In tribute to the opening of the 2013 Tribeca FIlm Festival and its strong documentary roster, New York Magazine’s David Edelstein offers a rhapsodic ode to non-fiction cinema.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/edelstein-documentary-is-better-than-filmmaking.html
What comes to mind when you think of telephone hotlines? Suicide? Sex? Ms. Cleo? He-Man? Hulk Hogan? Teen party lines? Yes, those are a few, but hotlines are everywhere and millions of calls are made to them each week. Continue reading “Doc Studies Alum Lauren Belfer is the producer of HOTLINE”
Debra Zimmerman from Women Make Movies joined us for a conversation on maximizing film’s outreach—eg. getting into the right film festivals, finding a distributor, getting your work broadcast—in the ever shifting landscape of indie media marketing and distribution. Since 1983, Debra Zimmerman has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, a non-profit NY-based organization that supports women filmmakers.
Continue reading “Doc Talk: Debra Zimmerrman on Distribution – How to Promote Your Film? (2013)”
The extreme and visceral Leviathan, by visual anthropologists Lucien-Castaing Taylor and Verena Paravel, opens this Friday at the IFC Center. A must-see.
What we talk about when we talk about editing. Renowned editor Jonathan Oppenheim (Paris is Burning, Arguing the World, Sister Helen, and the upcoming Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner) screened and discussed the ways in which he worked with director Laura Poitras to create a framework and context for the post 9/11 film The Oath. Oppenheim’s psychological approach to shaping character in documentary has won him a Peabody, an Oscar nomination and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Julia Loktev, director of The Loneliest Planet, on many critics’ ‘best of 2012’ film lists, made her remarkable debut with the documentary Moment of Impact, for which she won the Directing Award at Sundance in 1998. Shot in 16mm black and white, the film is a stark portrayal of Loktev’s parents after a freak accident incapacitated her father. The rigor of mundane quotidian life, redolent of Chantal Akerman’s iconic Jeanne Dielman, powers the film’s intimate non-fiction family drama.
Documentary Fortnight, MoMA’s annual showcase of recent nonfiction film and media, returns this week with an International selection of 23 films , along with three thematic programs, that examine the relationship between contemporary art and nonfiction filmmaking, and reflect on new areas of nonfiction practice.
Continue reading “DOC FORTNIGHT 2013 — MOMA — Feb. 15 through March 4”
Anders Birch, a graduate of the 2011 Doc Studies program, co-directed with Didde Einif A Leaf falls to the Sky, a 37-minute documentary on writer Knud Romer during the aftermath of his father’s end-of-life experience. Continue reading “Doc studies alum, Anders Birch — Nominated for Best Doc Short by the Robert Prize (Denmark’s Oscars)”
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