On Wednesday, April 18, Caroline Libresco, Senior Programmer at the Sundance Film Festival, moderated a discussion with filmmakers Ondi Timoner and Marina Zenovich, whose documentary work not only delivers a powerful message, but also storytelling impact through visual imagery.
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With husband Robert Drew, she produced a wealth of verite docs for over 40 years.
As independent documentary filmmakers go, I am a lucky man. Consider, for example, my latest project for the European TV Channel ZDF/ARTE: I was dispatched to Hawaii for a month and a half to report on that quintessential Polynesian icon, the Aloha shirt. Not surprisingly, when I told friends about my assignment, several of them offered to "assist" with the documentary. I learned that Mark Twain had embarked on a similar mission in 1866. The Sacramento Union underwrote his journey to the islands, expecting him to pen "Letters from Hawaii " in return. "I went to Maui to stay for a week, and
Documentary filmmaker's project is upheld as a money-making endeavor.
Dear Readers, Welcome to Awards Season 2011-12, that frenzied marathon to the mid-winter finish line, whose players include the Academy Awards, Gotham Awards, Spirit Awards, Camera Eye Honors, a bevy of critics honors and guild awards and ,of course, the IDA Documentary Awards. The 27th edition of the IDA Documentary Awards introduces a number of changes. This year, IDA members vote on the finalists in the feature and shorts categories, and we will announce all the winners, with the exception of the Pare Lorentz Award winner--Bill Haney's The Last Mountain--at the Awards Show. This year also
When cities recover from hard financial times, creative souls are often pushed to the peripheries. It should come as no surprise that the young upstarts of the New York City documentary world tend to live in the Borough of Brooklyn. What is a surprise is that Brooklyn has no organizations with the galvanizing might of an AIVF, FVA, IDA, IFP or DCTV. Instead the borough houses something of a diaspora, with small groups of filmmakers connected through less established organizations. The flight from Manhattan took place in the mid-1990s, in convergence with the increased availability of low-cost
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The Creative Recognition Awards honor creative achievement in documentary filmmaking.
This award recognizes films that demonstrate exemplary filmmaking while focusing on the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems. The Last MountainDirector: Bill HaneyProducers: Clara Bingham, Eric Grunebaum, Bill HaneyExecutive Producers: Tim Disney, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Tim RockwoodCinematographers: Jerry Risius, Stephen McCarthyWriters: Bill Haney, Peter RhodesEditor: Peter RhodesComposer: Claudio RagazziUncommon Productions, Dada Films, New Video The fight for the last great mountain in America's heartland pits a mining