Optician Juan Solano (seen in his Brooklyn shop Solano Optical Boutique) shares his story (along with Veronica Garcia-Hayes and Peter Dunlap-Shohl) in Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate and informative Matter Of Mind: My Parkinson’s
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. At the 95th Academy Awards in 2023, Woody Harrelson presented Michael J Fox the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Oscar for his career, and The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The documentary on Fox’s life, Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth) was shortlisted for this year’s Oscar.
Anna Moot-Levin with Laura Green and Anne-Katrin Titze on Juan Solano: “Juan we connected with because we were very interested in following someone through the process of Dbs [Deep Brain Stimulation] surgery"
Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate and informative Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, written by Jason Sussberg,...
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. At the 95th Academy Awards in 2023, Woody Harrelson presented Michael J Fox the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Oscar for his career, and The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The documentary on Fox’s life, Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth) was shortlisted for this year’s Oscar.
Anna Moot-Levin with Laura Green and Anne-Katrin Titze on Juan Solano: “Juan we connected with because we were very interested in following someone through the process of Dbs [Deep Brain Stimulation] surgery"
Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate and informative Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, written by Jason Sussberg,...
- 3/28/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Award-winning PBS documentary series “Independent Lens” has released its spring slate of documentary films, which will begin debuting on April 24. This season’s films will highlight a myriad of marginalized communities and current affairs by documenting both personal and important stories from around the world.
First to debut is documentary film “Free Chol Soo Lee” from filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi. The Sundance favorite uses archival material to travel back to 1970’s San Francisco and tell the story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant who was wrongfully convicted of murder, and the Asian American activist movement that sought to free him.
Following is Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green’s film “Matter of Mind: My Als”, which will premiere May 1. The documentary tells the story of three people in the U.S. living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Reed Harkness’s film “Sam Now” premieres May 8, and shares the...
First to debut is documentary film “Free Chol Soo Lee” from filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi. The Sundance favorite uses archival material to travel back to 1970’s San Francisco and tell the story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant who was wrongfully convicted of murder, and the Asian American activist movement that sought to free him.
Following is Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green’s film “Matter of Mind: My Als”, which will premiere May 1. The documentary tells the story of three people in the U.S. living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Reed Harkness’s film “Sam Now” premieres May 8, and shares the...
- 3/30/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
The 27th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival Awards were presented Nov. 11 and We Are Movie Geeks was there!
Sliff presented seven major filmmaking awards during the course of the 2018 festival:
Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards to Jim Finn, Jane Gilooly, and Karyn Kusama; Women in Film Award to Melanie Mayron; Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Edwards and John Goodman; and the Contemporary Cinema Award to Jason Reitman.
Shorts Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the shorts in competition. The Sliff shorts competition is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, making the winners in the Best of Fest, Best Animated, Best Live Action, and Best Documentary categories eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. The 2018 winners:
Best Documentary Short: “Koka, The Butcher” directed by Bence Máté
Best Local Short: “The Buck: Midwest Gully” directed by Jun Bae
Best Short Short:...
Sliff presented seven major filmmaking awards during the course of the 2018 festival:
Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards to Jim Finn, Jane Gilooly, and Karyn Kusama; Women in Film Award to Melanie Mayron; Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Edwards and John Goodman; and the Contemporary Cinema Award to Jason Reitman.
Shorts Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the shorts in competition. The Sliff shorts competition is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, making the winners in the Best of Fest, Best Animated, Best Live Action, and Best Documentary categories eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. The 2018 winners:
Best Documentary Short: “Koka, The Butcher” directed by Bence Máté
Best Local Short: “The Buck: Midwest Gully” directed by Jun Bae
Best Short Short:...
- 11/12/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s Ifp-supported The Providers is a film I regrettably left off my must-see list at Full Frame, most likely because a doc that follows a doctor, a nurse practitioner and a physician assistant serving rural communities abandoned by our traditional (and traditionally broken) healthcare system sounded like something that might put this liberal urbanite to sleep. But in one of those lucky film fest coincidences, I ended up chatting with the doc’s co-director Laura Green on the ride back to the Raleigh-Durham airport, and mentioned I was returning to Santa Fe. Which is both a drive away […]...
- 11/9/2018
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s Ifp-supported The Providers is a film I regrettably left off my must-see list at Full Frame, most likely because a doc that follows a doctor, a nurse practitioner and a physician assistant serving rural communities abandoned by our traditional (and traditionally broken) healthcare system sounded like something that might put this liberal urbanite to sleep. But in one of those lucky film fest coincidences, I ended up chatting with the doc’s co-director Laura Green on the ride back to the Raleigh-Durham airport, and mentioned I was returning to Santa Fe. Which is both a drive away […]...
- 11/9/2018
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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