Bing Liu’s skateboarding movie “Minding The Gap” has won the International Documentary Association’s award for top feature of 2018.
Floyd Russ’s “Zion” was awarded best short. Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country” won for best limited series and HBO’s “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” took the ABC News VideoSource Award. PBS’ “Pov” won for best curated series, Showtime’s “The Trade” for best episodic series, Mel Films for best short form series, and Jayisha Patel’s “Circle” for the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.
Both Melissa Haizlip’s “Mr. Soul!” and Steve Loveridge’s “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.” were each awarded best music documentary while “Bisbee ’17” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” were each awarded best music score. The New York Times’ “Caliphate” took the inaugural award in the audio documentary category.
Ricki Lake hosted the ceremonies Saturday night for the 34th...
Floyd Russ’s “Zion” was awarded best short. Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country” won for best limited series and HBO’s “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” took the ABC News VideoSource Award. PBS’ “Pov” won for best curated series, Showtime’s “The Trade” for best episodic series, Mel Films for best short form series, and Jayisha Patel’s “Circle” for the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.
Both Melissa Haizlip’s “Mr. Soul!” and Steve Loveridge’s “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.” were each awarded best music documentary while “Bisbee ’17” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” were each awarded best music score. The New York Times’ “Caliphate” took the inaugural award in the audio documentary category.
Ricki Lake hosted the ceremonies Saturday night for the 34th...
- 12/9/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Jackie Rohrs was a proud member of the Chicago Bears’ cheerleading squad, the Honey Bears, when she went to Playboy magazine in 1978 with a business proposal: Could her beauty company, Jacqueline K Creations, do the nails for some of the women who posed for the magazine?
Playboy editor Jeff Cohen had a counter-proposal: Why don’t you be in the magazine?
“We called the Bears office,” she recalls in the new documentary “Sidelined,” which was written and directed by Galen Summer. “They said, ‘That’s wonderful!'”
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But the happiness would soon fade, for her and other NFL cheerleaders who appeared in the December 1978 issue of Playboy. As “Sidelined” notes, the San Diego Chargers were especially ruthless, and the team’s entire cheerleading squad, the Chargettes, paid the price.
Rohrs told TheWrap Wednesday at a screening of “Sidelined,...
Playboy editor Jeff Cohen had a counter-proposal: Why don’t you be in the magazine?
“We called the Bears office,” she recalls in the new documentary “Sidelined,” which was written and directed by Galen Summer. “They said, ‘That’s wonderful!'”
Also Read: Why This Muslim Director Has Been Screening His Movie in Secret Locations Across Middle East
But the happiness would soon fade, for her and other NFL cheerleaders who appeared in the December 1978 issue of Playboy. As “Sidelined” notes, the San Diego Chargers were especially ruthless, and the team’s entire cheerleading squad, the Chargettes, paid the price.
Rohrs told TheWrap Wednesday at a screening of “Sidelined,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Looking for the next Alfonso Cuarón, Dee Rees or Damien Chazelle? AFI Fest’s New Auteurs and American Independents sections are the place to discover them.
Comprising 18 films, this year’s New Auteurs program features a diverse mix from around the world including China, Germany and India, with 11 female and seven male up-and-coming directors in the mix. Meanwhile, the American Independents section features 11 narratives and documentaries — five of which are directed by women.
According to AFI Fest director of programming Lane Kneedler, both sections are a showcase for emerging filmmakers, some of whom have a
few films under their belts, and display a diversity of storytelling styles and modes.
“What we really see as a part of our programming mandate is to support filmmakers who are taking their first tentative steps into their careers and still establishing their aesthetic,” Kneedler says. “Being there with these filmmakers early in their careers...
Comprising 18 films, this year’s New Auteurs program features a diverse mix from around the world including China, Germany and India, with 11 female and seven male up-and-coming directors in the mix. Meanwhile, the American Independents section features 11 narratives and documentaries — five of which are directed by women.
According to AFI Fest director of programming Lane Kneedler, both sections are a showcase for emerging filmmakers, some of whom have a
few films under their belts, and display a diversity of storytelling styles and modes.
“What we really see as a part of our programming mandate is to support filmmakers who are taking their first tentative steps into their careers and still establishing their aesthetic,” Kneedler says. “Being there with these filmmakers early in their careers...
- 11/8/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
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