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A review of Jon Reiss' 'Think Outside the Box Office'
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 17-23. 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 AJ Schnack, director of Kurt Cobain About a Son. Synopsis: Kurt Cobain About A Son is an intimate and moving portrait of the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain told entirely in
From João Moreira Salles' Santiago The 14th annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, held in Toronto from April 19 to 29, boasted a 33 percent audience increase over the 2006 edition. Over 68,000 people attended 129 documentaries representing 25 countries. The number of industry guests also rose, from 1,800 to close to 2,000. Docs in Schools, a program that brings filmmakers and their work to grade schoolers, doubled in size, reaching 15,000 students. The growth since last year is astonishing enough, but the festival still feels entirely organized and accessible. In
Also: 'Sarah Palin’s Alaska,' 'The Chimpcam Project'
Asger Leth's Ghosts of CitéSoleil, which opens in theaters on June 27 through THINKFilm, follows the stories of two brothers, 2Pac and Bily, both leaders of then Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's sinister armed gangs called chimres, or "ghosts." Leth, who has directed many shorts, commercials and music videos, is the son of distinguished Danish director Jørgen Leth, who, as teacher at the National Film School of Denmark, counted among his students Lars von Trier and his comrades in the Dogme 95 school. Leth senior has lived in Haiti since 1991 and introduced his son to the
A selection of films from DOCNZ festival 2006 printed onto canvas Okay, enough already with the sheep jokes. Yes, it is true--in New Zealand there really are more sheep than people. Recently, a couple of enterprising local filmmakers decided to take the joke one step further and made Black Sheep, a horror movie about killer sheep that go on a murderous rampage. The film became an instant hit and has scored legions of fans around the world. While New Zealand fiction filmmakers look inward for inspiration, buoyed by the international success of such films as Whale Rider and The Piano
A friend of mine once said that America's symbol, the eagle, is a fierce creature with razor-sharp claws, a ferocious beak and a giant wingspan that allows the eagle to soar high and swoop down on its prey. Yet the brain that controls this awesome power is no bigger than a pea. It's not hard to see how this disproportion of brain and brawn in America's symbol manifests itself in the George W. Bush White House. While Karl Rove has been called "Bush's Brain," the rest of the team has earned a reputation for incompetence that rivals Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Unlike those benign bunglers, the
Over the next week, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work will be represented in the DocuWeek TM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 17-23. 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 are Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, directors of Nanking . Synopsis: A powerful reminder of the heartbreaking toll war takes on the innocent, Nanking tells the story of the Japanese invasion of