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After a successful launch at SXSW earlier this year, the South Asian House initiative, which aims to highlight, recognize and appreciate South Asians in film and television, is set to debut at the Tribeca Festival, New York, on June 16.
Brainchild of producers, curators and programmers Rohi Mirza Pandya (Box Office Guru Media and Desipina), Monika Samtani (Ms. Media and The Fem Word), Jitin Hingorani (Jingo Media and Dfw South Asian Film Festival) and Kirtana Banskota (Banskota Productions and Nepal America Film Society), the event will showcase programming focused on the funding, creation and distribution of South Asian stories for a global audience. The day will consist of two panel discussions focused on content creation in the diaspora and the Indian film industry and will be part of the AT&T Untold Stories Lounge at Spring Studios.
Hingorani and Mirza Pandya said: “Our filmmakers are making tremendous headway in Hollywood,...
After a successful launch at SXSW earlier this year, the South Asian House initiative, which aims to highlight, recognize and appreciate South Asians in film and television, is set to debut at the Tribeca Festival, New York, on June 16.
Brainchild of producers, curators and programmers Rohi Mirza Pandya (Box Office Guru Media and Desipina), Monika Samtani (Ms. Media and The Fem Word), Jitin Hingorani (Jingo Media and Dfw South Asian Film Festival) and Kirtana Banskota (Banskota Productions and Nepal America Film Society), the event will showcase programming focused on the funding, creation and distribution of South Asian stories for a global audience. The day will consist of two panel discussions focused on content creation in the diaspora and the Indian film industry and will be part of the AT&T Untold Stories Lounge at Spring Studios.
Hingorani and Mirza Pandya said: “Our filmmakers are making tremendous headway in Hollywood,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Martin Scorsese to receive a Doc NYC Lifetime Achievement Award Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the fifth annual Doc NYC Visionaries Tribute Awards event on November 7, Martin Scorsese, whose latest film The Irishman will open on November 1 in the Us and his Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will have a special screening during the festival, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Michael Apted joins Scorsese in that honour and his 63 Up will also be shown.
Doc NYC 2019 is dedicated to the memory of Da Pennebaker Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners were Wim Wenders and Orlando Bagwell.
The 2019 Visionaries host committee include Jon Alpert, Joe Berlinger, Amy Berg, Kate Davis, Marshall Curry, Heidi Ewing, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady, Chris Hegedus, Amy Hobby, Barbara Kopple, Frazer Pennebaker, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
Andrew Rossi and Barbara Kopple honoured Da Pennebaker with personal remembrances earlier this...
At the fifth annual Doc NYC Visionaries Tribute Awards event on November 7, Martin Scorsese, whose latest film The Irishman will open on November 1 in the Us and his Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will have a special screening during the festival, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Michael Apted joins Scorsese in that honour and his 63 Up will also be shown.
Doc NYC 2019 is dedicated to the memory of Da Pennebaker Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners were Wim Wenders and Orlando Bagwell.
The 2019 Visionaries host committee include Jon Alpert, Joe Berlinger, Amy Berg, Kate Davis, Marshall Curry, Heidi Ewing, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady, Chris Hegedus, Amy Hobby, Barbara Kopple, Frazer Pennebaker, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
Andrew Rossi and Barbara Kopple honoured Da Pennebaker with personal remembrances earlier this...
- 10/10/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
D.A. Pennebaker, the documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer cinema verité in films like the 1967 Bob Dylan film “Don’t Look Back” and 1993’s “The War Room,” died Thursday at his home at age 94, Pennebaker’s son and executive producer and distributor for nearly all Pennebaker Hegedus films, Frazer Pennebaker, told TheWrap.
The celebrated cinematographer and director received an honorary Oscar in 2013 for his work, and an Oscar nomination, with Chris Hegedus, for “The War Room,” an inside look at the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton that helped make a star of Clinton’s then communications director and current ABC News chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos.
Pennebaker first rose to fame in the early ’60s after he and his colleague Richard Leacock developed one of the first fully portable 16mm synchronized camera and sound recording systems which revolutionized filmmaking.
Also Read: Harold Prince, Legendary Broadway Director and Producer, Dies at 91
His innovative...
The celebrated cinematographer and director received an honorary Oscar in 2013 for his work, and an Oscar nomination, with Chris Hegedus, for “The War Room,” an inside look at the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton that helped make a star of Clinton’s then communications director and current ABC News chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos.
Pennebaker first rose to fame in the early ’60s after he and his colleague Richard Leacock developed one of the first fully portable 16mm synchronized camera and sound recording systems which revolutionized filmmaking.
Also Read: Harold Prince, Legendary Broadway Director and Producer, Dies at 91
His innovative...
- 8/3/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Da Pennebaker, the Academy Award-nominated director of 60 documentaries whose career encompassed more than 50 years, has died at the age of 94. A seminal figure of the cinema vérité movement, Pennebaker helmed such nonfiction masterpieces as “Monterey Pop,” “The War Room,” and “Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back,” bringing his canny eye upon everything from 1960s counterculture to the urgent political issues of the day. He is survived by his wife and frequent collaborator Chris Hegedus. Pennebaker died of natural causes on August 1, according to his son, Frazer Pennebaker.
In tribute to the late filmmaker, IndieWire has assembled five must-see films from Pennebaker’s prolific catalogue.
“Primary” (1960)
Pennebaker edited Robert Drew’s groundbreaking 1960 “Primary,” which plunges us into the 1960 Wisconsin primary election face-off between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, as they vie for the presidency. With its handheld camerawork and intimate proximity to its subjects, this was a groundbreaking moment for documentary film,...
In tribute to the late filmmaker, IndieWire has assembled five must-see films from Pennebaker’s prolific catalogue.
“Primary” (1960)
Pennebaker edited Robert Drew’s groundbreaking 1960 “Primary,” which plunges us into the 1960 Wisconsin primary election face-off between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, as they vie for the presidency. With its handheld camerawork and intimate proximity to its subjects, this was a groundbreaking moment for documentary film,...
- 8/3/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Not everyone in the docu community is fortunate enough to roll at Alex Gibney or Amy Berg-like speeds. Similar to our off-target crystal ball prognostications of Yance Ford’s Strong Island, we’re also celebrating a third year prediction for this game-changing docu to break into the socially conscious film festival. With all signs finally pointing towards a 2016 release (they’re currently working on the score) Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s will surely stir up crowds with Unlocking the Cage – in essence a doc on the last remaining frontier by docu pioneers.
Gist: Follows attorney Steve Wise’s fight to give animals personhood rights and break down the legal wall separating them from humans.
Production Co./Producers: Rosadel Varela (Control Room). Executive Producer: Frazer Pennebaker (King of Pastry).
Prediction: U.S. Documentary Competition or Non-Comp Documentary Premieres.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Tbd (international)
More 2015 Sundance...
Gist: Follows attorney Steve Wise’s fight to give animals personhood rights and break down the legal wall separating them from humans.
Production Co./Producers: Rosadel Varela (Control Room). Executive Producer: Frazer Pennebaker (King of Pastry).
Prediction: U.S. Documentary Competition or Non-Comp Documentary Premieres.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Tbd (international)
More 2015 Sundance...
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s been a couple months since the last edition of What’s Up Doc? placed Michael Moore’s surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at the top of this list and in the meantime much shuffling has taken place and much time has been spent on various new endeavors (namely my Buffalo-based film series, Cultivate Cinema Circle). Finally taking its rightful place at the top, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hagedus’ Unlocking the Cage is in the midst of being scored by composer James Lavino, according to Lavino’s own personal site. Though the project has been taking shape at its own leisurely pace, I’d expect to see the film making its festival debut in early 2016.
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
Right behind, the American direct cinema masters is a Texan soon to make his non-fiction debut with Voyage of Time. Just two weeks ago indieWIRE reported that Ennio Morricone, who scored...
- 11/5/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
A documentary film that will do more for the animal ethics, protection and liberation debate than Project Nim, The Cove and every other doc that has preceded it, it’s almost unfathomable that gods of the docu field in Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker even needed a Kickstarter supported campaign especially after more than four decades of working ahead of the curve. Unlocking the Cage added some additional coin via the 2013 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund and now the only question that remains is: how much longer do the pair remain with their protagonist (the passionate and compassionate lawyer Steve Wise) and the story before they break away from it? Round number twelve might be happening as we speak.
Gist: Follows attorney Steve Wise’s fight to give animals personhood rights and break down the legal wall separating them from humans.
Production Co./Producers: Rosadel Varela. Executive Producer: Frazer Pennebaker,
Prediction: U.
Gist: Follows attorney Steve Wise’s fight to give animals personhood rights and break down the legal wall separating them from humans.
Production Co./Producers: Rosadel Varela. Executive Producer: Frazer Pennebaker,
Prediction: U.
- 11/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
If they grace the festival with their presence, it would be like having the Beatles show up (Frederick Wiseman is our Elvis). Legendary docu-team Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker haven’t presented a doc film at the fest since 1987′s Jimi Plays Monterey (Update: they actually showed up in back-to-back years with Startup.com (2001) and Only the Strong Survive) and the pair have participated as jurors/panelists as well. Their new project, which received some coin via the 2013 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, is a hot topic issue/last frontier, that may be aligned with Sundance’s unwritten mandate for docu films that push social boundaries.
Gist: Renowned animal rights attorney Steven Wise wants to break through the legal wall that separates animals and humans. His lawsuit, the first of its kind, will demand the most basic of personhood rights – those of bodily integrity and liberty – for an animal of a...
Gist: Renowned animal rights attorney Steven Wise wants to break through the legal wall that separates animals and humans. His lawsuit, the first of its kind, will demand the most basic of personhood rights – those of bodily integrity and liberty – for an animal of a...
- 11/21/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
135 filmmakers and executives have been invited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to join its ranks. Recent Oscar nominees and winners such as Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Mo'Nique, Carey Mulligan, Jeremy Renner, Gabourey Sidibe and Christoph Waltz have been invited to join; but even "Saw's" Tobin Bell and "Avatar's" Zoe Saldana received invites.
New members will be "baptized" in an invitation-only reception in September at the Academy's Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills.
Here's a complete list of the 2010 invitees:
Actors
Tobin Bell -- "Saw," "The Firm"
Vera Farmiga -- "Up in the Air," "The Departed"
Miguel Ferrer -- "Traffic," "RoboCop"
James Gandolfini -- "In the Loop," "Get Shorty"
Anna Kendrick -- "Up in the Air," "Twilight"
Mo'Nique -- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "Phat Girlz"
Carey Mulligan -- "An Education," "Public Enemies"
Jeremy Renner -- "The Hurt Locker,...
New members will be "baptized" in an invitation-only reception in September at the Academy's Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills.
Here's a complete list of the 2010 invitees:
Actors
Tobin Bell -- "Saw," "The Firm"
Vera Farmiga -- "Up in the Air," "The Departed"
Miguel Ferrer -- "Traffic," "RoboCop"
James Gandolfini -- "In the Loop," "Get Shorty"
Anna Kendrick -- "Up in the Air," "Twilight"
Mo'Nique -- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "Phat Girlz"
Carey Mulligan -- "An Education," "Public Enemies"
Jeremy Renner -- "The Hurt Locker,...
- 6/27/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
it's not Tuesday but it's time for a Top Ten anyway... as this is yesterday's news already!
AMPAS used to hide their membership roster like the vote tallies but in the information age, they've opened up. Now we get to see the whole list of new invitees each year. I wonder how they keep they're membership around 6,000 given how many people they invite annual. Maybe enough people reject the offer, stop paying their dues, or pass from this mortal coil each year to balance it out?
You can read the full list of recipients at Indiewire, but as is the Film Experience tradition, we like to pinpoint the newest (potential) members whose future ballots we'd most like to see. So let's have at it.
New Academy Member Ballots We Most Want To See
10 Bono & The Edge (music)
They're two separate people but we'd like to imagine them filling out their ballots together inbetween sets.
AMPAS used to hide their membership roster like the vote tallies but in the information age, they've opened up. Now we get to see the whole list of new invitees each year. I wonder how they keep they're membership around 6,000 given how many people they invite annual. Maybe enough people reject the offer, stop paying their dues, or pass from this mortal coil each year to balance it out?
You can read the full list of recipients at Indiewire, but as is the Film Experience tradition, we like to pinpoint the newest (potential) members whose future ballots we'd most like to see. So let's have at it.
New Academy Member Ballots We Most Want To See
10 Bono & The Edge (music)
They're two separate people but we'd like to imagine them filling out their ballots together inbetween sets.
- 6/26/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
HollywoodNews.com: Adam Sandler is gearing up for the release of his new film, “Grown Ups,” and has just been announced as one of 135 artists selected to join the Academy.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 135 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2010 to the Academy’s roster of voting members.
“The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them.”
The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 180 new members in 2010, but as in other recent years, the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 135 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2010 to the Academy’s roster of voting members.
“The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them.”
The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 180 new members in 2010, but as in other recent years, the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held...
- 6/25/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Oscar winner Indian sound recordist Resul Pookutty has been invited to join the coveted Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as a member. Along with Resul the invitation has been extended to 135 film professionals from around the globe that includes Christopher Walts (Inglorious Basterds) and Jacque Audiard (A Prophet). Resul was awarded an Oscar last year for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.
Members of the academy vote for the annual academy awards.
“The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them.”
The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 180 new members in 2010, but as in other recent years, the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since...
Members of the academy vote for the annual academy awards.
“The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them.”
The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 180 new members in 2010, but as in other recent years, the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since...
- 6/25/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 135 filmmakers and executives -- including such recent Oscar nominees and winners as Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Mo'Nique, Carey Mulligan, Jeremy Renner, Gabourey Sidibe and Christoph Waltz -- to join its ranks.
The Academy issued its annual invitation list Thursday.
The actor's portion of the list ranged from genre favorites like "Saw's" Tobin Bell to "Avatar's" Zoe Saldana, from "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini, whose film credits include "In the Loop" and "Get Shorty" to rising leading man Ryan Reynolds, who's appeared in "The Proposal" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
An international sampling of directors made the cut: Among them France's Jacques Audiard, Argentina's Juan Jose Campanella, Denmark's Lone Scherfig and, from the U.S., Lee Daniels and Adam Shankman, the latter of whom co-produced the last Oscar show.
Oscar nominee "District 9" was well represented: Matt Aitken and Dan Kaufman...
The Academy issued its annual invitation list Thursday.
The actor's portion of the list ranged from genre favorites like "Saw's" Tobin Bell to "Avatar's" Zoe Saldana, from "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini, whose film credits include "In the Loop" and "Get Shorty" to rising leading man Ryan Reynolds, who's appeared in "The Proposal" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
An international sampling of directors made the cut: Among them France's Jacques Audiard, Argentina's Juan Jose Campanella, Denmark's Lone Scherfig and, from the U.S., Lee Daniels and Adam Shankman, the latter of whom co-produced the last Oscar show.
Oscar nominee "District 9" was well represented: Matt Aitken and Dan Kaufman...
- 6/25/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film review: 'Moon Over Broadway'
NEW YORK -- Coming on the heels of one of their most popular and critically acclaimed films ("The War Room"), documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus take on a significantly more lighthearted subject in "Moon Over Broadway", a behind-the-scenes account of what goes on during the creation of a Broadway show.
Detailing the efforts to get the Carol Burnett starrer "Moon Over Buffalo" to the Great White Way, this film is a godsend to theater lovers, who will salivate at this no-holds-barred backstage look. Although lacking the historical immediacy of their previous effort, this specialized item could do fairly good business, especially in New York, before being assigned a permanent place in theater lovers' video libraries. The film recently received its U.S. premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
As with "The War Room", where they simply had to turn the camera on James Carville in order to ensure something interesting happening, the filmmakers have a great advantage in the presence of such pros as Burnett and Philip Bosco, both of whom enliven the proceedings with their comic shenanigans. Indeed, this effort avoids the usual pitfall of making documentaries -- the fact that people tend to alter their behavior for the camera. Here, many of those being filmed are so accustomed to performing that their behavior seems utterly natural.
The film chronicles the road to Broadway, beginning with the first reading of the play and culminating in the opening night and the aftermath of the critics' reviews, most of which were complimentary to the stars but savage to the play. Many of the participants are obviously nervous about the show's prospects, especially Ken Ludwig, the highly insecure playwright whose goal was to create a classic farce a la Feydeau, and Burnett, making her first Broadway appearance in 30 years.
The film captures the mounting desperation as the playwright attempts rewrite after rewrite, the performers cope with material that is often desperately unfunny and wonder why their attempts to contribute are being ignored, and the creative team wonders if Burnett will be able to contain her television persona and play her part as written.
Trouble continues with a tryout in Boston, where a typical review called the show "a hoot short of a hoot and a half" ("I'd call that mixed", declares the theater owner with understatement). The show's director, Tom Moore, announces, "This wouldn't cut it in New York," and Ludwig sardonically comments, "I heard a laugh a half-hour into it ... it really bolstered me right up."
The filmmakers were also present during a preview in New York when the scenery malfunctioned and Burnett was forced to go out solo and entertain the audience with an off-the-cuff question-and-answer session. She received bigger laughs than the play ever received, providing solid evidence for the value of having a star above the title. Another telling moment is a clip demonstrating all too vividly the discomfort that results when one of the actors, in this case Bosco, misses his lines.
Despite the turmoil, "Moon Over Broadway" went on to have a decent nine-month run, and the play has received many other productions, including one in Pasadena.
MOON OVER BROADWAY
Directors-editors D.A. Pennebaker,
Chris Hegedus
Producers Frazer Pennebaker, Wendy Ettinger
Cinematographers D.A. Pennebaker,
Nick Doob, James Desmond
Color/stereo
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Detailing the efforts to get the Carol Burnett starrer "Moon Over Buffalo" to the Great White Way, this film is a godsend to theater lovers, who will salivate at this no-holds-barred backstage look. Although lacking the historical immediacy of their previous effort, this specialized item could do fairly good business, especially in New York, before being assigned a permanent place in theater lovers' video libraries. The film recently received its U.S. premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
As with "The War Room", where they simply had to turn the camera on James Carville in order to ensure something interesting happening, the filmmakers have a great advantage in the presence of such pros as Burnett and Philip Bosco, both of whom enliven the proceedings with their comic shenanigans. Indeed, this effort avoids the usual pitfall of making documentaries -- the fact that people tend to alter their behavior for the camera. Here, many of those being filmed are so accustomed to performing that their behavior seems utterly natural.
The film chronicles the road to Broadway, beginning with the first reading of the play and culminating in the opening night and the aftermath of the critics' reviews, most of which were complimentary to the stars but savage to the play. Many of the participants are obviously nervous about the show's prospects, especially Ken Ludwig, the highly insecure playwright whose goal was to create a classic farce a la Feydeau, and Burnett, making her first Broadway appearance in 30 years.
The film captures the mounting desperation as the playwright attempts rewrite after rewrite, the performers cope with material that is often desperately unfunny and wonder why their attempts to contribute are being ignored, and the creative team wonders if Burnett will be able to contain her television persona and play her part as written.
Trouble continues with a tryout in Boston, where a typical review called the show "a hoot short of a hoot and a half" ("I'd call that mixed", declares the theater owner with understatement). The show's director, Tom Moore, announces, "This wouldn't cut it in New York," and Ludwig sardonically comments, "I heard a laugh a half-hour into it ... it really bolstered me right up."
The filmmakers were also present during a preview in New York when the scenery malfunctioned and Burnett was forced to go out solo and entertain the audience with an off-the-cuff question-and-answer session. She received bigger laughs than the play ever received, providing solid evidence for the value of having a star above the title. Another telling moment is a clip demonstrating all too vividly the discomfort that results when one of the actors, in this case Bosco, misses his lines.
Despite the turmoil, "Moon Over Broadway" went on to have a decent nine-month run, and the play has received many other productions, including one in Pasadena.
MOON OVER BROADWAY
Directors-editors D.A. Pennebaker,
Chris Hegedus
Producers Frazer Pennebaker, Wendy Ettinger
Cinematographers D.A. Pennebaker,
Nick Doob, James Desmond
Color/stereo
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/23/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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