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Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).
At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.
A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.
The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).
At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.
A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.
The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...
- 10/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – One of the strangest problems in the United States, the richest country in the world, is “food insecurity.” Millions of Americans, lost in economic or working poverty, can’t keep pace with their food needs. The new documentary “A Place at the Table” dissects this social problem, and is co-directed by Kristi Jacobson.
Using telling statistics and personal stories, Jacobson – with her co-director Lori Silverbush – sheds light on a problem that seems to be expanding rather than in control. Several problems associated with food insecurity – including obesity, inadequate school lunch programs and general nutrition – are increasing in an America that subsidizes corporation farming, but slashes aid to the poor.
Actor and Activist Jeff Bridges in ‘A Place at the Table’
Photo credit: Magnolia Pictures
Kristi Jacobson is a veteran producer, and also directed a notable documentary in 2006 on her grandfather, the legendary New York City tavern owner Toots Shor...
Using telling statistics and personal stories, Jacobson – with her co-director Lori Silverbush – sheds light on a problem that seems to be expanding rather than in control. Several problems associated with food insecurity – including obesity, inadequate school lunch programs and general nutrition – are increasing in an America that subsidizes corporation farming, but slashes aid to the poor.
Actor and Activist Jeff Bridges in ‘A Place at the Table’
Photo credit: Magnolia Pictures
Kristi Jacobson is a veteran producer, and also directed a notable documentary in 2006 on her grandfather, the legendary New York City tavern owner Toots Shor...
- 2/25/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Paley Center for Media's PaleyDocFest, which runs from Oct. 16-27 in New York, will kick off with Kristi Jacobson's "Toots," a documentary about the celebrated saloon keeper Toots Shor. Jacabson, Gay Talese, Periane Conerly and LeRoy Neiman will take part in a Q&A accompanying the film.
The fest will include the New York premieres of "Johnny Cash's America," "Running the Sahara" and "American Masters: Jerome Robbins - Something to Dance About."
It will also include a special preview of "Sweet Dreams."
"The Paley Center for Media has a deep commitment to documentaries. We believe in the power of this art form to inspire and to tell stories in a way that captures the imagination and expands our horizons," Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, said. "In our vast collection of documentaries, we offer some of the most well-known and celebrated documentaries...
The fest will include the New York premieres of "Johnny Cash's America," "Running the Sahara" and "American Masters: Jerome Robbins - Something to Dance About."
It will also include a special preview of "Sweet Dreams."
"The Paley Center for Media has a deep commitment to documentaries. We believe in the power of this art form to inspire and to tell stories in a way that captures the imagination and expands our horizons," Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, said. "In our vast collection of documentaries, we offer some of the most well-known and celebrated documentaries...
- 10/2/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Menemsha Films
NEW YORK -- Kristi Jacobson's documentary about the legendary saloonkeeper Toots Shor makes one immediately want to enter a time machine.
Toots affectionately and vividly recalls a bygone New York era, one in which life was simpler (if not more innocent, as one interview subject points out) and celebrities and ordinary folk could be in close proximity without hulking bodyguards getting in the way. The director is, in fact, Shor's granddaughter, but her portrait, while obviously loving, doesn't shy away from dealing with the darker aspects of her subject's life, from his ties to the mob to the self-destructiveness and stubbornness that ultimately reduced him to impoverishment before his death in 1977.
But Toots is by no means downbeat. Documenting her grandfather's rise from Prohibition-era bouncer to the owner of one of New York's most-famed watering holes in the 1950s and '60s, the filmmaker presents an evocative portrait of a vanished era.
As the film well depicts, Shor's eponymous restaurant on Manhattan's West 51st Street was a meeting place for the rich and famous, where a wide-ranging collection of celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Joe DiMaggio, Frank Gifford, mob boss Frank Costello and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, among many others, all held court. It also was an unofficial clubhouse for the newspaper journalists of the time (especially sportswriters and gossip columnists), who found plenty of fodder for their columns on the premises.
Employing an oral history recorded by Shor two years before his death, interviews with such former habitues as Walter Cronkite, Nick Pileggi, Peter Duchin, Gay Talese and copious amounts of fascinating archival footage and photographs, Toots is a glorious exercise in nostalgia.
NEW YORK -- Kristi Jacobson's documentary about the legendary saloonkeeper Toots Shor makes one immediately want to enter a time machine.
Toots affectionately and vividly recalls a bygone New York era, one in which life was simpler (if not more innocent, as one interview subject points out) and celebrities and ordinary folk could be in close proximity without hulking bodyguards getting in the way. The director is, in fact, Shor's granddaughter, but her portrait, while obviously loving, doesn't shy away from dealing with the darker aspects of her subject's life, from his ties to the mob to the self-destructiveness and stubbornness that ultimately reduced him to impoverishment before his death in 1977.
But Toots is by no means downbeat. Documenting her grandfather's rise from Prohibition-era bouncer to the owner of one of New York's most-famed watering holes in the 1950s and '60s, the filmmaker presents an evocative portrait of a vanished era.
As the film well depicts, Shor's eponymous restaurant on Manhattan's West 51st Street was a meeting place for the rich and famous, where a wide-ranging collection of celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Joe DiMaggio, Frank Gifford, mob boss Frank Costello and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, among many others, all held court. It also was an unofficial clubhouse for the newspaper journalists of the time (especially sportswriters and gossip columnists), who found plenty of fodder for their columns on the premises.
Employing an oral history recorded by Shor two years before his death, interviews with such former habitues as Walter Cronkite, Nick Pileggi, Peter Duchin, Gay Talese and copious amounts of fascinating archival footage and photographs, Toots is a glorious exercise in nostalgia.
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- ESPN and Tribeca Enterprises are launching the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, set to run during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival with marketing support from ESPN.
The fest will feature sports film screenings and live events, including a Sports Saturday featuring outdoor activities, all the fest's indie films, sports stars, filmmakers and actors.
The cable network will provide promotional support in all media and help facilitate interactive Web programs tied to the event.
Terms were not disclosed for the multiyear deal, but reps for both sides said they would like to continue the arrangement for the foreseeable future.
The sports films at the fest will include independent projects seeking distribution, but ESPN Original entertainment senior vp Geoff Reiss said: "Our primary interest is not creating a marketplace per se; we're looking for an environment that's consumer-oriented. But if that happens, it's great."
Reiss said the deal developed after fellow execs, including ESPN executive vp content John Skipper, said, "Wouldn't it be cool to have an ESPN film festival?" Several of them attended a showing of the sports-related docu Toots at this year's Tribeca fest and were impressed by the scale of the event, leading them to approach Tribeca execs.
The fest will feature sports film screenings and live events, including a Sports Saturday featuring outdoor activities, all the fest's indie films, sports stars, filmmakers and actors.
The cable network will provide promotional support in all media and help facilitate interactive Web programs tied to the event.
Terms were not disclosed for the multiyear deal, but reps for both sides said they would like to continue the arrangement for the foreseeable future.
The sports films at the fest will include independent projects seeking distribution, but ESPN Original entertainment senior vp Geoff Reiss said: "Our primary interest is not creating a marketplace per se; we're looking for an environment that's consumer-oriented. But if that happens, it's great."
Reiss said the deal developed after fellow execs, including ESPN executive vp content John Skipper, said, "Wouldn't it be cool to have an ESPN film festival?" Several of them attended a showing of the sports-related docu Toots at this year's Tribeca fest and were impressed by the scale of the event, leading them to approach Tribeca execs.
- 12/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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