For years, the Wilking sisters were inseparable. Passionate about dance since childhood, Miranda and Melanie found success as a duo on social media, raking in millions of TikTok followers and lucrative brand partnerships. In 2019, however, Miranda started spending more time with members of the church-affiliated talent-management company that represented her, pulling away from her close-knit family. Eventually, she cut off contact with them, leading her loved ones to believe there was more happening behind the scenes.
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult, a new documentary series directed by Derek Doneen, tells Miranda’s story — and the story of many other dancers who, like her, ended up ensnared in the Los Angeles-based 7M Films management company under owner Robert Shinn. Melanie Wilking and the sisters’ parents, Kelly and Dean, made waves in 2022 when they publicly suggested 7M was a cult and that Miranda was being manipulated and...
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult, a new documentary series directed by Derek Doneen, tells Miranda’s story — and the story of many other dancers who, like her, ended up ensnared in the Los Angeles-based 7M Films management company under owner Robert Shinn. Melanie Wilking and the sisters’ parents, Kelly and Dean, made waves in 2022 when they publicly suggested 7M was a cult and that Miranda was being manipulated and...
- 5/29/2024
- by Roxanne Fequiere
- Tudum - Netflix
Netflix’s docuseries exposes a sexually abusive church pastor and a cult in perhaps the most unexpected place — TikTok.
“Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult” follows a group of TikTok dancers who believe they are in a talent management company called 7M. The doc focuses on Miranda Wilking, a member who’s estranged from her family that’s desperately trying to get her out.
The 7M leader is Robert Shinn, a self-proclaimed “man of God” who is a pastor at an invite-only church called Shekinah. However, he uses his power to prey upon his members and abuses them verbally, emotionally and psychically. Members who escaped 7M shared their stories of heartbreak and grief under the leader in the doc. One former member, Priscylla Lee, currently has a lawsuit against Shinn and other Shekinah members.
Executive producer Jessica Acevedo says she first heard about 7M in February 2022 from Tim Milgram,...
“Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult” follows a group of TikTok dancers who believe they are in a talent management company called 7M. The doc focuses on Miranda Wilking, a member who’s estranged from her family that’s desperately trying to get her out.
The 7M leader is Robert Shinn, a self-proclaimed “man of God” who is a pastor at an invite-only church called Shekinah. However, he uses his power to prey upon his members and abuses them verbally, emotionally and psychically. Members who escaped 7M shared their stories of heartbreak and grief under the leader in the doc. One former member, Priscylla Lee, currently has a lawsuit against Shinn and other Shekinah members.
Executive producer Jessica Acevedo says she first heard about 7M in February 2022 from Tim Milgram,...
- 5/29/2024
- by Lexi Carson
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix and their love for documentary features is never-ending. There are countless documentaries, movies, and shows on the streaming platform that talk about various kinds of subjects. However, Netflix has a certain affinity for the topic of cults and the leaders that run them. Wild Wild Country, How to Become a Cult Leader, Escaping Twin Flames, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, and Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator are some of the documentaries on cults that have taken over the lives of the people. The incidents covered in the documentaries mentioned above were spread out over several decades and compiled by the streaming giant for people to understand what happens in those vast lands that bring together people from different backgrounds.
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult is a three-part documentary that was released on May 29, 2024. Each episode of the documentary is almost an hour long. The makers bring together...
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult is a three-part documentary that was released on May 29, 2024. Each episode of the documentary is almost an hour long. The makers bring together...
- 5/29/2024
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
In Netflix’s true crime docuseries “Heist,” director Derek Doneen chose to have an actress portray convicted criminal and former fugitive Heather Tallchief — a reveal he withheld until the very end of the episode.
Tallchief was convicted of stealing $3.1 million from Las Vegas casinos in an armored car when she was 21. She served 63 months in prison after turning herself in to authorities in 2005, 12 years after the heist. While concealing her identity was necessary to protect her from any potential retaliation from her accomplice and former partner, Roberto Solis, Doneen said the extremely late reveal also lets “the audience go along for the ride” and allows Tallchief’s story to shine without any distractions.
“Ultimately, I wanted the audience to feel immersed in the story. I didn’t want them questioning or second-guessing,” Doneen told TheWrap, adding, “Holding it to the end allowed us to meet the real Heather.”
Doneen said...
Tallchief was convicted of stealing $3.1 million from Las Vegas casinos in an armored car when she was 21. She served 63 months in prison after turning herself in to authorities in 2005, 12 years after the heist. While concealing her identity was necessary to protect her from any potential retaliation from her accomplice and former partner, Roberto Solis, Doneen said the extremely late reveal also lets “the audience go along for the ride” and allows Tallchief’s story to shine without any distractions.
“Ultimately, I wanted the audience to feel immersed in the story. I didn’t want them questioning or second-guessing,” Doneen told TheWrap, adding, “Holding it to the end allowed us to meet the real Heather.”
Doneen said...
- 7/16/2021
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Director Derek Doneen wanted to bring “more fun” to the typically grim world of true crime in his newest docuseries, “Heist,” which recounts real-life heists from the perspectives of the criminals that pulled them off.
“I’ve just been feeling a little fatigued by the darkness by most of the fare in the true-crime universe,” Doneen told TheWrap. “I was craving something a little bit more fun.”
When his wife pointed out the lack of heist stories in the documentary space, Doneen made it his mission to transport the high-stakes robbery story to the documentary genre.
“What really interested me was, can I access to the people who pulled them off?” Doneen recounted.
Turns out he could.
In Season 1, the docuseries follows three heist plots: “Sex Magick Money Murder,” “The Money Plane” and “The Bourbon King,” with each story told in two parts for a total of six episodes. And...
“I’ve just been feeling a little fatigued by the darkness by most of the fare in the true-crime universe,” Doneen told TheWrap. “I was craving something a little bit more fun.”
When his wife pointed out the lack of heist stories in the documentary space, Doneen made it his mission to transport the high-stakes robbery story to the documentary genre.
“What really interested me was, can I access to the people who pulled them off?” Doneen recounted.
Turns out he could.
In Season 1, the docuseries follows three heist plots: “Sex Magick Money Murder,” “The Money Plane” and “The Bourbon King,” with each story told in two parts for a total of six episodes. And...
- 7/14/2021
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
You can watch, but you may not want to try these at home. Heist, Netflix’s new crime-docuseries, makes it look very tempting to go for the big money grab. Whether it comes in paper or bottles, bushels or barrels, cash is king, and it is fun to be a kingpin. Living large on illicit funds is a blast. Pursuit is inevitable. Capture is probable. Jail is doable. Especially if there is some money stashed away.
The interesting thing is, of all of the cases investigated in the show, the only criminal who might not have something saved for retirement is the one who got away with the crime and turned herself in. Told by the people who pulled them off, Heist is a cautionary tale that throws caution to the wind. The docuseries was produced by Dirty Robber, it chronicles the events of three famous modern heists. Each case gets two episodes,...
The interesting thing is, of all of the cases investigated in the show, the only criminal who might not have something saved for retirement is the one who got away with the crime and turned herself in. Told by the people who pulled them off, Heist is a cautionary tale that throws caution to the wind. The docuseries was produced by Dirty Robber, it chronicles the events of three famous modern heists. Each case gets two episodes,...
- 7/9/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Heading into sundance 2020, twin brothers Josh and Dan Braun keep fielding the same question: “What is this year’s ‘Honeyland?’”
It’s not a surprising question because the Braun brothers are the co-founders and co-presidents of Submarine Entertainment, the New York-based sales, production and distribution company that sold Oscar-nominated “Honeyland” to Neon 12 months ago after its Sundance premiere.
What is surprising is that, according to Josh, all those inquiring are “of course buyers who passed on ‘Honeyland’ last year.”
Directed by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, “Honeyland,” about a nomadic Macedonian beekeeper, garnered three 2019 Sundance awards. Earlier this month, the doc made history when it became the first nonfiction feature to be nominated for documentary and international film Academy Awards
in the same year.
In addition to “Honeyland,” Submarine is also behind the sale of two other Oscar-nominated docs: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s “American Factory” and Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy.
It’s not a surprising question because the Braun brothers are the co-founders and co-presidents of Submarine Entertainment, the New York-based sales, production and distribution company that sold Oscar-nominated “Honeyland” to Neon 12 months ago after its Sundance premiere.
What is surprising is that, according to Josh, all those inquiring are “of course buyers who passed on ‘Honeyland’ last year.”
Directed by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, “Honeyland,” about a nomadic Macedonian beekeeper, garnered three 2019 Sundance awards. Earlier this month, the doc made history when it became the first nonfiction feature to be nominated for documentary and international film Academy Awards
in the same year.
In addition to “Honeyland,” Submarine is also behind the sale of two other Oscar-nominated docs: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s “American Factory” and Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy.
- 2/1/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Diane Weyermann, a 14-year veteran at Participant Media, has been promoted to the role of chief content officer, the company’s CEO David Linde announced Thursday at the kickoff of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Weyermann, who previously oversaw Participant’s documentary film and television slate, including executive producing films such as “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Citizenfour,” will work closely with Linde in shaping Participant’s film and TV content in the newly created position.
Weyermann will continue to focus on documentary film and television, alongside department senior vice presidents, Elise Pearlstein (film) and Miura Kite (TV), while collaborating with Linde and the company’s newly announced heads of narrative film, Robert Kessel and Anikah McLaren, on future narrative content.
Also Read: Participant Media's Jonathan King Will Step Down to Segue Into Independent Production
The news comes as part of a restructuring after the departure of Jonathan King, the company...
Weyermann, who previously oversaw Participant’s documentary film and television slate, including executive producing films such as “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Citizenfour,” will work closely with Linde in shaping Participant’s film and TV content in the newly created position.
Weyermann will continue to focus on documentary film and television, alongside department senior vice presidents, Elise Pearlstein (film) and Miura Kite (TV), while collaborating with Linde and the company’s newly announced heads of narrative film, Robert Kessel and Anikah McLaren, on future narrative content.
Also Read: Participant Media's Jonathan King Will Step Down to Segue Into Independent Production
The news comes as part of a restructuring after the departure of Jonathan King, the company...
- 9/5/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Disney/Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther and NBC’s This Is Us are among the nominees for the 44th annual Humanitas Prize. Winners will be revealed in a ceremony February 8 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The prize was created to honor film and TV writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family.
The February ceremony will also also honor Marta Kauffman with The Kieser Award and Kenya Barris
with the Voice For Change Award.
Here are the nominees:
60-minute Drama
God Friended Me, “Pilot” Written by Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt
Orange Is The New Black, “Be Free” Written by Brian Chamberlayne
The Good Doctor, “More” Written by David Shore and Lloyd Gilyard Jr.
This Is Us, “This Big, Amazing, Beautiful Life” Written by Kay Oyegun
30-minute Comedy
Dear White People, “Volume 2: Chapter VIII” Written by Jack Moore
One Day At A Time, “Hello, Penelope” Written...
The prize was created to honor film and TV writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family.
The February ceremony will also also honor Marta Kauffman with The Kieser Award and Kenya Barris
with the Voice For Change Award.
Here are the nominees:
60-minute Drama
God Friended Me, “Pilot” Written by Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt
Orange Is The New Black, “Be Free” Written by Brian Chamberlayne
The Good Doctor, “More” Written by David Shore and Lloyd Gilyard Jr.
This Is Us, “This Big, Amazing, Beautiful Life” Written by Kay Oyegun
30-minute Comedy
Dear White People, “Volume 2: Chapter VIII” Written by Jack Moore
One Day At A Time, “Hello, Penelope” Written...
- 11/27/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
After seeing this movie, whenever you look at the cheap Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas decorations displayed in stores around the country, your perception of them will be forever changed.Directed by Doneen and produced by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim and Sarah Anthony, ‘The Price of Free’ (formerly titled ‘Kailash’) follows Nobel Prize winner Satyarthi and his team of leaders around the world through gripping secret raids and quests for missing children. They have rescued over 87,000 children and have created a global movement, resulting in legislation which helps protect young children.
Every time I see glitter-covered tzachkes to hang on a Christmas tree or put out with the pumpkins I will think of this movie. All those silly cheap pieces of junk littering the checkout counters at grocery stores and drug stores at holiday times are made by children enslaved and hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world. The Price...
Every time I see glitter-covered tzachkes to hang on a Christmas tree or put out with the pumpkins I will think of this movie. All those silly cheap pieces of junk littering the checkout counters at grocery stores and drug stores at holiday times are made by children enslaved and hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world. The Price...
- 11/15/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
"An astonishing film about a global movement." YouTube Originals + Participant Media have debuted an official trailer for the award-winning documentary The Price of Free, originally titled Kailash when it initially premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The doc film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Us Documentary at Sundance, the top doc prize at the festival. The Price of Free is about an Indian man named Kailash Satyarthi, an outspoken children's rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The film tells the story of who he is and how he started all of his various philanthropic organizations including Save Childhood Movement, the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Global March Against Child Labour, and GoodWeave International. It looks like a thoroughly inspiring story of a truly great hero. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Derek Doneen's documentary The Price of Free, from YouTube: Follow...
- 11/8/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Other winners included Derek Doneen’s The Price Of Free and Samal Yeslyamova for her performance in Ayka.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s drama 3 Faces scooped the top prize at the 55th edition of International Antalya Film Festival (Sept 29-Oct 5) last weekend.
The feature, which premiered in competition at Cannes where it won the prize for best screenplay, was feted with Antalya’s Golden Orange award and $53,000 cash prize for best film.
The director, who is currently under house arrest in Iran, participated in the awards ceremony via a video-link.
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the $25,000 Golden Orange prize for...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s drama 3 Faces scooped the top prize at the 55th edition of International Antalya Film Festival (Sept 29-Oct 5) last weekend.
The feature, which premiered in competition at Cannes where it won the prize for best screenplay, was feted with Antalya’s Golden Orange award and $53,000 cash prize for best film.
The director, who is currently under house arrest in Iran, participated in the awards ceremony via a video-link.
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the $25,000 Golden Orange prize for...
- 10/11/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Featuring a bevy of films which first wowed audiences at Cannes, Turkey’s Antalya Film Festival wrapped on Friday Oct. 5 with a crowded awards ceremony and a closing screening of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” held at the Glass Pyramid.
Jafar Panahi’s “Three Faces” scooped top honors in a bittersweet win; the famed Iranian new wave filmmaker is currently serving a 20-year filmmaking and travel ban following a dispute which culminated in charges of “Colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Despite the ban the filmmaker’s output has not halted, and four films made since the ban’s implementation have screened at major festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. “Three Faces” follows three actresses from different generations at different stages of their careers and was described in a glowing Variety review as “empathetic and engaging.
Jafar Panahi’s “Three Faces” scooped top honors in a bittersweet win; the famed Iranian new wave filmmaker is currently serving a 20-year filmmaking and travel ban following a dispute which culminated in charges of “Colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Despite the ban the filmmaker’s output has not halted, and four films made since the ban’s implementation have screened at major festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. “Three Faces” follows three actresses from different generations at different stages of their careers and was described in a glowing Variety review as “empathetic and engaging.
- 10/9/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
YouTube has acquired a documentary feature titled The Price Of Free that follows Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi on his global mission to end child labor and trafficking.
The 90-minute feature, complete with gripping secret raids as well as profiles of children who have been freed from captivity and given a second chance at life, is slated to arrive on YouTube Premium on Nov. 27 to coincide with #GivingTuesday -- which was founded to counteract the consumerism that surrounds the post-Thanksgiving holiday season. The film, which won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, was directed by newcomer Derek Doneen and produced by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth).
The Price Of Free will premiere on the SoulPancake YouTube channel, which is dedicated to emotionally resonant content on a weekly basis. SoulPancake is the digital division of Participant Media, which co-produced and co-financed the film alongside Concordia Studio.
The 90-minute feature, complete with gripping secret raids as well as profiles of children who have been freed from captivity and given a second chance at life, is slated to arrive on YouTube Premium on Nov. 27 to coincide with #GivingTuesday -- which was founded to counteract the consumerism that surrounds the post-Thanksgiving holiday season. The film, which won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, was directed by newcomer Derek Doneen and produced by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth).
The Price Of Free will premiere on the SoulPancake YouTube channel, which is dedicated to emotionally resonant content on a weekly basis. SoulPancake is the digital division of Participant Media, which co-produced and co-financed the film alongside Concordia Studio.
- 9/6/2018
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
YouTube today announced its acquisition of the award-winning documentary The Price of Free (formerly titled Kailash), a suspenseful yet intimate look at one man’s groundbreaking struggle to liberate every child possible. From rising director Derek Doneen and producer Davis Guggenheim, the film follows Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and his team of leaders around the world through gripping secret raids and quests for missing children. Co-produced and co-financed by Participant Media and Concordia Studio, the 90-minute YouTube Original feature length documentary will debut on YouTube channel SoulPancake – Participant’s award-winning digital division – on November 27th, timed to coincide with #GivingTuesday. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize.
As a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. He left a lucrative career as an electrical engineer and started Bachpan Bachao Andolan...
As a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. He left a lucrative career as an electrical engineer and started Bachpan Bachao Andolan...
- 9/6/2018
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Growing up in India, Meher Tatna could see the spoils of child labor first hand. There were pint-sized beggars on the road and child servants in homes; out of view, youngsters toiled in factories rather than attend school, in some cases sold into slavery due to their families’ grinding poverty.
So the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s $500,000 grant to an Indian organization dedicated to eradicating child labor and slavery hit especially close to home for Tatna, HFPA’s president since June 2017.
“It’s one thing I am just really proud of,” says Tatna of the grant to Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation.
Part of the $3.1 million HFPA is awarding educational and cultural organizations this year, the donation is an outgrowth of a conversation Tatna had with David Linde, head of Participant Media. He suggested several possible candidates for HFPA’s big annual international grant, Kscf among them.
Tatna, who left...
So the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s $500,000 grant to an Indian organization dedicated to eradicating child labor and slavery hit especially close to home for Tatna, HFPA’s president since June 2017.
“It’s one thing I am just really proud of,” says Tatna of the grant to Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation.
Part of the $3.1 million HFPA is awarding educational and cultural organizations this year, the donation is an outgrowth of a conversation Tatna had with David Linde, head of Participant Media. He suggested several possible candidates for HFPA’s big annual international grant, Kscf among them.
Tatna, who left...
- 8/8/2018
- by Diane Garrett
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Derek Doneen, whose feature documentary directing debut Kailash won a marquee Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Wme. In Kailash, Doneen followed Nobel Peace Prize-winning Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, whose team has liberated more than 86,000 children in India from child labor, slavery and trafficking.
Doneen was an in-house filmmaker at Participant Media who worked with Davis Guggenheim on films including Waiting for Superman and directing content for Starbucks, American Express and the Gates Foundation. He edited Guggenheim’s short documentary about President Obama for the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
His credits include editing Kobe Bryant’s Muse at Showtime and producing Shot in the Dark, which was broadcast as part of Fox Sports’ “Magnify” series, and The Dream is Now. He also directed the docu short Spent: Looking for Change.
Doneen was an in-house filmmaker at Participant Media who worked with Davis Guggenheim on films including Waiting for Superman and directing content for Starbucks, American Express and the Gates Foundation. He edited Guggenheim’s short documentary about President Obama for the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
His credits include editing Kobe Bryant’s Muse at Showtime and producing Shot in the Dark, which was broadcast as part of Fox Sports’ “Magnify” series, and The Dream is Now. He also directed the docu short Spent: Looking for Change.
- 4/12/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Aretha Franklin: Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, above) will portray legendary musical artist Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic. Music executive Clive Davis, who has long been aligned with the singer, made the announcement and said that Franklin handpicked Hudson for the role. [Deadline] Sundance Film Festival: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post (above) won a Grand Jury Prize at the just-concluded 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Chloe Grace Moretz stars as a teenager who is forced to attend a gay conversion camp. Other Grand Jury Prizes were awarded to Derek Doneen’s documentary Kailash, Turkish director Tolga Karaçelik’s dramatic feature Butterflies and Talal Derki’s documentary Of Fathers and...
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- 1/29/2018
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
The Miseducation of Cameron PostU.S. – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeThe Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)Directing AwardThe Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo)Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting:Benjamin Dickey, BlazeSpecial Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature:Monsters and Men (Reinaldo Marcus Green)Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking:i Think We're Alone Now (Reed Morano)Waldo Salt Screenwriting AwardNancy (Christina Choe)Audience AwardBurden (Andrew Heckler)Next Next Audience AwardSearch (Aneesh Chaganty)Next Innovator AwardNight Comes On (Jordan Spiro) & We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar)U.S. – DOCUMENTARYGrand Jury PrizeKailash (Derek Doneen)Directing AwardOn Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)Special Jury Award for Social ImpactCrime + Punishment (Stephen Maing)Special Jury Award for Creative Vision:Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)Special Jury Award for Breakthrough FilmmakingMinding the Gap (Bing Liu)Special Jury Award for StorytellingThree Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle)Audience AwardThe Sentence (Rudy Valdez)World Cinema – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeButterflies (Tolga Karaçelik)Directing...
- 1/29/2018
- MUBI
Kailash - As a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. In the decades since, he has rescued more than 80,000 children and built a global movement. This intimate and suspenseful film follows one man’s journey to do what many believed was impossible. Photo: Derek Doneen Sundance Film Festival announced the main competition winners last night at a ceremony hosted by Jason Mantzoukas.
The Grand Jury Prize for Us Dramatic went to The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan, which relates the story of a group of Christian teenagers at a gay conversion therapy centre. The Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to Kailash, directed by Derek Doneen, which charts Kailash Satyarthi's efforts to end child slavery in India.
In the World Competitions, Talal Derki's Of Fathers and Sons - about children in a Syrian Islamist household took home the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary,...
The Grand Jury Prize for Us Dramatic went to The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan, which relates the story of a group of Christian teenagers at a gay conversion therapy centre. The Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to Kailash, directed by Derek Doneen, which charts Kailash Satyarthi's efforts to end child slavery in India.
In the World Competitions, Talal Derki's Of Fathers and Sons - about children in a Syrian Islamist household took home the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary,...
- 1/28/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The official awards for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. We've been patiently waiting to see who won the awards at Sundance this year, and now we know - it's not any of the films we expected. This seems to be one of the oddest sets of winners in years, but that's the way it goes. The big Audience Award winners are: Burden, a story about a former Klansman being taken in by a Reverend starring Garrett Hedlund & Forest Whitaker, from director Andrew Heckler; The Sentence, a documentary by Rudy Valdez; and Search, the computer screen film (read my review) directed by Aneesh Chaganty. Other major winners include filmmakers Desiree Akhavan, Sara Colangelo, Christina Choe, Reed Morano, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Bing Liu, Derek Doneen, and Gustav Möller. View the full list from 2018. Here's the full release of winners with synopsis info next to each.
- 1/28/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Desiree Akhaven’s drama about teenage gay conversion therapy, and Kailash, Derek Doneen’s documentary about Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi took home the two top U.S. prizes, the U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prizes, at tonight’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival closing night ceremonies. Nearly 30 awards were given out throughout the evening, prompting emcee Jason Mantzoukas, star of Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road, to chant, “10 more days, 10 more awards!” at the end of an evening that saw much diversity in the juror selections: Four out of the five top U.S. awards […]...
- 1/28/2018
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With the 2018 Sundance Film Festival concluding this weekend, the award winners have now been unveiled. Leading the pack of jury prize winners are Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post on the dramatic side and Derek Doneen’s Kailash on the documentary side. Ahead of our picks for our favorite films (update: see here), check out the winners below, with links to our coverage where available.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Simon Chin to:
Kailash / U.S.A. (Director: Derek Doneen, Producers: Davis Guggenheim, Sarah Anthony) — As a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. In the decades since, he has rescued more than eighty thousand children and built a global movement. This intimate and suspenseful film follows one man’s journey to do what many believed was impossible.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic...
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Simon Chin to:
Kailash / U.S.A. (Director: Derek Doneen, Producers: Davis Guggenheim, Sarah Anthony) — As a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. In the decades since, he has rescued more than eighty thousand children and built a global movement. This intimate and suspenseful film follows one man’s journey to do what many believed was impossible.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic...
- 1/28/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A gay conversion therapy drama and harrowing child slave rescue documentary topped the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards, held Saturday in Park City, Utah. Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” took the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. dramatic competition. It stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a young girl in ’90s who is caught kissing another female student and shipped off to conversion camp by her guardians. It costars Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane and John Gallagher Jr. Derek Doneen’s “Kailash” took the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary competition. It follows the real-time rescue operation to free child slaves...
- 1/28/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
The 2018 Sundance Film Festival drew to a close this evening with the announcement of the annual fest’s award winners, care of a free-wheeling ceremony hosted by Jason Mantzoukas, who stars in Hannah Fidell’s Sundance comedy “The Long Dumb Road.”
The Grand Jury Prizes, considered Sundance’s biggest honor, went to Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (U.S. Dramatic), Derek Doneen’s “Kailash” (U.S. Documentary), Tolga Karaçelik’s “Butterflies” (World Cinema Dramatic), and Talal Derki’s “Of Fathers and Sons” (World Cinema Documentary).
Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Each year, the festival’s juries give out directing prizes in each of the four competition categories. This year, each directing prize went to a female filmmaker, including Sara Colangelo, Alexandria Bombach, Sandi Tan, and Isold Uggadottir. The festival’s dedicated screenwriting prize, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award,...
The Grand Jury Prizes, considered Sundance’s biggest honor, went to Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (U.S. Dramatic), Derek Doneen’s “Kailash” (U.S. Documentary), Tolga Karaçelik’s “Butterflies” (World Cinema Dramatic), and Talal Derki’s “Of Fathers and Sons” (World Cinema Documentary).
Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Each year, the festival’s juries give out directing prizes in each of the four competition categories. This year, each directing prize went to a female filmmaker, including Sara Colangelo, Alexandria Bombach, Sandi Tan, and Isold Uggadottir. The festival’s dedicated screenwriting prize, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award,...
- 1/28/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and set in a gay conversion therapy center that tries to turn several young lesbians straight, claimed the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which held its awards ceremony Saturday night. The Documentary Grand Jury Award was presented to Derek Doneen's Kailash, a portrait of Kailash Satyarthi, who has led a campaign to end child slavery.
Audience Award winners included the dramatic feature Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler's film starring Garrett Hedlund about a Klansman whose encounters with a single mom and an African-American reverend teach ...
Audience Award winners included the dramatic feature Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler's film starring Garrett Hedlund about a Klansman whose encounters with a single mom and an African-American reverend teach ...
- 1/27/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and set in a gay conversion therapy center that tries to turn several young lesbians straight, claimed the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which held its awards ceremony Saturday night. The Documentary Grand Jury Award was presented to Derek Doneen's Kailash, a portrait of Kailash Satyarthi, who has led a campaign to end child slavery.
Audience Award winners included the dramatic feature Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler's film starring Garrett Hedlund about a Klansman whose encounters with a single mom and an African-American reverend teach ...
Audience Award winners included the dramatic feature Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler's film starring Garrett Hedlund about a Klansman whose encounters with a single mom and an African-American reverend teach ...
- 1/27/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Guilty, Shirkers claim Park City honourees on Saturday night.
Sundance 2018 wrapped on Saturday (January 27) with juried awards for The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (pictured) in the U.S. Dramatic programme, Kailash in U.S. Documentary, Of Fathers And Sons in World Cinema Documentary, and Butterflies in World Cinema Dramatic.
In other highlights, Gustav Möller’s acclaimed Danish selection The Guilty won the World Cinema Audience award, while Sandi Tan collected the World Cinema Documentary directing award for Shirkers. Festival Favorite, A new award voted on by audiences, will be announced in the coming days.
The Sentence by Rudy Valdez was the audience favourite in the U.S. Documentary category, capping a fine day that saw HBO acquire Us rights from Cinetic Media.
“The scope and scale of this year’s festival – films, events, conversations – were invigorating,” Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam said. “I can’t wait to see how our incredible community will leverage these ten days...
Sundance 2018 wrapped on Saturday (January 27) with juried awards for The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (pictured) in the U.S. Dramatic programme, Kailash in U.S. Documentary, Of Fathers And Sons in World Cinema Documentary, and Butterflies in World Cinema Dramatic.
In other highlights, Gustav Möller’s acclaimed Danish selection The Guilty won the World Cinema Audience award, while Sandi Tan collected the World Cinema Documentary directing award for Shirkers. Festival Favorite, A new award voted on by audiences, will be announced in the coming days.
The Sentence by Rudy Valdez was the audience favourite in the U.S. Documentary category, capping a fine day that saw HBO acquire Us rights from Cinetic Media.
“The scope and scale of this year’s festival – films, events, conversations – were invigorating,” Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam said. “I can’t wait to see how our incredible community will leverage these ten days...
- 1/27/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Choosing cameras and lenses is a complicated process for nonfiction filmmakers; it must take into account their films’ unique shooting situation, budget and cinematic styles. Which is why in answering the question of why they picked the gear they did, this year’s crop of Sundance documentary directors also tells us how they shot their movies — the challenges, the choices, and the look. Thirty-seven directors, with features in Documentary Premieres, and the U.S. and World Cinema Documentary Competitions at this year’s festival — took IndieWire behind the scenes of shooting what will be some of the most talked-about nonfiction films of the year.
Read More:Sundance 2018: Here Are the Cameras Used to Shoot This Year’s Narrative Films Category: U.S. Documentary Competition “Bisbee ’17”
Dir: Robert Greene
Camera: Mostly the Sony FS7
Lens: Mostly Zeiss superspeed primes
Greene: “Dp Jarred Alterman created a look that he and the team of...
Read More:Sundance 2018: Here Are the Cameras Used to Shoot This Year’s Narrative Films Category: U.S. Documentary Competition “Bisbee ’17”
Dir: Robert Greene
Camera: Mostly the Sony FS7
Lens: Mostly Zeiss superspeed primes
Greene: “Dp Jarred Alterman created a look that he and the team of...
- 1/22/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Working closely with Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim for a number of years, Derek Doneen found the inspiration for his feature directorial debut in contacts the director had made. Following world-renowned Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai in the making of He Named Me Malala, as she was preparing to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, Guggenheim met children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, who shared that honor with his documentary subject. Meeting Satyarthi…...
- 1/20/2018
- Deadline
Saturday premieres bring Colette, Leave No Trace, Yardie, among others.
While the industry awaits the first big on-site deal in Sundance, where the much-fancied American Animals is expected to close soon, buzz is starting to emerge on several other titles heading into the first weekend.
Juliet, Naked, Blindspotting, Monsters And Men, and The Catcher Was A Spy were all in play on Saturday ahead of a cluster of anticipated premieres that includes Colette, Leave No Trace, Sorry To Bother You, Yardie, and Wildlife.
UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights to American Animals, Bart Layton’s Us Dramatic Competition entry that impressed in its Friday night premiere and features Barry Keoghan (The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) in the tale of four youngsters who attempt an art heist. Sierra/Affinity handles international sales on Layton’s dramatic debut and first feature since the acclaimed Sundance 2012 documentary The Imposter.
Jesse Peretz’s Nick Hornby adaptation Juliet, Naked, a three-header...
While the industry awaits the first big on-site deal in Sundance, where the much-fancied American Animals is expected to close soon, buzz is starting to emerge on several other titles heading into the first weekend.
Juliet, Naked, Blindspotting, Monsters And Men, and The Catcher Was A Spy were all in play on Saturday ahead of a cluster of anticipated premieres that includes Colette, Leave No Trace, Sorry To Bother You, Yardie, and Wildlife.
UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights to American Animals, Bart Layton’s Us Dramatic Competition entry that impressed in its Friday night premiere and features Barry Keoghan (The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) in the tale of four youngsters who attempt an art heist. Sierra/Affinity handles international sales on Layton’s dramatic debut and first feature since the acclaimed Sundance 2012 documentary The Imposter.
Jesse Peretz’s Nick Hornby adaptation Juliet, Naked, a three-header...
- 1/20/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Derek Doneen's Kailash begins less like the Sundance social issue documentary it is and more like a Jason Bourne thriller.
Shot with jittery handheld cameras and some concealed body cams, the opening scene thrusts viewers into the middle of a raid on a factory in New Delhi. A team of civilians and law enforcement bursts through doors and rumbles down tight hallways as a voice urgently yells, "Tell me where they are!" Locks are shattered as we hurtle past unassuming workers and out into back alleys and onto rooftops before, hidden amid a pile of innocent-looking trash bags, the invading...
Shot with jittery handheld cameras and some concealed body cams, the opening scene thrusts viewers into the middle of a raid on a factory in New Delhi. A team of civilians and law enforcement bursts through doors and rumbles down tight hallways as a voice urgently yells, "Tell me where they are!" Locks are shattered as we hurtle past unassuming workers and out into back alleys and onto rooftops before, hidden amid a pile of innocent-looking trash bags, the invading...
- 1/19/2018
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spent: Looking for Change Movie Review
The cold truth is that far too often problems simply don’t seem to exist until we find a way to put a face on them, unless they touch us directly. Spent: Looking for Change is a documentary short that hopes to put that face on the death spiral that is the general banking and finance system in America.
Everyone has a general idea of the difficulties people face when it comes to credit scores, and the problems that might be faced by those who, because of hard times, find themselves forced out of the normal banking system, but these things are easy to put out of one’s mind. Like a lot of “things that aren’t happening to me right now,” convincing ourselves that the problem isn’t that big is a trick we have a lot of experience with.
Our inclination...
The cold truth is that far too often problems simply don’t seem to exist until we find a way to put a face on them, unless they touch us directly. Spent: Looking for Change is a documentary short that hopes to put that face on the death spiral that is the general banking and finance system in America.
Everyone has a general idea of the difficulties people face when it comes to credit scores, and the problems that might be faced by those who, because of hard times, find themselves forced out of the normal banking system, but these things are easy to put out of one’s mind. Like a lot of “things that aren’t happening to me right now,” convincing ourselves that the problem isn’t that big is a trick we have a lot of experience with.
Our inclination...
- 7/9/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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