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On the IDA Documentary Awards' 25th Anniversary
IDA/ABCNews VideoSource Award Wounded KneeDirector/Producer: Stanley NelsonCo-Producer: Julianna BrannumExecutive Producers: Sharon Grimberg, Mark SamelsCinematographers: Stephen McCarthy, Michael Chin, Allen Moore, Eddie MaritzWriter: Marcia SmithEditors: Aljernon Tunsil, Lillian Benson, Lawrence LerewComposer: John KusiakFirelight Media; American Experience; WGBH; Native American Public Television On the night of February 27, 1973, 54 cars rolled into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists had
Amicus Brief Filed on Behalf of Documentary Community in Lee Story/'Smile 'Til It Hurts' Case
'Page One: Inside The New York Times' opens June 17 through Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media.
The late philosopher/deconstructionist Jacques Derrida once referred to the animal species as the "ends of man...an existence that refuses to be conceptualized." But this has never stopped human beings from trying to eliminate the boundary between them and the animal kingdom. Leave it to Werner Herzog to blow the lid off films exploring this phenomenon. His 2005 documentary Grizzly Man told the story of Timothy Treadwell, the self-proclaimed bear expert who spent 13 years living with grizzlies in Alaska, only to be killed by one. Consistent with his longtime fascination with characters whose
A girl stands in a desert landscape, swirling a hula hoop easily round her slender hips, intent on the Rubik's cube she swivels round and round, trying to solve the puzzle: One of the many images that comprise Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day, the opening film of DocAviv, the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an image that might well describe the festival itself: intense, full of energy and curiosity, trying to do everything at once and, amazingly, succeeding, thriving in a hot and often harsh climate. The festival was founded in 1999 by documentary filmmaker Ilana Tsur, who
Although the 2011 Cannes Film Festival was one of the most interesting, engaging and enjoyable editions in recent memory, there was only one documentary in the Official Selection (Out of Competition): The Big Fix, from husband-and-wife team Josh and Rebecca Tickell, examines circumstances surrounding the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig-what scientists in the film call "the biggest cover-up in US history and the most devastating environmental catastrophe in human history." Stories told by local fisherman and their families damaged not only by the loss of livelihood
'Battle for Brooklyn' opens June 17 at the Cinema Village in New York City.
On a flight to Montana, I sit next to a 30-something man with crew cut, tattoos and work boots. "Going home to Missoula?" he asks. "No," I answer. "And you?" "Yeah, I was just in Salt Lake for a surgical equipment convention showin' how to use these C arms I'm makin'...."So why Missoula?" he asks. "A film festival," I tell him, assured this would end the conversation. The man smiles with excitement. "Is this week of the Wildlife Film Festival? I almost forgot! I'll have to go to some of that.” First impressions say a lot. This is not just another film festival; it’s an event the community is