(San Francisco) – 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the Independent Television Service (Itvs), one of the largest sources of funding for independent filmmakers. In recognition of this milestone, Itvs is launching the Itvs Indies Showcase, a free online film festival running from July 25 to September 23, 2011 in honor of the extraordinary contributions of independent filmmakers to public television.
The 20 unforgettable documentaries in the Itvs Indies Showcase represent glimpses of the collection of more than 1,000 productions Itvs has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting. Each full-length program will stream for free for three days on itvs.org/indies-showcase where viewers will also find a timeline of Itvs’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
Through the tenacity of filmmakers and their supporters seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television, Itvs was established by an unprecedented mandate of Congress to...
The 20 unforgettable documentaries in the Itvs Indies Showcase represent glimpses of the collection of more than 1,000 productions Itvs has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting. Each full-length program will stream for free for three days on itvs.org/indies-showcase where viewers will also find a timeline of Itvs’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
Through the tenacity of filmmakers and their supporters seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television, Itvs was established by an unprecedented mandate of Congress to...
- 8/2/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Judge attempts to block screening of documentary about Antonio Zúñiga, who was twice wrongly convicted of murder
An attempt to ban a Mexican documentary about a young man wrongly convicted of murder twice has created a box-office hit, a pirate DVD sensation and a judicial and political minefield.
Released last month, Presumed Guilty was promoted as an exposé of the Kafkaesque world of Mexican justice that picks on poor people who can't afford good lawyers, and almost always convicts them.
The film has proven popular with audiences. Then a judge ordered regulators to ban cinema screenings and interest in the movie soared. Amid the cries of censorship, distributors Cinépolis promised to keep the reels rolling until they were formally notified of the order, at which point they would "consider our options". Audiences had topped 500,000 before last weekend, in which many multiplexes screened the film more often than most blockbusters.
Presumed...
An attempt to ban a Mexican documentary about a young man wrongly convicted of murder twice has created a box-office hit, a pirate DVD sensation and a judicial and political minefield.
Released last month, Presumed Guilty was promoted as an exposé of the Kafkaesque world of Mexican justice that picks on poor people who can't afford good lawyers, and almost always convicts them.
The film has proven popular with audiences. Then a judge ordered regulators to ban cinema screenings and interest in the movie soared. Amid the cries of censorship, distributors Cinépolis promised to keep the reels rolling until they were formally notified of the order, at which point they would "consider our options". Audiences had topped 500,000 before last weekend, in which many multiplexes screened the film more often than most blockbusters.
Presumed...
- 3/8/2011
- by Jo Tuckman
- The Guardian - Film News
Galway Film Centre and Media Antenna Galway, in association with Gmit, are holding a two day Documentary Seminar on the 15th and 16th of October. 'Talking Documentary: Finance, Form & Future' will take place in the Radisson Hotel in Galway City and it is aimed at experienced and aspiring documentary makers. The seminar will be attended by both Oscar nominated director, Anders Ostergaard (Burma VJ) and 2009 Hotdocs winner, Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon). The event will also play host to panel talks featuring leading European commissioners, sales agents and Irish commissioners. There will also be one to one pitching sessions with the international agents.
- 9/16/2010
- IFTN
The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2009.
The winner will be revealed at the 62nd Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 30, 2010, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
I love all these documentaries, so try to check them out when you can. My favorite to win is Louie Psihoyos for "The Cove," a great documentary about the senseless killing of dolphins in a cove near Taijii, Japan.
But "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" is near and dear to my heart as well.
And now, the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2009 are:
Sacha Gervasi
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
(Metal On Metal Productions)
This is Mr. Gervasi's first DGA Award nomination.
Mai Iskander
Garbage Dreams
(Iskander Films, Inc.)
This is Ms. Iskander's first DGA Award nomination.
Robert Kenner
Food, Inc.
(Robert Kenner Films)
This is Mr.
The winner will be revealed at the 62nd Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 30, 2010, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
I love all these documentaries, so try to check them out when you can. My favorite to win is Louie Psihoyos for "The Cove," a great documentary about the senseless killing of dolphins in a cove near Taijii, Japan.
But "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" is near and dear to my heart as well.
And now, the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2009 are:
Sacha Gervasi
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
(Metal On Metal Productions)
This is Mr. Gervasi's first DGA Award nomination.
Mai Iskander
Garbage Dreams
(Iskander Films, Inc.)
This is Ms. Iskander's first DGA Award nomination.
Robert Kenner
Food, Inc.
(Robert Kenner Films)
This is Mr.
- 1/14/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Sacha Gervasi Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Metal On Metal Productions) Mai Iskander Garbage Dreams (Iskander Films, Inc.) Robert Kenner Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner Films) Louie Psihoyos The Cove (Oceanic...
- 1/12/2010
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
The best movie scores don't just add extra depth to a movie, but they take on lives on their own; they sneak into your subconscious so that the next time you hear Nino Rota you feel like downing some espressos and dancing in the Trevi Fountain.
Post-punk/death rocker turned mustachioed Southern Gothic philosopher Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed bandmate Warren Ellis* have become standout film composers in the past few years, beginning with their collaboration on The Proposition, a Western from the land Down Under directed by The Road's John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave. They also created the soundscape for the sadly underseen and somewhat overlong The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Their most recent collaboration on the score for The Road is worthy of an Oscar nomination -- subtle, appropriately dark but not overbearing, and elegant.
However, the two...
Post-punk/death rocker turned mustachioed Southern Gothic philosopher Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed bandmate Warren Ellis* have become standout film composers in the past few years, beginning with their collaboration on The Proposition, a Western from the land Down Under directed by The Road's John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave. They also created the soundscape for the sadly underseen and somewhat overlong The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Their most recent collaboration on the score for The Road is worthy of an Oscar nomination -- subtle, appropriately dark but not overbearing, and elegant.
However, the two...
- 9/24/2009
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
The next time you're in the former Soviet republic Ukraine and find yourself in need of immediate brain surgery, look up Henry Marsh.
He's the 58-year-old British neurosurgeon who regularly visits Ukraine to treat patients whose chances of survival would otherwise be slim, or nonexistent.
His journeys to Ukraine are, Marsh says, "like going back in a time machine," to a health-care system that is "broken down [and] completely bankrupt." (Kind of like in the Us, no?)
One of Marsh's visits to Ukraine is chronicled in "The English Surgeon," a documentary directed and produced by Geoffrey Smith.
He's the 58-year-old British neurosurgeon who regularly visits Ukraine to treat patients whose chances of survival would otherwise be slim, or nonexistent.
His journeys to Ukraine are, Marsh says, "like going back in a time machine," to a health-care system that is "broken down [and] completely bankrupt." (Kind of like in the Us, no?)
One of Marsh's visits to Ukraine is chronicled in "The English Surgeon," a documentary directed and produced by Geoffrey Smith.
- 7/24/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
A small smattering of romantic fare amongst the new releases this week lines up alongside some caustic political satire, a couple of dark chillers, somber documentaries, and a string of grouchy gurus.
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"The Answer Man"
Having quietly transformed himself into one of the most versatile character actors working today, Jeff Daniels returns to leading man duties for this romantic indie, the feature debut of writer/director John Hindman. Daniels plays Arlen Faber, the author of a worldwide bestselling page-turner on spirituality who's spent the following 20 years living the life of a reclusive malcontent. Lauren Graham of "Gilmore Girls" fame co-stars as a widowed chiropractor with a troubled son who reawakens Faber's erstwhile interest in people.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"California Company Town"
With the Golden State scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, performance...
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"The Answer Man"
Having quietly transformed himself into one of the most versatile character actors working today, Jeff Daniels returns to leading man duties for this romantic indie, the feature debut of writer/director John Hindman. Daniels plays Arlen Faber, the author of a worldwide bestselling page-turner on spirituality who's spent the following 20 years living the life of a reclusive malcontent. Lauren Graham of "Gilmore Girls" fame co-stars as a widowed chiropractor with a troubled son who reawakens Faber's erstwhile interest in people.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"California Company Town"
With the Golden State scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, performance...
- 7/21/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's October Country and Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African are the big winners at the 7th edition of the Silverdocs Documentary Festival (one of the two major strictly documentary showcase film festivals for North America - other being Toronto's Hotdocs). Both films receive a cash prize of 10 thousand big ones. The jury which included Margaret Brown (one of our favorite doc filmmakers) awarded October Country with the Sterling Award for a Us Feature, while the jury that included Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon) awarded Mugabe... with the Sterling Award for a World Feature. Last year's winner were The Garden, and Smith's English Surgeon. Here is the issued press release featuring all the award winners, with the public favorite being announced tomorrow. Sterling Award for a Us Feature goes to October Country directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher,
- 6/20/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Winner of the Best Feature Documentary at both the 2008 Hotdocs and Silverdocs, I haven't seen the doc but the trailer alone packs an emotional punch (see below) and is certainly worth checking out. Opening in New York on July 24th and in Los Angeles July 31st, and featuring original music by Nick Cave, Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon which the press kit calls a "gory medical thriller as well a meditation on mortality and the struggle to find meaning in life." The doc features Henry Marsh is one of London’s foremost brain surgeons, a phlegmatic, philosophical man with no illusions about the nature of his work. “When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on people’s thoughts and feelings...and if something goes wrong I can destroy that person’s character…forever.” On a trip
- 6/18/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Many would say that at this year's Academy Awards got the documentary film category "right". The "right" doc film won and even the final nominees were worthy mentions. But all this doesn't make the Cinema Eye Honors mission less "important". Now in their second year and with eleven categories, a quirky film such as Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg receives a little bit more acknowledgement before disappearing on shelves, those who edit and photograph doc films have any evening reserved all to themselves and newbies to docu filmmaking world have a shot at getting some cred and mingle with the right crowd. The ceremonies take place on Sunday, we'll be reporting on who the winners are from the categories below. Make sure to check out their newly designed website. Outstanding Achievement In Production Henry Kaiser - Encounters At The End Of The World Simon Chinn - Man On Wire
- 3/24/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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