Jonathan Oppenheim Dies: Documentary Editor Who Cut ‘Paris Is Burning’ & Pov’s ‘Sister Helen’ Was 67
Jonathan Oppenheim, an Emmy-nominated documentary editor who cut such films as Paris Is Burning and Sister Helen along with P.O.V. and Frontline entries for PBS, has died. He was 67. Sundance Institute confirmed the news today that Oppenheim died on July 17 in New York City.
“Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away,” the group said. “He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him.”
Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away. He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him. pic.twitter.com/6836OksBME
— Sundance Institute (@sundanceorg) July 21, 2020
His...
“Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away,” the group said. “He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him.”
Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away. He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him. pic.twitter.com/6836OksBME
— Sundance Institute (@sundanceorg) July 21, 2020
His...
- 7/21/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
"But when you save a life, it's worth it." 1091 has released an official trailer for an indie documentary titled The Cat Rescuers about exactly what the title says: people who rescue cats. It premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival last year, but hasn't shown at other fests. It's playing in select theaters and will be available on VOD this fall. A dedicated group of people in Brooklyn devote their days and nights to rescuing abandoned or otherwise homeless kittens and cats. "Combing the borough’s alleys, backyards and housing projects, they trap the cats, get them fixed and returned to their colonies, or adopted." Of course, the cats are adorable, but the people are equally inspiring. The film focuses on the rescuers of New York City, who help save the feral kitties of the Big Apple. Reminds me of that other great cat doc Kedi, about the cats of Istanbul.
- 8/16/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There are people who like cats and then there are cat people. The crowd-funded, Brooklyn-set documentary “The Cat Rescuers” by Rob Fruchtman and Steven Lawrence deals with the latter category. It focuses on four cat lovers/animal rescue activists who help to save the lives of feral felines and to find new homes for abandoned pets. Those hoping for a domestic take on “Kedi,” the popular documentary about Istanbul street cats, should note that “The Cat Rescuers” concentrates solely on the stories of its human characters. After well-received screenings at the Hamptons and DocNYC festivals last year, the film is gradually rolling out to select venues nationwide through Balcony Releasing.
The directors posit that as many cats live on New York City’s streets as are kept in apartments and homes. That statistic means at least 500,000 abandoned and feral cats. Tens of thousands of them make Brooklyn their home. Since...
The directors posit that as many cats live on New York City’s streets as are kept in apartments and homes. That statistic means at least 500,000 abandoned and feral cats. Tens of thousands of them make Brooklyn their home. Since...
- 7/5/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
It’s projected that over 500,000 cats roam the streets of New York each year, abandoned by their owners causing a nascence for their communities and a real problem for several big-hearted New Yorkers who make it their mission to solve the problem. Following volunteers Sassee, Claire, Stu, and Tara, The Cat Rescuers follows individuals who are often not of great means in their quest to capture, spade, nurture, and often nurse cats back to health for adoption. Some like Stu, a radio technician for the New York Fire Department, have the means to run quasi shelters in their garage. For Stu, the mission is personal, waking up in the middle of the night to rescue cats, heading to work in the morning, and coming back in the evening to take care of the litter.
Recalling Jeremy Workman’s The World Before Your Feet–a documentary about a man who makes...
Recalling Jeremy Workman’s The World Before Your Feet–a documentary about a man who makes...
- 11/17/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
A racial melodrama joined a harrowing sexual assault victim pic and, ironically, a doc about Roger Ailes to win top awards at the 26th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival. “All Good (Alles ist Gut)” from first-time East Berlin director Eva Trobisch was named the Best Narrative Feature. “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” directed by Alexis Bloom nabbed Best Documentary Feature. And in something of a surprise, “The Hate U Give” from director George Tillman Jr. wooed East Enders into giving it the Audience Award. It beat out top Oscar contenders “First Man,” “Roma,” “Green Book” and “The Favourite.”
“There’s always some things that surprise me about films that do well and films that don’t do well, but overall people seemed to embrace all the films this year,” Fest Artistic Director David Nugent told Gold Derby. “We’re happy that 9 of the 10 last years we’ve...
“There’s always some things that surprise me about films that do well and films that don’t do well, but overall people seemed to embrace all the films this year,” Fest Artistic Director David Nugent told Gold Derby. “We’re happy that 9 of the 10 last years we’ve...
- 10/9/2018
- by Bill McCuddy
- Gold Derby
20th Century Fox’s The Hate U Give has won the narrative feature audience award at the Hamptons Film Festival, which just wrapped its 26th edition. The Ya drama directed by George Tillman Jr and starring Amandla Stenberg began its theatrical rollout this weekend as well in three dozen locations grossing $500,000; it screened Friday at the festival which gave Stenberg one of its Breakthrough Artist Awards.
The Hamptons festival also said today John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm won the audience awards for documentary features, and One Small Step, directed by former Disney artists Bobby Pontillas & Andrew Chesworth, won the audience award for best short film.
Earlier in the week, Eva Trobisch’s All Good (Alles Ist Gut) led the juried awards winning for Best Narrative Feature. The documentary top honor went to Magnolia’s Divide And Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, directed by Alex Bloom, which hits...
The Hamptons festival also said today John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm won the audience awards for documentary features, and One Small Step, directed by former Disney artists Bobby Pontillas & Andrew Chesworth, won the audience award for best short film.
Earlier in the week, Eva Trobisch’s All Good (Alles Ist Gut) led the juried awards winning for Best Narrative Feature. The documentary top honor went to Magnolia’s Divide And Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, directed by Alex Bloom, which hits...
- 10/9/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and Marielle Heller’s Melissa McCarthy-starrer Can You Ever Forgive Me? will get Centerpiece slots at next month’s Hamptons Film Festival.
The fest released its full line-up today, adding Steve McQueen’s Widows and the East Coast premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy to the previously announced slate.
Lanthimos’ The Favourite stars Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman in the tale of two cousins fighting to be the court favorite of Queen Anne. The film will be the fest’s Friday Centerpiece, while Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? takes the Sunday Centerpiece slot.
The Hamptons fest runs Oct. 4-8.
In addition to the previously announced films, the Narrative Competition films will include the New York Premiere of Yen Tan’s 1985, the U.S. Premiere of Eva Trobisch’s All Good, Ali Abbasi’s Border, the U.S. Premiere of Zsófia Szilágyi’s One Day,...
The fest released its full line-up today, adding Steve McQueen’s Widows and the East Coast premiere of Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy to the previously announced slate.
Lanthimos’ The Favourite stars Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman in the tale of two cousins fighting to be the court favorite of Queen Anne. The film will be the fest’s Friday Centerpiece, while Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? takes the Sunday Centerpiece slot.
The Hamptons fest runs Oct. 4-8.
In addition to the previously announced films, the Narrative Competition films will include the New York Premiere of Yen Tan’s 1985, the U.S. Premiere of Eva Trobisch’s All Good, Ali Abbasi’s Border, the U.S. Premiere of Zsófia Szilágyi’s One Day,...
- 9/17/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
2014 marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide. The months-long attack led by Hutus in 1994 resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, almost 20 percent of the country's population. The 2012 documentary Sweet Dreams, screening next week for Austin Film Society's Doc Nights series, depicts a community-building program that is helping female Rwandans recover from those horrific events.
Ingoma Nshya is the first all-female drumming troupe in Rwanda, formed of Hutus and Tutsis. Some members lost family in the genocide, and some have family in jail for their participation in the mass killings. Troupe leader Kiki Katese meets some ice-cream makers from Brooklyn and is inspired to have the Rwandan women start their own shop, Inzozi Nziza (which means "sweet dreams").
Sweet Dreams has many interviews with women from the group. There's Clementine, a young woman who walks 1.5 hours to town for rehearsals. Another woman, whose parents are currently jailed, says,...
Ingoma Nshya is the first all-female drumming troupe in Rwanda, formed of Hutus and Tutsis. Some members lost family in the genocide, and some have family in jail for their participation in the mass killings. Troupe leader Kiki Katese meets some ice-cream makers from Brooklyn and is inspired to have the Rwandan women start their own shop, Inzozi Nziza (which means "sweet dreams").
Sweet Dreams has many interviews with women from the group. There's Clementine, a young woman who walks 1.5 hours to town for rehearsals. Another woman, whose parents are currently jailed, says,...
- 7/9/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
How do you coexist with people who once engineered and carried out the attempted annihilation of you and your family? It's an age-old question that is depressingly still relevant across the globe. Sibling co-directors Lisa and Rob Fruchtman narrow the query to Rwanda, as it continues to rebuild and re-imagine itself following the horrors of the 1994 genocide, in which the country's Hutus slaughtered nearly 1 million Tutsi citizens in perverse payback for the favoritism shown the Tutsis by the colonial Belgians. Flash to the present, and female survivors of that tragedy have come together (widows and orphans, Hutu and Tutsi) to form an all-woman drumming troupe that quickly evolves into a daring business undertaking — the women form a co-op whose goal is to open ...
- 10/30/2013
- Village Voice
From International Film Circuit, the distributor of the The Waiting Room, Emmy-winner Where Soldiers Come From, Peabody-winner My Perestroika, The Devil Came on Horseback and the Academy Award-nominated film Darwin's Nightmare, comes a new documentary release titled Sweet Dreams, a film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman and Rob Fruchtman. Sweet Dreams follows a remarkable group of Rwandan women, post the 1994 genocide, who collect to form the country’s first all-female drumming troupe and open the country's first ice cream parlor. Ingoma Nshya is Rwanda’s first and only all women’s drumming troupe. Made up of women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan...
- 10/28/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
From International Film Circuit, the distributor of the The Waiting Room, Emmy-winner Where Soldiers Come From, Peabody-winner My Perestroika, The Devil Came on Horseback and the Academy Award-nominated film Darwin's Nightmare, comes a new documentary release titled Sweet Dreams, a film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa Fruchtman and Rob Fruchtman. Sweet Dreams follows a remarkable group of Rwandan women, post the 1994 genocide, who collect to form the country’s first all-female drumming troupe and open the country's first ice cream parlor. Ingoma Nshya is Rwanda’s first and only all women’s drumming troupe. Made up of women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan...
- 10/16/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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