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Emma D. Miller
Emma D. Miller is an American documentary filmmaker. She was listed in DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" in 2022 and was the recipient of the Sundance Institute Producers Lab Fellowship in 2023. In 2024, she was named one of ''Filmmaker Magazine''s "25 New Faces of Independent Film". Career In 2012, Emma graduated from Duke University, where she was a Robertson Scholar. She is the founder of the production company Marcona Media. Emma produced '' What We Leave Behind'', which premiered at South by Southwest in 2022, winning two Special Jury Awards, and received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. She directed the documentary short ''The School of Canine Massage'', which premiered at South by Southwest in 2024. She also produced the documentary '' Mistress Dispeller'', which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc NYC
Doc NYC (stylized as DOC NYC) is an annual documentary film festival in New York City. Co-founded by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen, the festival is the country's largest documentary film festival with over 300 films and events and 250 special guests. By 2014, DOC NYC had become America's largest documentary film festival and voted by MovieMaker magazine as one of the "top five coolest documentary film festivals in the world". The festival takes place over 9 days in November at the West Village's IFC Center, Village East by Angelika, and SVA Theater. Overview The DOC NYC Short List for documentary features officially started in 2012 with 10 titles and grew to 15 titles in 2014. It has a history of being a predictor of other awards – from critics’ prizes and top ten lists to the Oscars. For the last eight years, DOC NYC screened the documentary that went on to win the Academy Award, and the festival has screened 32 of the last 35 Oscar-nominated documentary features. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unrest (2017 Film)
''Unrest'' is a 2017 documentary film produced and directed by Jennifer Brea. The film tells the story of how Jennifer and her new husband faced an illness that struck Jennifer just before they married. Initially dismissed by doctors, she starts filming herself to document her illness and connects with others who are home- or bedbound with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME). The documentary was produced over a four-year period, in which Brea was mostly bedbound. The documentary shows Brea's route to diagnosis and the world of other people homebound with the illness. ''Unrest'' was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, and won several film festival awards, including the jury award for editing at the Sundance Film Festival. Synopsis The documentary follows Jennifer Brea, who was a PhD student at Harvard before she fell ill at age 28. Brea gets progressively more ill and is initially disbelieved by doctors, who attribute her sympto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Film Producers
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Living People
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Cinema Eye Honors
The Cinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing, cinematography and editing. The awards are presented each January in New York and have been held since 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York City), Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Cinema Eye was created to celebrate artistic craft in nonfiction filmmaking, addressing a perceived imbalance in the field where awards were given for social impact or importance of topic rather than artistic excellence. History Nominations for the awards are determined by voting of top film festival documentary programmers and winners are voted on by an invited membership of more than 800 documentary film experts. Cinema Eye also presents an Audience Choice Prize where voting is open to the public and the Heterodox Award. The first Cinema Eye Honors were presented at the IFC Center in New York City on March 18, 2008. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans Film Festival
The New Orleans Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the nonprofit organization New Orleans Film Society, a film society founded in 1989. The festival has been held since the society's inception. The festival takes place in mid-October. The festival, nicknamed "Cannes on the Mississippi", features national and international feature films and short films. The festival had one off-year when New Orleans suffered the effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. the festival had grown into an internationally respected annual event that attracts 20–25,000 people, 400+ filmmakers, and 240 films. It is one of the few film festivals that is Oscar-qualifying in all three Academy-accredited categories: Narrative Short, Documentary Short, and Animated Short—and it's been recognized by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” every year since 2012 (one of only two festivals to receive that recognition for six straight years). Listed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couples Therapy (2019 TV Series)
''Couples Therapy'' is an American television series on the Showtime network. The series documents couples therapy sessions under the direction of Dr. Orna Guralnik. Overview ''Couples Therapy'' shows parts of the therapy sessions of three to four couples per season. The producers and therapist of the series wanted to show what a therapeutic process actually looks like. They didn't want to show drama to the audiences, but the deep work that real therapy entails. Dr. Orna Guralnik, the couples' therapist, meets her patients for the first time when they enter her practice. Her practice features many cameras hidden behind a one-way mirror that surrounds the room. The couples participate in a 20-week therapy program. The one-hour-sessions are recorded, cut for television and edited into nine episodes. The television series is filmed in New York. There are some rules about the therapy sessions. The couples are not allowed to have any more in-depth discussions about their children, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knife Skills
''Knife Skills'' is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Thomas Lennon. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 90th Academy Awards. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Summary The film focuses on people's transition from prison life to the outside world through Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. The goal of the institute is to teach former prisoners life skills and to give them focus in order to reduce recidivism rates. The film follows the first class of students through their training and the opening of the restaurant by founder Brandon Chrostowski. References External links Official Trailer KNIFE SKILLS 2017froTFL Films LLCchannel * {{IMDb title, 5745110, Knife Skills * Watc''Knife Skills''at ''The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
