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Directing Award Documentary
This is a list of winners of the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for documentary features. Winners 1990s *1998: '' Moment of Impact'' *1999: ''Regret to Inform'' 2000s *2000: ''Paragraph 175'' - Rob Epstein and Jefferey Friedman *2001: ''Dogtown and Z-Boys'' - Stacy Peralta *2002: ''Sister Helen'' *2003: No award *2004: ''Super Size Me'' - Morgan Spurlock *2005: ''The Devil and Daniel Johnston'' - Jeff Feuerzeig *2006: ''Iraq in Fragments'' *2007: ''War/Dance'' *2008: '' American Teen'' - Nanette Burstein *2009: ''El General'' 2010s *2010: ''Smash His Camera'' *2011: '' Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles'' *2012: ''The Queen of Versailles'' *2013: ''Cutie and the Boxer'' *2014: '' The Case Against 8'' *2015: ''Cartel Land'' *2016: ''Life, Animated'' - Roger Ross Williams *2017: ''The Force'' - Peter Nicks *2018: ''On Her Shoulders'' - Alexandria Bombach *2019: ''American Factory'' - Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert 2020s *2020: ''Time'' - Garrett Bradley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Ster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smash His Camera
''Smash His Camera'' is a 2010 documentary film directed by filmmaker Leon Gast about the life and career of paparazzi photographer Ron Galella. The film won the "Directing Award Documentary" at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was released on 30 July 2010 through Magnolia Pictures Magnolia Pictures is an American film distributor. It is a subsidiary of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's 2929 Entertainment 2929 Entertainment, LLC. is an American integrated media and entertainment company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneur ..., and was shown on HBO. References External links *Noel Murray, ''The AV Club'' (July 29, 2010) 2010 films 2010 documentary films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Reichert
Julia Bell Reichert (June 16, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a director and producer of documentaries. Reichert was a four-time Academy Award-nominated director, for '' Union Maids'' (1977), '' Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists'' (1984), '' The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant'' (2010) and ''American Factory'' (2020, for which she won an Oscar). She was a two-time winner of the Primetime Emmy, a two-time nominee of the Peabody Award, and director of two films on the National Film Registry. Reichert was the recipient of the award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History from the Labor and Working-Class History Association ( LAWCHA). She was professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures at Wright State University. Reichert was honored with lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Bognar
Steven Bognar (born 1963) is an American film director. An Oscar-winning and award-winning documentary filmmaker, his films have been screened at SXSW, Sundance, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Bognar has also worked as an instructor of media arts, teaching at public schools across his home state of Ohio, as well as at Antioch College. He was a frequent collaborator of filmmaker Julia Reichert. Career In January 2020, Bognar and Reichert won the Directors Guild of America Award for Documentary for '' American Factory''. Style Bognar has developed a documentary filmmaking style that centralizes the Midwestern region of the United States, with significance placed on incorporating photographic imagery. Filmography * ''Welcome to Censornati'' (1990) * ''Personal Belongings'' (1996) * ''Waiting for Marty'' (1999) * ''Picture Day'' (2000) * ''Gravel'' (2006) * ''A Lion in the House ''A Lion in the Hous''e is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Steven Bog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Factory
''American Factory'' () is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant. The film had its festival premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It is distributed by Netflix and is the first film acquired by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground Productions. It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Overview In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. Production Filmed from February 2015 until the end of 2017, Reichert and Bognar were granted filming access by Fuyao at both their Ohio and Chinese plant locations. They were inspired to make this film as the events they aime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria Bombach
Alexandria Bombach is an American filmmaker. Career Bombach is from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She graduated from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In 2009, she founded the production company, Red Reel. Her first film, ''23 Feet'' (2011), "captures people doing what they love outside," and raised $9,785 on Kickstarter. In 2012, she produced and directed the documentary film series ''MoveShake'', a "look into the complicated lives of people who have set out to make a positive environmental or social impact." Her first feature documentary, '' Frame by Frame'', co-directed with Mo Scarpelli, premiered at SXSW in 2015. Also in 2015, Bombach released an 18-minute documentary entitled ''Common Ground'', which dealt with disputes over unprotected public land in Montana. In 2016, Bombach received Pulitzer Center support for ''The New York Times'' "op-doc" ''Afghanistan by Choice'', which, like ''Frame by Frame'', was filmed in Afghanistan. In 2018, Bombach premiered her documentary ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Her Shoulders
''On Her Shoulders'' is a 2018 American documentary film. It was directed by Alexandria Bombach and produced by Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown under the banner of RYOT Films. The film follows Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad on her three-month tour of Berlin, New York, and Canada, as she met with politicians and journalists to alert the world to the massacres and kidnapping happening in her native land. In 2014, at the age of 19, Murad had been kidnapped with hundreds of other women and girls by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and held as a sex slave; she managed to escape. Also appearing in the film are Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian, Michelle Rempel, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Ahmed Khudida Burjus, Amal Clooney, and Luis Moreno Ocampo. The film was released on 20 January 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It received positive crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nicks
Peter Nicks is an American filmmaker. Peter Olivera Nicks (born May 2, 1968) is an American film director, producer and writer. He began his career in television and served as co-producer and editor of the 2006 episode "Blame Somebody Else" of PBS series '' AIR: America's Investigative Reports''. The episode received an Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine, for its exposure of the pipeline of illegal labor human trafficking during the Iraq War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Iraq War {{Nobold, {{lang, ar, حرب العراق (Arabic) {{Nobold, {{lang, ku, شەڕی عێراق ( Kurdish) , partof = the Iraq conflict and the War on terror , image .... He directed the 2012 documentary film ''The Waiting Room (2012 film), The Waiting Room''. It follows the life and times of patients, doctors, and staff at Highland Hospital (Oakland, California), Highland Hospital, a safety net hospital, safety-net hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Ross Williams
Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962) is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film '' Music by Prudence''; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009. Life and career Williams is a member of a Gullah family from South Carolina, and has lived and worked in New York City for a over twenty-five years. Williams attended Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and New York University in New York City. Williams began his career in 1985, producing political satire for Comedy Central and Michael Moore's Emmy Award-winning series ''TV Nation''. He has since produced and directed for NBC News, MSNBC, BBC, CNN and has produced work for Comedy Central, Food Network, TLC, VH1, including numerous primetime specials for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and ABC News, CBS, Sundance Channel and New York Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life, Animated
''Life, Animated'' is a 2016 American documentary by director Roger Ross Williams. It is co-produced by Williams with Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn and Christopher Clements. ''Life, Animated'' is based on journalist Ron Suskind's 2014 book ''Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism'', which tells the story of his son, Owen Suskind, who struggled with autism and learned how to communicate with the outside world through his love of Disney films. Upon its release, the film received rave reviews from critics and won numerous awards including the Sundance Film Festival award for Best Direction and the Special Achievement Annie Award. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, but lost to '' O.J.: Made in America''. Synopsis Owen Suskind was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3. As Owen withdrew into his silent state, his parents almost lost hope that he would find some way to meaningfully inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartel Land
''Cartel Land'' is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Matthew Heineman about the Mexican Drug War, especially vigilante groups fighting Mexican drug cartels. The film focuses on Tim "Nailer" Foley, the leader of Arizona Border Recon, and Dr. José Mireles, a Michoacán-based physician who leads the Autodefensas. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2016. Synopsis The film focuses on two vigilante groups who fight drug cartels from different sides of the United States–Mexico border. In Mexico, the film focuses on José Manuel Mireles Valverde, known locally as "El Doctor". Mireles becomes fed up with the local Knights Templar Cartel. He gathers a group of citizens from the state of Michoacán and leads an uprising, driving the cartel out of the region. In the US, the film follows an American veteran named Tim "Nailer" Foley, who is forming a small paramilitary group called the Arizona Border Recon. His goal is to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Case Against 8
''The Case Against 8'' is an American documentary film, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. Directed and produced by Ben Cotner and Ryan White, the film documents the legal battle to overturn California's Proposition 8, focusing in particular on behind-the-scenes footage of David Boies and Theodore Olson during the ''Perry v. Schwarzenegger'' case. Cast Release Cotner and White won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was also subsequently screened at the 2014 SXSW festival, where it won an Audience Award. The film screened at the 2014 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, Ontario and went on to screen within such festivals as SXSW and Maryland Film Festival. The film also received a limited theatrical release in June 2014, screening in New York City, Los Angeles and other major US cities before airing on HBO on June 23. In Australia, it screened in conjunction with Queer Scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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