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16th Cinema Eye Honors
The 16th Cinema Eye Honors recognized outstanding artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking of 2022 and took place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York on January 12, 2023. The broadcasts category nominees as well as the recipient for the Legacy Award, given to the 1995 film '' Crumb'', were announced on October 20, 2022. The Unforgettables and the Audience Choice Prize longlist were presented on October 25, 2022, while the nominations for the feature film categories were announced on November 10, 2022. National Geographic films '' Fire of Love'' and '' The Territory'' led the nominations with seven each, becoming the films with the most nominations in a year in the history of the awards. In the broadcast nominations, HBO film ''Four Hours at the Capitol'' led with three. ''All That Breathes'' received the Outstanding Non-Fiction Feature while '' Fire of Love'' received the most awards with four wins, including three competitive awards plus The Unforgettables ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of The Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the American Museum of the Moving Image, and in 1996, opened its permanent exhibition, "Behind the Screen," designed by Ali Höcek of AC Höcek Architecture LLC. The museum began a $67 million expansion in March 2008 and reopened in January 2011. The expansion was designed by architect Thomas Leeser. Description The Museum of the Moving Image is focused on art, history, technique and technology of film, television, and digital media. It collects, preserves, and provides access to moving-image related artifacts via multimedia exhibitions and educational programming. The exhibits include significant audio/visual components designed to promote an understanding of the history of the industry and an understanding of how it has evolved. Panel discussio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for '' Citizenfour'', about Edward Snowden, while '' My Country, My Country'' received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 2022, her documentary film, '' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'', which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family, was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, the creator of ''Field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A House Made Of Splinters
''A House Made of Splinters'' ( uk, Будинок із трісок, translit=Budynok iz trisok) is a 2022 documentary film by the Danish film director Simon Lereng Wilmont, created with the support of the State Agency of Ukraine for Film Affairs. An international co-production with Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden and Finland, it follows the story of children from a special orphanage in eastern Ukraine. The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on 26 January 2022, where it won the best director award in the World Cinema Documentary section. The film also won the international competition Golden Alexander Award for best film as well as the FIPRESCI Award at the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in March 2022. It was selected for Best Documentary Feature and subsequently shortlisted from 144 eligible to 15 films and then nominated for 95th Academy Awards in the said category. Content The war in eastern Ukraine took a heavy toll, especially on the poor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Morgen
Brett D. Morgen (born October 11, 1968) is an American documentary filmmaker. His directorial credits include '' The Kid Stays in the Picture'' (2002), '' Crossfire Hurricane'' (2012), '' Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck'' (2015), '' Jane'' (2017), and ''Moonage Daydream'' (2022). Early life Morgen was born October 11, 1968, in Los Angeles, California. He was named after USC football lineman Britt Williams, who was team captain in 1961, but his parents misspelled the name. He was raised in the San Fernando Valley, primarily in Studio City, where his father worked as a high school physical education teacher. According to Morgen, he was an avid movie fan from a young age, and knew he wanted to be a filmmaker. He attended the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. Morgen attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he earned a B.A. in history in 1987, before graduating with an MFA in filmmaking from New York University in 1991. Career Morgen made ''Ollie' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonage Daydream (film)
''Moonage Daydream'' is a 2022 documentary film about English singer-songwriter David Bowie. Written, directed, produced and edited by Brett Morgen, the film uses previously unreleased footage from Bowie's personal archives, including live concert footage. It is the first film to be officially authorized by Bowie's estate, and takes its title from the 1972 Bowie song of the same name. ''Moonage Daydream'' had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews. It was released theatrically and in IMAX in the United States on 16 September 2022. Synopsis The documentary uses a montage-style editing format to convey a biography of Bowie, utilizing film clips and interviews from throughout his career. The film starts with a 2002 quote of Bowie stating: :"At the turn of the 20th century, Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God is dead and that man had killed him." :"This created an arrogance with man that he himself was God. But as God, all he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descendant (2022 Film)
''Descendant'' is a 2022 American historical documentary film directed by Margaret Brown, chronicling the story behind Africatown in Alabama, and the descendants of the last known enslaved Africans brought to the United States aboard the '' Clotilda''. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it was picked up for wider distribution by Higher Ground Productions and Netflix. It received a theatrical release on October 21, 2022 and was available to stream on Netflix that day as well. Synopsis The wreckage of the '' Clotilda'' was found in 2019 in the Mobile River of Alabama, and the film explores the community of Africatown and the descendants of some of the last known enslaved Africans that were brought to the United States aboard her 40 years after slavery had already been deemed a capital offense. Production and release After the wreckage of the ''Clotilda'' was discovered, director Margaret Brown spent four years with the residents of Africatown exami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films are noted for their surrealistic, melodramatic, and sometimes disturbing elements, often in the form of psychological fiction. Aronofsky attended Harvard University, where he studied film and social anthropology, and then the American Film Institute where he studied directing. He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, ''Supermarket Sweep'', which became a National Student Academy Award finalist. In 1997, he founded the film and TV production company Protozoa Pictures. His feature debut, the surrealist psychological thriller '' Pi'' (1998), was produced for $60,000 and grossed over $3 million; It won Aronofsky the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Aronofsky's follow-up, the psychological drama '' Requiem for a Dream'' (2000), was based on the novel of the same name by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payal Kapadia (filmmaker)
Payal Kapadia is an Indian filmmaker. She is best known for having won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her film '' A Night of Knowing Nothing''. In 2017, her film ''Afternoon Clouds'' was the only Indian film that was selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Biography Born in Mumbai, Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh. She got a Bachelor's degree in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She did a one-year Master's degree from Sophia college. She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile ..., where she was selected on her second attempt. Filmography *''Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost'' *''The Last Mango Befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night Of Knowing Nothing
''A Night of Knowing Nothing'' is a documentary film, directed by Payal Kapadia and released in 2021. An exploration of university student life in India, the film centres on letters written by L., a student at the Film and Television Institute of India, to her estranged boyfriend after they are separated when he is forced to quit film school and denied permission from his family to continue dating L. because she is not of the same caste. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight stream at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it was named the winner of the L'Œil d'or award for Best Documentary Film. It was subsequently screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of the winners of the Amplify Voices Award.Steve Pond"‘Belfast’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award" '' TheWrap'', 18 September 2021. The film has been acquired for commercial distribution by Square Eyes. Release ''A Night of Knowing Nothing'' premiered in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Roher
Daniel Roher () is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his 2019 film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'', which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, Canada in a Jewish family. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, he studied for three semesters at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA. His 2019 film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'' was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award. Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020. Roher previously directed the short documentaries ''Survivors Rowe'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navalny (film)
''Navalny'' is a 2022 documentary film directed by Daniel Roher. The film revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. It was produced by HBO Max and CNN Films. The film premiered on 25 January 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received critical and audience acclaim and won the Audience Award in the US Documentary competition and the Festival Favorite Award. It also received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, won the award for Best Political Documentary at the 7th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards and picked up best documentary at the 76th BAFTA awards ceremony. Synopsis The film tells about the events related to the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the subsequent investigation into the poisoning. On 20 August 2020, Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, falling sick during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, and was hospitalized in serious condition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ina Fichman
Ina Fichman is a Canadian film producer and president of Intuitive Pictures, based in Montreal. She is best known for the 2022 film ''Fire of Love''. She won the Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program for '' Undying Love'' in 2003. She has been nominated for the 34th Producers Guild of America Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Emmy, Critics Choice Awards and Canadian Screen Awards. Fichman was the recipient of the Hot Docs Don Haig Award in 2018. She is on the DOC Canada board of directors chair, a board member of the International Documentary Association and a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2023, she was nominated for an Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for ''Fire of Love''. Filmography *''The Last Trip'' - 1994 *''Undying Love'' - 2002 *'' S&M: Short and Male'' - 2008 *''Malls R Us'' - 2009 *''Mabul (The Flood)'' - 2010 *''Inheritance'' - 2012 *''Boredom - 2012 *'' Shekinah Rising'' - 2013 *''100% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
