Exclusive: A Sheila E. documentary, a film from The Two Killings of Sam Cooke director about growing up female in the Deep South, and a free speech project from Julia Bacha are among those films awarded a grant from a Covid-19 doc fund.
Xtr, the documentary studio set up by Ryot co-founder Bryn Mooser, Knock Down The House producer Wavelength Productions and new partner Park Pictures, the company behind The Truffle Hunters, partnered on the Keep The Lights On Fund to help struggling documentary filmmakers finish projects hit by the shutdown.
The collaboration offered filmmakers between $5,000 and $10,000 to help support post-production budgets or filmmakers’ personal expenses during the shutdown.
Some 12 of the 15 winners are helmed by female directors.
The fund was available for U.S.-based documentary filmmakers with feature-length films in post-production, films that were scheduled for completion in 2020 prior to the pandemic, films that address contemporary issues and premium,...
Xtr, the documentary studio set up by Ryot co-founder Bryn Mooser, Knock Down The House producer Wavelength Productions and new partner Park Pictures, the company behind The Truffle Hunters, partnered on the Keep The Lights On Fund to help struggling documentary filmmakers finish projects hit by the shutdown.
The collaboration offered filmmakers between $5,000 and $10,000 to help support post-production budgets or filmmakers’ personal expenses during the shutdown.
Some 12 of the 15 winners are helmed by female directors.
The fund was available for U.S.-based documentary filmmakers with feature-length films in post-production, films that were scheduled for completion in 2020 prior to the pandemic, films that address contemporary issues and premium,...
- 5/29/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Documentarians from Ecuador, Argentina, Kenya, Vietnam and France are among projects from 19 countries to receive support totalling $520,000 from Sundance Institute.
Documentarians from Ecuador, Argentina, Kenya, Vietnam and France are among projects from 19 countries to receive support totalling $520,000 from Sundance Institute.
Documentary Fund recipients encompass projects in development, production, and post-production stages and their work spans subject matter from a deeply personal family project in Ecuador, to a mission to save libraries in Kenya, to a musical involving female and trans prisoners in Buenos Aires.
Frederick Wiseman’s Boston City Hall project, City Hall, is among post-production grant recipients.
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Documentarians from Ecuador, Argentina, Kenya, Vietnam and France are among projects from 19 countries to receive support totalling $520,000 from Sundance Institute.
Documentary Fund recipients encompass projects in development, production, and post-production stages and their work spans subject matter from a deeply personal family project in Ecuador, to a mission to save libraries in Kenya, to a musical involving female and trans prisoners in Buenos Aires.
Frederick Wiseman’s Boston City Hall project, City Hall, is among post-production grant recipients.
A little...
- 5/20/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Divided by season into nine sections, the documentary One Cut, One Life is as intuitive as its structure, as natural as the processes of dying and mourning that make up its core. The film is a collaboration between Ed Pincus, who revolutionized first-person nonfiction film and is now a commercial flower farmer living quietly with terminal illness in Vermont; and Lucia Small, a younger filmmaker reeling from the violent deaths of two close friends. Despite their sorrow, the film's driving narrative force is capricious, precarious feeling — what pulls us, and why. As Ed becomes sicker, the film grows more intimate. The camera lingers on postcard pictures of flowers, touched with motion by the wind. Ed and Lucia film one another and speak straight into the came...
- 5/13/2015
- Village Voice
When seminal documentarian Ed Pincus, considered the father of first person non-fiction film, is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he and collaborator Lucia Small team up to make one last film, much to the chagrin of Jane, Ed’s wife of 50 years. Told from two filmmakers’ points of view, One Cut, One Life challenges the form of first person documentary. Ed and Lucia’s unique approach to filming offers a vulnerability and intimacy rarely seen in non- fiction, questioning whether some things might be too private to be made public. The film is an intense, raw, and sometimes humorous exploration of the human condition which invites the viewer to contemplate for [ Read More ]
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- 8/23/2014
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
Opening Night – World Premiere
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
- 8/20/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The New York Film Festival has announced 15 titles lined up for its Spotlight on Documentary. Nyff 52, running from September 26 through October 12, will feature new films by Frederick Wiseman, Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, Albert Maysles, Joshua Oppenheimer, Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht, Ed Pincus and Lucia Small, J.P. Sniadecki, Debra Granik, Robert Kenner, Jung Yoon-suk, Ethan Hawke, Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan, Gabe Polsky, Arthur Jafa and Marah Strauch. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The New York Film Festival has announced 15 titles lined up for its Spotlight on Documentary. Nyff 52, running from September 26 through October 12, will feature new films by Frederick Wiseman, Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, Albert Maysles, Joshua Oppenheimer, Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht, Ed Pincus and Lucia Small, J.P. Sniadecki, Debra Granik, Robert Kenner, Jung Yoon-suk, Ethan Hawke, Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan, Gabe Polsky, Arthur Jafa and Marah Strauch. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2014
- Keyframe
At this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, the panel “The Art of Documentary Film Editing: Case Studies” featured moderator Jim Hession, editor of Rich Hill, Lucia Small, director and editor of One Cut, One Life and Bryan Storkel, editor of Fight Church. An audience member asked the panel how they interviewed people and whether they prepped them beforehand, adding “Whenever I interview people, they’re always really bad talking to the camera.” Storkel: I try and do as little prep as possible. I try to show up and just start talking and get to know them on camera. I’ll have my questions […]...
- 5/2/2014
- by Michael Murie
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
At this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, the panel “The Art of Documentary Film Editing: Case Studies” featured moderator Jim Hession, editor of Rich Hill, Lucia Small, director and editor of One Cut, One Life and Bryan Storkel, editor of Fight Church. An audience member asked the panel how they interviewed people and whether they prepped them beforehand, adding “Whenever I interview people, they’re always really bad talking to the camera.” Storkel: I try and do as little prep as possible. I try to show up and just start talking and get to know them on camera. I’ll have my questions […]...
- 5/2/2014
- by Michael Murie
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus, who helped define the notion and expand the possibilities of the personal documentary, died yesterday in Vermont, according to a Facebook post by Vermont Public Television. The TV station announced: "Yesterday we lost a pioneering Vermont filmmaker: Ed Pincus. This past March, the Green Mountain Film Festival screened a timely retrospective with him and his partner Lucia Smalls. In his last year of life, Ed and Lucia worked on what is bound to be a very powerful documentary about his terminal illness called "The Elephant in the Room." Ed - you will be missed!" Pincus suffered from a fatal blood disease myelodysplastic syndrome or Mds in addition to Parkinson’s disease. He was chronicling his illness in his latest film, "One Cut, One Life," on which he was collaborating with Lucia Small, his partner in Pincus & Small Films. Pincus began filmmaking in 1964, serving as a producer,...
- 11/6/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Yesterday, the Sundance Institute announced the 29 documentary projects that have been selected to receive in total $550,000 worth of grant money from its Documentary Film Program and Fund. A lot of these are for projects in development by emerging filmmakers, but in there are also some films by more established names such as Jesse Moss (Full Battle Rattle), Lucia Small and Ed Pincus (The Axe in the Attic) and Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, who received audience engagement money for their 2011 doc Girl Model. In a press release, Cara Mertes, the Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program …...
- 7/12/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Sundance Institute today announced the 29 feature-length documentary films that will receive more than $550,000 (£362,000) in grants from its Documentary Film Program and Fund.
Among the director's receiving a grant is Scottish-based The Guga Hunters of Ness director Mike Day, whose as yet untitled film about the pilot whale hunters of the Nordic Faroe islands will receive production/post-production funding.
Grant recipients were selected from 772 submissions from 88 countries and include filmmakers working in Chile, Libya, Cuba, Cambodia and Pakistan as well as a broad range of experience, from first-time feature documentary filmmakers to Academy Award nominee Arthur Dong and veteran filmmaker Ed Pincus working with Lucia Small.
Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund Cara Mertes said, “By providing financial support to nonfiction independent filmmakers, we seek to encourage the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society. These 29 stories we’ve identified...
Among the director's receiving a grant is Scottish-based The Guga Hunters of Ness director Mike Day, whose as yet untitled film about the pilot whale hunters of the Nordic Faroe islands will receive production/post-production funding.
Grant recipients were selected from 772 submissions from 88 countries and include filmmakers working in Chile, Libya, Cuba, Cambodia and Pakistan as well as a broad range of experience, from first-time feature documentary filmmakers to Academy Award nominee Arthur Dong and veteran filmmaker Ed Pincus working with Lucia Small.
Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund Cara Mertes said, “By providing financial support to nonfiction independent filmmakers, we seek to encourage the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society. These 29 stories we’ve identified...
- 7/10/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sundance Institute has announced the 22 Fellows representing nine documentary film projects participating in the 2013 Documentary Edit and Story Labs, set to run from Jun 21-29 and Jul 5-13 at Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah.
Documentary Film Program (Dfp) staff and creative advisors will join the Fellows in the process.
The Fellows for the Jun 21-29 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Kirsten Johnson and editor Amanda Laws for A Blind Eye (Us); co-directors and editor Ed Pincus and Lucia Small for Elephant In The Room (Us); co-directors Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting and editor Edgar Burcksen for The Last Hijack (Us-Netherlands); director Andrew James and editor Jason Tippet for Street Fighting Man (Us); and director Alexander Nanau and editor Mirceau Olteanu for Totonel (Romania).
The Fellows for the Jul 5-13 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Elizabeth ‘Chai’ Vasarhelyi and editor Jay Freund for An African Spring (Us); co-directors Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly and editor...
Documentary Film Program (Dfp) staff and creative advisors will join the Fellows in the process.
The Fellows for the Jun 21-29 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Kirsten Johnson and editor Amanda Laws for A Blind Eye (Us); co-directors and editor Ed Pincus and Lucia Small for Elephant In The Room (Us); co-directors Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting and editor Edgar Burcksen for The Last Hijack (Us-Netherlands); director Andrew James and editor Jason Tippet for Street Fighting Man (Us); and director Alexander Nanau and editor Mirceau Olteanu for Totonel (Romania).
The Fellows for the Jul 5-13 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Elizabeth ‘Chai’ Vasarhelyi and editor Jay Freund for An African Spring (Us); co-directors Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly and editor...
- 6/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
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