The Peabody Awards board of jurors announced Monday the nine documentary winners selected for the annual Peabody 30.
The documentaries being honored include stories that tackle current global issues such as the effects of climate change on the world’s coral reefs in “Chasing Coral” and how young Dreamers navigate immigration policy in “Indivisible.” Other topics addressed in the documentaries are gun violence, the crisis in Syria, and the life of Maya Angelou.
Past Peabody Award winners, including Carol Burnett who is the first recipient of the Peabody Career Achievement Award, will be honored at the 77th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony on May 19 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. The event will be hosted by comedian Hasan Minhaj, writer and senior correspondent on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Variety is the exclusive media partner for the event.
The Peabody Awards recognize 30 stories each year in television, radio, and digital...
The documentaries being honored include stories that tackle current global issues such as the effects of climate change on the world’s coral reefs in “Chasing Coral” and how young Dreamers navigate immigration policy in “Indivisible.” Other topics addressed in the documentaries are gun violence, the crisis in Syria, and the life of Maya Angelou.
Past Peabody Award winners, including Carol Burnett who is the first recipient of the Peabody Career Achievement Award, will be honored at the 77th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony on May 19 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. The event will be hosted by comedian Hasan Minhaj, writer and senior correspondent on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Variety is the exclusive media partner for the event.
The Peabody Awards recognize 30 stories each year in television, radio, and digital...
- 4/16/2018
- by Ariana Brockington
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Pov, American television’s longest-running independent documentary series, has announced their slate for their 31st season.
The series kicks off with Bill Nye: Science Guy, which puts the spotlight on the beloved titular children’s personality in celebration of Earth Day on April 18. Pov will also premiere the Dark Money, a thrilling doc that focuses on the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials.
Also featured on this season of Pov are critically acclaimed docs Whose Streets?, Quest, Brimstone & Glory, and Nowhere to Hide.
Pov films have won numerous Emmy and Peabody awards. To add to the accolades, four of Pov‘s documentaries featured in the 31st season received Peabody nominations yesterday: Last Men in Aleppo, The Islands and the Whales, Motherland, and America ReFramed: Deej.
Read the complete slate of documentaries below.
Pov 2018 Schedule – Season 31
(All programs air at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
The series kicks off with Bill Nye: Science Guy, which puts the spotlight on the beloved titular children’s personality in celebration of Earth Day on April 18. Pov will also premiere the Dark Money, a thrilling doc that focuses on the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials.
Also featured on this season of Pov are critically acclaimed docs Whose Streets?, Quest, Brimstone & Glory, and Nowhere to Hide.
Pov films have won numerous Emmy and Peabody awards. To add to the accolades, four of Pov‘s documentaries featured in the 31st season received Peabody nominations yesterday: Last Men in Aleppo, The Islands and the Whales, Motherland, and America ReFramed: Deej.
Read the complete slate of documentaries below.
Pov 2018 Schedule – Season 31
(All programs air at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
- 4/11/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors have selected 60 nominees for the organization’s 77th annual awards, including “Legion,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Last Men in Aleppo,” and “S-Town.” They were selected from a field of more than 1,200 entries television, radio/podcasts, and the internet.
“True to tradition, we are proud to present a rich mix of excellence in the craft of storytelling,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, executive director of Peabody. “These stories reflect important social issues and exemplify the power of diverse voices and platforms in media today.” This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Hasan Minhaj of “The Daily Show” on May 19 in New York City. Full list of nominees below.
Children’s & Youth Programming
“Andi Mack” Horizon Productions (Disney Channel)
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” Netflix (Netflix)
Documentary
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“America ReFramed: Deej”
“Chasing Coral”
“City of Ghosts”
“Heroin(e)”
“I Have A Message...
“True to tradition, we are proud to present a rich mix of excellence in the craft of storytelling,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, executive director of Peabody. “These stories reflect important social issues and exemplify the power of diverse voices and platforms in media today.” This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Hasan Minhaj of “The Daily Show” on May 19 in New York City. Full list of nominees below.
Children’s & Youth Programming
“Andi Mack” Horizon Productions (Disney Channel)
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” Netflix (Netflix)
Documentary
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“America ReFramed: Deej”
“Chasing Coral”
“City of Ghosts”
“Heroin(e)”
“I Have A Message...
- 4/10/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The Islands And The Whales Photo: Ged Fitzsimmons
In the far north, where the sea rages and the few outcroppings of land have soil so thin that barely anything can be grown there, live the Faroese. Surviving for centuries by hunting and fishing, they now find that pollution and climate change are threatening to make their traditional way of life obsolete. Mike Day spent four years with them to make documentary The Islands And The Whales, discovering a way of looking at the world that is rarely featured onscreen. I asked him how it all began.
Director Mike Day Photo: Ged Fitzsimmons
"It was while I was filming The Guga Hunters Of Ness," he explains, "that I met a group of Faroese sailors in Stornoway harbour. We'd all just been out being battered on the Atlantic - I don't know what the hell we were doing out on those seas...
In the far north, where the sea rages and the few outcroppings of land have soil so thin that barely anything can be grown there, live the Faroese. Surviving for centuries by hunting and fishing, they now find that pollution and climate change are threatening to make their traditional way of life obsolete. Mike Day spent four years with them to make documentary The Islands And The Whales, discovering a way of looking at the world that is rarely featured onscreen. I asked him how it all began.
Director Mike Day Photo: Ged Fitzsimmons
"It was while I was filming The Guga Hunters Of Ness," he explains, "that I met a group of Faroese sailors in Stornoway harbour. We'd all just been out being battered on the Atlantic - I don't know what the hell we were doing out on those seas...
- 3/29/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Islands and the Whales, which recently had its North American theatrical premiere at IFC Center and broadcast premiere on Pov, is one of the most innovative documentaries on marine conservation I’ve seen in years. Director Mike Day is carving out a niche for himself by addressing the interstices where traditional cultures butt against modern conservationist ideals, resulting in nuanced interactions that defy expectations. The Islands and the Whales, for instance, shows the people of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic — Viking descendants who have lived off of the sea for generations — and how they are struggling […]...
- 10/19/2017
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
An ethnographic doc with plenty of room for artful filmmaking, Mike Day's sometimes breath-catchingly beautiful The Islands and the Whales takes moviegoers to the remote Faroe Islands, which sit between Iceland and Scotland. There, "48,000 descendants of Vikings" are currently deciding how tightly they should cling to traditions, born of necessity and common sense, that are threatened by outside forces and environmental realities. Sensitive and gratifying to the senses, it's a far more rewarding big-screen experience than most major eco-themed documentaries; it should enjoy attention at art houses before heading to smaller screens.
The Faroes are an autonomous part of...
The Faroes are an autonomous part of...
- 10/6/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the glitzy awards world with our weekly Awards Roundup column.
– The Austin Film Society has announced three 2017 honorees of the Texas Film Hall of Fame, including “Loving” director Jeff Nichols, documentary filmmaker Hector Galan and actor Tye Sheridan. Galan will be the first ever documentarian to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The honors will be presented at the 2017 Texas Film Awards on March 9, 2017, at Austin Studios.
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“We have watched as the Texas film scene has grown from a small group of creative, underground filmmakers to a bonafide artist hub,” Rebecca Campbell, Austin Film Society CEO said in a statement. “These three honorees couldn’t be more representative of the Texas film scene of today, and why we are so proud of it.”
– Irwin Winkler will be honored with the...
– The Austin Film Society has announced three 2017 honorees of the Texas Film Hall of Fame, including “Loving” director Jeff Nichols, documentary filmmaker Hector Galan and actor Tye Sheridan. Galan will be the first ever documentarian to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The honors will be presented at the 2017 Texas Film Awards on March 9, 2017, at Austin Studios.
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“We have watched as the Texas film scene has grown from a small group of creative, underground filmmakers to a bonafide artist hub,” Rebecca Campbell, Austin Film Society CEO said in a statement. “These three honorees couldn’t be more representative of the Texas film scene of today, and why we are so proud of it.”
– Irwin Winkler will be honored with the...
- 11/18/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The notion of cultural relativism is one that goes back to the late 19th century and is one that’s often simply conflated to mean “you have your way, I have mine”. It was an attempt, through its sister moral relativism, to eschew dogmatic or prescriptive ways of looking at world views. The colonially minded who would traipse across the world would see the savagery of the other and simply dismiss all differences as inferiorities, and thus the notion of taking things on their own terms was a welcome respite to this kind of arrogance or blindness. In fascinating ways The Islands and the Whales takes on these cultural and moral norms in a very different context – rather than the prevailing divides between practices, where...
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- 11/17/2016
- Screen Anarchy
The 5th Annual Key West Film Festival has announced its official 2016 lineup, including the opening night film, “20th Century Women,” directed by Mike Mills and starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig and Billy Crudup. As part of the festival’s signature Critics Focus program, MTV’s Chief Film Critic Amy Nicholson will present and lead a conversation around the film, alongside David Fear, Senior Film/TV Editor of Rolling Stone.
Director of Programming Michael Tuckman said of Nicholson’s pick, “I could not be more thrilled with Amy Nicholson’s choice of ’20th Century Women’ to kick off our 5th Anniversary edition of festival. Annette Bening’s performance is Oscar-deserving and the rich depth of the balance of the leading cast is Altman-esque in its quality. Amy’s discussion after the film will bring a cunning critic’s eye to this fabulous film for audiences.”
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Director of Programming Michael Tuckman said of Nicholson’s pick, “I could not be more thrilled with Amy Nicholson’s choice of ’20th Century Women’ to kick off our 5th Anniversary edition of festival. Annette Bening’s performance is Oscar-deserving and the rich depth of the balance of the leading cast is Altman-esque in its quality. Amy’s discussion after the film will bring a cunning critic’s eye to this fabulous film for audiences.”
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- 10/19/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Bulgarian-Danish-French drama previously won festival awards in Locarno and Sarajevo.
Ralitza Petrova’s Godless has won this year’s Golden Puffin, the top award at the 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival (Riff)
The jury, comprised of Goteborg artistic director Jonas Holmberg, Rams director Grimur Hákonarson and bestselling Icelandic novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, said, “The Golden Puffin goes to a bleak but beautiful film with poignant acting and atmospheric cinematography. The film combines the downbeat suspense of an medicalised crime story with a subtle portrayal of the agony in a post communist society where redemption is only glimpsed in the sacral world of music.”
Godless, which is a Bulgarian-Danish-French co-production, previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno and the Special Jury Award and the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress (Irena Ivanova) at Sarajevo Film Festival. It also won five national awards at the Golden Rose National Film Festival in Bulgaria.
Petrova is a graduate of the UK’s National...
Ralitza Petrova’s Godless has won this year’s Golden Puffin, the top award at the 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival (Riff)
The jury, comprised of Goteborg artistic director Jonas Holmberg, Rams director Grimur Hákonarson and bestselling Icelandic novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, said, “The Golden Puffin goes to a bleak but beautiful film with poignant acting and atmospheric cinematography. The film combines the downbeat suspense of an medicalised crime story with a subtle portrayal of the agony in a post communist society where redemption is only glimpsed in the sacral world of music.”
Godless, which is a Bulgarian-Danish-French co-production, previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno and the Special Jury Award and the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress (Irena Ivanova) at Sarajevo Film Festival. It also won five national awards at the Golden Rose National Film Festival in Bulgaria.
Petrova is a graduate of the UK’s National...
- 10/10/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ Throughout much of The Islands and the Whales the rugged Faroe archipelago, jutting out of the sea with awe-inspiring majesty, is shrouded in low-hanging cloud and grey mist. A film that is jaw- dropping in its visual splendour, the choice to envelope the islands in this blanket of precipitation is a keen move by Scottish director Mike Day as it closes off the outside world, further isolating an already remote nation - located mid-way between the Hebrides and Iceland. Essentially a one-man storytelling band, Day also produced and shot this project himself and it is behind the veiled curtain, and under the skin, of the Faroese people that he takes a viewer.
- 6/19/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Highlights include the UK premiere of Finding Dory and the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Highlander [pictured].Scroll down for competition titles
The line-up for the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 15-26) will comprise a total 161 features from 46 countries including: 22 world premieres, five international premieres, 17 European premieres and 85 UK premieres.
Highlights include the UK premiere of Disney-Pixar animation Finding Dory, in-person events that include Us indie filmmaker Kevin Smith and Sex & The City actress Kim Cattrall, and the opening and closing gala world premieres of the previously announced Tommy’s Honour and Whisky Galore!.
Old classics will be re-imagined with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing the score to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial live at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre and the world premiere of the newly-restored 4K version of Highlander, celebrating its 30th anniversary with star Clancy Brown in attendance.
The...
The line-up for the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 15-26) will comprise a total 161 features from 46 countries including: 22 world premieres, five international premieres, 17 European premieres and 85 UK premieres.
Highlights include the UK premiere of Disney-Pixar animation Finding Dory, in-person events that include Us indie filmmaker Kevin Smith and Sex & The City actress Kim Cattrall, and the opening and closing gala world premieres of the previously announced Tommy’s Honour and Whisky Galore!.
Old classics will be re-imagined with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing the score to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial live at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre and the world premiere of the newly-restored 4K version of Highlander, celebrating its 30th anniversary with star Clancy Brown in attendance.
The...
- 5/25/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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