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Simon Chinn
Simon Chinn is a British film producer, founder of Red Box Films and co-founder of Lightbox. He produced a number of feature documentaries, including ''Man on Wire'' and ''Searching for Sugar Man'', both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He went to school with Louis Theroux and he produced the documentary ''My Scientology Movie'' written by Theroux. Chinn's brother, Jonathan, is a television producer. Filmography * ''Curse of the Chippendales'' (2021) – Executive Producer * '' Tina'' (2021) – Producer * ''The Amazing Johnathan Documentary'' (2019) – Executive Producer * ''LA 92'' (2017) – Producer * '' Captive'' (2016) (TV series) – Executive Producer * ''My Scientology Movie'' (2015) – Producer * '' The Green Prince'' (2014) – Producer * ''The Legend of Shorty'' (2014) – Producer * ''Garnet's Gold'' (2014) – Producer * ''Signal To Noise'' (2014) (TV series) – Executive Producer, 1 Episode * ''Everything or Nothing'' (2012) � ...
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Searching For Sugar Man
''Searching for Sugar Man'' is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa, although little was known about him in that country. On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London and two weeks later, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Production Initially using Super 8 film to record stylised shots for the film, director Malik Bendjelloul ran out of money for more film to record the final few shots. After three yea ...
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Captive (2016 TV Series)
''Captive'' is an American documentary web series that was released on Netflix on December 9, 2016. The series consisted of eight episodes, and explored hostage situations and negotiations around the world. Episodes References External links * Captiveon Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ... {{Netflix original ended series (2012–2018) English-language Netflix original programming True crime television series 2016 American television series debuts 2016 American television series endings 2010s American documentary television series ...
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British Film Producers
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Directors Of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award Winners
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Silent Weapon
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The Government Inspector (film)
''The Government Inspector'' is a 2005 television drama based on the life of David Kelly (played by Mark Rylance) and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom. It was written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, and won three BAFTAs – Best Actor for Rylance, Best Single Drama and Best Writer (as well as being nominated for the BAFTA for Best Original Television Music for Jocelyn Pook, and winning a RTS Television Award for Best Single Drama). Cast *Mark Rylance as David Kelly *Jonathan Cake as Alastair Campbell *Emma Fielding as Susan Watts * Daniel Ryan as Andrew Gilligan *Geraldine Alexander as Janice Kelly *Georgina Rylance as Rachel Kelly *James Larkin – Tony Blair *Julian Wadham as Jonathan Powell *Pip Torrens as John Scarlett * Kayvan Novak as Qasim Hamdani *Philip Bowen as Sir Kevin Tebbit *Barnaby Kay as Tom Kelly *Tom Beard as Godric Smith * Darren Morfitt as Daniel Pruce *Martin Maynard as Paul Hammill * Geoffrey Freshwater as Andrew MacKinlay ...
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Project Nim (film)
''Project Nim'' is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. Summary It focuses on Project Nim, a research project that was mounted in the 1970s to determine whether a primate raised in close contact with humans could develop a limited "language" based on American Sign Language. The project was centred on a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky. Release The film was first publicly shown during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and then released for public exhibition on 8 July 2011. Controversy In 2019, Herbert S. Terrace, who led the research on Nim, published the book ''Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can''. There, he explained how he perceived the documentary ''Project Nim'' as "mainly an ad hominem attack" on himself. Terrace stated that the allegation that he had returned Nim to the primate colony as punishment for his failing to learn sign language is untrue. Besides, Terrace criticised how the documentary represented a "complete failure to presen ...
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The Imposter (2012 Film)
''The Imposter'' is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in 1994. The film was directed by Bart Layton. It mainly includes interviews with Bourdin but also with members of Barclay's family, as well as archive television news footage and reenacted dramatic sequences. Summary The story begins in a phone box in Spain where Bourdin phones the police saying he is a tourist who has found a young boy in a phone box and the police should collect him. He is taken to a children's home and says he is American. He asks to be left in an office overnight to call his family. There he uses records in the office to contact various sheriff's offices in the USA asking about missing children. Through one lead he gets the name Nicholas Barclay. He then calls to another US agency claiming to be a Spanish official and asking to fax ...
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The Green Prince (film)
''The Green Prince'' ( he, הנסיך הירוק) is a 2014 Israeli/UK/German documentary film directed by Nadav Schirman. It is based on the autobiography of Mosab Hassan Yousef, ''Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices''. The movie received four awards: Best Documentary Award by the Israeli Film Academy (2014), Audience Award during the Moscow International Film Festival (2014), Best Documentary Award at the Sundance Film Festival (2014) and Best Documentary at the Bavarian Film Awards (2015). Synopsis The film tells the story of Mosab, son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who for ten years was a spy for Israel's Shin Bet. The documentary features largely interviews with Mosab Hassan Yousef and also with his operator Gonen Ben Yitzhak, with original footage from the events covered, mainly from the Second Intifada, interspersed during and between those interviews. It covers Israel's counter-terrorism efforts dur ...
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LA 92 (film)
''LA 92'' is a 2017 American documentary film about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, directed by Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2017, opened in theaters on April 28, 2017 and aired on National Geographic Channel on April 30, 2017. Synopsis Consisting entirely of archival footage, the documentary chronicles the 1992 Los Angeles riots after 25 years have passed. It includes film and video from the 1965 Watts Riots, the 1973 election of Tom Bradley, the 1978 promotion of Daryl Gates, the shooting of Latasha Harlins, the Rodney King videotape and the subsequent riots and violence that erupted after the acquittal of the officers involved in King's beating. The footage includes public pronouncements by U.S. President George H. W. Bush, presidential candidate Bill Clinton, California governor Pete Wilson, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Daryl Gates (questioned by the LA city council at one point), judge Joyce Karlin, US ...
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Man On Wire
''Man on Wire'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Petit's 2002 book, ''To Reach the Clouds'', released in paperback with the title ''Man on Wire''. The title of the film is taken from the police report that led to the arrest (and later release) of Petit, whose performance lasted for almost an hour. The film is crafted like a heist film, presenting rare footage of the preparations for the event and still photographs of the walk, alongside re-enactments (with Paul McGill as the young Petit) and present-day interviews with the participants, including Barry Greenhouse, an insurance executive who served as the inside man. ''Man on Wire'' competed in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary and the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary. ...
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