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Seventh Art Releasing
Seventh Art Releasing (also known as 7th Art Releasing) is an American entertainment company and film distributor founded in 1994 by Udy Epstein and Jonathan Cordish. The company specializes in the release and sale of documentaries and independent films through traditional and modern outlets including theatrical and non-theatrical distribution, film festivals, cable and television, home video, and video-on-demand. Releases The company is known for distributing award-winning documentaries and fiction films, having a catalog of over 500 films, many dealing with Jewish culture, lesbian and gay issues, world affairs, human rights, music, and popular culture. Seventh Art Releasing has also provided worked with companies including HBO, MGM, PBS, Discovery Channel, A&E, Virgin Records, and Universal Music Group to provide press, event, and release services. Recognition Several titles released by the company have been nominated for Academy Awards and Emmys, such films including ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Business
Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.''Oxford English Dictionary'' 2nd Ed. (1989) From the business side (including managers, agents, producers, and distributors), the term applies to the creative element (including artists, performers, writers, musicians, and technicians) and was in common usage throughout the 20th century, though the first known use in print dates from 1850. At that time and for several decades, it typically included an initial ''the''. By the latter part of the century, it had acquired a slightly arcane quality associated with the era of variety, but the term is still in active use. In modern entertainment industry, it is also associated with the fashion industry (creating trend and fashion) and acquiring intellectual property rights from the invested research in the entertainment business. Industry The global media and entertainment (M&E) market, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transit (2013 Film)
''Transit'' is a 2013 Filipino independent drama film written and directed by Hannah Espia. The film follows a story about a single father who is forced to hide his children from immigration police in Israel after the Israeli government decides to deport children of immigrant workers. It is Espia's full-length debut film. It was mostly shot in Israel. The film competed under the New Breed section of Cinemalaya 2013. The film won Best Film, directing, acting and other technical awards. Espia said that the inspiration to do the film came after talking to an OFW who was bringing home his child from Israel. In 2009, the Israeli government enacted a law that deports the children of migrant workers unless they fulfill a certain criterion. Both Israeli and migrant workers rallied against the law that separates parents from their children. The film competed in the 18th Busan International Film Festival in the "New Currents" section. The film was selected as the Philippine entry for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South By Southwest
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas; both years, there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW Edu and the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival, and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. It has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995-2001), West by Southwest (2006-2 ... [...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] |
Under Great White Northern Lights
''Under Great White Northern Lights'' is a 2009 documentary film about the White Stripes' summer 2007 tour across Canada directed by Emmett Malloy. It contains live concert and off-stage footage. The film's accompanying album is a collection of various recordings from throughout the tour. The documentary was released on DVD and Blu-ray, and the album was released on CD as well as 180-gram vinyl LP. A special edition box set was also available. The CD, LP, DVD, BD, and box set were all released on March 16, 2010 in Canada, with other dates worldwide. Film Development and production ''Under Great White Northern Lights'' documents the White Stripes' summer 2007 tour across Canada in support of the album '' Icky Thump'', in which they performed in every province. Jack White conceived the idea of touring Canada after learning that Scottish relatives on his father's side had lived for a few generations in Nova Scotia before relocating to Detroit to work in the car factories.Rayner, Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Wally (film)
''Portrait of Wally'' is a 1912 oil painting by Austrian painter Egon Schiele of Walburga "Wally" Neuzil, a woman whom he met in 1911 when he was 21 and she was 17. She became his lover and model for several years, depicted in a number of Schiele's most striking paintings. The painting was obtained by Rudolf Leopold in 1954 and became part of the collection of the Leopold Museum when it was established by the Austrian government, purchasing 5,000 pieces that Leopold had owned. Near the end of a 1997–1998 exhibit of Schiele's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the painting's ownership (provenance) history was revealed in an article published in ''The New York Times''. After the publication, the heirs of Lea Bondi Jaray, to whom the work had belonged before World War II, contacted the New York County District Attorney who issued a subpoena forbidding its return to Austria. The work was tied up in litigation for years by Bondi's heirs, who claimed that the painting was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Word Wars
''Word Wars'' is a 2004 documentary film directed by Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo about competitive Scrabble playing. Its full title is: ''Word Wars - Tiles and Tribulations on the Scrabble Circuit''. The film was an official selection at the 2004 Sundance film festival, had a 25-city theatrical run, was included as part of the Discovery Times Channel's "Screening Room" series, and was nominated for numerous awards including a 2004 Documentary Emmy for "Best Artistic or Cultural Programming" and an International Documentary Association (IDA) Award. The film is distributed by 7th Art Releasing. The film follows four players in the nine months leading up to the 2002 National Scrabble Championship, which was held in San Diego, California: Joe Edley, Matt Graham, Marlon Hill, and Joel Sherman. These players also appear in Stefan Fatsis's book '' Word Freak'', as does Chaikin. Fatsis and Chaikin are both tournament Scrabble players themselves.''The Washington Times'' "Fightin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love During Wartime
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment (psychology), attachment.''Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary'' (1998) Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human morality, moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, Obsessive love, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Aggressives (2005 American Film)
''The Aggressives'' is a 2005 documentary directed by Daniel Peddle. It is an exposé on the subculture of masculine presenting people of color and their "femme" counterparts. Filmed over five years in New York City, the featured subjects share their dreams, secrets, and deepest fears. Synopsis This documentary intimately follows the lives of six subjects for about five years starting in 1997. Through their experiences, the documentary explores gender, sexuality, race, and class. The aggressives are young, queer, masculine presenting and identifying people of color living in New York City, including: Marquise, Rjai, Tiffany, Flo, Octavia, and Kisha. The subjects' experiences reflect the challenges of marginalized existence as queer people of color: including jail time, hysterectomies, children, military service, prison sex, construction work, competing in “ balls" within the LGBTQIA+ community, and achieving success despite disapproval by their families and society at large. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45365
''45365'' is a 2009 American documentary film made by first-time directors and brothers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross. The film is about the everyday life of the small town Sidney, Ohio, and the people living in it; the title comes from the town's ZIP Code. ''45365'' premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It won the Roger and Chaz Ebert Truer than Fiction award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. Jeannette Catsoulis has described the film, "A beguiling slice of Midwestern impressionism, ''45365'' drops in on the residents of Sidney, Ohio, to observe their lunches and haircuts, trials and transgressions." References External links * ''45365''site for Independent Lens on PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of ed ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Night's Journey Into Day
''Long Night's Journey Into Day'' is a 2000 American documentary film about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-Apartheid South Africa. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Reception Critical response ''Long Night's Journey Into Day'' has an approval rating of 94% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews, and an average rating of 7.48/10. It also has a score of 85 out of 100 on Metacritic Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc ..., based on 4 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". References External links *''Long Night's Journey into Day''at Seventh Art Releasing Documentary films about apartheid 2000 films 2000 documentary films Afrikaans-language films American documentary films South Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incident In New Baghdad
''Incident in New Baghdad'' is a 2011 short documentary film about the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, directed by James Spione. The film features a first-person account from Ethan McCord, one of the first soldiers to arrive at the scene of the airstrike that killed between 12 to "over 18" people and wounded 2 children in New Baghdad during the Iraq War. The film premiered theatrically at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Short Documentary. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 84th Academy Awards. It was the second Kickstarter Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, K ...-funded film to be nominated for an Academy Award. References External links * *''Incident in New Baghdad''at Seventh Art Releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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