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While appearing on Larry King Live, the now famously "Kanye'd" Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary Short Subject, Roger Ross Williams got another shot at delivering his acceptance speech. See it
Above Photo: Matt Petit/(c) AMPAS
Academy Award-winner Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk; Common Threads) opened the DOCS! event at the Academy's Goldwyn Theater Wednesday night by thanking the IDA for hosting the Oscar nominees in the doc categories for the past 27 years. And with that, the torch was passed to its rightful owner.
According to IDA Founder Linda Buzzell, in a piece she wrote for Documentary Magazine on the occasio...
OK, we've heard all about the Oscars and the Independent Spirit Awards, but the world did keep spinning last week, and a fairly significant number of kudos rolled in from outside of LA--from Ireland, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Switzerland and New Zealand. And from the Bay Area, where San Jose-based Cinequest had the temerity to program its 20th edition this past week. In add...
Culminating an awards-laden year that began with the Audience Award at Sundance 2009, The Cove, directed by Louis Psihoyos and produced by Fisher Stevens and Paula DePre Pesman, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Stevens accepted the honor we tried to make an entertaining film that also tried to enlighten everybody. Rick O'Barry whose not only a hero to this species but to all species. And just as Stevens introduced Psihoyos as "the man who came up with the idea," Ri...
• "Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master"
(w/ Beryl Korot, Blondell Cummings, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Bill Viola, the Videofreex, and many others)
• "Interviews with Interviewers about interviewing"
(w/ Studs Terkel, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Susan Stamberg, NYPD Detective Sean Grennan, Psychiatrist Joel Kovel)
• "Pick Up Your Feet: the Double Dutch Show"
(documentary video classic)
• "Cookie Girl in the Hot Zone"
(she bakes and serves cookies to the rescue workers leaving the Twin Towers cleanup)
• and many others.
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The two films which screened at the three-day, multi-city event focused on individuals who stood up for what they believed in, even if it meant facing off against a larger and seemingly-insurmountable foe. (See pictures from the night here and
In a journey that began at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival with lots of acclaim but no distribution offers, the story of Anvil! The Story of Anvil reached a rousing crescendo last night with an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, capping an Awards Season that garnered a bevy of kudos, including an IDA Award in December.
"I think we're both going on, having spent these incredible few years together on this amazing journey," director Sacha Gervasi exclaimed b...
