Over the past couple of weeks, we at IDA have been introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work has been represented in the DocuWeek TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 18-24. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films-the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far. So, to conclude this series of conversations, here are Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, directors/producers of The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Synopsis: North Carolina, 1984. A brutal murder leaves a white woman dead, and a young black
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Passes are now on sale for this all-day event, taking place on February 25, 2012.
Museums have become a key part of the exhibition strategy for nature and science documentaries, with institutions using 3-D, IMAX and HD theaters to lure patrons in for a visit. However, museums also provide a wonderful work opportunity for filmmakers who create the multi-media pieces that are part of large traveling exhibitions. Filmmaker Maggie Burnette Stogner of Blue Bear Films just produced four short documentaries that are currently being featured within the new, worldwide traveling exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology. The project is a joint partnership between
A conversation with documentary directors on the art of the interview.
Walking toward the new IFC Center in the West Village, I passed the site of the old Bleecker Street Cinema, one of the mainstays of independent exhibition that closed in 1990 after 30 years in operation. It reminded me of the days when one felt like part of a club that met in a member's oversized, shabby living room. In contrast, the IFC Center is a plush, highly designed, velvet-and-brick womb, with high-end projection ranging from 35mm to HD Digital. It is the latest entry in a landscape of increased and improved exhibition for independent film in Manhattan below 14th Street. While Uptown
Best Feature Award winner 'Nostalgia for the Light' on how filmmaking is like jazz.
After a night filled with moving speeches, worthy honored guests, delicious food and drink, and a couple of laughs, we reflect on the ceremony and the past year in non-fiction filmmaking.
From Jerome Hill's Film Portrait It's the 1960s and I'm sitting in Professor Haig Manoogian's advanced film production class at NYU. We're awaiting guest lecturer Jerome Hill. I'm excited because Haig has told us that Hill won an Oscar for his documentary on Albert Schweitzer and also made an innovative film about the painter Grandma Moses. Unlike my fellow classmate, Marty Scorsese, I'm not dreaming of going to Hollywood. I'm hoping to become a documentary filmmaker. Cinema vérité is just beginning to rattle the aesthetic of documentaries, and I'm all for shaky hand-held camerawork and
Over the next couple of weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work will be represented in the DocuWeek TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 18-24. We asked the filmmakers to share the stories behind their films--the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles, the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far. So, to continue this series of conversations, here is James Longley, director/producer of Iraq in Fragments. Synopsis: Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in
We welcome Homegirl Café as caterers of this year's IDA Documentary Awards.