Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck and Canadian cinematographer Iris Ng will be honoured at the 25th edition of Canada’s documentary festival Hot Docs (April 30 – May 1).
Peck, best known for the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, will be presented with the outstanding achievement award. His other credits include Lumumba, HBO miniseries Exterminate All The Brutes and most recently Silver Dollar Road.
A selection of Peck’s work will be shown at the festival where the director will participate in several post-screening Q&a’s.
Previous recipients of the outstanding achievement award include Werner Herzog, Patricio Guzmán and Tony Palmer.
Peck, best known for the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, will be presented with the outstanding achievement award. His other credits include Lumumba, HBO miniseries Exterminate All The Brutes and most recently Silver Dollar Road.
A selection of Peck’s work will be shown at the festival where the director will participate in several post-screening Q&a’s.
Previous recipients of the outstanding achievement award include Werner Herzog, Patricio Guzmán and Tony Palmer.
- 3/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Refusing the blistering politics of identity is a radical move in a (cinematic) decade where representation is royalty, but it's something that Seo Ah-hyun does not take lightly. The filmmaker's quietly ambitious debut feature, “Queer My Friends,” admirably never bends to the crucifying Enlightenment dualities that practically beg to be used in a work about her best friend, a gay Korean Christian man: religion versus reason, self versus other, truth versus reality. Instead, Ah-hyun — as she is referred to in the film — trades dualisms for a dualistic monism in the parallel-woven depictions of her friend Song Kang-won and herself, a straight Korean woman, over the course of five years.
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Narrated à la Sandi Tan's “Shirkers” but intimate with the intricacies of queerness in East Asia like Yan Zhexuan's 2020 documentary “Taiwan Equals Love,” the filmmaker embraces intentional subjectivity as objectivity, put forth by Donna Haraway...
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Narrated à la Sandi Tan's “Shirkers” but intimate with the intricacies of queerness in East Asia like Yan Zhexuan's 2020 documentary “Taiwan Equals Love,” the filmmaker embraces intentional subjectivity as objectivity, put forth by Donna Haraway...
- 8/29/2023
- by Olivia Popp
- AsianMoviePulse
By Leon Overee
The movie industry in Singapore had its humble beginnings in the 1950s with the huge influx of Malay and Chinese language features that were promoted by showbiz giants Cathay Organization and Shaw Brothers. This golden era went through a decline in the 1960s, with the import of American blockbusters and the advent of television. It was not after a few lengthy decades before the booming industry got back on its feet.
Fast-forward to the reckless 1990s hippy-era, and we saw trailblazing innovators like Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, and Royston Tan initiate a shift in the cinematic appetite of the nation. These pioneers blended the isms of everyday life with “Singlish” (English-based creole language) banter so loved by people from the region, to create unique patchworks in the fabric of Asian filmmaking.
The world finally had a chance to witness what is truly at the heart of Southeast Asia’s Little Red Dot.
The movie industry in Singapore had its humble beginnings in the 1950s with the huge influx of Malay and Chinese language features that were promoted by showbiz giants Cathay Organization and Shaw Brothers. This golden era went through a decline in the 1960s, with the import of American blockbusters and the advent of television. It was not after a few lengthy decades before the booming industry got back on its feet.
Fast-forward to the reckless 1990s hippy-era, and we saw trailblazing innovators like Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, and Royston Tan initiate a shift in the cinematic appetite of the nation. These pioneers blended the isms of everyday life with “Singlish” (English-based creole language) banter so loved by people from the region, to create unique patchworks in the fabric of Asian filmmaking.
The world finally had a chance to witness what is truly at the heart of Southeast Asia’s Little Red Dot.
- 3/20/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSChameleon StreetThe New York Film Festival has announced an excellent selection for its Revivals section. The roster includes restorations of Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga, Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s Chameleon Street, and Michael Powell's Bluebeard's Castle. The 2021 Locarno Film Festival has come to an end, with Indonesian filmmaker Edwin's Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash winning the Golden Leopard. For a full list of this year's award winners, read here. Recommended VIEWINGAhead of premiere, a trailer for the latest Spike Lee joint: the four-part documentary series NYC Epicenters: 9/11 → 2021 ½. The series, which captures twenty years of New York City history from the perspective of its citizens, will premiere on HBO Max August 22. Cinema Guild has released a trailer for Matías Piñeiro's Isabella.
- 8/18/2021
- MUBI
After streaming giant Netflix premiered its new docuseries “Dogs” in 2018, executive producer Glen Zipper recalls receiving a lot of love on social media from canine moms and dads — but he was also on the receiving end of irate tweets pressing for a companion show about cats. Three years later, as he prepares to launch the long-awaited second season of “Dogs” alongside the debut of new docuseries “Cat People,” Zipper hopes there will be balance and peace among pet parents.
“Our message [is], ‘Why can’t we love both?'” Zipper tells Variety.
Still, it was a long and often uneven road to get these series ready to stream. While the first season of “Dogs” was proof of concept for Zipper and executive producer Amy Berg, who wanted to lean into “happy” tales (no pun intended) about man’s (and woman’s) best friend, the outcry of interest in a show about...
“Our message [is], ‘Why can’t we love both?'” Zipper tells Variety.
Still, it was a long and often uneven road to get these series ready to stream. While the first season of “Dogs” was proof of concept for Zipper and executive producer Amy Berg, who wanted to lean into “happy” tales (no pun intended) about man’s (and woman’s) best friend, the outcry of interest in a show about...
- 7/6/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe poster for Hong Sang-soo's latest, Introduction, which will compete at this year's Berlinale. The competition slate for the 71st Berlin International Film Festival features a wide range of heavy hitters, from Hong and Radu Jude to Aleksandre Koberidze and Céline Sciamma. The competing titles, as well as the rest of the lineup, can be found here.The lineup for this year's SXSW Film Festival has been announced. The roster includes the directorial debut of House of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse, a documentary on musician William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, and a restoration of Les Blank's I Went to the Dance. Recommended VIEWINGFrom February 17 to February 23, the National Gallery of Art is screening the series "The Voice and Vision of Billy Woodberry." The series includes Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts, a landmark work of the L.
- 2/19/2021
- MUBI
Last weekend, much of the world became obsessed with Netflix’s new series “Tiger King,” about the sinister but colorful world of big cat breeding. Real-life characters like Joe Exotic and Doc Antle fall into the “you can’t make this stuff” up category of personalities that would be unbelievable if they didn’t actually exist.
With people around the U.S. and much of the world staying home in self-quarantine, “Tiger King” provided the perfect distraction of engrossing storytelling and unforgettable subjects.
Part of the fun of watching these larger-than-life figures is imagining who could play them in the inevitable narrative adaptation.
In the past few years, Netflix has pioneered the concept of the entertaining docu-series with “Making a Murderer” and “Wild Wild Country.” But don’t forget to look beyond Netflix — HBO has a decades-long track record of making top quality documentaries, and more can be found on Hulu and CNN.
With people around the U.S. and much of the world staying home in self-quarantine, “Tiger King” provided the perfect distraction of engrossing storytelling and unforgettable subjects.
Part of the fun of watching these larger-than-life figures is imagining who could play them in the inevitable narrative adaptation.
In the past few years, Netflix has pioneered the concept of the entertaining docu-series with “Making a Murderer” and “Wild Wild Country.” But don’t forget to look beyond Netflix — HBO has a decades-long track record of making top quality documentaries, and more can be found on Hulu and CNN.
- 3/25/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
The Danish star of The Celebration and many others discusses what seeing America only through movies when she was growing up.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Gremlins (1984)
Piranha (1978)
The ’Burbs (1989)
Matinee (1993)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
The Celebration (1998)
On The Border (1998)
The Idiots (1998)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Deep Throat (1972)
American Graffiti (1972)
Sexual Freedom In Denmark (1970)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1967)
The Godfather (1972)
Stripes (1981)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Faces (1968)
Taking Off (1971)
Gloria (1980)
Gloria (1999)
The Biggest Heroes (1996)
Nashville (1975)
That Time of Year (2018)
Psycho (1960)
All That Jazz (1979)
California Split (1974)
The Player (1992)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Heathers (1988)
Fame (1980)
Judy (2019)
Star 80 (1983)
Lenny (1974)
Over The Edge (1979)
Rumble Fish (1983)
The Outsiders (1983)
Footloose (1983)
Raging Bull (1980)
Running On Empty (1988)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
On The Waterfront (1954)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Planet of the Apes...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Gremlins (1984)
Piranha (1978)
The ’Burbs (1989)
Matinee (1993)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
The Celebration (1998)
On The Border (1998)
The Idiots (1998)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Deep Throat (1972)
American Graffiti (1972)
Sexual Freedom In Denmark (1970)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1967)
The Godfather (1972)
Stripes (1981)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Faces (1968)
Taking Off (1971)
Gloria (1980)
Gloria (1999)
The Biggest Heroes (1996)
Nashville (1975)
That Time of Year (2018)
Psycho (1960)
All That Jazz (1979)
California Split (1974)
The Player (1992)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Heathers (1988)
Fame (1980)
Judy (2019)
Star 80 (1983)
Lenny (1974)
Over The Edge (1979)
Rumble Fish (1983)
The Outsiders (1983)
Footloose (1983)
Raging Bull (1980)
Running On Empty (1988)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
On The Waterfront (1954)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Planet of the Apes...
- 3/17/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
The 2019-2020 movie awards season got underway on Monday night, December 2, with the presentation of the Gotham Awards for independent film. Presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), these prizes are decided by juries of industry peers and have honored Oscar winners like “Sideways” (2004), “Capote” (2005), “The Hurt Locker” (2009), “Spotlight” (2015) and “Moonlight” (2016). So who took top honors this year? Scroll down for the complete list in all 10 categories, updated live as they were announced.
“Marriage Story,” “The Farewell” and “Uncut Gems” led the nominations with three apiece. Those three films were up for Best Feature along with “Hustlers” and “Waves.”
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“Marriage Story” was the highest-profile Oscar contender among those nominees, but did that mean it was a surefire winner? The jury voting process opens the door for underdogs and left-field choices like last year’s champ “The Rider,” which beat Oscar...
“Marriage Story,” “The Farewell” and “Uncut Gems” led the nominations with three apiece. Those three films were up for Best Feature along with “Hustlers” and “Waves.”
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“Marriage Story” was the highest-profile Oscar contender among those nominees, but did that mean it was a surefire winner? The jury voting process opens the door for underdogs and left-field choices like last year’s champ “The Rider,” which beat Oscar...
- 12/3/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
It took 27 years, but Sandi Tan is finally a full-fledged filmmaker with a slew of projects lined up. And the next project may just be your favorite movie, if the Shirkers director’s elevator pitch actually comes to fruition. Tan, who rocketed to fame following the release of last year’s indie documentary darling Shirkers, is directing the […]
The post Sandi Tan to Adapt ‘The Idiot’ Into a Feature Film Described as ‘Twilight’ Meets ‘Phantom Thread’ Meets ‘Call Me By Your Name’ appeared first on /Film.
The post Sandi Tan to Adapt ‘The Idiot’ Into a Feature Film Described as ‘Twilight’ Meets ‘Phantom Thread’ Meets ‘Call Me By Your Name’ appeared first on /Film.
- 6/5/2019
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
You have to imagine that there’s nothing more daunting in the film industry than having your first film be so critically-acclaimed, that now everyone is anxiously awaiting your follow-up film, which they expect to be just as good, if not better. That’s exactly what director Sandi Tan has to deal with, as her 2018 doc “Shirkers” found itself with no shortage of positive reviews and awards. Now, with all that added pressure, apparently Tan has decided to tackle a narrative feature, titled “The Idiot.”
Based on the autobiographical novel by Elif Batuman, “The Idiot” tells the story of a young girl that falls in love with a classmate and begins to make a series of decisions that earns her the title namesake.
Based on the autobiographical novel by Elif Batuman, “The Idiot” tells the story of a young girl that falls in love with a classmate and begins to make a series of decisions that earns her the title namesake.
- 6/5/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Sandi Tan isn’t wasting any more time. After charming audiences with last year’s documentary gem and Indie Spirit nominee “Shirkers” — which chronicled the filmmaker’s wild early years making a film when she was just a plucky teen bouncing around Singapore, only for the entire thing to be stolen by her would-be mentor — Tan is lining up her next big feature, and it sounds like one heck of a clever fit.
In a new interview with The Cut, Tan shares her plans to tell another story about a smart woman waylaid by a devious man, as originally told in ways that seem, well, just a bit unfilmable. Tan will soon tackle her own version of Elif Batuman’s Pulitzer Prize finalist “The Idiot,” jumping to the narrative realm with her own screenplay, which she will direct for the big screen.
While “Shirkers” was about piecing together a years-old...
In a new interview with The Cut, Tan shares her plans to tell another story about a smart woman waylaid by a devious man, as originally told in ways that seem, well, just a bit unfilmable. Tan will soon tackle her own version of Elif Batuman’s Pulitzer Prize finalist “The Idiot,” jumping to the narrative realm with her own screenplay, which she will direct for the big screen.
While “Shirkers” was about piecing together a years-old...
- 6/4/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Winner of the Directing Award for World Cinema-Documentary in Sundance, “Shirkers” is a rather unusual, but quite captivating film about a kidnap, not of a person but of a film. Let us take things from the beginning though.
The film starts with Tan’s own story, from her birth in Singapore in 1972 to her growing up to be a cinephile and a writer of fanzines, along with another friend who shared similar, “unusual” for the country tastes, Jasmine Ng. The two of them eventually attended one of the first film classes in the country, headed by a rather mysterious individual, Georges Cardona. He quickly mesmerized the girls with his stories about Hollywood and his connections, and he had a particular deep impact on Tan, who even went on a road trip to the Us with him. A bit later, and with the help of Sophia Siddique, another classmate, the three...
The film starts with Tan’s own story, from her birth in Singapore in 1972 to her growing up to be a cinephile and a writer of fanzines, along with another friend who shared similar, “unusual” for the country tastes, Jasmine Ng. The two of them eventually attended one of the first film classes in the country, headed by a rather mysterious individual, Georges Cardona. He quickly mesmerized the girls with his stories about Hollywood and his connections, and he had a particular deep impact on Tan, who even went on a road trip to the Us with him. A bit later, and with the help of Sophia Siddique, another classmate, the three...
- 5/2/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Award winning film maker and Cultural Medallion recipient Eric Khoo who helms Zhao Wei Films has been credited for reviving the Singapore film industry and for putting Singapore onto the International film map in 1995. He was the first Singaporean to have his films invited to major film festivals such as Toronto, Busan, Berlin, Telluride, Venice and Cannes. Together with 12 Storeys’ co-writer James Toh and actress Lucilla Teoh, he also wrote a White Paper which resulted in the formation of the Singapore Film Commission. Khoo was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Letters, from the French Cultural Minister in 2008. Besides his filmmaking achievements, Khoo has produced several award winning films including 15 (2003) and Apprentice (2016).
Be With Me opened the Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2005 and My Magic his fourth feature was nominated for the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2008. Khoo has been profiled in Phaidon Books, Take 100 the future of Film – 100 New directors.
Be With Me opened the Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2005 and My Magic his fourth feature was nominated for the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2008. Khoo has been profiled in Phaidon Books, Take 100 the future of Film – 100 New directors.
- 4/7/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? We look back at the incredible launch year for Sandi Tan who began her festival win and year end accolades with the Directing Award World Cinema Documentary at Sundance and landing six nominations (and three wins) at the Cinema Eye Honors for Shirkers. We asked Sandi to identify the films with the mostest. She mentions deserving films such as The Magnificent Ambersons, Sunset Boulevard and Apocalypse Now (Redux), but in A to Z order, here are Tan’s top ten films as of March 2019.…...
- 3/25/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
It was a banner year for female filmmakers at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, as each of the four Grand Jury Prizes given to competition films — the festival’s highest honors, as voted on by individual juries — was directed or co-directed by a female filmmaker. But “Clemency” filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu broke down a new barrier: she’s the first black woman to win the the festival’s biggest prize, the Grand Jury Prize for her U.S. Dramatic entry. Chukwu both wrote and directed the death row drama, which stars Alfre Woodard as a prison warden struggling with the emotional demands of her job.
In IndieWire’s review, Eric Kohn wrote of the film, “Alfre Woodard embodies the extraordinary challenges of a woman tasked with sending men to their death, while bottling up her emotions so tight she looks as if she might blow. Writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s second feature maintains the quiet,...
In IndieWire’s review, Eric Kohn wrote of the film, “Alfre Woodard embodies the extraordinary challenges of a woman tasked with sending men to their death, while bottling up her emotions so tight she looks as if she might blow. Writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s second feature maintains the quiet,...
- 2/3/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Despite directing less than 40 percent of the feature films at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, female filmmakers made off with all of the fest’s big awards. Now, in the wake of another dismal awards season that saw some of its best talents shut out from its biggest accolades, can Sundance 2019 offer similar hope?
This year, Sundance has no shortage of women behind the camera, but these directors are also veering from the tired trope of A Woman’s Movie. “There’s serious drama, and there’s comedies, and there’s big films and little films, and we also some really great discoveries in our international section,” said senior programmer Caroline Libresco. “I think there’s a beautiful outpouring of work by women, and we want to support that, and we feel really privileged to be able to create a platform where that work can be seen.”
At the 2018 edition of the festival,...
This year, Sundance has no shortage of women behind the camera, but these directors are also veering from the tired trope of A Woman’s Movie. “There’s serious drama, and there’s comedies, and there’s big films and little films, and we also some really great discoveries in our international section,” said senior programmer Caroline Libresco. “I think there’s a beautiful outpouring of work by women, and we want to support that, and we feel really privileged to be able to create a platform where that work can be seen.”
At the 2018 edition of the festival,...
- 1/23/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Simon Lereng Wilmont on Oleg Afanasyev and his grandmother Alexandra Ryabichkina in The Distant Barking Of Dogs: "It has been a cinematic blessing to be let into Oleg and Alexandra's life from the very beginning." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Last Thursday night at the Cinema Eye Awards, Simon Lereng Wilmont, director/cinematographer of the Oscar-shortlisted The Distant Barking Of Dogs was presented with the Spotlight Prize by Bing Liu, Sandi Tan (who won with Lucas Celler in the Graphic Design or Animation for Shirkers), and RaMell Ross
Simon Lereng Wilmont with Oleg Afanasyev and his grandmother Alexandra Ryabichkina Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
I spoke with Simon about the score by Uno Helmersson (Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene) and Erik Enocksson (Paul Wright's For Those in Peril) with additional music by Karsten Fundal (Feras Fayyad and Steen Johannessen's Last Men In Aleppo), the sound design, editing with Michael Aaglund, the...
Last Thursday night at the Cinema Eye Awards, Simon Lereng Wilmont, director/cinematographer of the Oscar-shortlisted The Distant Barking Of Dogs was presented with the Spotlight Prize by Bing Liu, Sandi Tan (who won with Lucas Celler in the Graphic Design or Animation for Shirkers), and RaMell Ross
Simon Lereng Wilmont with Oleg Afanasyev and his grandmother Alexandra Ryabichkina Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
I spoke with Simon about the score by Uno Helmersson (Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene) and Erik Enocksson (Paul Wright's For Those in Peril) with additional music by Karsten Fundal (Feras Fayyad and Steen Johannessen's Last Men In Aleppo), the sound design, editing with Michael Aaglund, the...
- 1/14/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When legendary “Hoop Dreams” filmmaker Steve James retires from making award-winning documentaries, he could almost certainly fall back on a career in stand-up, or at least hit the circuit as an awards show host. James was in rare comedic form at the 12th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Awards, held Thursday night at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, his energy livening up a somewhat sober crowd. He missed no opportunity to mention his Oscar-nominated film from last year, “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” which lost out to Bryan Fogel’s similarly titled “Icarus.”
“‘Icarus’, ‘Abacus,’ ‘Icarus,’ ‘Abacus,’ and then they gave it to ‘Icarus,'” said James. “So I missed it by a few letters. And it really dawned on me as I was sitting there that most people thought they were voting for ‘Abacus’ when they voted for ‘Icarus.'”
Dad jokes aside, it was a winning...
“‘Icarus’, ‘Abacus,’ ‘Icarus,’ ‘Abacus,’ and then they gave it to ‘Icarus,'” said James. “So I missed it by a few letters. And it really dawned on me as I was sitting there that most people thought they were voting for ‘Abacus’ when they voted for ‘Icarus.'”
Dad jokes aside, it was a winning...
- 1/11/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Four of the 15 documentary features on the Oscars shortlist won awards at the 12th annual Cinema Eye Honors handed out on January 10 at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York. “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” won the top prize, Best Nonfiction Feature. RaMell Ross’ debut documentary feature delves into the lives of African Americans in rural Alabama.
Bing Liu won the Best Debut award for “Minding the Gap,” a film about friends in a skateboarding community, which also claimed the directing and editing awards. He matches the achievement of Yance Ford last year who also won three awards for his debut film, “Strong Island.” That film went on to to contend at the Oscars where it lost to “Icarus.”
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Free Solo,” which chronicles the attempt by Alex Holland to free climb El Capitan, prevailed in the production and cinematography races.
Bing Liu won the Best Debut award for “Minding the Gap,” a film about friends in a skateboarding community, which also claimed the directing and editing awards. He matches the achievement of Yance Ford last year who also won three awards for his debut film, “Strong Island.” That film went on to to contend at the Oscars where it lost to “Icarus.”
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Free Solo,” which chronicles the attempt by Alex Holland to free climb El Capitan, prevailed in the production and cinematography races.
- 1/11/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
‘Roma,’ Alfonso Cuaron‘s nostalgic ode to his ’70s childhood in Mexico City, won over the 84-member Alliance of Women Film Journalists — including me. The stunning black-and-white Netflix release pocketed five Eda wins: Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Non-English Film, Best Editing and Best Director. Coming in second were those cutthroat royals in “The Favourite” with four wins, including Olivia Colman as Best Actress.
The all-female group’s 12th annual competition once again salutes the best – and some of the worst – in the world of film with 25 categories in three sections. There are the general Best of Awards, Female Focus Awards and Eda Special Mention Awards whose nominees are picked by those Awfj members who send in a nominating ballot. There is room for the good, including Viola Davis of “Widows” receiving the “Actress Defying Age and Ageism Award,” and the bad, as in Jennifer Lawrence of “Red Sparrow,” who...
The all-female group’s 12th annual competition once again salutes the best – and some of the worst – in the world of film with 25 categories in three sections. There are the general Best of Awards, Female Focus Awards and Eda Special Mention Awards whose nominees are picked by those Awfj members who send in a nominating ballot. There is room for the good, including Viola Davis of “Widows” receiving the “Actress Defying Age and Ageism Award,” and the bad, as in Jennifer Lawrence of “Red Sparrow,” who...
- 1/11/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
RaMell Ross’ debut feature, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, an intimate and cinematic portrait of black lives in Alabama, took the top award tonight at the 12th annual Cinema Eye Honors, winning Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. It was the second Cinema Eye Feature Honor in a row for producer Joslyn Barnes, who also produced last year’s award winner, Strong Island.
The 12th Annual Cinema Eye Honors were presented at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York and were streamed live via the Museum of the Moving Image and Cinema Eye Honors Facebook pages. Filmmaker Steve James, a winner for Outstanding Series for America to Me, was the host.
The awards capped a week of events that brought together nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. Cinema Eye was founded in 2007 as a protest of that year’s existing awards which it claimed failed to recognize many of...
The 12th Annual Cinema Eye Honors were presented at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York and were streamed live via the Museum of the Moving Image and Cinema Eye Honors Facebook pages. Filmmaker Steve James, a winner for Outstanding Series for America to Me, was the host.
The awards capped a week of events that brought together nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. Cinema Eye was founded in 2007 as a protest of that year’s existing awards which it claimed failed to recognize many of...
- 1/11/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
RaMell Ross’s debut feature, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” took the top prize at the Cinema Eye Honors Thursday night in New York, winning outstanding nonfiction feature.
Bing Liu’s much-lauded skateboarding doc “Minding the Gap,” which tied the Cinema Eye record for most noms with seven, took home three trophies, including outstanding achievement in direction, editing, and debut. “Free Solo” also won three awards, with “Shirkers” nabbing two honors.
“Hale County’s” win marks the second for producer Joslyn Barnes, who also won last year for “Strong Island.” “Free Solo’s” three wins landed Jimmy Chin the title of most awarded individual in Cinema Eye history, with five awards including his two for 2015’s “Meru.”
See the full list of winners below.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Bing Liu, “Minding the Gap”
Outstanding Achievement...
Bing Liu’s much-lauded skateboarding doc “Minding the Gap,” which tied the Cinema Eye record for most noms with seven, took home three trophies, including outstanding achievement in direction, editing, and debut. “Free Solo” also won three awards, with “Shirkers” nabbing two honors.
“Hale County’s” win marks the second for producer Joslyn Barnes, who also won last year for “Strong Island.” “Free Solo’s” three wins landed Jimmy Chin the title of most awarded individual in Cinema Eye history, with five awards including his two for 2015’s “Meru.”
See the full list of winners below.
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Bing Liu, “Minding the Gap”
Outstanding Achievement...
- 1/11/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
RaMell Ross’ “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2018 at the 12th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which were presented on Thursday evening in New York City.
The film, an examination of a small town in the deep South that also delves into how African Americans are depicted in the media, won in the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking category over a slate of nominees that also included the Oscar-shortlisted documentaries “Minding the Gap,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” as well as “Bisbee ’17,” which did not make the Oscar short list.
The Audience Award, the only Cinema Eye category voted on by the public, went to “Free Solo.”
The Spotlight Award, designed to single out a film that has not yet received the attention it deserves, went to Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “The Distant Barking of Dogs,...
The film, an examination of a small town in the deep South that also delves into how African Americans are depicted in the media, won in the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking category over a slate of nominees that also included the Oscar-shortlisted documentaries “Minding the Gap,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” as well as “Bisbee ’17,” which did not make the Oscar short list.
The Audience Award, the only Cinema Eye category voted on by the public, went to “Free Solo.”
The Spotlight Award, designed to single out a film that has not yet received the attention it deserves, went to Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “The Distant Barking of Dogs,...
- 1/11/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
In Sandi Tan’s documentary “Shirkers,” her friends, Jasmine Ng and Sophia Siddique Harvey, are very direct in their criticisms about Tan, with Jasmine even calling her “an asshole” several times. But that didn’t bother Tan one bit: “It was the way we talked and that’s the nice stuff!” In our recent chat with her (watch the exclusive video above), Tan elaborates, “It was very important for me to capture that reality. If you’re making a documentary, it shouldn’t be airbrushed or the fake version of reality.” Part of what helped her get these honest reactions from her friends was her choice to hire Iris Ng, who’s very small, as her cinematographer. Iris’s small stature allowed her to “vanish behind the camera” and make the subjects of her interviews feel very relaxed in speaking to her.
“Shirkers,” which is currently streaming on Netflix, chronicles...
“Shirkers,” which is currently streaming on Netflix, chronicles...
- 1/7/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Four of the most successful documentaries of recent years remain in contention for a prize beyond box office glory—the kind that comes with an Oscar trophy.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Rbg, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo all made the Oscar documentary shortlist as the Academy culled the list of 166 eligible nonfiction films down to an exclusive 15.
Morgan Neville’s Neighbor, which explores the work of children’s television pioneer Fred Rogers, has become the top-grossing biographical documentary of all time with more than $22 million in earnings. Rbg, the film directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen that documents Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, started the box office gold rush earlier in the year, amassing just over $14 million.
Three Identical Strangers, Tim Wardle’s story of identical triplets who were separated as infants and reunited by accident as adults, has tallied $12.3 million. Free Solo, about mountain...
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Rbg, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo all made the Oscar documentary shortlist as the Academy culled the list of 166 eligible nonfiction films down to an exclusive 15.
Morgan Neville’s Neighbor, which explores the work of children’s television pioneer Fred Rogers, has become the top-grossing biographical documentary of all time with more than $22 million in earnings. Rbg, the film directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen that documents Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, started the box office gold rush earlier in the year, amassing just over $14 million.
Three Identical Strangers, Tim Wardle’s story of identical triplets who were separated as infants and reunited by accident as adults, has tallied $12.3 million. Free Solo, about mountain...
- 12/28/2018
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2018 we've published 70 interviews whose subjects have ranged from old masters to emerging new voices, and including some unexpected conversations, including those with curators (Dave Kehr of the Museum of Modern Art), as well as archival finds (a 1971 talk with Jerry Lewis).Below you will find an index of our conversations throughout the year, listed in order of publication date.Blake Williams (Prototype)Samira Elagoz (Craigslist Allstars)F.J. Ossang (9 Fingers)Jerry LewisAndré Gil Mata (The Tree)Christian Petzold (Transit)Raoul Peck (Young Karl Marx)Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf)Penelope SpheerisTed Fendt (Classical Period)Dominik Graf (The Red Shadow)Blake Williams ("Stereo Visions")Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael's Ghosts)Ruth Beckermann (The Waldheim Waltz)Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (Cocote)Esther GarrelPhilippe Garrel (Lover for a Day)Jonas MekasJohann Lurf (★)Karim Aïnouz (Central Airport Thf)Juliana Antunes (Baronesa)Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage)Wang Bing (Dead Souls)Donal Foreman...
- 12/27/2018
- MUBI
Exclusive: Cinema Eye Honors said that Eyes on the Prize, the landmark civil rights docuseries that first aired on public television in 1987, will receive the group’s 2019 Legacy Award. The honor will be bestowed January 10 during the 12th annual Cinema Eye Honors awards ceremony in New York.
“For me and so many others, Eyes on the Prize was a transformational cinematic experience, artfully crafting the history of a nation into an unforgettable story,” Cinema Eye board co-chair Dawn Porter said Thursday. “Countless filmmakers have been inspired by this elegant body of work.”
Created and by the late Henry Hampton’s Blackside, the 14-part Eyes on the Prize is considered the definitive documentary record of the American civil rights era, tracing the country’s long and brutal march toward equality and the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It aired in two parts, the first covering the years 1954–1965 and...
“For me and so many others, Eyes on the Prize was a transformational cinematic experience, artfully crafting the history of a nation into an unforgettable story,” Cinema Eye board co-chair Dawn Porter said Thursday. “Countless filmmakers have been inspired by this elegant body of work.”
Created and by the late Henry Hampton’s Blackside, the 14-part Eyes on the Prize is considered the definitive documentary record of the American civil rights era, tracing the country’s long and brutal march toward equality and the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It aired in two parts, the first covering the years 1954–1965 and...
- 12/20/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Poll conducted by the Bechdel Test Fest.
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here has emerged as the best film of 2018 in a poll of female film critics and commentators.
Conducted by female-centred film organisation Bechdel Test Fest, the poll surveyed 65 respondents from film programming groups and publications including Sight & Sound, Time Out, Birds Eye View and The Observer.
Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows came in second place, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in third.
Of the top 20 titles, six are directed by women - including Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation Of Cameron Post...
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here has emerged as the best film of 2018 in a poll of female film critics and commentators.
Conducted by female-centred film organisation Bechdel Test Fest, the poll surveyed 65 respondents from film programming groups and publications including Sight & Sound, Time Out, Birds Eye View and The Observer.
Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows came in second place, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in third.
Of the top 20 titles, six are directed by women - including Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation Of Cameron Post...
- 12/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Poll conducted by the Bechdel Test Fest.
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here has emerged as the best film of 2018 in a poll of UK female film critics and commentators.
Conducted by female-centred film organisation Bechdel Test Fest, the poll surveyed 65 respondents from film programming groups and publications including Sight & Sound, Time Out, Birds Eye View and The Observer.
Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows came in second place, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in third.
Of the top 20 titles, six are directed by women - including Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Desiree Akhavan’s...
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here has emerged as the best film of 2018 in a poll of UK female film critics and commentators.
Conducted by female-centred film organisation Bechdel Test Fest, the poll surveyed 65 respondents from film programming groups and publications including Sight & Sound, Time Out, Birds Eye View and The Observer.
Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows came in second place, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in third.
Of the top 20 titles, six are directed by women - including Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Desiree Akhavan’s...
- 12/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Morgan Neville, director of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and the Oscar-winning 20 Feet From Stardom Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The 91st Academy Awards Oscar Best Documentary shortlist has been announced.
Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Free Solo, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin; Marilyn Ness's Charm City; Anna Zamecka's Communion (Komunia); Stephen Maing's Crime + Punishment: Kimberly Reed's Dark Money; Simon Lereng Wilmont's The Distant Barking Of Dogs; RaMell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Bing Liu's Minding The Gap; Talal Derki's Of Fathers And Sons (Kinder Des Kalifats); Alexandria Bombach's On Her Shoulders; Julie Cohen and Betsy West's Rbg; Sandi Tan's Shirkers; Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo's The Silence Of Others (El Silencio De Otros); Tim Wardle's Three Identical Strangers; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, directed...
The 91st Academy Awards Oscar Best Documentary shortlist has been announced.
Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Free Solo, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin; Marilyn Ness's Charm City; Anna Zamecka's Communion (Komunia); Stephen Maing's Crime + Punishment: Kimberly Reed's Dark Money; Simon Lereng Wilmont's The Distant Barking Of Dogs; RaMell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Bing Liu's Minding The Gap; Talal Derki's Of Fathers And Sons (Kinder Des Kalifats); Alexandria Bombach's On Her Shoulders; Julie Cohen and Betsy West's Rbg; Sandi Tan's Shirkers; Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo's The Silence Of Others (El Silencio De Otros); Tim Wardle's Three Identical Strangers; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, directed...
- 12/17/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Last year, the Academy documentary branch had to grapple with a record 170 documentary feature submissions for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. This year, it wasn’t not so bad: only 166 were entered. The short list of 15 was announced December 17, along with eight others for the first time on a single date this year.
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. The early advantage went to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (Focus Features), “Rbg” (CNN/Magnolia), and “Three Identical Strangers” (CNN/Neon), as well as August/September openers including critically hailed “Dark Money” (PBS), “Crime + Punishment” and “Minding the Gap...
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. The early advantage went to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (Focus Features), “Rbg” (CNN/Magnolia), and “Three Identical Strangers” (CNN/Neon), as well as August/September openers including critically hailed “Dark Money” (PBS), “Crime + Punishment” and “Minding the Gap...
- 12/17/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Last year, the Academy documentary branch had to grapple with a record 170 documentary feature submissions for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. This year, it wasn’t not so bad: only 166 were entered. The short list of 15 was announced December 17, along with eight others for the first time on a single date this year.
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. The early advantage went to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (Focus Features), “Rbg” (CNN/Magnolia), and “Three Identical Strangers” (CNN/Neon), as well as September openers including critically hailed “Dark Money” (PBS), “Crime + Punishment (“Hulu”), and another...
All year, branch members have been getting lists of secure online screeners available to watch on the Academy website, increasing in volume. It’s a burden to watch them all, so the ones with the most attention move to the top of the much-watch list. The early advantage went to early box office hits that were made available in the summer such as “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (Focus Features), “Rbg” (CNN/Magnolia), and “Three Identical Strangers” (CNN/Neon), as well as September openers including critically hailed “Dark Money” (PBS), “Crime + Punishment (“Hulu”), and another...
- 12/17/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Documentaries managed to find an even broader audience this year, with streaming services like Netflix and Hulu doubling down on non-fiction, both as producers and distributors of new unscripted films and TV shows. But whether they screened in theaters, at home or at film festivals, these documentaries were the best of the best:
10. “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”: Matt Tyrnauer’s portrait of legendary Tinseltown “procurer” Scotty Bowers had plenty of vintage show-biz dish, but it also raised interesting questions about who decides when and how Lgbtq history is “appropriate” to share with the masses.
9. “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”: Equal parts visual poem and ethnographic documentary, RaMell Ross’ debut film examines a handful of residents of the titular Alabama county as his camera turns quotidian moments into something breathtaking and magical.
8. “Bathtubs Over Broadway”: Besides providing a fascinating glimpse into the industrial musical...
10. “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”: Matt Tyrnauer’s portrait of legendary Tinseltown “procurer” Scotty Bowers had plenty of vintage show-biz dish, but it also raised interesting questions about who decides when and how Lgbtq history is “appropriate” to share with the masses.
9. “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”: Equal parts visual poem and ethnographic documentary, RaMell Ross’ debut film examines a handful of residents of the titular Alabama county as his camera turns quotidian moments into something breathtaking and magical.
8. “Bathtubs Over Broadway”: Besides providing a fascinating glimpse into the industrial musical...
- 12/13/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
There’s still a few weeks left to go until 2018 concludes, but it feels like the deluge of critics and guilds lists are already upon us. With so many arriving, it can be hard to snuff out the cream of the crop but today brings one worth paying attention to, from Sight & Sound, the BFI’s international film magazine.
With over 160 critics, programmers and academics polled from around the world, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma topped the list. Considering its home base of the U.K., it’s no surprise to see Phantom Thread coming in second, while a trio of 2019 U.S. releases made the cut, as did an undistributed film: Mariano Llinás’ La Flor.
Check out the list below and see more on their site.
1. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
4. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
5. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
6. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik...
With over 160 critics, programmers and academics polled from around the world, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma topped the list. Considering its home base of the U.K., it’s no surprise to see Phantom Thread coming in second, while a trio of 2019 U.S. releases made the cut, as did an undistributed film: Mariano Llinás’ La Flor.
Check out the list below and see more on their site.
1. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
4. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
5. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
6. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik...
- 12/11/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
1. Eight Hours Don’t Make a DayI don’t know for sure how much my love of this poster is tied up with my love of this film (a seven-hour 1972 German miniseries directed by R.W. Fassbinder that had never before been shown in the U.S.), except that I liked it an awful lot before I watched it (when I wrote about it back in March), and loved it even more after I’d seen it. Impeccably illustrated by British artist Sam Hadley in a wonderful pastiche of '70s advertising art, I’d say that in its unusually upbeat portrayal of a group of actors who we expect to look glum, that it’s the poster we need right now.2. ShopliftersWinner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s slow-burning family drama Shoplifters was released by Magnolia in the U.S.
- 12/7/2018
- MUBI
By Glenn Dunks
Apologies once again for the recent absense, but working 12-to-15-hour days in an office somewhat curb one's ability to sit down and write reviews. However, we're returning to regularly scheduled programming with one of the best documentaries of the year.
Documentaries about moviemaking aren’t uncommon. We see several released each year, usually offering creative insight and historical context to works of art both great and terrible – and in the case of those like American Movie even surpassing the reputation of the movie they’re about. Documentaries about failed movies are less common, although no less fascinating and often allow their subject to attain something of a mythical status. The latest addition to this sub-genre of non-fiction is Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, a thrillingly assembled combination of cinematic mystery, sombre tribute, and aching paean to lost potential.
“Shirkers” is not only the name of the documentary,...
Apologies once again for the recent absense, but working 12-to-15-hour days in an office somewhat curb one's ability to sit down and write reviews. However, we're returning to regularly scheduled programming with one of the best documentaries of the year.
Documentaries about moviemaking aren’t uncommon. We see several released each year, usually offering creative insight and historical context to works of art both great and terrible – and in the case of those like American Movie even surpassing the reputation of the movie they’re about. Documentaries about failed movies are less common, although no less fascinating and often allow their subject to attain something of a mythical status. The latest addition to this sub-genre of non-fiction is Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, a thrillingly assembled combination of cinematic mystery, sombre tribute, and aching paean to lost potential.
“Shirkers” is not only the name of the documentary,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
There’s a reason why you may not have heard of filmmaker and novelist Sandi Tan until this year, upon the release of her brilliant Netflix documentary “Shirkers.” In 1992, Tan and her friends Jasmine Kin Kia Ng and Sophia Siddique Harvey sought out to make an experimental, surrealistic, art house film titled “Shirkers,” with their film teacher, mentor, and friend Georges Cardona.
Continue reading ‘Shirkers’: Sandi Tan Talks Her Brilliant New Doc And Her Love Of Tim Burton & Leos Carax [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Shirkers’: Sandi Tan Talks Her Brilliant New Doc And Her Love Of Tim Burton & Leos Carax [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 11/29/2018
- by Alex Arabian
- The Playlist
For the third year in a row, New York-based distributor A24 led at the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations counting a total 12 noms versus last year’s 17. A24’s nom count this year doubled up on Amazon Studios, Netflix and The Orchard which all tied for six. Annapurna Pictures followed with five noms: Three for Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk (best feature, director, and supporting female Regina King and two for their Boots Riley Sundance pick-up Sorry to Bother You (five).
A24 scored four noms a piece for Eighth Grade and First Reformed, two for Hereditary, and then a nom each for Mid90s and Never Goin’ Back.
Meanwhile, The Orchard’s We The Animals from director Jeremiah Zager counted the most for any feature with a total of five including best editing, best cinematography, best first feature, Someone to Watch award, and best supporting male. The pic,...
A24 scored four noms a piece for Eighth Grade and First Reformed, two for Hereditary, and then a nom each for Mid90s and Never Goin’ Back.
Meanwhile, The Orchard’s We The Animals from director Jeremiah Zager counted the most for any feature with a total of five including best editing, best cinematography, best first feature, Someone to Watch award, and best supporting male. The pic,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Every good horror story needs a monster, a specter out of nightmares.
In the movie Shirkers the monster is a thief of dreams, robbing the young of their innocence—a scenario all the more disturbing because this horror story is real.
Sandi Tan is both director and protagonist of the Netflix documentary, which retraces her experience as a precocious teenager in Singapore in the early 1990s. At age 18, Tan embarked on making an ambitious feature film starring herself as a young assassin, a remarkably bold undertaking especially in a conservative place with no cinematic tradition. She enlisted two close friends, Jasmine Ng and Sophia Siddique, to help her on the slasher film, which she titled Shirkers.
“We shot it—on 16mm film donated by Kodak,” Tan has written. “100 locations, 100 actors, including the largest dog in the country.”
The person behind the camera was not a fellow teenager but an adult,...
In the movie Shirkers the monster is a thief of dreams, robbing the young of their innocence—a scenario all the more disturbing because this horror story is real.
Sandi Tan is both director and protagonist of the Netflix documentary, which retraces her experience as a precocious teenager in Singapore in the early 1990s. At age 18, Tan embarked on making an ambitious feature film starring herself as a young assassin, a remarkably bold undertaking especially in a conservative place with no cinematic tradition. She enlisted two close friends, Jasmine Ng and Sophia Siddique, to help her on the slasher film, which she titled Shirkers.
“We shot it—on 16mm film donated by Kodak,” Tan has written. “100 locations, 100 actors, including the largest dog in the country.”
The person behind the camera was not a fellow teenager but an adult,...
- 11/15/2018
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
In 1992, Sandi Tan was a zine-publishing punk teen living on the buttoned-up island of Singapore when she and her best friends — Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique — shot one of the nation's first indie features, Shirkers, about a teenage assassin named S. (played by Tan). The trio conscripted their charismatic film teacher, Georges Cardona, to direct, and after shooting wrapped they left the cans of 16mm film with him and returned to their colleges abroad. That was the last any of them would see of him or the film for over two decades.
Cardona became a ghost, leaving ...
Cardona became a ghost, leaving ...
- 11/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1992, Sandi Tan was a zine-publishing punk teen living on the buttoned-up island of Singapore when she and her best friends — Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique — shot one of the nation's first indie features, Shirkers, about a teenage assassin named S. (played by Tan). The trio conscripted their charismatic film teacher, Georges Cardona, to direct, and after shooting wrapped they left the cans of 16mm film with him and returned to their colleges abroad. That was the last any of them would see of him or the film for over two decades.
Cardona became a ghost, leaving ...
Cardona became a ghost, leaving ...
- 11/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The non-fiction-centric awards body Cinema Eye Honors announced its nominees for 2018, ranging over 10 categories, such as directing, production, cinematography and, of course, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. Among the biggest recipients is Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap, which raked up a total of seven nominations — the most of any title this year. Others with multiple nominees include Robert Greene’s Bisbee ’17, RaMell Ross’ Hale County This Morning, This Evening and Sandi Tan’s Shirkers. The winners will be announced at the 2019 Honors Awards Ceremony on January 10, 2019, which will be held at the Museum of […]...
- 11/9/2018
- by Matt Prigge
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The non-fiction-centric awards body Cinema Eye Honors announced its nominees for 2018, ranging over 10 categories, such as directing, production, cinematography and, of course, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. Among the biggest recipients is Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap, which raked up a total of seven nominations — the most of any title this year. Others with multiple nominees include Robert Greene’s Bisbee ’17, RaMell Ross’ Hale County This Morning, This Evening and Sandi Tan’s Shirkers. The winners will be announced at the 2019 Honors Awards Ceremony on January 10, 2019, which will be held at the Museum of […]...
- 11/9/2018
- by Matt Prigge
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Cinema Eye Honors, which annually presents awards to “celebrate outstanding artistry and craft in nonfiction film,” has revealed its nominees in 10 categories, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Nonfiction Short. Multiple nominees include Robert Greene’s ”Bisbee ‘17,” Sandi Tan’s “Shirkers,” and RaMell Ross’ ”Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” with five nods each. While Greene is a Cinema Eye Honors vet, both Tan and Ross are first-time filmmakers.
Another first-time filmmaker on the rise: Bing Liu, whose autobiographical skateboarding doc “Minding the Gap,” leads the nominees with a total of seven nominations. That’s good enough to put the newbie filmmaker into rarefied territory, tying his film with lauded documentaries like Louie Psihoyos’ ”The Cove,” Lixin Fan’s ”Last Train Home,” and Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir” for most Cinema Eye Honors nods ever. As Liu is a named nominee for six of those awards, he’s...
Another first-time filmmaker on the rise: Bing Liu, whose autobiographical skateboarding doc “Minding the Gap,” leads the nominees with a total of seven nominations. That’s good enough to put the newbie filmmaker into rarefied territory, tying his film with lauded documentaries like Louie Psihoyos’ ”The Cove,” Lixin Fan’s ”Last Train Home,” and Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir” for most Cinema Eye Honors nods ever. As Liu is a named nominee for six of those awards, he’s...
- 11/8/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Bing Liu’s “Minding the Gap,” an look at small-town American life through the lens of a group of skateboarder friends, led the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors nominations for nonfiction filmmaking Thursday.
The film, a Hulu original documentary, landed seven bids, for direction, editing, cinematography, original score, debut feature and the audience award, in addition to outstanding achievement in nonfiction feature filmmaking, the organization’s top prize. It was also mentioned in the “Unforgettables” sidebar honoring the subjects of many of this year’s documentaries.
The seven-nomination haul was enough to match Cinema Eye’s record, held by Louie Psihoyos’ “The Cove,” Lixin Fan’s “Last Train Home” and Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir.”
The other nominees for outstanding achievement in nonfiction feature filmmaking were “Bisbee ’17” (five nominations), “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” (five nominations), “Of Fathers and Sons” (three nominations), “Three Identical Strangers” (three nominations) and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
The film, a Hulu original documentary, landed seven bids, for direction, editing, cinematography, original score, debut feature and the audience award, in addition to outstanding achievement in nonfiction feature filmmaking, the organization’s top prize. It was also mentioned in the “Unforgettables” sidebar honoring the subjects of many of this year’s documentaries.
The seven-nomination haul was enough to match Cinema Eye’s record, held by Louie Psihoyos’ “The Cove,” Lixin Fan’s “Last Train Home” and Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir.”
The other nominees for outstanding achievement in nonfiction feature filmmaking were “Bisbee ’17” (five nominations), “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” (five nominations), “Of Fathers and Sons” (three nominations), “Three Identical Strangers” (three nominations) and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
- 11/8/2018
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
“Minding the Gap,” a documentary that mixes stories of skateboarding teens with a dark family story, led all films in nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, one of the top awards devoted to all facets of nonfiction filmmaking.
Bing Liu’s highly personal film tied a Cinema Eye record by receiving seven nominations overall, one in a previously announced category and six in the 10 categories that Cinema Eye announced on Thursday. Those included nominations for directing, editing, cinematography and music, as well as one in the marquee category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.
Other nominees in that category were Robert Greene’s “Bisbee ’17,” RaMell Ross’ “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” Talal Derki’s “Of Fathers and Son,” Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” and the 12th highest-grossing documentary of all time, Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Also Read: 'Minding the Gap' Film Review: Powerful...
Bing Liu’s highly personal film tied a Cinema Eye record by receiving seven nominations overall, one in a previously announced category and six in the 10 categories that Cinema Eye announced on Thursday. Those included nominations for directing, editing, cinematography and music, as well as one in the marquee category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.
Other nominees in that category were Robert Greene’s “Bisbee ’17,” RaMell Ross’ “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” Talal Derki’s “Of Fathers and Son,” Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” and the 12th highest-grossing documentary of all time, Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
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- 11/8/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
In 1992 Sandi Tan was a teenager in Singapore with a passion for film. She set out with her friends to make the country’s first indie road movie, “Shirkers,” with the help of an American mentor, Georges Cardona. Tan wrote the script and played the lead, a killer known simply as S., in what was to be a homage to the iconoclastic directors she adored. But when Cardona vanished with the footage, it stalled her career. The 16mm cans were rediscovered 20 years later, and Tan decided to make a documentary about the experience to try to “solve the mystery of what happened.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Tan above.
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Growing up in Singapore, Tan didn’t have easy access to the kinds of films she wanted to watch, oddball indies from Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, and the Coen Brothers.
See 2018 Gotham Awards: Full list of nominations led by ‘The Favourite,’ ‘First Reformed’
Growing up in Singapore, Tan didn’t have easy access to the kinds of films she wanted to watch, oddball indies from Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, and the Coen Brothers.
- 11/2/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
"How could it have disappeared?" Holy moley this film is amazing!! I'm stunned. Sandi Tan's documentary Shirkers is one of the best documentaries of the year. Hands down, no question. All of the ingenuity. The honesty. The cats. The ghost story. The footage. The creativity. Just phenomenal. I seriously got the chills and was tearing up by the end. It's such a beautiful, breathtaking, refreshing film. It's so uniquely creative in the way it's structured, and is also complex in handling all the aspects of past and present. But Sandi has it all in her mind and she spent years putting it together and it's pretty much perfect. It's a total film nerd film in so many ways. It's invigorating, infuriating, fascinating, and inspiring. I loved every last second of it. Like most great films, it's very hard to describe Shirkers. Made by Sandi ...
- 10/28/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Free Solo,” “Quincy,” “Minding the Gap,” “Rbg,” “Three identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” are among the films nominated for the Audience Choice Prize at the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors, an awards show devoted to all facts of nonfiction filmmaking.
“Bathtubs Over Broadway,” “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,” “On Her Shoulders” and “Shirkers” were also nominated in the Audience Choice category, which can be voted on by members of the public at the Cinema Eye website.
The bulk of the Cinema Eye Honors nominees will be announced on Thursday, Nov. 8, and the winners will be announced on Thursday, Jan. 10 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.
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In the Broadcast Film category, the nominees were four docs from HBO – “Baltimore Rising,” “Believer,” “The Final Year” and...
“Bathtubs Over Broadway,” “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,” “On Her Shoulders” and “Shirkers” were also nominated in the Audience Choice category, which can be voted on by members of the public at the Cinema Eye website.
The bulk of the Cinema Eye Honors nominees will be announced on Thursday, Nov. 8, and the winners will be announced on Thursday, Jan. 10 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.
Also Read: 'Free Solo,' 'Minding the Gap,' 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' Land Ida Documentary Nominations
In the Broadcast Film category, the nominees were four docs from HBO – “Baltimore Rising,” “Believer,” “The Final Year” and...
- 10/25/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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