We've seen the lineups for the Main Slate and Projections, the Special Events and Revivals, and today: "Taken together, the twelve selections in this year’s Spotlight on Documentary represent the range and depth of nonfiction in our midst," says New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. Highlights include new work from Laura Poitras, Frederick Wiseman, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Pamela Yates, James Solomon, Carmen Castillo, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Jacob Bernstein, Stig Björkman's doc on Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Salles's portrait of Jia Zhangke. »...
- 8/24/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
We've seen the lineups for the Main Slate and Projections, the Special Events and Revivals, and today: "Taken together, the twelve selections in this year’s Spotlight on Documentary represent the range and depth of nonfiction in our midst," says New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. Highlights include new work from Laura Poitras, Frederick Wiseman, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Pamela Yates, James Solomon, Carmen Castillo, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Jacob Bernstein, Stig Björkman's doc on Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Salles's portrait of Jia Zhangke. »...
- 8/24/2015
- Keyframe
The 53rd New York Film Festival’s Spotlight on Documentary launches on September 27 and features new work from Frederick Wiseman, Laura Poitras, Walter Salles and Joaquim Pinto.
Poitras, winner of this year’s best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman’s 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles’ Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before...
Poitras, winner of this year’s best documentary Oscar for Citizenfour, will preview the Julian Assange series Asylum.
Wiseman’s 40th documentary feature In Jackson Heights (pictured) profiles the culturally diverse New York neighbourhood caught in the midst of economic development.
In Fish Tail, Pinto and husband Leonel document the artisanal work of small-scale fishermen in the Azorean island of Rabo de Peixe. Salles’ Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang profiles the Chinese director as he revisits his hometown.
Spotlight on Documentary line-up:
Everything Is Copy (USA), Jacob Bernstein
World Premiere
Field Of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (USA-Germany), Laura Poitras
World Premiere
Fish Tail (Rabo de Peixe) (Portugal), Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
North American premiere
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Iraq-France), Abbas Fahdel,
Part 1: Before...
- 8/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Margo Guernsey has produced promotional mini-docs and videos for a number of non-profits, but for her first feature-length project, “Councilwoman Castillo,” she is focusing on the story of a hotel housekeeper, Carmen Castillo, elected to the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island. The project will cover Castillo’s first three years in office starting with her election in November 2011. Guernsey spoke to us recently about how she became interested in the project and her strategy for shooting and funding this low budget, multi-year project. Filmmaker: What is the story? Guernsey: It’s a story about a hotel housekeeper elected to …...
- 5/29/2013
- by Michael Murie
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A little bit of coin news from Europe’s Eurimages Fund (support of 13 projects) in the same token drops a couple of hints on where we might be at with some of our favorite European auteurs – topping the list and making our mouths water for Cannes 2014 is a listing for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s next feature film entitled Winter Sleep – a Turkish-German-France co-production. Further digging tells us that Ceylan actually began filming in late January in the unique backdrop of Cappadocia, Turkey with actors Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen on board. Swedish auteur Ruben Ostlund (whose Play is mysteriously still without a U.S Distributor) is inches away from filming Tourist – which will be ready for a Croisette 2014 showing as well. Jasmila Zbanic who won big in Berlin back in 2006 with Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, is funding her latest Love Island and feel...
- 3/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
- Lots of first time filmmakers make up this year's Un Certain Regard. Here is the complete list. (Still below: Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely)Bross Malos HABITOSValeria Bruni-tedeschi Le RÊVE De La Nuit D’Avant (Bad Habits)Carmen Castillo Calle Santa Fe (Santa Fe Sreet)Chung Lee Isaac Munyurangabo (Liberation Day)Lola Doillon Et Toi T’Es Sur Qui ?Enrique Fernandez & César Charlone El BAÑO Del Papa (And Along Come Tourists)Eran Kolirin Bikur HATIZMORETHarmony Korine Mister LONELYKadri KÕUSAAR Magnusli Yang Mang Shan (Blind Mountain)Daniele Luchetti Mio Fratello È Figlio Unico (My Brother Is An Only Child)Cristian Nemescu California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) California Dreamin' (Endless)Jaime Rosales La Soledad (Fragments Of Loneliness) Barbet Schroeder L’Avocat De La TERREURCéline Sciamma Les PIEUVRESRobert Thalheim Am Ende Kommen TOURISTENEkachai Uekrongtham Kuaile Gongchang...
- 4/19/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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