If you’re wondering where the next Damien Chazelle will come from, look no further than the 2017 Sundance Film Festival short film lineup.
Sundance has a long history of discovering the next generation of acclaimed filmmakers by first championing their short films. Chazelle made his first big splash by winning the 2013 Grand Jury Prize for “Whiplash” (the short). Last year, Jim Cummings won that prize for “Thunder Road,” and he’s back this year with a new short. Also generating a lot of pre-festival buzz is Kristen Stewart, making her writing/directing debut with the short “Come Swim.”
Before the Sundance Film Festival commences on January 19, 2017, here’s a briefing on Cummings’ “The Robbery,” Stewart’s “Come Swim” and eight other buzzworthy shorts (two of which are viewable online).
IndieWire reached out to the filmmakers to ask about their inspiration, production challenges and future projects. Check out our list below,...
Sundance has a long history of discovering the next generation of acclaimed filmmakers by first championing their short films. Chazelle made his first big splash by winning the 2013 Grand Jury Prize for “Whiplash” (the short). Last year, Jim Cummings won that prize for “Thunder Road,” and he’s back this year with a new short. Also generating a lot of pre-festival buzz is Kristen Stewart, making her writing/directing debut with the short “Come Swim.”
Before the Sundance Film Festival commences on January 19, 2017, here’s a briefing on Cummings’ “The Robbery,” Stewart’s “Come Swim” and eight other buzzworthy shorts (two of which are viewable online).
IndieWire reached out to the filmmakers to ask about their inspiration, production challenges and future projects. Check out our list below,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Kim Adelman
- Indiewire
Christine Turner's feature documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American funeral home tradition, told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, will be available for digital rental via Vimeo on Demand, beginning February 18, 2014, and is available for pre-order now at www.homegoings.com. Videos purchased through Vimeo On Demand are accessible across devices - desktop, mobile (Android/iOS/Windows), connected TV devices (Apple TV/Roku/Google TV/Xbox Live), and major smart TV platforms (Samsung/Panasonic/Phillips). For more information about Vimeo On Demand, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand. “I am proud to offer Homegoings to a broad...
- 2/11/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
After a broadcast TV premiere on PBS' Pov series, and a limited theatrical run at the Maysles Cinema in NYC, over the summer, Christine Turner's lauded feature documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American funeral home tradition, told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, is now available for viewing online, courtesy of PBS - but for a limited time, through January 7th, 2014. It's a film I've yet to see, and will likely do so sometime this week, and will share my thoughts afterward. In the meantime, check it out for yourselves, assuming you haven't already. The first 20 minutes are embedded below....
- 12/2/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Cinema Eye Honors has announced its nominees for the 7th Annual Nonfiction Film Awards. Forty feature films and six shorts will vie for this year’s Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking.
Five films are competing for Cinema Eye’s top award, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing, Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller, Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie And The Boxer (pictured), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell.
Cutie And The Boxer led all films with six nominations, while The Act Of Killing received five. Heinzerling and the directing duos of Castaing-Taylor and Paravel and Shane and Wilson all led individual nominees with four nominations apiece.
Cinema Eye also announced nominees for their inaugural award for Nonfiction Films Made for Television. Four of the six nominees are from HBO Documentary Films, including Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel, Dawn Porter’s Gideon...
Five films are competing for Cinema Eye’s top award, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing, Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller, Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie And The Boxer (pictured), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell.
Cutie And The Boxer led all films with six nominations, while The Act Of Killing received five. Heinzerling and the directing duos of Castaing-Taylor and Paravel and Shane and Wilson all led individual nominees with four nominations apiece.
Cinema Eye also announced nominees for their inaugural award for Nonfiction Films Made for Television. Four of the six nominees are from HBO Documentary Films, including Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel, Dawn Porter’s Gideon...
- 11/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
Christine Turner's feature documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American funeral home tradition, told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, made it's broadcast TV premiere on PBS' Pov series, last night, Monday, June 24, 2013, at 10 pm, kicking off the 26th season of the award-winning Pov. The acclaimed film also opened yesterday, for a 1-week theatrical run (June 24-30) at the Maysles Cinema in NYC, in an exclusive U.S. theatrical premiere, with each screening happening nightly at 7:30 pm, Monday through Sunday, except on Thursday, June 27, when it will take place at 4 pm only. Each...
- 6/25/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
This article was orginally published in February 2013 to coincide with the film’s premiere at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight. Homegoings opens theatrically today at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem and airs tonight on Pov. Just in the nick of time for Black History Month, and debuting at the 2013 Documentary Fortnight: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film, is Christine Turner’s Homegoings, a poetically crafted exploration of the history of African-American funeral traditions. Told via the Harlem neighborhood’s legendary funeral director Isaiah Owens – who found his calling as a small child, burying all deceased animals he stumbled across in his South …...
- 6/24/2013
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Christine Turner's feature documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American funeral home tradition, told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, will make it's broadcast TV premiere on PBS' Pov series, tonight, Monday, June 24, 2013, at 10 pm (check local listings), kicking off the 26th season of the award-winning Pov. The acclaimed film also opens today for a 1-week theatrical run (June 24-30) at the Maysles Cinema in NYC, in an exclusive U.S. theatrical premiere, with each screening happening nightly at 7:30 p.m., Monday through Sunday, except on Thursday, June 27, when it will take place at 4...
- 6/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "True Blood," "Family Tree," "Copper," the returning "Dexter," the new "Ray Donovan" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "Pov": "Homegoings" Monday, June 24 at 10pm on PBS The 26th season of PBS documentary series "Pov" kicks off with "Homegoings," a documentary from Christine Turner about the traditions of African-American funerals, as seen through Isaiah Owens' Funeral Home in Harlem. The film, which played at MoMA’s 2013 Documentary Fortnight, will also be getting a weeklong theatrical release starting on the 24th at the Maysles Cinema. "Under the Dome": Series Premiere Monday, June 24 at 10pm on CBS CBS, a network whose most ambitious and interesting programming has been snuck in under the guise of procedurals ("The Good Wife," "Elementary,...
- 6/24/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Christine Turner's feature documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American funeral home tradition, told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, will make it's broadcast TV premiere on PBS' Pov series, on Monday, June 24, 2013, at 10 pm (check local listings), kicking off the 26th season of the award-winning Pov. That same week, June 24-30, 2013, the Maysles Cinema in NYC, will house the exclusive U.S. theatrical premiere of Homegoings, with each screening happening nightly at 7:30 p.m., Monday through Sunday, except on Thursday, June 27, when it will take place at 4 pm only. Each screening...
- 6/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Now in its 26th season, a new year of PBS' Pov documentary film series kicks off on Monday, June 24, with films that explore African American funeral traditions, international immigration, solitary confinement, love and adolescence in today's America and more. Airing on PBS with a move to Monday nights at 10 p.m. (check local listings), the new season runs through October 14, and will conclude with winter specials. Here is a preview of the first four programs, which includes broadcast premieres of films followed by S&A: Pov Summer Preview, June 24-July 15, 2013: June 24: June 24: Homegoings by Christine Turner Through the eyes of Harlem...
- 5/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
In Harlem, 62-year-old Isaiah Owens is known as "Fix Em," for his ability to repair dead bodies ravaged by disease, mishap or violence; in the forthcoming PBS documentary "Homegoings," he's known as a legendary Harlem undertaker with a penchant for bringing the beauty and grace of African-American funerals to life.
"Everybody knows it’s there, but nobody wants to talk about it," Owens said in an interview with the New York Daily News, referencing his goal for the film -- to bring death out of the closet.
Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City, "Homegoings" takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, as PBS' synopsis of the film explains.
And while Owens aims to open a conversation on death in a way that he says captures grief and sadness, alongside the humor and sense of relief that he sometimes observes behind the camera,...
"Everybody knows it’s there, but nobody wants to talk about it," Owens said in an interview with the New York Daily News, referencing his goal for the film -- to bring death out of the closet.
Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City, "Homegoings" takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, as PBS' synopsis of the film explains.
And while Owens aims to open a conversation on death in a way that he says captures grief and sadness, alongside the humor and sense of relief that he sometimes observes behind the camera,...
- 4/24/2013
- by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson
- Huffington Post
Christine Turner's feature documentary Homegoings, which explores the African American funeral home tradition, told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, will make it's broadcast TV premiere on PBS' Pov series, on Monday, June 24, 2013, at 10 pm (check local listings), kicking off the 26th season of the award-winning Pov. That same week, June 24-30, 2013, the Maysles Cinema in NYC, will house the exclusive U.S. theatrical premiere of Homegoings, with each screening happening nightly at 7:30 p.m., Monday through Sunday, except on Thursday, June 27, when it will take place at 4 pm only. Each screening...
- 4/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
We first alerted you to Christine Turner's feature documentary Homegoings, in late 2011, when it was one of 10 projects selected to receive a total of $150,000 in completion grants from the Tribeca Documentary Fund. Turner's seemingly fascinating Homegoings... ... explores the African American funeral home, a 150 year-old institution that is now vanishing. Told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, Isaiah Owens, and the families he serves, this film tells the intimate stories of families who have lost loved ones and the passionate man behind their funerals. Just over a year later, in February of this year, the film had...
- 4/23/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Longrunning PBS documentary series Pov announced its 26th season today, one that will kick off on Monday, June 24th at 10pm and run through September 23rd, with four special presentations following in the fall and winter. This will mark Pov's first season in the Monday night timeslot, one to which the preceding Independent Lens season was also moved and one that should prove better for the series than the previous Thursdays. Here's a look at the full 2013 schedule, with descriptions courtesy of PBS -- all films air Monday at 10pm. June 24 - Homegoings by Christine Turner Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City's historic Harlem neighborhood, Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition,...
- 3/20/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
We first alerted you to Christine Turner's feature documentary titled Homegoings, in late 2011, when it was one of 10 projects selected to receive a total of $150,000 in grants towards completing their projects, from the Tribeca Documentary Fund. Turner's seemingly fascinating Homegoings... ... explores the African American funeral home, a 150 year-old institution that is now vanishing. Told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, Isaiah Owens, and the families he serves, this film tells the intimate stories of families who have lost loved ones and the passionate man behind their funerals. Just over a year later, the film will have its World...
- 2/28/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Just in the nick of time for Black History Month, and debuting at the 2013 Documentary Fortnight: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film, is Christine Turner’s Homegoings, a poetically crafted exploration of the history of African-American funeral traditions. Told via the Harlem neighborhood’s legendary funeral director Isaiah Owens – who found his calling as a small child, burying all deceased animals he stumbled across in his South Carolina surroundings – the doc manages to be poignant, inspirational, and unexpectedly uplifting. In other words, as one subject says about black burials themselves, a “sad good time.” Filmmaker spoke with the doc’s …...
- 2/26/2013
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
'Homegoings' (Doc Exploring African American Funeral Traditions) Debuts at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2013
We first alerted you to Christine Turner's feature documentary titled Homegoings, in late 2011, when it was one of 10 projects selected to receive a total of $150,000 in grants towards completing their projects, from the Tribeca Documentary Fund. Turner's seemingly fascintating Homegoings... ... explores the African American funeral home, a 150 year-old institution that is now vanishing. Told through the eyes of a Harlem funeral director, Isaiah Owens, and the families he serves, this film tells the intimate stories of families who have lost loved ones and the passionate man behind their funerals. Just over a year later, the film will have its...
- 1/31/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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