpiece. Star Mark Ruffalo will take part in an on-stage interview the following day.
As previously announced, the East Coast premiere of The Homesman is the Sunday Centerpiece on October 12.
“Bennett Miller and Jean-Marc Vallée are two of the most exciting filmmakers working today, each of whose last films were nominated for the Academy Award for best picture,” said Hiff artistic director David Nugent. “Their latest films continue their evolution as artists and we are so proud to share their work with our audiences.”
The 15th year of Films of Conflict & Resolution programme comprises four documentaries and a narrative film, one of which...
- 9/18/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The first trailer for Netflix's upcoming original documentary “E-Team” will serve as another reminder of how much injustice plagues the world. The film follows a group of activists who dedicate and risk their lives to investigate and expose human rights abuses around the globe. See photos: 62 Fall TV Actors Ranked by Popularity Controversial leaders Bashar al-Assad and Muammar Gaddafi are among the Emergency Team's targets as they smuggle themselves across country lines to uncover crucial evidence for documenting crimes and capturing the world's attention. See video: ‘Virunga’ Trailer Chronicles the Fight to Protect Mountain Gorillas “E-Team,” directed by Oscar winner...
- 9/17/2014
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
The Academy has announced the new class of invited members for 2014 and, as is typical, many of which are among last year's nominees, which includes Barkhad Abdi, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong'o and June Squibb in the Actors branch not to mention curious additions such as Josh Hutcherson, Rob Riggle and Jason Statham, but, okay. The Directors branch adds Jay and Mark Duplass along with Jean-Marc Vallee, Denis Villeneuve and Thomas Vinterberg. I didn't do an immediate tally of male to female additions or other demographics, but at first glance it seems to be a wide spread batch of new additions on all fronts. The Academy is also clearly attempting to aggressively bump up the demographics as this is the second year in a row where they have added a large number of new members, well over the average of 133 new members from 2004 to 2012. As far as...
- 6/26/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.
“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”
The 2014 invitees are:
Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.
“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”
The 2014 invitees are:
Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave were two of the 271 artists and industry leaders invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which determines nominations and winners at the annual Oscars. The entire list of Academy membership—which numbers about 6,000—isn’t public information so the annual invitation list is often the best indication of the artists involved in the prestigious awards process. It’s worth noting that invitations need to be accepted in order for artists to become members; some artists, like two-time Best Actor winner Sean Penn, have declined membership over the years.
- 6/26/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Pop quiz: What do Chris Rock, Claire Denis, Eddie Vedder and Josh Hutcherson all have in common? Answer: They could all be Oscar voters very soon. The annual Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences invitation list always makes for interesting reading, shedding light on just how large and far-reaching the group's membership is -- or could be, depending on who accepts their invitations. This year, 271 individuals have been asked to join AMPAS, meaning every one of them could contribute to next year's Academy Awards balloting -- and it's as diverse a list as they've ever assembled. Think the Academy consists entirely of fusty retired white dudes? Not if recent Best Original Song nominee Pharrell Williams takes them up on their offer. Think it's all just a Hollywood insiders' game? Not if French arthouse titans Chantal Akerman and Olivier Assayas join the party. It's a list that subverts expectation at every turn.
- 6/26/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom’s film earned the festival’s audience award for best feature at the weekend.
The audience award for best short went To Beyond Recoginition: The Incredible Story Of A Face Transplant by Sam Thonis.
“Congratulations to An Honest Liar [pictured] and Beyond Recognition for winning over audiences with their remarkable stories,” said festival director Christine O’Malley. “We would like to thank all of the filmmakers who traveled from far and wide for making this year’s AFI Docs an extraordinary one.”
Several policymakers participated in festival events including Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
They were joined by South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool and Francois Rivasseau, deputy-head of the EU Delegation to the Us.
More than 100 filmmakers from 29 countries attended including Alex Gibney, Ross Kauffman, Joe Berlinger, Marshall Curry and Steve...
The audience award for best short went To Beyond Recoginition: The Incredible Story Of A Face Transplant by Sam Thonis.
“Congratulations to An Honest Liar [pictured] and Beyond Recognition for winning over audiences with their remarkable stories,” said festival director Christine O’Malley. “We would like to thank all of the filmmakers who traveled from far and wide for making this year’s AFI Docs an extraordinary one.”
Several policymakers participated in festival events including Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
They were joined by South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool and Francois Rivasseau, deputy-head of the EU Delegation to the Us.
More than 100 filmmakers from 29 countries attended including Alex Gibney, Ross Kauffman, Joe Berlinger, Marshall Curry and Steve...
- 6/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Direct from its world-premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Sff and Vivid Ideas are proud to present the Australian Premiere of the highly anticipated futuristic thriller The Rover and host director David Michôd, actors Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson and producer Liz Watts at the State Theatre on Saturday 7 June. The Rover screens as part of Sff’s Official Competition. Michôd, Pearce, Pattinson and Watts will also give a talk as part of Vivid Ideas at Town Hall on Sunday 8 June.
Actor Cate Blanchett will attend the Festival to introduce a special screening of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 the second chapter of the epic trilogy in which Blanchett is the voice of the character Valka. The screening is held at 2pm on Public Holiday Monday, 9 June, at Event Cinemas George Street.
UK visual artists and film directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard introduce Sff’s Opening Night Film,...
Actor Cate Blanchett will attend the Festival to introduce a special screening of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 the second chapter of the epic trilogy in which Blanchett is the voice of the character Valka. The screening is held at 2pm on Public Holiday Monday, 9 June, at Event Cinemas George Street.
UK visual artists and film directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard introduce Sff’s Opening Night Film,...
- 5/30/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Netflix has acquired the exclusive rights to three new documentaries, including two that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January. “The Battered Bastards of Baseball” chronicles actor Bing Russell and the creation of the Portland Mavericks, the only independent baseball team in America at the time. Russell's grandchildren Chapman Way and Maclain Way directed the film, which includes an interview with another famous actor — Kurt Russell, Bing's son. It will premiere on Netflix July 11. Also read: Netflix Gets Back Into the Movie Business: Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal? “E-Team,” directed by Oscar winner Ross Kauffman and Katy Cheivgny,...
- 5/9/2014
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Netflix plans to debut three original documentaries over the next few months. First up is The Battered Bastards Of Baseball. It chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America’s sole independent baseball team. Seen as a real-life version of the Bad News Bears, the Mavericks lasted three years before they were pushed out of Portland by the return of the major-league-backed Portland Beavers. The pic was co-directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way, produced by Juliana Lembi, exec produced by Nancy Schafer and includes cast members Kurt Russell (Bing Russell’s son) and Todd Fields. It’s set to premiere July 11 on Netflix. Also on the slate is Mission Blue. It tells the story of legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle and her impassioned campaign to save the world’s oceans from modern threats like climate change,...
- 5/9/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The 61st Sydney Film Festival today announced 32 films to be featured in this year.s event (June 4-15) in advance of the full program launch on May 7.
The line-up includes the world premiere of The Redfern Story, 19 Australian premieres, 13 features, 11 documentaries and an eight-film retrospective on maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman. Altman.s son, filmmaker Michael Altman, will attend festival and introduce several of the Altman screenings.
Darlene Johnson.s The Redfern Story chronicles the volatile birth of the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre. It features interviews with indigenous media pioneer Lester Bostock, writer Gerry Bostock, actor Lillian Crombie, activist-academic Gary Foley, academic Marcia Langton, actors Rachael Maza, Bryan Brown and Bindi Williams. .We are pleased to present this sneak preview of 32 of the 180-plus films in this year.s program,. said Festival Director Nashen Moodley. .We have gathered a selection of the best films from the...
The line-up includes the world premiere of The Redfern Story, 19 Australian premieres, 13 features, 11 documentaries and an eight-film retrospective on maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman. Altman.s son, filmmaker Michael Altman, will attend festival and introduce several of the Altman screenings.
Darlene Johnson.s The Redfern Story chronicles the volatile birth of the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre. It features interviews with indigenous media pioneer Lester Bostock, writer Gerry Bostock, actor Lillian Crombie, activist-academic Gary Foley, academic Marcia Langton, actors Rachael Maza, Bryan Brown and Bindi Williams. .We are pleased to present this sneak preview of 32 of the 180-plus films in this year.s program,. said Festival Director Nashen Moodley. .We have gathered a selection of the best films from the...
- 4/1/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Well, I said in my review that the high-tension Brazilian kidnap thriller "A Wolf at the Door" was highly impressive stuff, and it seems the jury at the Miami Film Festival agreed. Not only did Fernando Coimbras' debut feature take the top prize at last night's festival awards ceremony, beating nine other films in the Knight Competition for Spanish and Latin American narrative cinema, but Coimbras was further rewarded with the Best Director award. That the jury -- led by Spanish producer Enrique Lopez Lavigne, whose credits include "The Impossible" -- chose to doubly honor Coimbras in this fashion marks a serious show of faith in a filmmaker whose snappy arthouse-genre chops have serious crossover potential. ("A Wolf at the Door" also won the Latin Horizons section last year at the San Sebastian fest, where it premiered; Brazil has a formidable candidate for Oscar submission here.) It's not as if...
- 3/16/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
2014 is now in full swing, the Sundance Film Festival has closed its doors, and film festivals like South by Southwest and Tribeca are generating more buzz for the year’s noteworthy indie narratives and documentaries. In recent years, documentaries such as Restrepo, Gasland, and Searching For Sugarman went on to become heavyweights. This year’s contenders include topics taken from popular memoirs and biographies, along with subject matter pertaining to youths and youth culture. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of Sundance and non-Sundance documentaries to keep an eye out for this year, equipped with official synopsis and trailer when available. 2014 is shaping out to a versatile year in the documentary world, ranging from heavy-handed family dramas such as Tracy Droz Tragos’ and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill, to baseball biographies such as Chapman and Maclain Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball and Jeff Radice’s No No A Dockumentary,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Earning some prestigious honors at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Damien Chazelle’s "Whiplash" brought home the Grand Jury and Audience Prizes, kicking off the show on opening night (January 16).
After accepting the Grand Jury prize, Chazelle joked, "It was impossible to finance because no one wants to make a movie about a jazz drummer, which is a total shock to me."
The director then continued, saying, "Without people seeing (the short) here at Sundance, we wouldn’t be here today."
See the complete winners list below!
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
"Whiplash"
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
"Rich Hill"
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
"To Kill a Man"
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
"Return to Homs"
Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura
"Whiplash"
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura
"Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory"
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
"Difret...
After accepting the Grand Jury prize, Chazelle joked, "It was impossible to finance because no one wants to make a movie about a jazz drummer, which is a total shock to me."
The director then continued, saying, "Without people seeing (the short) here at Sundance, we wouldn’t be here today."
See the complete winners list below!
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
"Whiplash"
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
"Rich Hill"
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
"To Kill a Man"
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
"Return to Homs"
Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura
"Whiplash"
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura
"Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory"
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
"Difret...
- 1/26/2014
- GossipCenter
Photo by Dvrosa
It was another great year at the Sundance Film Festival! There were so many fantastic movies shown, and I still have a couple more to go. I'm really happy to say that Miles Teller and J.K. Simmon's film Whiplash took home the top two prizes, winning the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. This was my number one favorite film from the festival, and it seems like everyone else at the festival loved it too, so it doesn't surprise me that it won.
Here's the full list of winners:
Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, in Park City, Utah. Video of the ceremony in its entirety is available at www.sundance.org/live.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was...
It was another great year at the Sundance Film Festival! There were so many fantastic movies shown, and I still have a couple more to go. I'm really happy to say that Miles Teller and J.K. Simmon's film Whiplash took home the top two prizes, winning the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. This was my number one favorite film from the festival, and it seems like everyone else at the festival loved it too, so it doesn't surprise me that it won.
Here's the full list of winners:
Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, in Park City, Utah. Video of the ceremony in its entirety is available at www.sundance.org/live.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was...
- 1/26/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash was Day 1 feel good buzz title of the fest that ultimately served as a measuring stick for the other competing 15 titles in the section and as predicted below had a good chance at doing what last year’s Fruitvale did: when both major awards of its category. Now that I’ve completed a 15 hour nap, I can watch the ceremony below – and you can spoil the suspense by simply going over the other award winners in the multiple categories below. Next week we’ll be publishing our interviews with several of the filmmakers mentioned below. Congrats to the winners and non-winners.
Park City, Ut — Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, in Park City, Utah. Video of the ceremony in its entirety is available at www.
Park City, Ut — Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, in Park City, Utah. Video of the ceremony in its entirety is available at www.
- 1/26/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close today, no doubt over far too soon for the festivalgoers out in Park City. With the festival on the cusp of completion, the Sundance Institute has announced this year’s various awards winners, and it comes as no surprise that Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash has won big in the awards.
Recently acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide for international distribution, the Miles Teller-led drama has earned very promising buzz amongst early viewers, and as a further sign of what we’ve all got to look forward to later this year, it has won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category. Clearly, it’s impressed critics and the wider festivalgoers alike, which certainly bodes well.
Alejandro Fernández Almendras’s drama, To Kill a Man, won the Jury’s...
Recently acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide for international distribution, the Miles Teller-led drama has earned very promising buzz amongst early viewers, and as a further sign of what we’ve all got to look forward to later this year, it has won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category. Clearly, it’s impressed critics and the wider festivalgoers alike, which certainly bodes well.
Alejandro Fernández Almendras’s drama, To Kill a Man, won the Jury’s...
- 1/26/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 came to a close with the announcement of the jury, audience and other special awards winners.Scroll down for full list of winners
Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic prizes, while Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos’ Rich Hill won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary went to Return To Homs (Syria-Germany) by Talal Derki and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to To Kill A Man (Chile-France) by Alejandro Fernández Almendras.
The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary went to Michael Rossato-Bennett’s Alive Inside: A Story Of Music & Memory (Us).
The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary went to The Green Prince (Germany-Israel-uk) by Nadav Schirman and the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s Difret (Ethiopia).
The Audience Award: Best Of Next...
Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic prizes, while Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos’ Rich Hill won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary went to Return To Homs (Syria-Germany) by Talal Derki and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to To Kill A Man (Chile-France) by Alejandro Fernández Almendras.
The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary went to Michael Rossato-Bennett’s Alive Inside: A Story Of Music & Memory (Us).
The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary went to The Green Prince (Germany-Israel-uk) by Nadav Schirman and the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s Difret (Ethiopia).
The Audience Award: Best Of Next...
- 1/26/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Grand Jury Prize – Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle
Directing Award – Cutter Hodierne, Fishing Without Nets
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Craig Johnson & Mark Heyman, The Skeleton Twins
Excellence in Cinematography Award – Christopher Blauvelt, Low Down
Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent – Justin Simien, writer-director of Dear White People
Special Jury Award for Musical Score – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Audience Award – Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle
U.S. Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize – Rich Hill, directed by Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos
Directing Award – Ben Cotner & Ryan White, The Case Against 8
Editing Award – Jenny Golden & Karen Sim, Watchers in the Sky
Excellence in Cinematography Award – Rachel Beth Anderson & Ross Kauffman, E-Team
Special Jury Prize – The Overnighters, directed by Jesse Moss
Special Jury Award for Animation – Watchers in the Sky
Audience Award – Alive Inside, directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Grand Jury Prize – To Kill a Man,...
Grand Jury Prize – Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle
Directing Award – Cutter Hodierne, Fishing Without Nets
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Craig Johnson & Mark Heyman, The Skeleton Twins
Excellence in Cinematography Award – Christopher Blauvelt, Low Down
Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent – Justin Simien, writer-director of Dear White People
Special Jury Award for Musical Score – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Audience Award – Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle
U.S. Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize – Rich Hill, directed by Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos
Directing Award – Ben Cotner & Ryan White, The Case Against 8
Editing Award – Jenny Golden & Karen Sim, Watchers in the Sky
Excellence in Cinematography Award – Rachel Beth Anderson & Ross Kauffman, E-Team
Special Jury Prize – The Overnighters, directed by Jesse Moss
Special Jury Award for Animation – Watchers in the Sky
Audience Award – Alive Inside, directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Grand Jury Prize – To Kill a Man,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Whiplash, director Damien Chazelle’s story of a young jazz drummer, took home both the U.S. Grand Jury and Audience Dramatic awards at the Sundance Film Festival awards Saturday night. The film grew out of a short from Chazelle that won the Short Film Jury Award at Sundance in 2013.
Rich Hill, a story about a community in rural Missouri, won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury award and Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, about how music can help dementia patients, won the U.S. Audience Documentary award. Co-screenwriters Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman were honored with the...
Rich Hill, a story about a community in rural Missouri, won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury award and Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, about how music can help dementia patients, won the U.S. Audience Documentary award. Co-screenwriters Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman were honored with the...
- 1/26/2014
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW - Inside Movies
Park City, Utah -- They arrive first on the scene during international atrocities, but they don't carry weaponry or possess Seal-like skills. They are the E-Team, or, The Emergencies Team. They charge to international crisis spots where human rights violations surely have been violated. This puts them smack dab in such places as Syria and Libya. They confront barbarism and vow to ferret out accountability. If discovered, they face torture and death. In this spellbinding story, filmmakers Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman thrust us into the red-alert lives of four E-Team members. It's a comprehensive portrayal of
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- 1/23/2014
- by Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rachel Beth Anderson, cinematographer of the documentary "E-Team," screening at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, told Indiewire about her experience shooting the film. Directed by Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman, "E-Team" follows a group of individuals selected by the Human Rights Watch to document war crimes around the world. Anderson has previously shot a variety of projects for PBS Frontline Films, Hrw features and CNN. What camera and lens did you use? I used a Canon 5D Mark II & III and Canon C300. I'm usually working by myself in areas where you have to be quick on your feet so I pack a small kit. I relied mainly on a range of Canon L series lenses (standards 24-105, 70-200, 24 1:4mm, 16-35), and I love the new Canon Cinema lenses. When possible I treat myself to renting Ziess cinema lenses! What was the most difficult shot on your movie, and how did you pull it off?...
- 1/23/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
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