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Gidi Avivi
Gidi Avivi (; born 1961) is an Israeli film producer, the founder of Vice Versa Films. Education and early career Avivi holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Television from Tel Aviv University. Avivi was the Head of the Music Department and a music programmer at the IDF radio station. Concurrently, Avivi was the popular music critic for the weekly magazine Ha'ir from 1983 to 1987 and the daily newspaper ''Haaretz'' from 1994 to 2006. Film and TV Career Between 1994 and 1998 Avivi created (with Yoav Kutner, Ami Amir, Arik Bernstein and Gabriel Bibliowicz) a comprehensive 12-part documentary series about the history of Israeli rock music, ''“Sof Onat Hatapuzim”'' ("End of the Orange Season"). In 2006 Avivi produced two documentary films: ''Bekummernis'' (with Ido Sela) and ''The Cahana Sisters'' (with Amir Harel and Gilad Melzer). In 2008 Avivi produced (with Yael Biron and Dror Nahum) a documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Sisters
''Speed Sisters'' is a 2015 documentary film by Amber Fares that follows the all-female Palestinian racing team the Speed Sisters and explores the social issues surrounding their career. It was pitched at the 2011 MeetMarket part of Sheffield Doc/Fest. Production The film is an international co-production between companies in Palestine, the United States, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Canada. Reception ''Speed Sisters'' received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee ..., the film has an 80% score based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. References External links * * * 2015 films Qatari documentary films Auto racing films Palestinian documentary films American auto racing film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hood
Kevin Hood is a playwright and screenwriter who is perhaps best known for contributing scripts to the BBC television series ''Grange Hill'' and the 2007 film '' Becoming Jane''. Career A successful playwright from 1987 to 1998, Hood wrote the plays ''Beached'', ''Astronomer's Garden'', ''Sugar Hill Blues'', ''Hammett's Apprentice'', and ''So Special''. During this period, Hood delved into television. He wrote episodes of '' Medics'' and ''Grange Hill'', a popular school drama for BBC. Later he co-devised the crime drama '' Silent Witness'', writing four episode scripts. Hood also penned the screenplay for the 1998 television film ''The Echo'', a thriller starring Clive Owen, as well as the serial '' In a Land of Plenty'' featuring Robert Pugh and '' Man and Boy'' with Ioan Gruffudd. In 2004, Ecosse Films hired Hood to aid in the development of a screenplay for '' Becoming Jane'', a 2007 film depicting the early life of Jane Austen. Screenwriter Sarah Williams had completed seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bridcut
John Bridcut MVO is an English documentary filmmaker. Bridcut was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a MA in literae humaniores (classics) in 1971. He is a honorary fellow of Keble College. Career In 1975 he joined the BBC as a news trainee, and worked on news and current affairs programmes for twelve years. Since then he has been an independent producer, mainly working through his own company, Crux Productions. Bridcut is best known for his films about British composers. His most famous work, '' Britten's Children'' (2004), is a study of the influence that Benjamin Britten's close relationships with children had on the composer and material from the documentary was later made into a book (2006).Profile Faber&Faber He has also created documentaries about |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western (genre), Western TV series ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide'', Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's ''Dollars Trilogy'' of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Dirty Harry (character), Harry Callahan in the five ''Dirty Harry (film series), Dirty Harry'' films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy ''Every Which Way but Loose'' (1978) and its action comedy sequel ''Any Which Way You Can'' (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns ''Hang 'Em High'' (1968), ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'' (1976) and ''Pale Rider'' (1985), the action-wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck (; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, Metre (music), meters, tonality, tonalities, and combining different styles and genres, like classic, jazz, and blues. Born in Concord, California, Brubeck was drafted into the US Army, but was spared from combat service when a International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross show he had played at became a hit. Within the US Army, Brubeck formed one of the first racial integration, racially diverse bands. In 1951, he formed the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which kept its name despite shifting personnel. The most successful—and prolific—lineup of the quartet was the one between 1958 and 1968. This lineup, in addition to Brubeck, featured saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello. A U.S. Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Walker (director)
Lucy Walker is an English film director. She has directed the feature documentaries '' Devil's Playground'' (2002), ''Blindsight'' (2006), '' Waste Land'' (2010), '' Countdown to Zero'' (2010), '' The Crash Reel'' (2013), '' Buena Vista Social Club: Adios'' (2017), '' Bring Your Own Brigade'' (2021), and the Peabody Award winning '' Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa'' (2023). She has also directed the short films '' The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom'' (2011) and '' The Lion's Mouth Opens'' (2014). ''Waste Land'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and ''The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Film career ''Devil's Playground'', Walker's first feature documentary, examined the struggles of Amish teenagers during their period of experimentation (rumspringa). It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ''Blindsight'' premiered at Toronto. It follows the journey of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Helma Sanders-Brahms (20 November 1940 – 27 May 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Helma Sanders was born on 20 November 1940 in Emden, Germany. She attended a school for acting in Hannover from 1960 to 1962, then majored in literature and drama at Cologne University. Her early career involved work as a hospital aide and an on-air announcer for the Cologne television station WDR-3. She produced documentaries and film shorts for the station. During a trip to Italy in 1967, she interned with film directors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Corbucci, a decisive experience in her choice to pursue film-making. Beginning in 1969, she made her own films, writing her own screenplays and producing many of her films herself. Her film-making comprised both fiction and documentary films, and many of her films contain a strong autobiographical component. Her early films engage critically with the themes of labour, migration, and the situation of women i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Palmer (director)
Tony Palmer (born 29 August 1941)IMDb: Tony Palmer Retrieved 24 September 2011 is a British film director and author. His work includes over 100 films, ranging from early works with the Beatles, Cream (band), Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher (''Irish Tour '74 (Film), Irish Tour '74'') and Frank Zappa (''200 Motels''), to his classical portraits which include profiles of Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, John Osborne, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Yehudi Menuhin, Julian Lloyd Webber, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is also a stage director of theatre and opera. Among over 40 international prizes for his work are 12 Gold Medals from the New York Film Festival as well as numerous BAFTAs and Emmy Awards. Palmer has won the Prix Italia twice, for ''A Time There Was'' in 1980 and ''At the Haunted End of the Day'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yony Leyser
Yony Leyser (born 1985) is a director and writer based in Berlin. Biography Early life and education Yony Leyser was born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1985 to an Israeli-Iranian mother and a German Jewish father. Leyser studied at the California Institute of the Arts and at the University of Kansas before graduating with a B.A from The New School in New York City, where he majored in film and journalism, and an MFA from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 2010, Leyser relocated to Berlin. Career After five years in the making, Leyser independently released his first feature film, '' William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, a'' documentary film covering William S. Burroughs in 2010. The film features archival footage, some of which was previously unreleased, as well as interviews with Burrough's friends and colleagues. The film received was received positively, with a 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was a Critic's Pick of ''The New York Times'' and received positive reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Adlon
Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon (; 1 June 1935 – 10 March 2024) was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement (ca. 1965–1985), and is known for his strong female characters and positive portrayals of lesbian relationships. He is best known for his 1987 film '' Bagdad Cafe'', starring Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder and Jack Palance and subsequent films such as '' Rosalie Goes Shopping'' (1989), '' Salmonberries'' (1991) and '' Younger and Younger'' (1993). Adlon's films were shown in competition regularly at international film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and others. Early life Adlon was born on June 1, 1935 in Munich, Germany. He grew up in Ammerland, Starnberger See. He studied art, theater history, and German literature at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University; took acting and singing classes; and was a member of a student theater group. Career Adlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
