Mubi has unveiled their November 2023 lineup, featuring notable new releases such as Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty and Alain Gomis’ Thelonious Monk documentary Rewind & Play. Also in the lineup is three stellar earlier films from Christian Petzold––Yella, Jerichow, and The State I Am In––along with John Cassavetes’ Husbands and Gloria, a Hayao Miyazaki short, and a retrospective dedicated to Argentinian-born, French-educated filmmaker and theorist Nelly Kaplan.
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November 1
A Very Curious Girl, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
The Pleasure of Love, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
Charles and Lucie, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
Papa the Little Boats, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
Yella, directed by Christian Petzold | Phantoms Among Us: The Films of Christian Petzold
Jerichow,...
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November 1
A Very Curious Girl, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
The Pleasure of Love, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
Charles and Lucie, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
Papa the Little Boats, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan
Yella, directed by Christian Petzold | Phantoms Among Us: The Films of Christian Petzold
Jerichow,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel (VdR), which revealed its industry program last week, has unveiled its full lineup as it prepares to welcome participants both in person and online. A total of 160 films will be screened throughout the fest, which runs from April 7 through to April 17 in half a dozen venues in and around the city of Nyon.
While the event is back in its physical form, organizers have learned from the past two editions and decided to keep a strong online presence. “We realized it’s a way of expanding the spectrum of people taking part. It’s not about replacing the theaters, but most of the films won’t be released so I feel it’s our job to go beyond and reach the people who cannot attend physically,” the festival’s artistic director Emilie Bujès told Variety.
A selection of around 50 films will be accessible...
While the event is back in its physical form, organizers have learned from the past two editions and decided to keep a strong online presence. “We realized it’s a way of expanding the spectrum of people taking part. It’s not about replacing the theaters, but most of the films won’t be released so I feel it’s our job to go beyond and reach the people who cannot attend physically,” the festival’s artistic director Emilie Bujès told Variety.
A selection of around 50 films will be accessible...
- 3/15/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Translated by Sayyed Ali Sharifi
Hassan Fazili is the director of “Midnight Traveler“, a film we included in the Best West Asian Films of 2020, and which is now screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Instead of an intro, we have included the director’s own words:
First I want to write a little about what happened before making this film so that you can know more about my living conditions and motivation for making this film: I was threatened by the Taliban for making a TV documentary called “Peace” and the cultural and artistic activities of the “Art Cafe” in Kabul, and I fled the country with my family to Tajikistan to survive.
In Tajikistan, I tried for more than a year to find a safe haven for my family, but I did not succeed. No country had accepted our asylum application and there was no legal way to save us from that situation.
Hassan Fazili is the director of “Midnight Traveler“, a film we included in the Best West Asian Films of 2020, and which is now screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Instead of an intro, we have included the director’s own words:
First I want to write a little about what happened before making this film so that you can know more about my living conditions and motivation for making this film: I was threatened by the Taliban for making a TV documentary called “Peace” and the cultural and artistic activities of the “Art Cafe” in Kabul, and I fled the country with my family to Tajikistan to survive.
In Tajikistan, I tried for more than a year to find a safe haven for my family, but I did not succeed. No country had accepted our asylum application and there was no legal way to save us from that situation.
- 3/8/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Having already won more than 20 awards from festivals all over the world, including ones in Sundance, Berlin and Thessaloniki, “Midnight Traveler” has emerged as one of the best documentaries of the year, as it continues its festival run.
Midnight Traveler is screening at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The documentary begins in 2015, in Tajikistan, where Hassan Fazili, an Afghan filmmaker, his wife and also filmmaker Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughter, Nargis and Zahra, are about to leave the country after a 14 months stay that was instigated by the Taliban targeting them in Kabul. Just before they leave, they made an agreement with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan and the editor of the film, to shoot their trip in their mobile phones and send her the footage in order to come up with a documentary. The result, four years later, was “Midnight Traveler”.
What makes “Midnight Traveler...
Midnight Traveler is screening at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The documentary begins in 2015, in Tajikistan, where Hassan Fazili, an Afghan filmmaker, his wife and also filmmaker Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughter, Nargis and Zahra, are about to leave the country after a 14 months stay that was instigated by the Taliban targeting them in Kabul. Just before they leave, they made an agreement with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan and the editor of the film, to shoot their trip in their mobile phones and send her the footage in order to come up with a documentary. The result, four years later, was “Midnight Traveler”.
What makes “Midnight Traveler...
- 3/6/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival goes online and presents the best documentaries from all over the world, an exciting feature and the most thrilling documentaries for children and young people. 50 documentaries in total will be presented from Thursday March 4 to Sunday March 14, 2021, through the Festival’s digital platform Here.
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be held this year in a hybrid way. From March 4 – 14, 2021 it will take place online through the Festival platform for viewers in Greece and from June 24 until July 4, 2021 it will take place in physical spaces and online. The Festival’s three competition sections and the Greek documentary production will be presented during the summer.
Here are the Asian Titles of the Festival:
“The Train Stop”
by Sergei Loznitsa
Destination: Journey
This section explores the modern experience of travelling and our relationship with it through the fascinating tribute Destination: Journey that includes a total of 22 films; 20 documentaries and two fiction films.
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be held this year in a hybrid way. From March 4 – 14, 2021 it will take place online through the Festival platform for viewers in Greece and from June 24 until July 4, 2021 it will take place in physical spaces and online. The Festival’s three competition sections and the Greek documentary production will be presented during the summer.
Here are the Asian Titles of the Festival:
“The Train Stop”
by Sergei Loznitsa
Destination: Journey
This section explores the modern experience of travelling and our relationship with it through the fascinating tribute Destination: Journey that includes a total of 22 films; 20 documentaries and two fiction films.
- 3/1/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Translated by Sayyed Ali Sharifi
Hassan Fazili is the director of “Midnight Traveler“, a film we included in the Best West Asian Films of 2020, and which was screened at Herat International Women’s Film Festival. Instead of an intro, we have included the director’s own words:
First I want to write a little about what happened before making this film so that you can know more about my living conditions and motivation for making this film: I was threatened by the Taliban for making a TV documentary called “Peace” and the cultural and artistic activities of the “Art Cafe” in Kabul, and I fled the country with my family to Tajikistan to survive.
In Tajikistan, I tried for more than a year to find a safe haven for my family, but I did not succeed. No country had accepted our asylum application and there was no legal way to save us from that situation.
Hassan Fazili is the director of “Midnight Traveler“, a film we included in the Best West Asian Films of 2020, and which was screened at Herat International Women’s Film Festival. Instead of an intro, we have included the director’s own words:
First I want to write a little about what happened before making this film so that you can know more about my living conditions and motivation for making this film: I was threatened by the Taliban for making a TV documentary called “Peace” and the cultural and artistic activities of the “Art Cafe” in Kabul, and I fled the country with my family to Tajikistan to survive.
In Tajikistan, I tried for more than a year to find a safe haven for my family, but I did not succeed. No country had accepted our asylum application and there was no legal way to save us from that situation.
- 12/25/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Since, for the past few years we have intensified our coverage of films that do not belong in the S/Se Asia or the Asean countries, we decided, for the first time, to have a list that deals with movies from outside these regions, essentially including movies from all Asian countries that do not belong in the aforementioned three. The list is probably the most diverse, as it includes films from Israel, Kazakhstan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Palaistine and Kurdistan, although, expectedly, being one of the largest film industries in Asia, Iran has the lion’s share.
Without further ado, here are the best West Asian films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
*By clicking on the title, you can read the full review of the film
20. The Death of Cinema and my Father
“The Death...
Without further ado, here are the best West Asian films of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
*By clicking on the title, you can read the full review of the film
20. The Death of Cinema and my Father
“The Death...
- 12/22/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Having already won more than 20 awards from festivals all over the world, including ones in Sundance, Berlin and Thessaloniki, “Midnight Traveler” has emerged as one of the best documentaries of the year, as it continues its festival run.
Midnight Traveler screened at the Herat International Women’s Film Festival
The documentary begins in 2015, in Tajikistan, where Hassan Fazili, an Afghan filmmaker, his wife and also filmmaker Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughter, Nargis and Zahra, are about to leave the country after a 14 months stay that was instigated by the Taliban targeting them in Kabul. Just before they leave, they made an agreement with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan and the editor of the film, to shoot their trip in their mobile phones and send her the footage in order to come up with a documentary. The result, four years later, was “Midnight Traveler”.
What makes...
Midnight Traveler screened at the Herat International Women’s Film Festival
The documentary begins in 2015, in Tajikistan, where Hassan Fazili, an Afghan filmmaker, his wife and also filmmaker Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughter, Nargis and Zahra, are about to leave the country after a 14 months stay that was instigated by the Taliban targeting them in Kabul. Just before they leave, they made an agreement with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan and the editor of the film, to shoot their trip in their mobile phones and send her the footage in order to come up with a documentary. The result, four years later, was “Midnight Traveler”.
What makes...
- 11/24/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The closing and award ceremony of the 6th edition of Herat International Women’s Film Festival kicked off on Thursday evening, November 19 at Darul Aman new-constructed historical palace in Kabul city, with presence of national and international invitees from different countries; cinema professionals, movie stars, women and human rights activists and government authorities, including the Minister of Information and culture Mr. Tahir Zahir and Nargis Abyar, director of acclaimed Iranian drama “Track 143”, “Breath” and “When the Moon Was Full” who served as a jury member for the International Narrative Feature Films Competition.
The ceremony began with a live music performance by the Zohra Orchestra (Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra) and was presented jointly by one of the co-founders and program managers of the festival and Tolo TV’s famous presenter Aimal Asifi, and Manizha Abassi, writer and poet. Initially, the presenters offered their heartfelt thanks, on behalf of the festival,...
The ceremony began with a live music performance by the Zohra Orchestra (Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra) and was presented jointly by one of the co-founders and program managers of the festival and Tolo TV’s famous presenter Aimal Asifi, and Manizha Abassi, writer and poet. Initially, the presenters offered their heartfelt thanks, on behalf of the festival,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
News & Documentary Emmys: PBS & ‘Pov’ Lead On Night 2; Pubcaster Tops CNN For Overall Count – Update
Updated, 7:11 Pm: PBS and its veteran series Pov were the big winners on Night 2 of the first multi-ceremony News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Tuesday, which spotlight the documentarties. The pubcaster took five trophies including four for Pov. See the full list of Night 2 winners here.
HBO was second with three wins on Tuesday night, followed by National Geographic and Netflix with two apiece (see chart at left). The 41st awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Combined with its five wins on Monday, PBS led all networks and platforms with 10 Emmys overall (see chart below).
Perennial News & Doc Emmy favorite Pov took two of the top-tier categories for separate episodes. Its “Midnight Traveler,” which follows Afghan director Hassan Fazili and his family as they flee a Taliban bounty on his head, won for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary. Episode “The Silence of Others,” about struggle...
HBO was second with three wins on Tuesday night, followed by National Geographic and Netflix with two apiece (see chart at left). The 41st awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Combined with its five wins on Monday, PBS led all networks and platforms with 10 Emmys overall (see chart below).
Perennial News & Doc Emmy favorite Pov took two of the top-tier categories for separate episodes. Its “Midnight Traveler,” which follows Afghan director Hassan Fazili and his family as they flee a Taliban bounty on his head, won for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary. Episode “The Silence of Others,” about struggle...
- 9/23/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
For its first edition the International Migration Film Festival has assembled a diverse lineup of eight titles tackling the plight of refugees and migrants around the world and running the gamut from feelgood comedy to gut-wrenching dramas and docs.
They will vie for a best feature film award worth €15,000 and also a prize for most inspiring script worth €5,000, both to be decided by a prestigious international jury comprising Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who serves as jury president, American actor Danny Glover, Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini, Bosnian actor Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, and British costume designer Sandy Powell.
The selection, which will be visible in Turkey June 14-21 on the FestivalScope platform, serves as a nice primer of recent pics tackling the topic, but also as “a reminder to not let people forget about refugees” during this time when the coronavirus pandemic – which has also greatly added to...
They will vie for a best feature film award worth €15,000 and also a prize for most inspiring script worth €5,000, both to be decided by a prestigious international jury comprising Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who serves as jury president, American actor Danny Glover, Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini, Bosnian actor Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, and British costume designer Sandy Powell.
The selection, which will be visible in Turkey June 14-21 on the FestivalScope platform, serves as a nice primer of recent pics tackling the topic, but also as “a reminder to not let people forget about refugees” during this time when the coronavirus pandemic – which has also greatly added to...
- 6/15/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Turkey, which hosts the largest number of migrants in the world, is launching the International Migration Film Festival that aims to boost awareness of their plight and will also serve as a primer of global cinematic output on this timely topic.
There are currently an estimated roughly 4 million migrants in Turkey, most of whom are refugees from war-torn Syria. The festival is a Turkish government initiative being organized by a team of independent local film event professionals. For its first edition the team has assembled a rich lineup of more than 40 films from 25 countries and recruited some big names including Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who serves as jury president (see interview), F. Murray Abraham, Danny Glover, Lone Scherfig, Matt Dillon and Turkish star Tuba Buyukustun, her country’s first International Emmy Award Nominee, also known across the Middle East as Lamiss.
Abraham, who is the son of a Syrian migrant and...
There are currently an estimated roughly 4 million migrants in Turkey, most of whom are refugees from war-torn Syria. The festival is a Turkish government initiative being organized by a team of independent local film event professionals. For its first edition the team has assembled a rich lineup of more than 40 films from 25 countries and recruited some big names including Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who serves as jury president (see interview), F. Murray Abraham, Danny Glover, Lone Scherfig, Matt Dillon and Turkish star Tuba Buyukustun, her country’s first International Emmy Award Nominee, also known across the Middle East as Lamiss.
Abraham, who is the son of a Syrian migrant and...
- 6/15/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Iryna Tsilyk's film has won in both the international and national competitions, while Salt from Bonneville received the Ukrainian Film Institute Award in the Ukrainian Doc Preview industry section. The 17th Kiev-based International Human Rights Film Festival Docudays UA took place online from 24 April-3 May and wrapped with Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk's The Earth Is Blue as an Orange winning the main awards in both the international Docu/World and the national Docu/Ukraine competitions, each worth $1,000. The film world-premiered at Sundance earlier this year, where Tsilyk bagged the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary section. In the Rights Now! section, the main prize went to the 2019 Sundance hit Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili, which also received the Current Time Award. Special Mentions in this competition were given to the South African-Swedish co-production Buddha in Africa by Nicole Schafer and War Note by Ukraine's Roman Liubyi, which also.
Also opening: ‘Just Mercy’, ‘Waves’, ‘A Hidden Life’.
Awards contender Bombshell goes up against franchise reboot Bad Boys For Life at the UK box office this weekend.
Released through Lionsgate, Bombshell tells the true story of several women at Fox News who exposed former CEO Roger Ailes for multiple cases of sexual harassment in 2016.
The film stars Charlize Theron as Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, with Nicole Kidman as fellow host Gretchen Carlson and Margot Robbie as a young producer at the network who is a composite of several people.
Directed by Jay Roach, Bombshell has garnered significant awards attention,...
Awards contender Bombshell goes up against franchise reboot Bad Boys For Life at the UK box office this weekend.
Released through Lionsgate, Bombshell tells the true story of several women at Fox News who exposed former CEO Roger Ailes for multiple cases of sexual harassment in 2016.
The film stars Charlize Theron as Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, with Nicole Kidman as fellow host Gretchen Carlson and Margot Robbie as a young producer at the network who is a composite of several people.
Directed by Jay Roach, Bombshell has garnered significant awards attention,...
- 1/17/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Filmed entirely on smartphones, Hassan Fazili’s powerful documentary charts his family’s perilous, gruelling trek to sanctuary in Europe
At the end of last year, I was complaining that some documentaries are starting to feel meagre and negligible. Well, here’s something to prove me wrong. Life during wartime is the theme of this gripping cine-journal from Afghan film-maker Hassan Fazili. Midnight Traveler is his personal film about the gruelling odyssey undertaken by his family as they fled Afghanistan in 2015, making the brutal overland trek through Tajikistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary on a mission to seek refuge in the European Union. On the way, they face threats of rape and violence, theft and finally abandonment from their unscrupulous smugglers – and racist attacks in Bulgaria.
He avowedly shot this whole feature on smartphones – keeping them charged must have been one of his lesser nightmares – and the Us-based film-maker...
At the end of last year, I was complaining that some documentaries are starting to feel meagre and negligible. Well, here’s something to prove me wrong. Life during wartime is the theme of this gripping cine-journal from Afghan film-maker Hassan Fazili. Midnight Traveler is his personal film about the gruelling odyssey undertaken by his family as they fled Afghanistan in 2015, making the brutal overland trek through Tajikistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary on a mission to seek refuge in the European Union. On the way, they face threats of rape and violence, theft and finally abandonment from their unscrupulous smugglers – and racist attacks in Bulgaria.
He avowedly shot this whole feature on smartphones – keeping them charged must have been one of his lesser nightmares – and the Us-based film-maker...
- 1/15/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“American Factory” has been named the best documentary of 2019 at the 13th annual Cinema Eye Honors ceremony, which were presented on Monday evening in New York City.
The film, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, and distributed by Netflix, is an examination of an Ohio glass factory that was taken over by a Chinese company in an uneasy cultural alliance. It prevailed in a category in which all six nominees — “American Factory,” “Apollo 11,” “For Sama,” “Honeyland,” “Midnight Family” and “One Child Nation” — are also on the Oscars shortlist for documentary features.
The “American Factory” directors, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, also won the award for Outstanding Direction. The Outstanding Production category resulted in a tie between two films set in Syria, “The Cave” and “For Sama.”
Also Read: 'For Sama' Is Named Top Doc at Ida Documentary Awards
“Honeyland” won for cinematography,...
The film, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, and distributed by Netflix, is an examination of an Ohio glass factory that was taken over by a Chinese company in an uneasy cultural alliance. It prevailed in a category in which all six nominees — “American Factory,” “Apollo 11,” “For Sama,” “Honeyland,” “Midnight Family” and “One Child Nation” — are also on the Oscars shortlist for documentary features.
The “American Factory” directors, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, also won the award for Outstanding Direction. The Outstanding Production category resulted in a tie between two films set in Syria, “The Cave” and “For Sama.”
Also Read: 'For Sama' Is Named Top Doc at Ida Documentary Awards
“Honeyland” won for cinematography,...
- 1/7/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2019-2020 movie awards season got underway on Monday night, December 2, with the presentation of the Gotham Awards for independent film. Presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), these prizes are decided by juries of industry peers and have honored Oscar winners like “Sideways” (2004), “Capote” (2005), “The Hurt Locker” (2009), “Spotlight” (2015) and “Moonlight” (2016). So who took top honors this year? Scroll down for the complete list in all 10 categories, updated live as they were announced.
“Marriage Story,” “The Farewell” and “Uncut Gems” led the nominations with three apiece. Those three films were up for Best Feature along with “Hustlers” and “Waves.”
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“Marriage Story” was the highest-profile Oscar contender among those nominees, but did that mean it was a surefire winner? The jury voting process opens the door for underdogs and left-field choices like last year’s champ “The Rider,” which beat Oscar...
“Marriage Story,” “The Farewell” and “Uncut Gems” led the nominations with three apiece. Those three films were up for Best Feature along with “Hustlers” and “Waves.”
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“Marriage Story” was the highest-profile Oscar contender among those nominees, but did that mean it was a surefire winner? The jury voting process opens the door for underdogs and left-field choices like last year’s champ “The Rider,” which beat Oscar...
- 12/3/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: The long-running PBS documentary series Pov has acquired U.S. broadcast rights to Midnight Traveler, the Hassan Fazili-directed feature that been collecting awards-season noms since it bowed this year winning a jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Pov, produced by American Documentary, will air the docu for the first time on Monday, December 30 as the second-to-last episode of the series’ 32nd season, followed by The Rescue List in March 2020.
Midnight Traveler is an autobiographical documentary chronicling the perilous journey Fazili’s family takes across central and west Asia, to Europe, after the Taliban puts a bounty on the Afghan director’s head. He is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters, capturing along the way the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
“There are many stories about refugees, but rarely do producers and news editors...
Pov, produced by American Documentary, will air the docu for the first time on Monday, December 30 as the second-to-last episode of the series’ 32nd season, followed by The Rescue List in March 2020.
Midnight Traveler is an autobiographical documentary chronicling the perilous journey Fazili’s family takes across central and west Asia, to Europe, after the Taliban puts a bounty on the Afghan director’s head. He is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters, capturing along the way the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
“There are many stories about refugees, but rarely do producers and news editors...
- 11/18/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Beyonce’s “Homecoming” has landed three nominations to lead all films in the first round of noms for the Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based awards ceremony established in 2007 to honor all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking.
In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.
It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”
Also Read: 'Homecoming' Film Review: Beyoncé's Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.
In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.
It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”
Also Read: 'Homecoming' Film Review: Beyoncé's Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.
- 10/24/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2019-2020 movie awards season is underway with the 2019 Gotham Award nominations, which were announced on October 24. These awards are presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) and honor the best indie achievements of the year as decided by small committees of film journalists and festival programmers. Their nominees for Best Feature are “The Farewell,” “Hustlers,” “Marriage Story,” “Uncut Gems” and “Waves.” Scroll down to see the complete list of contenders.
Ifp executive director Jeffrey Sharp said in a statement, “We congratulate the 2019 Ifp Gotham Award nominees and are excited to recognize these artists on December 2nd here in New York, a city known for its great tradition of independent storytelling. This year has been filled with brilliant performances and dynamic work across film and television and we look forward to celebrating these achievements together.”
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The winners will be presented...
Ifp executive director Jeffrey Sharp said in a statement, “We congratulate the 2019 Ifp Gotham Award nominees and are excited to recognize these artists on December 2nd here in New York, a city known for its great tradition of independent storytelling. This year has been filled with brilliant performances and dynamic work across film and television and we look forward to celebrating these achievements together.”
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- 10/24/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Also up for best feature are Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers and Trey Edward Shults’ Waves.
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell lead this year’s Ifp Gotham Awards nominations, with three nods apiece.
They are each up for best feature alongside Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers and Trey Edward Shults’ Waves.
Netflix’s Marriage Story and A24’s Uncut Gems have also earned best actor nominations for Adam Driver and Adam Sandler respectively. They will compete against Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse, Aldis Hodge for Clemency and André Holland for High Flying Bird.
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell lead this year’s Ifp Gotham Awards nominations, with three nods apiece.
They are each up for best feature alongside Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers and Trey Edward Shults’ Waves.
Netflix’s Marriage Story and A24’s Uncut Gems have also earned best actor nominations for Adam Driver and Adam Sandler respectively. They will compete against Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse, Aldis Hodge for Clemency and André Holland for High Flying Bird.
- 10/24/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
The precursor season has begun, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, the Gotham Awards have announced their nominations for 2019. This independent body obviously cites indie works, but with the potential landscape of the Oscar race this year, they’ve got a ton of potential players eligible here. As such, when you gaze at the list of nominees for this year, it’s no surprise that it’s littered with Academy Award contenders. Don’t expect the massive blockbusters and major studio hopefuls, obviously, but a solid crop of titles from the impending race are represented. Gotham did a very strong job again this year, setting us up to potentially have a 2019 awards season to remember. Leading the way here with three nominations apiece are The Farewell, The Last Black Man in San Francisco (though not cited in Best Feature), Marriage Story, and Uncut Gems. Right behind them with a pair of citations each were Clemency,...
- 10/24/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Nominations for the 29th Gotham Awards, the annual indie-heavy honors from the Independent Filmmaker Project, were unveiled Thursday morning, marking the sort of unofficial kickoff to the movie awards season.
A24 and Netflix were the big winners, with the studio’s The Farewell, Uncut Gems and The Last Black Man in San Francisco scoring a leading three noms apiece overall, as did the streamer’s Marriage Story.
The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Marriage Story also are in the marquee Best Feature race in this morning’s nominations, joined by yet another A24 title, Waves, and Hustlers, the Stx film starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu.
Big individual names getting the call today include Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems, Awkwafina for the Sundance hit The Farewell , Elisabeth Moss for Her Smell and Alfre Woodard for Clemency in the acting categories; and Olivia Wilde scoring a Breakthrough Director nom for UA Relasing’s Booksmart.
A24 and Netflix were the big winners, with the studio’s The Farewell, Uncut Gems and The Last Black Man in San Francisco scoring a leading three noms apiece overall, as did the streamer’s Marriage Story.
The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Marriage Story also are in the marquee Best Feature race in this morning’s nominations, joined by yet another A24 title, Waves, and Hustlers, the Stx film starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu.
Big individual names getting the call today include Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems, Awkwafina for the Sundance hit The Farewell , Elisabeth Moss for Her Smell and Alfre Woodard for Clemency in the acting categories; and Olivia Wilde scoring a Breakthrough Director nom for UA Relasing’s Booksmart.
- 10/24/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Aretha Franklin documentary “Amazing Grace,” the moon-mission chronicle “Apollo 11” and the first film from Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, “American Factory,” have made the short list for the International Documentary Association’s 2019 Ida Documentary Awards, the Ida announced on Thursday.
The announcement narrows the field to 30 feature films and 21 shorts that will move on to a second round of voting.
The IDA’s short list of 30 feature films contains 10 films that were on Doc NYC’s recent 15-film list of the year’s likeliest nonfiction awards contenders: “American Factory,” “The Apollo,” “Apollo 11,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “The Cave,” “Diego Maradona,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “For Sama,” “Honeyland” and “One Child Nation.”
Additional films on the Ida’s list include “Amazing Grace,...
The announcement narrows the field to 30 feature films and 21 shorts that will move on to a second round of voting.
The IDA’s short list of 30 feature films contains 10 films that were on Doc NYC’s recent 15-film list of the year’s likeliest nonfiction awards contenders: “American Factory,” “The Apollo,” “Apollo 11,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “The Cave,” “Diego Maradona,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “For Sama,” “Honeyland” and “One Child Nation.”
Additional films on the Ida’s list include “Amazing Grace,...
- 10/10/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Pictured: Louise Detlefsen and Louise Kjeldsen’s “Fat Front,” about a rebellious movement started by plus-sized women in Scandinavia, world premieres at Idfa.
Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, whose 1967 short “The Perfect Human” inspired fellow countryman Lars Von Trier as a film student, will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Idfa this year. The prolific 82-year-old, based in Haiti, is just one of a number of non-fiction heavyweights to be celebrated at the Amsterdam festival, which will also offer posthumous tributes to Agnes Varda and D.A. Pennebaker, who passed away this year.
Under festival director Orwa Nyrabia, in his second year, Idfa continues to focus on directors from emerging territories as well as films dealing with pressing contemporary issues. In the Frontlight section, Claudia Sparrow’s “Maxima” deals with a Peruvian farmer forced to defend her land against the gold-mining industry; Jia Yuchuan’s “The Two Lives of Li Ermao...
Danish documentarian Jørgen Leth, whose 1967 short “The Perfect Human” inspired fellow countryman Lars Von Trier as a film student, will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Idfa this year. The prolific 82-year-old, based in Haiti, is just one of a number of non-fiction heavyweights to be celebrated at the Amsterdam festival, which will also offer posthumous tributes to Agnes Varda and D.A. Pennebaker, who passed away this year.
Under festival director Orwa Nyrabia, in his second year, Idfa continues to focus on directors from emerging territories as well as films dealing with pressing contemporary issues. In the Frontlight section, Claudia Sparrow’s “Maxima” deals with a Peruvian farmer forced to defend her land against the gold-mining industry; Jia Yuchuan’s “The Two Lives of Li Ermao...
- 10/8/2019
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
16th festival under the direction of Hronn Marinosdottir also showcases new Icelandic works in progress.
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
- 10/5/2019
- by 172¦Fionnuala Halligan¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
16th festival under the direction of Hronn Marinosdottir also showcases new Icelandic works in progress.
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
- 10/5/2019
- by 172¦Fionnuala Halligan¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
A humanising and deeply moving portrait of a migrant family traveling from Afghanistan is brought to the screen in an unusual, and striking, manner
In 2015, Hassan Fazili, an Afghan film-maker, and his family – his wife and fellow film-maker Fatima Hussaini and their young daughters, Nargis and Zahra – were running out of time. They had fled Afghanistan for Tajikistan 14 months earlier after the Taliban targeted their Kabul arts cafe, and soon Tajikistan would send them back. As their choices narrowed, the Fazilis consulted with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan, on the possibility of documenting their journey with the only equipment available: their mobile phones.
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In 2015, Hassan Fazili, an Afghan film-maker, and his family – his wife and fellow film-maker Fatima Hussaini and their young daughters, Nargis and Zahra – were running out of time. They had fled Afghanistan for Tajikistan 14 months earlier after the Taliban targeted their Kabul arts cafe, and soon Tajikistan would send them back. As their choices narrowed, the Fazilis consulted with Emelie Mahdavian, a California-based documentarian they met in Tajikistan, on the possibility of documenting their journey with the only equipment available: their mobile phones.
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- 9/25/2019
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front this week, with the debut of just a handful of films. The most notable of the bunch was Matt Tyrnauer’s riveting Where’s My Roy Cohn? Other openers this weekend included a Loro, as well as Gunpowder & Sky’s horror-comedy Villains, starring It Chapter Two‘s Bill Skarsgård and Kyra Sedgwick, which had openings that were decent, but nothing earth-shattering.
Sony Pictures Classics feature documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn? opened exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on four screens, and is estimated to rake in $42,364. Deadline learned that it performed better in New York than it did in Los Angeles — which is probably because the ruthless Donald Trump mentor was more of a New York figure. Nonetheless, Spc hopes to add to its box office stack once Roy Cohn continues to expand next week.
Meanwhile, IFC Films...
Sony Pictures Classics feature documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn? opened exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on four screens, and is estimated to rake in $42,364. Deadline learned that it performed better in New York than it did in Los Angeles — which is probably because the ruthless Donald Trump mentor was more of a New York figure. Nonetheless, Spc hopes to add to its box office stack once Roy Cohn continues to expand next week.
Meanwhile, IFC Films...
- 9/22/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The summer of 2018 produced three documentaries that earned over $10 million at the domestic box office. While this summer didn’t get quite as close, this fall has documentary releases about rock stars, athletes and even one posthumous release from an auteur. New films by Bruce Springsteen, Agnès Varda and Asif Kapadia could help make for a busy season for non-fiction cinema, with many more potentially on the way from the fall festival circuit. Here are 10 with impending releases you need to check out.
“Untouchable” – Sept. 2 (Hulu)
Too soon? The Hulu documentary “Untouchable” opens some still fresh wounds about the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary first made its premiere at Sundance, and it features some harrowing interviews with accusers such as Rosanna Arquette, Hope D’Amore, Paz de la Huerta, Erika Rosenbaum and others.
“Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” – Sept. 6 (Greenwich Entertainment...
“Untouchable” – Sept. 2 (Hulu)
Too soon? The Hulu documentary “Untouchable” opens some still fresh wounds about the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary first made its premiere at Sundance, and it features some harrowing interviews with accusers such as Rosanna Arquette, Hope D’Amore, Paz de la Huerta, Erika Rosenbaum and others.
“Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” – Sept. 6 (Greenwich Entertainment...
- 8/27/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili’s self-reflexive documentary “Midnight Traveler” chronicles his and his family’s epic, three-year escape from the Taliban across hundreds of miles and numerous borders. Forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters, Fazili managed to capture firsthand their perilous journey in the uncertain, often dangerous quest for asylum. Watch the first trailer from Oscilloscope Laboratories, which scooped up “Midnight Traveler” for U.S. distribution in March, below.
“Midnight Traveler” garnered the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for No Borders at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury — Special Mention from the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. Fazili’s credits as a filmmaker span narrative shorts, television serials, stage plays, and documentaries, but here he turns the camera on himself. The film is intended to bring a global face to the internationally pervasive refugee crisis, and it...
“Midnight Traveler” garnered the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for No Borders at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury — Special Mention from the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. Fazili’s credits as a filmmaker span narrative shorts, television serials, stage plays, and documentaries, but here he turns the camera on himself. The film is intended to bring a global face to the internationally pervasive refugee crisis, and it...
- 8/16/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
“Midnight Traveler” is not your typical documentary about the refugee crisis. Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili got intimate access to the story of a family fleeing from the Taliban because, it turns out, he and his family were the ones fleeing.
Fazili’s “Midnight Traveler” is a personal film shot over three years solely on phones, documenting the journey Fazili took across countries with his wife and two young daughters after their life became in danger.
“Cut. I became a filmmaker. Cut. I made a film about a Taliban commander. After the film comes out, the Taliban puts a call out for my death. Cut. We flee to the mountains,” Fazili says in the film, narrating his own tensely cinematic story.
Also Read: Hollywood Foreign Press Association Donates $500,000 to Nonprofit Group for Refugees
The film’s emotional trailer shows the danger he and his family face as refugees seeking asylum, while also revealing the touching,...
Fazili’s “Midnight Traveler” is a personal film shot over three years solely on phones, documenting the journey Fazili took across countries with his wife and two young daughters after their life became in danger.
“Cut. I became a filmmaker. Cut. I made a film about a Taliban commander. After the film comes out, the Taliban puts a call out for my death. Cut. We flee to the mountains,” Fazili says in the film, narrating his own tensely cinematic story.
Also Read: Hollywood Foreign Press Association Donates $500,000 to Nonprofit Group for Refugees
The film’s emotional trailer shows the danger he and his family face as refugees seeking asylum, while also revealing the touching,...
- 8/16/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
"How do you say 'help' in English?" Oscilloscope Labs has debuted the official trailer for an award-winning documentary titled Midnight Traveler, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. It won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at Sundance, plus the Golden Gate Award at the Sf Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Award at the Sheffield Doc Festival. The doc film is made by Hassan Fazili, who used small home cameras and mobile phones to record his family for years. Midnight Traveler "chronicles the dangers that pave the road to asylum... but above all it's about a family, and the unshakeable love that sustains them on their journey." The trailer features music by Jennifer Castle. This is one of the most endearing and powerful films you'll see about refugees, taking us right into their life and sharing their triumphs & struggles on the road. All the quotes...
- 8/15/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Scandinavian distributor has picked up 29 titles.
Takashi Miike’s Directors’ Fortnight selection First Love; Claire Denis’ sci-fi High Life, Sydney Pollack’s Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace; and John Chester’s hit Sundance doc Biggest Little Farm are among the films acquired by Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment. The deals were done with HanWay Films, Wild Bunch, Endeavor Content and The Exchange respectively.
The Stockholm-based company has confirmed it has bought 29 titles in Cannes and beyond for distribution in the Nordics and Baltics.
“We continue to see a very strong output of commercial documentaries that prove themselves in the theatrical...
Takashi Miike’s Directors’ Fortnight selection First Love; Claire Denis’ sci-fi High Life, Sydney Pollack’s Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace; and John Chester’s hit Sundance doc Biggest Little Farm are among the films acquired by Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment. The deals were done with HanWay Films, Wild Bunch, Endeavor Content and The Exchange respectively.
The Stockholm-based company has confirmed it has bought 29 titles in Cannes and beyond for distribution in the Nordics and Baltics.
“We continue to see a very strong output of commercial documentaries that prove themselves in the theatrical...
- 6/20/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Fazili family - Hassan Fazili, Fatima Hussaini and daughters Nargis and Zahra at the Krnjaca refugee camp in Serbia. Producer Su Kim: 'I think what does come through is that this is a normal family, who you can relate to and who is going through something really trying and difficult' Photo: Old Chilly Pictures Hassan Fazili's Midnight Traveler gives an intensely personal slant to the struggle endured by many refugees as he, and his wife Fatima Hussaini, along with their children Nargis and Zahra, record their flight from Afghanistan using mobile phones, after they were targeted in their homeland by the Taliban. The resulting eye-opening documentary - shot over two years - sees them attempt to take the 3,500 mile overland smuggling route to Europe. The film, which has its UK premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest this weekend, was edited by Emelie Mahdavian, who also produced the film with Su Kim.
- 6/6/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Chronicle of Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel eligible for Oscars.
Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche’s joint feature-length documentary Advocate has scooped the top prize for best Israeli film at the 21st edition of the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival (Docaviv), running from May 23 to June 1.
Docaviv is one of the Academy Award-qualifying documentary film festivals, so all winners of the international competition, Israeli competition and short competition are automatically eligible for the Oscar race.
Advocate, which received its world premiere at Sundance, follows the life and work of Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel, who has...
Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche’s joint feature-length documentary Advocate has scooped the top prize for best Israeli film at the 21st edition of the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival (Docaviv), running from May 23 to June 1.
Docaviv is one of the Academy Award-qualifying documentary film festivals, so all winners of the international competition, Israeli competition and short competition are automatically eligible for the Oscar race.
Advocate, which received its world premiere at Sundance, follows the life and work of Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel, who has...
- 5/30/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Ai Weiwei, Werner Herzog to particpate in extended conversations following screenings.
A Spotlight section of screenings followed by extended conversations is the major addition to the programme for this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 6-11), revealed today.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and German filmmaker Werner Herzog are among those attending the festival and participating in the section.
Ai Weiwei will present his film The Rest, about Europe’s refugee crisis and the disintegrating humanitarian aid system, which premiered at Cph:Dox in March.
Herzog will take part in a discussion with Patrick Holland, controller, BBC Two, following a...
A Spotlight section of screenings followed by extended conversations is the major addition to the programme for this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 6-11), revealed today.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and German filmmaker Werner Herzog are among those attending the festival and participating in the section.
Ai Weiwei will present his film The Rest, about Europe’s refugee crisis and the disintegrating humanitarian aid system, which premiered at Cph:Dox in March.
Herzog will take part in a discussion with Patrick Holland, controller, BBC Two, following a...
- 5/9/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The verteran German director was giving a masterclass at Nyon’s Visions du Reel festival.
German director Werner Herzog voiced his reluctant support of film piracy during a masterclass at Switzerland’s documentary-focused Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon which closed on April 13.
¨Piracy has been the most successful form of distribution worldwide,” said Herzog in response to a comment from Ukrainian producer Illia Gladshtein of Phalanstery Films. Gladshtein said he was only able to access the filmmaker’s works via illegal Torrent sites in Ukraine.
“If you don’t get [films] through Netflix or state-sponsored television in your country,...
German director Werner Herzog voiced his reluctant support of film piracy during a masterclass at Switzerland’s documentary-focused Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon which closed on April 13.
¨Piracy has been the most successful form of distribution worldwide,” said Herzog in response to a comment from Ukrainian producer Illia Gladshtein of Phalanstery Films. Gladshtein said he was only able to access the filmmaker’s works via illegal Torrent sites in Ukraine.
“If you don’t get [films] through Netflix or state-sponsored television in your country,...
- 4/16/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Oscilloscope Laboratories has rounded out its 2019 slate by acquiring three documentaries: Stephen Wilkes’ “Jay Myself,” Hassan Fazili and Emelie Mahdavian’s “Midnight Traveler,” and Jon Kasbe’s “When Lambs Become Lions.” The three films premiered at Doc NYC, Sundance, and Tribeca, respectively, with several awards among them.
Here’s the skinny on all three:
“Jay Myself” follows the arduous moving process of Jay Maisel, a photographer and artist who sold his home — a century-old, 35,000 square-foot building in Manhattan known as The Bank — in 2015 after nearly 50 years there. “Through the intimate lens of filmmaker and Jay’s protégé, noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes,” O-Scope’s description says, “the viewer is taken on a remarkable journey through Jay’s life as an artist, mentor, and man; a man grappling with time, life, change, and the end of an era in New York City.”
The film, Wilkes’ debut feature documentary, opens at...
Here’s the skinny on all three:
“Jay Myself” follows the arduous moving process of Jay Maisel, a photographer and artist who sold his home — a century-old, 35,000 square-foot building in Manhattan known as The Bank — in 2015 after nearly 50 years there. “Through the intimate lens of filmmaker and Jay’s protégé, noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes,” O-Scope’s description says, “the viewer is taken on a remarkable journey through Jay’s life as an artist, mentor, and man; a man grappling with time, life, change, and the end of an era in New York City.”
The film, Wilkes’ debut feature documentary, opens at...
- 3/29/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories is cleaning up when it comes to acclaimed documentaries. The film production and distribution founded by the late great Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to a trio of docus: Stephen Wikes’s documentary about photographer Jay Maisel Jay Myself, Hassan Fazili and Emelie Mahdavian’s award-winning Midnight Traveler and Jon Kasbe’s debut documentary feature on the ivory trade, When Lambs Become Lions.
Jay Myself marks Wilkes’s feature documentary debut. The film bowed in 2018 at Doc NYC and will open in New York on July 31 with national expansion over the following weeks.
The documentary documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after 48 years, begrudgingly sold his home; the 35,000 square- foot, 100-year-old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as “The Bank.” Wilkes, also an artist and photographer who was Maisel’s protege,...
Jay Myself marks Wilkes’s feature documentary debut. The film bowed in 2018 at Doc NYC and will open in New York on July 31 with national expansion over the following weeks.
The documentary documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after 48 years, begrudgingly sold his home; the 35,000 square- foot, 100-year-old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as “The Bank.” Wilkes, also an artist and photographer who was Maisel’s protege,...
- 3/29/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Refugees rarely get to tell their own stories, which means their stories get told for them — often inaccurately and with undue hostility. Lack of resources is one issue, but a lack of stability is another: Asylum-seekers are in a frightening state of limbo, fleeing the imminent dangers of their native countries only to suffer the indifference or suspicion of potential adoptive homes. Filmmaker Hassan Fazili and his family logged three perilous years and hundreds of miles in exile from Afghanistan, where the Taliban had put out a call for his death. Shot on three mobile phones, Fazili’s “Midnight Traveler” is a documentary that feels like a modern-day message in a bottle, an urgent appeal for help from a family that’s still searching for a home. After lapping ashore at the Sundance Film Festival and other spring festivals, it should find an empathetic reception in the West.
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- 3/21/2019
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwo)U.S. – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeClemency (Chinonye Chukwo)Directing AwardThe Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)Special Jury Award for Vision and CraftHoneyboy (Alma Har’el)Special Jury Award for Creative CollaborationThe Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)Special Jury Award for Breakthrough PerformanceRhianne Barreto (Share)Waldo Salt Screenwriting AwardShare (Pippa Bianco)Audience AwardBrittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo)
Next Next Audience AwardThe Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera)Next Innovator AwardThe Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera)
U.S. – DOCUMENTARYGrand Jury PrizeOne Child NationDirecting AwardAmerican Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)Special Jury Award for an Emerging FilmmakerJawline (Liza Mandelup)Special Jury Award for Moral UrgencyAlways in Season (Jacqueline Olive)Special Jury Award for EditingApollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)Special Jury Award for CinematographyMidnight Family (Luke Lorentzen)Audience AwardKnock Down the House (Rachel Lears)
World Cinema – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeThe Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)Directing AwardThe Sharks (Lucia...
Next Next Audience AwardThe Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera)Next Innovator AwardThe Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera)
U.S. – DOCUMENTARYGrand Jury PrizeOne Child NationDirecting AwardAmerican Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)Special Jury Award for an Emerging FilmmakerJawline (Liza Mandelup)Special Jury Award for Moral UrgencyAlways in Season (Jacqueline Olive)Special Jury Award for EditingApollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)Special Jury Award for CinematographyMidnight Family (Luke Lorentzen)Audience AwardKnock Down the House (Rachel Lears)
World Cinema – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeThe Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)Directing AwardThe Sharks (Lucia...
- 2/3/2019
- MUBI
Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency,” a drama starring Alfre Woodard as a prison warden agonizing over capital punishment, has won the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, which handed out its awards at a ceremony in Park City on Saturday evening.
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation” won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries.
The directing awards in the U.S. dramatic and documentary competitions went to Joe Talbot for “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for “American Factory,” respectively.
Also Read: Sundance's Haves and Have Nots: Can Traditional Indie Distributors Still Compete?
The Grand Jury Prizes in the World Cinema Dramatic competition went to Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir,” while in the World Cinema Documentary competition it went to “Honeyland” by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska.
Audience awards went to “Paul Downs Colaizzo’s “Brittany Runs a Marathon...
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation” won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries.
The directing awards in the U.S. dramatic and documentary competitions went to Joe Talbot for “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for “American Factory,” respectively.
Also Read: Sundance's Haves and Have Nots: Can Traditional Indie Distributors Still Compete?
The Grand Jury Prizes in the World Cinema Dramatic competition went to Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir,” while in the World Cinema Documentary competition it went to “Honeyland” by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska.
Audience awards went to “Paul Downs Colaizzo’s “Brittany Runs a Marathon...
- 2/3/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival drew to a close this evening with the annual awards ceremony, which was hosted by filmmaker and actress Marianna Palka at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah.
Of the four Grand Jury Prizes given to competition films — the festival’s highest honors — each was directed or co-directed by a female filmmaker, reflecting last year’s Directing winners, who were all women. This year’s Grand Jury Prize winners include Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency” (U.S. Dramatic), Nanfu Wang’s “One Child Nation” (U.S. Documentary), Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir” (World Dramatic), and Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s “Honeyland” (World Documentary).
Both of the U.S. winners are still without U.S. distribution, so here’s hoping a big win at tonight’s show might loosen up some purse strings for these essential — and now award-winning — features.
At this year’s festival, women...
Of the four Grand Jury Prizes given to competition films — the festival’s highest honors — each was directed or co-directed by a female filmmaker, reflecting last year’s Directing winners, who were all women. This year’s Grand Jury Prize winners include Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency” (U.S. Dramatic), Nanfu Wang’s “One Child Nation” (U.S. Documentary), Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir” (World Dramatic), and Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s “Honeyland” (World Documentary).
Both of the U.S. winners are still without U.S. distribution, so here’s hoping a big win at tonight’s show might loosen up some purse strings for these essential — and now award-winning — features.
At this year’s festival, women...
- 2/3/2019
- by Kate Erbland and Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Gearing up for its 16th edition, the True/False Film Fest has announced the first components of this year’s programming. Filmmaker Hassan Fazili, director of the just-premiered-at-Sundance Midnight Traveler, and his family, will receive the True Life Fund, awarded to documentary subjects. Click here to read our interview with Fazili. This year’s True Vision Award will be presented to Spain-born, Mexico-based filmmaker Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda. Following on the heels of past recipients such as Laura Poitras and Claire Simon, Ibáñez Castañeda—whose films include 2013’s excellent The Naked Room, a harrowing look inside a therapist’s office counseling abused children—will receive the award along with a retrospective […]...
- 1/30/2019
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Gearing up for its 16th edition, the True/False Film Fest has announced the first components of this year’s programming. Filmmaker Hassan Fazili, director of the just-premiered-at-Sundance Midnight Traveler, and his family, will receive the True Life Fund, awarded to documentary subjects. Click here to read our interview with Fazili. This year’s True Vision Award will be presented to Spain-born, Mexico-based filmmaker Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda. Following on the heels of past recipients such as Laura Poitras and Claire Simon, Ibáñez Castañeda—whose films include 2013’s excellent The Naked Room, a harrowing look inside a therapist’s office counseling abused children—will receive the award along with a retrospective […]...
- 1/30/2019
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
As headlines blare possible peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, and with its intersection of politics and filmmaking, Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival in World Documentary Competition, is bound to be one of the festival circuit’s most discussed pictures this year. (It travels next month to the Berlin Film Festival.) Midnight Traveler charts the Fazili family’s escape from the Taliban after Fazili became the group’s target due to his controversial documentary Peace. Fazili, with the help of his filmmaker wife Fatima and daughters Nargis and Zahra, filmed the story of […]...
- 1/29/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
As headlines blare possible peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, and with its intersection of politics and filmmaking, Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival in World Documentary Competition, is bound to be one of the festival circuit’s most discussed pictures this year. (It travels next month to the Berlin Film Festival.) Midnight Traveler charts the Fazili family’s escape from the Taliban after Fazili became the group’s target due to his controversial documentary Peace. Fazili, with the help of his filmmaker wife Fatima and daughters Nargis and Zahra, filmed the story of […]...
- 1/29/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres.
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
- 1/21/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Early 2019 slate also includes Sundance selection ‘Midnight Traveler’.
Doc & Film International will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux’s upcoming Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Frot, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (Jan 17-21).
Based on the eponymous novel of Laurent Mauvignier, Depardieu co-stars as the tortured, alcoholic figure of Feu-de-Bois, a brutish troublemaker haunted by a tough childhood and the horrors he saw as a young French soldier in Algeria during the country’s 1954-62 independence war.
The story unfolds some 40 years later in remote Burgundy region...
Doc & Film International will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux’s upcoming Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Frot, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (Jan 17-21).
Based on the eponymous novel of Laurent Mauvignier, Depardieu co-stars as the tortured, alcoholic figure of Feu-de-Bois, a brutish troublemaker haunted by a tough childhood and the horrors he saw as a young French soldier in Algeria during the country’s 1954-62 independence war.
The story unfolds some 40 years later in remote Burgundy region...
- 1/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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