Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine, starring David Oyelowo, also among selection.
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) has unveiled the 15 projects selected for the 12th annual Tribeca All Access (Taa) programme.
The programme supports film-makers from statistically underrepresented communities and will grant support for each of the projects, as well as offer year-round support, guidance and resources to help the film-makers complete them.
Taa film-makers are also welcomed into the Taa Alumni programme which supports their present and future work. This year will see Taa and Taa Alumni award a total of $200,000 in grant money.
The projects include Haifaa Al Mansour’s Be Safe I Love You and Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine, starring David Oyelowo.
Alongside the Taa programme, Tfi has also selected two members of the Lgbt film-making community as special fellows to attend its annual market during Tribeca Film Festival: writer/director Ingrid Jungermann for Women Who Kill and writer/director [link=nm...
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) has unveiled the 15 projects selected for the 12th annual Tribeca All Access (Taa) programme.
The programme supports film-makers from statistically underrepresented communities and will grant support for each of the projects, as well as offer year-round support, guidance and resources to help the film-makers complete them.
Taa film-makers are also welcomed into the Taa Alumni programme which supports their present and future work. This year will see Taa and Taa Alumni award a total of $200,000 in grant money.
The projects include Haifaa Al Mansour’s Be Safe I Love You and Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine, starring David Oyelowo.
Alongside the Taa programme, Tfi has also selected two members of the Lgbt film-making community as special fellows to attend its annual market during Tribeca Film Festival: writer/director Ingrid Jungermann for Women Who Kill and writer/director [link=nm...
- 3/19/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Looking for a must-see list of great gay documentaries? We've got you covered. We recently asked our readers to nominate up to five of their favorite documentary films via write-in vote. Thousands responded and we tabulated the results to bring you the top 25 here. All of these films are definitely worth a look and to help you learn more about titles you might not be familiar with, we've included trailers, links to reviews, official film websites and more. Plus, for three of the titles we've even embedded the full movie thanks to the Logo Docs library.
So here they are, the 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries. Which ones have you already seen? Which ones do you need to see?
25. Saint of 9/11
Summary: Sir Ian McKellen narrates this inspiring portrait of Father Mychal Judge, a New York City Fire Department Chaplain who wrestled with his sexuality, his genuine dedication to life as a priest,...
So here they are, the 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries. Which ones have you already seen? Which ones do you need to see?
25. Saint of 9/11
Summary: Sir Ian McKellen narrates this inspiring portrait of Father Mychal Judge, a New York City Fire Department Chaplain who wrestled with his sexuality, his genuine dedication to life as a priest,...
- 9/10/2012
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
Dada Films Brother Joseph Bryon and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in “The Last Mountain”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lends his voice to the movement against mountaintop removal in “The Last Mountain,” a film about Appalachia’s last mountain range untouched by mountaintop removal, Coal River. While the coal industry intends to mine the mountain for coal, surrounding residents and those opposing mountaintop removal have congregated in West Virgina to halt the process before it begins. Directed by Bill Haney, the...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lends his voice to the movement against mountaintop removal in “The Last Mountain,” a film about Appalachia’s last mountain range untouched by mountaintop removal, Coal River. While the coal industry intends to mine the mountain for coal, surrounding residents and those opposing mountaintop removal have congregated in West Virgina to halt the process before it begins. Directed by Bill Haney, the...
- 6/4/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(May 2011)
Directed by: Bill Haney
Written by: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes
Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe, Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Bill Raney, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Ed Wiley, Chuck Nelson and Don Blankenship
Director Bill Haney’s trenchant, impassioned documentary “The Last Mountain” chronicles a David and Goliath-like confrontation in Appalachia’s Coal River Valley precipitated by the 2000 election of President Bush. Since then, Coal River Valley has been ground zero in the battle between ordinary West Virginia citizens and the rapacious ploys of Massey Energy, the nation’s third-largest coal-mining corporation.
The documentary examines how, after the Bush administration altered the wording in the Clean Water Act, Massey Energy proceeded with a campaign to dynamite and raze the ecologically fragile Appalachian ranges for the extraction of coal. Over the ensuing decade, the company racked up 60,000 health and environmental violations.
(May 2011)
Directed by: Bill Haney
Written by: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes
Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe, Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Bill Raney, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Ed Wiley, Chuck Nelson and Don Blankenship
Director Bill Haney’s trenchant, impassioned documentary “The Last Mountain” chronicles a David and Goliath-like confrontation in Appalachia’s Coal River Valley precipitated by the 2000 election of President Bush. Since then, Coal River Valley has been ground zero in the battle between ordinary West Virginia citizens and the rapacious ploys of Massey Energy, the nation’s third-largest coal-mining corporation.
The documentary examines how, after the Bush administration altered the wording in the Clean Water Act, Massey Energy proceeded with a campaign to dynamite and raze the ecologically fragile Appalachian ranges for the extraction of coal. Over the ensuing decade, the company racked up 60,000 health and environmental violations.
- 5/31/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(May 2011)
Directed by: Bill Haney
Written by: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes
Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe, Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Bill Raney, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Ed Wiley, Chuck Nelson and Don Blankenship
Director Bill Haney’s trenchant, impassioned documentary “The Last Mountain” chronicles a David and Goliath-like confrontation in Appalachia’s Coal River Valley precipitated by the 2000 election of President Bush. Since then, Coal River Valley has been ground zero in the battle between ordinary West Virginia citizens and the rapacious ploys of Massey Energy, the nation’s third-largest coal-mining corporation.
The documentary examines how, after the Bush administration altered the wording in the Clean Water Act, Massey Energy proceeded with a campaign to dynamite and raze the ecologically fragile Appalachian ranges for the extraction of coal. Over the ensuing decade, the company racked up 60,000 health and environmental violations.
(May 2011)
Directed by: Bill Haney
Written by: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes
Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe, Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Bill Raney, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Ed Wiley, Chuck Nelson and Don Blankenship
Director Bill Haney’s trenchant, impassioned documentary “The Last Mountain” chronicles a David and Goliath-like confrontation in Appalachia’s Coal River Valley precipitated by the 2000 election of President Bush. Since then, Coal River Valley has been ground zero in the battle between ordinary West Virginia citizens and the rapacious ploys of Massey Energy, the nation’s third-largest coal-mining corporation.
The documentary examines how, after the Bush administration altered the wording in the Clean Water Act, Massey Energy proceeded with a campaign to dynamite and raze the ecologically fragile Appalachian ranges for the extraction of coal. Over the ensuing decade, the company racked up 60,000 health and environmental violations.
- 5/31/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Joseph Lovett’s "Going Blind," a documentary about coping with vision loss, will launch its theatrical run on Oct. 8 at New York City's Quad Cinema, where it will run through World Sight Day, Oct. 14.
The film was written and directed by Lovett and produced by Lovett and Hilary Klotz Steinman.
Major supporters of "Going Blind" include The National Eye Institute (USA), Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, Pfizer Ophthalmics, The Allergan Foundation, Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, and The Gibney Family Foundation.
The film was written and directed by Lovett and produced by Lovett and Hilary Klotz Steinman.
Major supporters of "Going Blind" include The National Eye Institute (USA), Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, Pfizer Ophthalmics, The Allergan Foundation, Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, and The Gibney Family Foundation.
- 8/18/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- The subject is out of focus in "Here's Looking at You, Boy," a documentary about the emergence of gay cinema. Director Andre Schafer mixes talking heads with clips from highly selective movies of the 1970s onward without a clear agenda or point of view. Consequently, the less-than-incisive doc will be limited to gay film festivals and the DVD market.
Schafer admits he took pains to avoid territory already covered in the 1995 classic "The Celluloid Closet" and last year's "Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema." So the movie's direction appears to have been dictated by what film rights he could secure and what individuals would agree to appear on camera. Even then, some interviews get off the track with reminiscences about personal experiences as opposed to how such experienced are conveyed in movies.
Also there is a problem of definition. Is this a movie about gay directors or about gay subject matter in movies? The question really arises when he tackles Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a leader of the German new wave in the '70s. Talking about Fassbinder's sexuality in relationship to his cinematic achievements is as edifying as discussing Walt Whitman's sexuality in regards to his poetry. In both instances, this is decidedly beside the point.
The film skewers heavily toward northern European and U.S. movies. Passing mention of developing countries and a single film clip from India take care of the rest of the world. Little is made of lesbian films and there is a notable absence of people of color.
The clips themselves are often of poor quality. Then again, the interviews shot in Digi Beta look pretty washed out too.
The talking heads assembled are certainly an articulate lot. These include German pioneer Rosa Von Praunheim, Joseph Lovett, Stephen Frears (talking about "My Beautiful Laundrette"), Constantine Giannaris, Guinevere Turner, Gus Van Sant and Tilda Swinton (discussing her muse, Derek Jarman).
The movie has a few good laughs. Swinton recalls how Jarman, who was HIV-positive, raised money for years by insisting each film project would be "Derek Jarman's last film." And John Waters puzzles over the characters' dilemma in "Brokeback Mountain". "They can only get together twice a year for great sex," he muses. "Sounds perfect to me".
HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, BOY
Floriamfilm
Credits:
Writer/director: Andre Schafer
Producers: Marianne Schafer, Ingmar Trost
Director of photography: Bernd Meiners
Music: Ritchie Staringer
Editor: Martin Schomers
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Schafer admits he took pains to avoid territory already covered in the 1995 classic "The Celluloid Closet" and last year's "Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema." So the movie's direction appears to have been dictated by what film rights he could secure and what individuals would agree to appear on camera. Even then, some interviews get off the track with reminiscences about personal experiences as opposed to how such experienced are conveyed in movies.
Also there is a problem of definition. Is this a movie about gay directors or about gay subject matter in movies? The question really arises when he tackles Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a leader of the German new wave in the '70s. Talking about Fassbinder's sexuality in relationship to his cinematic achievements is as edifying as discussing Walt Whitman's sexuality in regards to his poetry. In both instances, this is decidedly beside the point.
The film skewers heavily toward northern European and U.S. movies. Passing mention of developing countries and a single film clip from India take care of the rest of the world. Little is made of lesbian films and there is a notable absence of people of color.
The clips themselves are often of poor quality. Then again, the interviews shot in Digi Beta look pretty washed out too.
The talking heads assembled are certainly an articulate lot. These include German pioneer Rosa Von Praunheim, Joseph Lovett, Stephen Frears (talking about "My Beautiful Laundrette"), Constantine Giannaris, Guinevere Turner, Gus Van Sant and Tilda Swinton (discussing her muse, Derek Jarman).
The movie has a few good laughs. Swinton recalls how Jarman, who was HIV-positive, raised money for years by insisting each film project would be "Derek Jarman's last film." And John Waters puzzles over the characters' dilemma in "Brokeback Mountain". "They can only get together twice a year for great sex," he muses. "Sounds perfect to me".
HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, BOY
Floriamfilm
Credits:
Writer/director: Andre Schafer
Producers: Marianne Schafer, Ingmar Trost
Director of photography: Bernd Meiners
Music: Ritchie Staringer
Editor: Martin Schomers
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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