The soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s Apple Original film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” composed by the late Robbie Robertson, is now available everywhere, the same day as the film’s theatrical release. Robertson died in August at the age of 80.
In addition to the original score he created for the film, the soundtrack includes six additional tracks featured in the film that are true to its 1920s Oklahoma backdrop. This was the eleventh collaboration between Robertson and Scorsese, who had worked together over the span of more than 40 years.
Robertson spent much of his childhood on the Six Nations Reserve through his mother’s Mohawk community; he thus had personal ties to “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which centers on the Osage Nation of the Midwest.
Before his passing, Robertson commented on his work and relationship with Scorsese: “I feel that the score is unexpected in many ways and...
In addition to the original score he created for the film, the soundtrack includes six additional tracks featured in the film that are true to its 1920s Oklahoma backdrop. This was the eleventh collaboration between Robertson and Scorsese, who had worked together over the span of more than 40 years.
Robertson spent much of his childhood on the Six Nations Reserve through his mother’s Mohawk community; he thus had personal ties to “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which centers on the Osage Nation of the Midwest.
Before his passing, Robertson commented on his work and relationship with Scorsese: “I feel that the score is unexpected in many ways and...
- 10/20/2023
- by Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Valerie Wu, Jaden Thompson and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
NewportFilm has announced the revival of its Cinematography Lab, which seeks to provide creative support and mentorship to emerging documentary cinematographers. Six fellows will participate in this year’s program, which is set to be held on Oct. 21-23 at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown, R.I.
Robb Moss, a department chair of Visual and Environmental studies at Harvard University, John Behrens, who served as director of photography on “The Social Dilemma” and “The Game Changers” and Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, director of photography on “Cobain: Montage of Heck” and “Girl Rising,” will serve as mentors for the lab. This year’s accepted fellows include Justin Deegan, Daniel Götz, Matthew O. Henderson, Serena Hodges, Lauretta Prevost and Jane Macedo Yang.
“I look forward to welcoming this year’s group of amazingly talented cinematographers and connecting them with this exceptional trio of nonfiction filmmakers, each of whom are creative leaders in the industry,...
Robb Moss, a department chair of Visual and Environmental studies at Harvard University, John Behrens, who served as director of photography on “The Social Dilemma” and “The Game Changers” and Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, director of photography on “Cobain: Montage of Heck” and “Girl Rising,” will serve as mentors for the lab. This year’s accepted fellows include Justin Deegan, Daniel Götz, Matthew O. Henderson, Serena Hodges, Lauretta Prevost and Jane Macedo Yang.
“I look forward to welcoming this year’s group of amazingly talented cinematographers and connecting them with this exceptional trio of nonfiction filmmakers, each of whom are creative leaders in the industry,...
- 10/20/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Sundance Institute has set the participants and projects for its Documentary Edit and Story Lab, which this year returns to Utah’s Sundance Resort after a two-year hiatus. The list consists of filmmaking partners Jude Chehab and Fahd Ahmed (Q), Jalena Keane-Lee and Diana Diroy (Standing Above the Clouds), Alessandra Sanguinetti and Soledad Salfate (The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer) and Edwin Martinez and Inés Vogelfang (The Monster and the Storm). The Institute also today named Diroy, Stephanie Andreou, Julie Gaynin, Alma Herrera-Pazmino and Luna X. Moya as the artists selected for the second edition of its Art of Editing Fellowship.
Designed to provide time and space to go deep into the language, form and meaning of indie nonfiction features, the Lab combines director and editor teams in the later stages of post-production with experienced documentary filmmakers, for the process of reimagining or reconceiving dramatic structures, exploring character and story development,...
Designed to provide time and space to go deep into the language, form and meaning of indie nonfiction features, the Lab combines director and editor teams in the later stages of post-production with experienced documentary filmmakers, for the process of reimagining or reconceiving dramatic structures, exploring character and story development,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Capturing the rhythms of life on a rural Humble County, California commune in a changing cultural landscape, Kate McLean and Mario Furloni’s beautifully crafted Freeland is a restrained, nuanced drama centered around a quietly thrilling performance by Krisha Fairchild as aging hippie Devi. Devi built Freeland, a sanctuary that has survived by shipping its products throughout the North East. Life on the farm, here with young people including the enterprising de facto leader of her team Josh (Frank Mosley), is perhaps as simple as it ever was as their evenings are spent joking around a communal dinner table. The group, mostly young and likely around the same age as Devi when she arrived in Freeland, have taken time away from their lives to work the land. Devi, despite her age and experience, has simply never chosen to move on to a house in the suburbs.
Making a living from...
Making a living from...
- 3/20/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Doc NYC will open its 10th edition next month with Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, the feature from Daniel Roher that served as the opening-night film of this year’s Toronto Film Festival. It kicks off a lineup that includes 136 feature-length documentaries and 28 world premieres among more than 300 films and events overall, repping the biggest slate yet for the event already considered the nation’s largest documentary festival.
The New York-set fest also said Thursday that it will close with Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes, a fresh portrait of Truman Capote, with André Leon Talley part of a post-screening Q&a with the director. Doc NYC’s centerpiece presentation is another Tiff pic, Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, from director Eva Orner.
The slate includes world bows for pics including Joe Berliner’s The Longest Wave, Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s He Dreams of Giants about...
The New York-set fest also said Thursday that it will close with Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes, a fresh portrait of Truman Capote, with André Leon Talley part of a post-screening Q&a with the director. Doc NYC’s centerpiece presentation is another Tiff pic, Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, from director Eva Orner.
The slate includes world bows for pics including Joe Berliner’s The Longest Wave, Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s He Dreams of Giants about...
- 10/10/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, production starts on “Six Minutes to Midnight,” Artists for Change launches with “Lost Girls: Angie’s Story” and Sundance names five docs for its Edit and Story lab.
Production Start
Production has launched in the U.K. on the period thriller “Six Minutes To Midnight,” starring Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench.
The film also stars Carla Juri, James D’Arcy, Jim Broadbent. Andy Goddard is directing from a script he wrote with Celyn Jones and Izzard. The story, set in 1939, follows a teacher assigned to a finishing school on the south coast of England who becomes alarmed that the students include the daughters of high-ranking Nazis.
“Six Minutes to Midnight” is financed by Motion Picture Capital, the Welsh Government, Ffilm Cymru Wales and West Madison Entertainment. Producers are Sean Marley, Andy Evans and Ade Shannon of Mad as Birds, Sarah Townsend producing for Ella Communications...
Production Start
Production has launched in the U.K. on the period thriller “Six Minutes To Midnight,” starring Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench.
The film also stars Carla Juri, James D’Arcy, Jim Broadbent. Andy Goddard is directing from a script he wrote with Celyn Jones and Izzard. The story, set in 1939, follows a teacher assigned to a finishing school on the south coast of England who becomes alarmed that the students include the daughters of high-ranking Nazis.
“Six Minutes to Midnight” is financed by Motion Picture Capital, the Welsh Government, Ffilm Cymru Wales and West Madison Entertainment. Producers are Sean Marley, Andy Evans and Ade Shannon of Mad as Birds, Sarah Townsend producing for Ella Communications...
- 7/6/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Eric Hynes serves as writer-in-residence.
Sundance Institute has selected five projects for this year’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab, which will take place at the Sundance Resort in Utah on July 6
The Lab helps director-editor teams develop their independent non-fiction projects, most of which are in the later stages of post-production.
The selected projects: are Giovanni Buccomino and James Scott’s After A Revolution (UK); James LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham, and Andy Gersh’s Crip Camp (USA); Elizabeth Stopford and Gary Forrester’s Forgiveness (UK); Brett Story and Nels Bangerter’s The Hottest August (USA); and Betzabe Garcia and Jose...
Sundance Institute has selected five projects for this year’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab, which will take place at the Sundance Resort in Utah on July 6
The Lab helps director-editor teams develop their independent non-fiction projects, most of which are in the later stages of post-production.
The selected projects: are Giovanni Buccomino and James Scott’s After A Revolution (UK); James LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham, and Andy Gersh’s Crip Camp (USA); Elizabeth Stopford and Gary Forrester’s Forgiveness (UK); Brett Story and Nels Bangerter’s The Hottest August (USA); and Betzabe Garcia and Jose...
- 7/5/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
Scheme Birds More than £436,000 of target funding grants has been announced in targeted grants - 57 per cent of which are directed by women, 48 per cent are from outside the Us and 34 per cent are first-time feature filmmakers.
Among the projects receiving funding is Scottish-set documentary Scheme Birds, which follows a teenage trouble-maker on a housing estate - branded 'schemes' in Scotland - who boasts she'll be ”knocked up or locked up” before long. Directed by Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin, it is produced by Ruth Reid.
Established documentarians in the list, include Nuts! director Penny Lane, Robb Moss (Containment) and Gayby Baby helmer Maya Newell.
Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Fund director Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs said: “These artists are hard at work on projects that capture the world as it is, as well as imagining it as it could be.
"The stories here deeply reflect my team's collaborative vision for this.
Among the projects receiving funding is Scottish-set documentary Scheme Birds, which follows a teenage trouble-maker on a housing estate - branded 'schemes' in Scotland - who boasts she'll be ”knocked up or locked up” before long. Directed by Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin, it is produced by Ruth Reid.
Established documentarians in the list, include Nuts! director Penny Lane, Robb Moss (Containment) and Gayby Baby helmer Maya Newell.
Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Fund director Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs said: “These artists are hard at work on projects that capture the world as it is, as well as imagining it as it could be.
"The stories here deeply reflect my team's collaborative vision for this.
- 5/21/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The story of director Yance Ford’s brother William’s homicide quickly disappeared from the public view soon after he was killed in 1992. Long Island newspapers wrote less than a combined 3,000 words about the violent confrontation and subsequent court case, while Ford’s parents dropped their pursuit for justice after his killer was acquitted. “In order to bring a civil suit for wrongful death you have to assign a dollar value to somebody’s life and my parents refused to do that,” said Ford when he was a guest in IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast. “So in the absence of any other due process, in the absence of any other recourse, the choice that I had was to make this film. My producer Joslyn Barnes says it really well, ‘personal filmmaking is the language of the dispossessed.’ When you are left with no other recourse this is the path that you take.
- 2/16/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Labs take place over two sessions at Sundance Resort, Utah, in July.
Sundance Institute has announced the eight projects selected for its annual Documentary Edit and Story Labs.
The Documentary Edit and Story Lab is centred on nurturing non-fiction storytellers during the later stages of post-production.
The selected projects are:
Always In Season (Us) Jacqueline Olive (director)
Charm City (Us) Marilyn Ness (director), Don Bernier (editor)
Facing The Dragon (Afghanistan/Us) Sedika Mojadidi (director), Sinead Kinnane (editor)
Freedom Fields (UK/Libya) Naziha Arebi (director), Alice Powell (editor)
Impeachment (Brazil) Petra Costa (director), Jordana Berg (editor)
The Infiltrators (Us) Cristina Ibarra (co-director/co-editor), Alex Rivera (co-director/co-editor)
People’s Republic Of Desire (China/Us)Hao Wu (director), Nanfu Wang (editor)
Warrior Women (Us) Christina D. King (co-director), Elizabeth Castle (co-director), Kristen Nutile (editor)
Overseen by documentary film programme director Tabitha Jackson and Labs director Kristin Feeley, each lab connects independent director and editor teams with seasoned documentary filmmakers...
Sundance Institute has announced the eight projects selected for its annual Documentary Edit and Story Labs.
The Documentary Edit and Story Lab is centred on nurturing non-fiction storytellers during the later stages of post-production.
The selected projects are:
Always In Season (Us) Jacqueline Olive (director)
Charm City (Us) Marilyn Ness (director), Don Bernier (editor)
Facing The Dragon (Afghanistan/Us) Sedika Mojadidi (director), Sinead Kinnane (editor)
Freedom Fields (UK/Libya) Naziha Arebi (director), Alice Powell (editor)
Impeachment (Brazil) Petra Costa (director), Jordana Berg (editor)
The Infiltrators (Us) Cristina Ibarra (co-director/co-editor), Alex Rivera (co-director/co-editor)
People’s Republic Of Desire (China/Us)Hao Wu (director), Nanfu Wang (editor)
Warrior Women (Us) Christina D. King (co-director), Elizabeth Castle (co-director), Kristen Nutile (editor)
Overseen by documentary film programme director Tabitha Jackson and Labs director Kristin Feeley, each lab connects independent director and editor teams with seasoned documentary filmmakers...
- 6/8/2017
- ScreenDaily
At about the hour mark, I was very glad to see the filmmakers and subjects of Flames, Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker, had entered some kind of counseling even if may also be, in part, a performance. Then again, what isn’t? Simultaneously, it appears they’re also in the editing room with an unnamed assistant cutting this brief film. Later they, of course, fight about what’s transpired and who has ownership of the film. It takes a certain amount of narcissism to make a film about one’s relationship and expect folks you don’t know to care. Flames is an attempt to capture such intimacy, yet it’s missing much of an emotional core. To put it into simpler terms: one evening I was at a concert with a fighting couple; it wasn’t a fun experience for any of us.
Framed by screenprints created by an unseen hand,...
Framed by screenprints created by an unseen hand,...
- 5/3/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
While not all receive the golden ticket for a Park City premiere, the invaluable support available at the Sundance Institute is ongoing and takes several shapes and forms. Last year’s batch of Documentary Edit and Story Labs attendees included Anna Sandilands & Ewan McNicol who trimmed Uncertain, while Lyric Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe spliced into shape (T)Error. As underlined in the press release, this year’s eight projects touches of subjects of transgender parents, the aftermath of Sandy Hook tragedy, exonerated death row inmates and AIDS. Among the noteworthy names attending (June 19-27 and July 3-11) we find Lost in La Mancha duo of Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe (see pic above) and Informant director Jamie Meltzer’s tentatively titled Freedom Fighters. Here are the participants and creative folk for ’15.
Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the June 19-27 session are Marshall Curry (Point and Shoot), Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The...
Editors serving as Creative Advisors for the June 19-27 session are Marshall Curry (Point and Shoot), Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The...
- 6/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Institute today announced the eight projects selected for the annual Documentary Edit and Story Labs in Utah from June 19-27 and July 3-11.
The Labs focus on projects in the latter stages of post-production and this year’s topics include transgender parents, the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and education and poverty.
Recent participants in the Documentary Edit and Story Lab include (T)Error, The Queen Of Versailles (pictured) and The Kill Team.
“The work of this year’s fellows is a reflection of some of the richness and purpose to be found in contemporary non-fiction storytelling,” said Documentary Film Program director Tabitha Jackson.
“We are excited not just about the projects, but also about the alchemy that will happen on the mountain when these directors and editors, first-time and mid-career, national and international come together to form the creative connections that will continue to inspire them in their brave and challenging work.”
Creative Advisors...
The Labs focus on projects in the latter stages of post-production and this year’s topics include transgender parents, the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and education and poverty.
Recent participants in the Documentary Edit and Story Lab include (T)Error, The Queen Of Versailles (pictured) and The Kill Team.
“The work of this year’s fellows is a reflection of some of the richness and purpose to be found in contemporary non-fiction storytelling,” said Documentary Film Program director Tabitha Jackson.
“We are excited not just about the projects, but also about the alchemy that will happen on the mountain when these directors and editors, first-time and mid-career, national and international come together to form the creative connections that will continue to inspire them in their brave and challenging work.”
Creative Advisors...
- 6/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Now that the busy winter fest schedule of Sundance, Rotterdam and the Berlinale has concluded, we’ve now got our eyes on the likes of True/False and SXSW. While, True/False does not specialize in attention grabbing world premieres, it does provide a late winter haven for cream of the crop non-fiction fare from all the previously mentioned fests and a selection of overlooked genre blending films presented in a down home setting. This year will mark my first trip to the Columbia, Missouri based fest, where I hope to catch a little of everything, from their hush-hush secret screenings, to selections from their Neither/Nor series, this year featuring chimeric Polish cinema of decades past, to a spotlight of Adam Curtis’s incisive oeuvre. But truth be told, it is SXSW, with its slew of high profile world premieres being announced, such as Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs...
- 2/27/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Turkey or no turkey, these next couple of days lucky filmmakers who’ve been selected to screen as part of the Sundance Film Festival will get the invitation notice straight from John Cooper and the Park City programming team, and thus, those that we’re betting have made the cut have also inched up the list a bit. One of those that seem an obvious choice to premiere at the fest is director Steve Hoover and producer Danny Yourd’s Crocodile Gennadiy. Following up their Grand Jury Prize winning Blood Brother with incredible turnaround time, our new most anticipated film tracks the delicate operations of Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a Ukrainian activist, orphanage manager and savior of countless children whose addict parents favor injected cold medicine and alcohol over them. Part heartwrenching domestic drama, part sleuth thriller, the film looks to use the Ukrainian uprising as a backdrop to highlight its protagonist...
- 11/27/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while development and filming is underway. To chart this course with a little more precision, I’m launching Ioncinema.com’s latest feature, What’s Up Doc?, our monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated films, a sort of hitlist and/or snapshot of the most alluring, the most promising documentary film projects from the established documentarian guard, the new crop of future voices or the fiction filmmakers who on occasion dip their toes in the form. Curated by me, Jordan M. Smith, you’ll find docu items that are in their beginning stages to being moments away from their film festival berth. Like any such list, we can expect film items to fluctuate in ranking, with the cut-off being publicly items — such recent examples include Laura Poitras’s white hot Edward Snowden project,...
- 10/23/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Not all docu films that make the cut into the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Labs are fortunate enough to then land a coveted spot at the festival (recent examples include Roger Ross Williams’ God Loves Uganda and Tracy Draz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill) but some fresh air and supportive pounding from the Institute’s Advisors surely contributes to the realization of passion projects that are buckets filled in blood, sweat and tears. Among the press release mentions below, we’ll surely be discussing them in Park City setting in a January to too far off from now. Here are the selection of 20 Fellows representing eight documentary film projects to participate in the 2014 Documentary Edit and Story Labs, June 20-28 and July 4-12 at Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah.
Artists and projects selected for the June 20-28 Documentary Edit and Story Lab:
A Flickering...
Artists and projects selected for the June 20-28 Documentary Edit and Story Lab:
A Flickering...
- 6/19/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Celebrating its 17th annual festival, The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, one of the nation's premier documentary film festivals, announced its winners yesterday afternoon at the festival's Awards Barbecue. The Full Frame event qualifies for nomination consideration for both Academy Award and Producers Guild of America Awards. Darius Clark Monroe's Evolution of a Criminal won the Grand Jury Award and the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at the festival (read S&A's review of the film Here). Regarding the grand jury award win, jury members Shola Lynch, Robb Moss, and Christine O’Malley stated the following: “For its mix of...
- 4/7/2014
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
The work of David Redmon and Ashley Sabin first came on my radar when they arrived in Hartford, Ct to promote their eye-opening documentary, Mardi Gras: Made in China, tracing both the production and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Recently I chatted with Redmon regarding his latest documentary Girl Model, which he co-directed with Sabin and I reviewed at Tiff. Girl Model has screened at festivals internationally including the One World Human Rights International Documentary Festival and you can read our conversation from SXSW below as the film is now in theaters.
Tfs: We met back in Hartford (at Real Art Ways) a few years ago and I was wondering what role cities with vibrant art communities that house these Micro Cinemas in often non-traditional venues (galleries, bars, libraries, coffee shops) play for you as filmmakers and distributors (via Carnavlesque Films)?
David Redmon: It’s even more necessary than before,...
Tfs: We met back in Hartford (at Real Art Ways) a few years ago and I was wondering what role cities with vibrant art communities that house these Micro Cinemas in often non-traditional venues (galleries, bars, libraries, coffee shops) play for you as filmmakers and distributors (via Carnavlesque Films)?
David Redmon: It’s even more necessary than before,...
- 9/5/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Gulabi (India / Norway) to be directed by Nishtha Jain has received a $25,000 grant from the Sundance Documentary Film Program. The documentary traces Sampat Pal and the fiery women of her Gulabi Gang who take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption in Bundelkhand.
Gulabi is one among the 29 feature-length documentary films that will receive the grant.
The Documentary Film Program celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 and since its inception has awarded grants to more than 300 documentary filmmakers in 61 countries.
Complete list:
Development
The Bill (U.S. / Philippines)
Director: Ramona Diaz
A political firestorm hits the Philippines when “The Bill,” a reproductive health bill that could legalize birth control in the world’s 12th most populous nation, pits tradition against reform and brings the culture war into the streets and churches.
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (U.S.)
Director: Richard Rowley
Reporting from the battlefields of the war on terror,...
Gulabi is one among the 29 feature-length documentary films that will receive the grant.
The Documentary Film Program celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 and since its inception has awarded grants to more than 300 documentary filmmakers in 61 countries.
Complete list:
Development
The Bill (U.S. / Philippines)
Director: Ramona Diaz
A political firestorm hits the Philippines when “The Bill,” a reproductive health bill that could legalize birth control in the world’s 12th most populous nation, pits tradition against reform and brings the culture war into the streets and churches.
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (U.S.)
Director: Richard Rowley
Reporting from the battlefields of the war on terror,...
- 11/23/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
"Leonard Retel Helmrich's Position Among the Stars should be essential viewing for anyone curious to know what the rapidly modernizing 'second world' actually looks like," writes Steve Macfarlane in the L: "motorcycles, bootlegged t-shirts, plastic Tupperware containers, cell phones, and scores of dead cockroaches. Indonesia — the fourth biggest country in the world, and the nation with the largest Muslim population — has been the topic of Helmrich's life work, a trilogy of docs culminating here."
This "third documentary about the same Indonesian family is a dazzler in at least a couple ways," adds Seth Colter Walls in the Voice. "First off, it's the rare final chapter in a decade-plus-long saga — a trilogy that also includes 2001's The Eye of the Day and 2004's Shape of the Moon — that you can slide right into without any prior knowledge. There's a brief 'previously in post-Suharto Indonesia' montage at the beginning that draws...
This "third documentary about the same Indonesian family is a dazzler in at least a couple ways," adds Seth Colter Walls in the Voice. "First off, it's the rare final chapter in a decade-plus-long saga — a trilogy that also includes 2001's The Eye of the Day and 2004's Shape of the Moon — that you can slide right into without any prior knowledge. There's a brief 'previously in post-Suharto Indonesia' montage at the beginning that draws...
- 9/15/2011
- MUBI
The Sundance Institute have announced the Fellows for 2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab - some of these projects will find themselves on the public television, some may tour the film festival circuit starting with a debut at Sundance, and in the rare case, might turn out to be an acclaimed such as Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. This year's batch comes from the U.S., China, Israel/Palestinian Territories and the Philippines. - The Sundance Institute have announced the Fellows for 2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab - some of these projects will find themselves on the public television, some may tour the film festival circuit starting with a debut at Sundance, and in the rare case, might turn out to be an acclaimed such as Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. This year's batch comes from the U.S., China, Israel/Palestinian Territories and the Philippines.
- 6/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The Sundance Institute have announced the Fellows for 2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab - some of these projects will find themselves on the public television, some may tour the film festival circuit starting with a debut at Sundance, and in the rare case, might turn out to be an acclaimed such as Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. This year's batch comes from the U.S., China, Israel/Palestinian Territories and the Philippines. Here is the press release:. Lab Fellows in alphabetical order are: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Directing Fellow), Michael Collins (Directing Fellow), Heather Courtney (Directing Fellow - see pic above), Ramona Diaz (Directing Fellow), Ron Goldman (Editing Fellow), Kyle Henry (Editing Fellow), Stephen Maing (Directing Fellow), Leah Marino (Editing Fellow), Eric Daniel Metzgar (Editing Fellow), Jonathan Oppenheim (Editing Fellow), Trina Rodriquez (Editing Fellow), Marty Syjuco (Directing Fellow). These Fellows will be joined by six Creative Advisors, including Directors and Editors,...
- 6/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
In this age of political docu mentaries, it's always nice to come upon one that strives to be even-handed.
Such is the case with "Secrecy," which tackles the issue of government secrecy. Is it overused? Does it save lives?
Going back to Pearl Harbor in 1941 - which some say could have been avoided if there had been better Us intelligence - directors Peter Galison and Robb Moss recall incidents that might have been affected, for good or for bad, by secrecy: the...
Such is the case with "Secrecy," which tackles the issue of government secrecy. Is it overused? Does it save lives?
Going back to Pearl Harbor in 1941 - which some say could have been avoided if there had been better Us intelligence - directors Peter Galison and Robb Moss recall incidents that might have been affected, for good or for bad, by secrecy: the...
- 9/12/2008
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
- New works from documentary filmmaker faves in Alex Gibney (Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter Thompson), Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths) and Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A.) and many first time doc filmmakers make up the section in this year's documentary Comp lineup. I don't count many Iraq-war related items listed below, telling us that the doc vague of such films is officially D.O.A. Click on the individual links below for more info on each film (including official sites and trailers). Documentary COMPETITIONAn American Soldier directed and written by Edet Belzberg ("Children Underground"), a look at one of the U.S. Army's all-time top recruiters, Sgt. 1st Class Clay Usie.American Teen directed and written by Nanette Burstein ("On the Ropes"), an irreverent, frank account of four Indiana high school seniors.Bigger, Faster, Stronger directed by Christopher Bell and written by Bell, Alexander Buono and Tamsin Rawady,
- 11/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- The do-gooders over at the Sundance Institute have announced the four projects that will benefit from the expertise of others. Now in its fifth year, the Documentary Film Editing and Story Laboratory merges creative advisors with the lucky few who get some hands on help. The Creative Advisors for the 2007 Documentary Editing and Story Lab are: editors Jean-Philippe Boucicaut (Citizen King and Matters Of Race); Kate Amend (Thin, and Academy Award-winner The Long Way Home); Lewis Erskine (Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple and Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind); Mary Lampson (A Lion in the House and Harlan County) and accomplished directors Robb Moss (Secrecy and The Same River Twice) and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Inner Tour and James’ Journey To Jerusalem). Here are the brief descriptions of the lucky four projects that should get a Sundance festival birth fairly soon. Tibet In Song
- 6/15/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- The Sundance Institute announced four topical projects selected for its fourth annual Documentary Film Editing and Story Lab.
The mentoring program will include Ngawang Choephel's political and musical history of Tibet's occupation by China, "Tibet in Song", and Julie Bridgham's "The Sari Soldiers", which revolves around six Nepali women on opposing sides of their country's political conflict.
Mahmoud Al Massa's "Recycle" looks at a poor Muslim father struggling to survive in Jordan. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's "Trouble the Water" uses footage concerning a young couple who turn from outcasts to heroes as they rescue neighbors in the New Orleans flood after Hurricane Katrina.
The directors and some of the projects' editors will work with veteran docu creative advisers. Editors Jean-Philippe Boucicaut ("Citizen King"), Kate Amend ("Thin") Lewis Erskine ("Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple"), Mary Lampson ("Harlan County U.S.A".) and directors Robb Moss ("The Same River Twice") and Ra'anan Alexandrowicz ("The Inner Tour") will mentor the filmmakers.
The lab will be held June 22-29 in Sundance, Utah.
The mentoring program will include Ngawang Choephel's political and musical history of Tibet's occupation by China, "Tibet in Song", and Julie Bridgham's "The Sari Soldiers", which revolves around six Nepali women on opposing sides of their country's political conflict.
Mahmoud Al Massa's "Recycle" looks at a poor Muslim father struggling to survive in Jordan. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's "Trouble the Water" uses footage concerning a young couple who turn from outcasts to heroes as they rescue neighbors in the New Orleans flood after Hurricane Katrina.
The directors and some of the projects' editors will work with veteran docu creative advisers. Editors Jean-Philippe Boucicaut ("Citizen King"), Kate Amend ("Thin") Lewis Erskine ("Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple"), Mary Lampson ("Harlan County U.S.A".) and directors Robb Moss ("The Same River Twice") and Ra'anan Alexandrowicz ("The Inner Tour") will mentor the filmmakers.
The lab will be held June 22-29 in Sundance, Utah.
- 6/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Next Life Films
NEW YORK -- A real-life version of "The Big Chill", Robb Moss' documentary uses imagery far more than analysis to compare and contrast the lives of several former young bohemian types who, 20 years later, have become middle-aged members of society retaining their youthful idealism to varying degrees.
Using 20-year-old footage of a group of twentysomethings cavorting mostly naked on a Colorado River rafting trip that was originally used in his short film "Riverdogs", the filmmaker presents a portrait of the emotional and physical effects of aging and maturity that is occasionally poignant but not particularly deep. "The Same River Twice" is receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Film Forum.
Moss, now a film professor at Harvard, was one of a group of a dozen or so friends who participated in the rafting trip, which, based on the footage seen here, seems to have been a carefree romp featuring gorgeous-bodied young men and women indulging in a seemingly idyllic adventure in which clothing was mostly disdained. The new footage depicts the current states of that trip's five participants, who have gone on to lives as town mayors, aerobics instructors, writers, health care administrators, etc. Divorce and illness have also played roles in their lives.
There's an obvious poignancy in the visual contrast between the middle-aged subjects and their youthful selves, and the film includes several segments in which they view the vintage footage with a mixture of pride and bemusement. Their current situations, detailed through interviews and informal footage, reveal the inevitable compromises and losses that occur through the years.
NEW YORK -- A real-life version of "The Big Chill", Robb Moss' documentary uses imagery far more than analysis to compare and contrast the lives of several former young bohemian types who, 20 years later, have become middle-aged members of society retaining their youthful idealism to varying degrees.
Using 20-year-old footage of a group of twentysomethings cavorting mostly naked on a Colorado River rafting trip that was originally used in his short film "Riverdogs", the filmmaker presents a portrait of the emotional and physical effects of aging and maturity that is occasionally poignant but not particularly deep. "The Same River Twice" is receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Film Forum.
Moss, now a film professor at Harvard, was one of a group of a dozen or so friends who participated in the rafting trip, which, based on the footage seen here, seems to have been a carefree romp featuring gorgeous-bodied young men and women indulging in a seemingly idyllic adventure in which clothing was mostly disdained. The new footage depicts the current states of that trip's five participants, who have gone on to lives as town mayors, aerobics instructors, writers, health care administrators, etc. Divorce and illness have also played roles in their lives.
There's an obvious poignancy in the visual contrast between the middle-aged subjects and their youthful selves, and the film includes several segments in which they view the vintage footage with a mixture of pride and bemusement. Their current situations, detailed through interviews and informal footage, reveal the inevitable compromises and losses that occur through the years.
- 9/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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