PBS dominated the documentary portion of this year’s News and Documentary Emmys, landing ten awards overall — including three for “Pov,” two for “Independent Lens” and two for “Frontline,” which are three of the public broadcaster’s long-running, signature series.
Netflix followed with four wins, then Showtime with three. The documentary Emmys were awarded on Wednesday by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the second of two individual ceremonies; categories honoring TV news were handed out on Tuesday.
“Tonight, we celebrate these documentary professionals who in the unprecedented year of 2020 delivered the insightful, clear, factual and timely filmmaking necessary to make sense of the tumultuous times that we live in,” said Adam Sharp, President & CEO, NATAS.
Ozy CEO Carlos Watson had originally signed on to host the documentary ceremony, but bowed out earlier this week following a New York Times article chronicling questionable claims and practices inside his company.
Netflix followed with four wins, then Showtime with three. The documentary Emmys were awarded on Wednesday by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the second of two individual ceremonies; categories honoring TV news were handed out on Tuesday.
“Tonight, we celebrate these documentary professionals who in the unprecedented year of 2020 delivered the insightful, clear, factual and timely filmmaking necessary to make sense of the tumultuous times that we live in,” said Adam Sharp, President & CEO, NATAS.
Ozy CEO Carlos Watson had originally signed on to host the documentary ceremony, but bowed out earlier this week following a New York Times article chronicling questionable claims and practices inside his company.
- 9/30/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Israeli film Advocate won best documentary during Wednesday’s 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche for PBS, the story follows the work of human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she represents political prisoners.
Filmmaker and comedian Cj Hunt was a presenter during the evening, handing an award to the team behind Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool for best arts and culture documentary. The project was later awarded best sound.
The award for best writing went to The Story of Plastic, from director Deia Schlosberg; while Rick Rowley’s Jamal Khashoggi-centered film Kingdom of Silence was recognized ...
Directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche for PBS, the story follows the work of human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she represents political prisoners.
Filmmaker and comedian Cj Hunt was a presenter during the evening, handing an award to the team behind Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool for best arts and culture documentary. The project was later awarded best sound.
The award for best writing went to The Story of Plastic, from director Deia Schlosberg; while Rick Rowley’s Jamal Khashoggi-centered film Kingdom of Silence was recognized ...
- 9/29/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Israeli film Advocate won best documentary during Wednesday’s 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche for PBS, the story follows the work of human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she represents political prisoners.
Filmmaker and comedian Cj Hunt was a presenter during the evening, handing an award to the team behind Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool for best arts and culture documentary. The project was later awarded best sound.
The award for best writing went to The Story of Plastic, from director Deia Schlosberg; while Rick Rowley’s Jamal Khashoggi-centered film Kingdom of Silence was recognized ...
Directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche for PBS, the story follows the work of human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she represents political prisoners.
Filmmaker and comedian Cj Hunt was a presenter during the evening, handing an award to the team behind Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool for best arts and culture documentary. The project was later awarded best sound.
The award for best writing went to The Story of Plastic, from director Deia Schlosberg; while Rick Rowley’s Jamal Khashoggi-centered film Kingdom of Silence was recognized ...
- 9/29/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
- 9/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Pearl Button Photo: Kino Lorber It was World Oceans Day on Monday - a subject we previously highlighted a few years ago, with suggestions of documentaries to stream. Since then, the focus on our environment - and particularly plastic pollution - has grown and public awareness increased, not least thanks to Richard Attenborough and Blue Planet II. Given that the oceans provide the livelihoods for three billion people on the planet and absorb about 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide we produce, that's just as well. The Un this year called on world leaders to protect 30 per cent of our blue planet by 2030 (you can sign the petition here. We thought we'd take another dive into films which touch on ocean themes - both factual and fictional - for this week's Streaming Spotlight.
The Story Of Plastic, Sheffield Doc/Fest, £4.50
This comprehensive, but never preachy, documentary from Deia Schlosberg is.
The Story Of Plastic, Sheffield Doc/Fest, £4.50
This comprehensive, but never preachy, documentary from Deia Schlosberg is.
- 6/12/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
At least part of the story of plastic - its largely unhappy ending as an environmental blight - has taken up a lot of column inches and documentary space in the past few years, as awareness of things like the ocean gyres that have created concentrated seas of debris have caught public attention. David Attenborough's Blue Planet II, in particular, took a dive into the problems wrought by plastics in our oceans - a subject that is, again, touched on here.
But Deia Schlosberg's thorough film - which is screening as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest's virtual edition this year - shows that where plastic ends up is only the depressing coda to a much more complicated and worrying story. She gradually reveals how a narrative that puts the emphasis on us, the consumer, and our bad habits with waste, has been fuelled down the decades by the...
But Deia Schlosberg's thorough film - which is screening as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest's virtual edition this year - shows that where plastic ends up is only the depressing coda to a much more complicated and worrying story. She gradually reveals how a narrative that puts the emphasis on us, the consumer, and our bad habits with waste, has been fuelled down the decades by the...
- 6/10/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Discovery has announced its lineup of programming to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, and it’s lead by an hourlong environmental special featuring Zac Efron and hosted by Vine and Tik Tok star Zach King, TheWrap has learned exclusively.
Titled “The Great Global Clean Up,” Efron and King will be joined by celebrities inc luding Lil Dicky, Liza Koshy, and Cody Simpson to talk about the efforts being made to clean up our planet. The special will travel to different locations around the world, including a beach cleanup in Efron’s hometown in California. Efron will also interview Denis Hayes, who founded Earth Day in 1970.
“The Great Global Cleanup” will air April 22 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt immediately following a special one-hour episode of “Josh Gates Tonight” in which Gates will interview a list of celebrity guests and environmental experts about their commitment to preserving planet Earth.
Also Read: Investigation...
Titled “The Great Global Clean Up,” Efron and King will be joined by celebrities inc luding Lil Dicky, Liza Koshy, and Cody Simpson to talk about the efforts being made to clean up our planet. The special will travel to different locations around the world, including a beach cleanup in Efron’s hometown in California. Efron will also interview Denis Hayes, who founded Earth Day in 1970.
“The Great Global Cleanup” will air April 22 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt immediately following a special one-hour episode of “Josh Gates Tonight” in which Gates will interview a list of celebrity guests and environmental experts about their commitment to preserving planet Earth.
Also Read: Investigation...
- 4/10/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Discovery Channel will air award-winning documentary The Story of Plastic in honor of Earth Day. An official selection of Mill Valley Film Festival (Audience Award winner) and 2019 Doc NYC, The Story of Plastic looks at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people that inhabit it.
Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash; rivers and seas clogged with waste; and skies choked with the poisonous emissions from plastic production and processing. The film features interviews with experts and activists on the frontlines of the fight, revealing the disastrous consequences of the flood of plastic smothering ecosystems and poisoning communities around the world –and the global movement rising up in response. With original animation, archival industry footage starting in the 1930s and first-person accounts, the film distills...
Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash; rivers and seas clogged with waste; and skies choked with the poisonous emissions from plastic production and processing. The film features interviews with experts and activists on the frontlines of the fight, revealing the disastrous consequences of the flood of plastic smothering ecosystems and poisoning communities around the world –and the global movement rising up in response. With original animation, archival industry footage starting in the 1930s and first-person accounts, the film distills...
- 2/11/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Lindsey Grayzel and Deia Schlosberg had never met, but on October 11, 2016, the documentary filmmakers were each arrested while filming #Shut It Down climate activists who turned off all pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands oil into the U.S. as part of a direct action protest. Though Schlosberg was in North Dakota and Grayzel was in Washington, the two filmmakers quickly found themselves in remarkably similar situations. Along with two other filmmakers, they were arrested and charged with the same felonies as the climate activists, charges carrying penalties of up to 40 years in prison. Since then, their charges have been dropped/suspended and […]...
- 5/4/2017
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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