Is there such thing as a sympathetic cause for treason?
Magnolia Pictures documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” directed by two-time Oscar nominee Steve James, captures the controversial true story of Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall. Part of the team behind J. Robert Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb, Hall shared nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union. The documentary is told through the perspective of Ted’s wife Joan Hall, who protected his secret across their 50-year marriage.
The official “Compassionate Spy” synopsis reads: Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Ted Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the...
Magnolia Pictures documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” directed by two-time Oscar nominee Steve James, captures the controversial true story of Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall. Part of the team behind J. Robert Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb, Hall shared nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union. The documentary is told through the perspective of Ted’s wife Joan Hall, who protected his secret across their 50-year marriage.
The official “Compassionate Spy” synopsis reads: Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Ted Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the...
- 6/27/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Documentary specialist Autlook Filmsales closed a raft of sales at a vibrant market during the Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox.
“Subject,” directed by Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, got picked up by Sweden’s Svt, Denmark’s Dr, Norway’s Nrk, Norway’s Vgtv, The Netherlands’ Vpro, Israel’s Yes Doc, and Madman for Australia and New Zealand. Dogwoof released the film early this month in the U.K.
“Subject” is an examination of the relationship between nonfiction filmmakers and their subjects. It raises important ethical questions during a golden of age for documentaries, when docs are screened by millions of viewers. The film re-visits protagonists of some of the most viewed documentaries of today – “The Staircase,” “The Square,” “Hoop Dreams,” “The Wolfpack” and “Capturing the Friedmans.”
Australia and New Zealand distribution powerhouse Madman Entertainment and Spanish broadcaster Movistar have acquired “The Corridors of Power,” a documentary and upcoming eight-part series.
“Subject,” directed by Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, got picked up by Sweden’s Svt, Denmark’s Dr, Norway’s Nrk, Norway’s Vgtv, The Netherlands’ Vpro, Israel’s Yes Doc, and Madman for Australia and New Zealand. Dogwoof released the film early this month in the U.K.
“Subject” is an examination of the relationship between nonfiction filmmakers and their subjects. It raises important ethical questions during a golden of age for documentaries, when docs are screened by millions of viewers. The film re-visits protagonists of some of the most viewed documentaries of today – “The Staircase,” “The Square,” “Hoop Dreams,” “The Wolfpack” and “Capturing the Friedmans.”
Australia and New Zealand distribution powerhouse Madman Entertainment and Spanish broadcaster Movistar have acquired “The Corridors of Power,” a documentary and upcoming eight-part series.
- 3/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Kartemquin Films’ Gordon Quinn served as consulting producer.
Criminal justice reform documentary and Tribeca selection The First Step featuring US political commentator Van Jones has got a theatrical release and worldwide deal with DeskPop Entertainment after premiering at Tribeca Film Festival during the pandemic.
The film follows Jones as he attempts to build bipartisan support for criminal justice reform legislation that would bring thousands of incarcerated people home early.
As they face fierce opposition from both Democrats and Republicans, the bill’s champions come face-to-face with progressive politicians like Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker, and Bernie Sanders, and conservative figures such as Senator Rand Paul,...
Criminal justice reform documentary and Tribeca selection The First Step featuring US political commentator Van Jones has got a theatrical release and worldwide deal with DeskPop Entertainment after premiering at Tribeca Film Festival during the pandemic.
The film follows Jones as he attempts to build bipartisan support for criminal justice reform legislation that would bring thousands of incarcerated people home early.
As they face fierce opposition from both Democrats and Republicans, the bill’s champions come face-to-face with progressive politicians like Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker, and Bernie Sanders, and conservative figures such as Senator Rand Paul,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Magnolia Pictures announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to Participant’s documentary “A Compassionate Spy” and will release it later this year.
Directed by two-time Oscar nominee Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”), “A Compassionate Spy” tells the story of Ted Hall, who at the age of 18 was the youngest physicist to work on the Manhattan Project with Robert Oppenheimer. Fearful that an American monopoly on something as devastating as a nuclear bomb could lead to catastrophe, Hall shared key secrets on the bomb’s development to Soviet spies, significantly shaping the course of the Cold War in the decades to come.
“A Compassionate Spy” is also a love story, retelling Hall’s lifelong relationship with his wife Joan, with whom he raised a family while under the shadow of FBI surveillance. The documentary tells Hall’s story through Joan’s perspective, as she kept many...
Directed by two-time Oscar nominee Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”), “A Compassionate Spy” tells the story of Ted Hall, who at the age of 18 was the youngest physicist to work on the Manhattan Project with Robert Oppenheimer. Fearful that an American monopoly on something as devastating as a nuclear bomb could lead to catastrophe, Hall shared key secrets on the bomb’s development to Soviet spies, significantly shaping the course of the Cold War in the decades to come.
“A Compassionate Spy” is also a love story, retelling Hall’s lifelong relationship with his wife Joan, with whom he raised a family while under the shadow of FBI surveillance. The documentary tells Hall’s story through Joan’s perspective, as she kept many...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Acquisition
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights from Participant to “A Compassionate Spy,” the new documentary from Steve James. The film, which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its North American launch at Telluride, is a real-life spy story about Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Magnolia will release the film in theaters later this year.
“A Compassionate Spy” is presented by Participant and is a Mitten Media and Kartemquin Films production produced by Mark Mitten p.g.a., Dave Lindorff, and Steve James. Executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Tim Horsburgh and Gordon Quinn.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia executive VP Dori Begley and senior VP of acquisitions John Von Thaden; Participant’s Liesl Copland, executive VP content strategy and sales, Adam Macy,...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights from Participant to “A Compassionate Spy,” the new documentary from Steve James. The film, which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its North American launch at Telluride, is a real-life spy story about Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Magnolia will release the film in theaters later this year.
“A Compassionate Spy” is presented by Participant and is a Mitten Media and Kartemquin Films production produced by Mark Mitten p.g.a., Dave Lindorff, and Steve James. Executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Tim Horsburgh and Gordon Quinn.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia executive VP Dori Begley and senior VP of acquisitions John Von Thaden; Participant’s Liesl Copland, executive VP content strategy and sales, Adam Macy,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to A Compassionate Spy, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) from Participant.
The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, follows the real-life spy story of Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. The story is told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades.
Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, but didn’t share his colleagues’ excitement after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that the new weapon would give the U.S. a post-war monopoly on global power and could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union,...
The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, follows the real-life spy story of Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. The story is told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades.
Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, but didn’t share his colleagues’ excitement after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that the new weapon would give the U.S. a post-war monopoly on global power and could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Autlook Filmsales handles international sales at EFM on story of nuclear physicist Ted Hall.
Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights from Participant to A Compassionate Spy, Steve James’s documentary about the controversial American nuclear physicist Ted Hall who passed secrets to the Soviet Union.
At age 18 Harvard graduate Hall became the youngest recruit to the Manhattan Project in the early 1940s. After the United States detonated its first nuclear bomb he became concerned his country had a potentially catastrophic monopoly on the technology and provided confidential information to the Soviets.
The film is told from the perspective of Joan,...
Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights from Participant to A Compassionate Spy, Steve James’s documentary about the controversial American nuclear physicist Ted Hall who passed secrets to the Soviet Union.
At age 18 Harvard graduate Hall became the youngest recruit to the Manhattan Project in the early 1940s. After the United States detonated its first nuclear bomb he became concerned his country had a potentially catastrophic monopoly on the technology and provided confidential information to the Soviets.
The film is told from the perspective of Joan,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning co-director of “American Factory” and a longtime fixture of American documentary since the 1970s, has died at 76 after battling cancer.
A champion of women’s rights and the working class whose films were ahead of their time in their intersectional exploration of class, gender, and race in America, Reichert was also a trailblazing leader and passionate advocate for the documentary community.
Born in New Jersey to a working-class family, Reichert started as a social activist and never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. “That was a job overwhelmingly for the wealthy,” said Jim Klein, Reichert’s partner from the 1960s to the 1980s and co-director of her early films. “We were social activists rather than filmmakers, doing it by the seat of our pants.”
Their first film, “Growing Up Female,” was completed 50 years ago with a budget of 2,000. It was one of the first documentaries chronicling the modern women’s movement.
A champion of women’s rights and the working class whose films were ahead of their time in their intersectional exploration of class, gender, and race in America, Reichert was also a trailblazing leader and passionate advocate for the documentary community.
Born in New Jersey to a working-class family, Reichert started as a social activist and never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. “That was a job overwhelmingly for the wealthy,” said Jim Klein, Reichert’s partner from the 1960s to the 1980s and co-director of her early films. “We were social activists rather than filmmakers, doing it by the seat of our pants.”
Their first film, “Growing Up Female,” was completed 50 years ago with a budget of 2,000. It was one of the first documentaries chronicling the modern women’s movement.
- 12/2/2022
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
The company behind “Hoop Dreams” and Academy Award-nominated “Minding the Gap” has named Amir George its new artistic director.
George takes over on Nov. 1 at Kartemquin Films, the non-profit, Chicago-based documentary production collective. He is the first person of color to hold one of two top leadership positions at the 56-year-old company and the organization’s second artistic director. George succeeds Kartemquin co-founder and current artistic director Gordon Quinn, who will move into a new part-time role at the org as a senior advisor.
George will lead Kartemquin’s artistic vision and will help oversee the company’s operations. He will also serve as executive producer on all the outfit’s films.
“Kartemquin has been instrumental in taking documentary filmmaking into the public eye by showing how story can lift social issues and serve as a tool for influencing public debate and public-policy making around some of the most pressing issues of the day,...
George takes over on Nov. 1 at Kartemquin Films, the non-profit, Chicago-based documentary production collective. He is the first person of color to hold one of two top leadership positions at the 56-year-old company and the organization’s second artistic director. George succeeds Kartemquin co-founder and current artistic director Gordon Quinn, who will move into a new part-time role at the org as a senior advisor.
George will lead Kartemquin’s artistic vision and will help oversee the company’s operations. He will also serve as executive producer on all the outfit’s films.
“Kartemquin has been instrumental in taking documentary filmmaking into the public eye by showing how story can lift social issues and serve as a tool for influencing public debate and public-policy making around some of the most pressing issues of the day,...
- 10/25/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Director Steve James chronicles a former Manhattan Project physicist.
Austria-based sales agent Autlook Filmsales has boarded international sales on Steve James’ documentary A Compassionate Spy, which is set to premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this week.
The film traces the life of a former Manhattan Project physicist who passed on secrets to the Soviet Union and lived the rest of his life under FBI surveillance and suspicion.
US outfit Participant financed the film and is jointly handling global and North American sales for the film with Cinetic.
It marks the latest from US documentary-maker James, who...
Austria-based sales agent Autlook Filmsales has boarded international sales on Steve James’ documentary A Compassionate Spy, which is set to premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this week.
The film traces the life of a former Manhattan Project physicist who passed on secrets to the Soviet Union and lived the rest of his life under FBI surveillance and suspicion.
US outfit Participant financed the film and is jointly handling global and North American sales for the film with Cinetic.
It marks the latest from US documentary-maker James, who...
- 8/30/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The relationship between documentary subject and documentarian has been fraught with conflict since the genre’s evolution beyond “actualities” and into a narrative format pioneered by Robert Flaherty. Interrogating what it means to become a “subject” in a documentary film that ultimately takes on a life and a folklore of its own, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall have created an essential exploration of ethics with Subject.
It’s a code of ethics that some of the film’s scholars, critics, and festival programmers argue is needed more than ever in an era when nonfiction content is more in demand from all major streamers. For some, their story grows over time—like Margaret Ratliff, who as a teen agreed to participate in a documentary about the death of her mother and the murder conviction of her father, novelist Michael Peterson. She originally agreed to participate in the series to support her...
It’s a code of ethics that some of the film’s scholars, critics, and festival programmers argue is needed more than ever in an era when nonfiction content is more in demand from all major streamers. For some, their story grows over time—like Margaret Ratliff, who as a teen agreed to participate in a documentary about the death of her mother and the murder conviction of her father, novelist Michael Peterson. She originally agreed to participate in the series to support her...
- 6/27/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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A documentary dork’s delight, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall’s Subject is one of those films about which my biggest lament is that it could have been five times as long — with the caveat that while I would be down for a 10-part series on documentary ethics, this 96-minute intro will be a thoroughly effective conversation starter.
Tiexiera and Hall’s film picks up where most documentaries end. You’ve turned your life over to a filmmaker for a few months or a few years. The film has come out. Maybe it’s won big prizes at Sundance. Maybe you even got to walk a red carpet or two. But then it’s over. Your story has been told in one very specific, strategically edited way. The director got the acclaim and the trophies.
But what about you? You’re famous. Maybe not globally famous,...
A documentary dork’s delight, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall’s Subject is one of those films about which my biggest lament is that it could have been five times as long — with the caveat that while I would be down for a 10-part series on documentary ethics, this 96-minute intro will be a thoroughly effective conversation starter.
Tiexiera and Hall’s film picks up where most documentaries end. You’ve turned your life over to a filmmaker for a few months or a few years. The film has come out. Maybe it’s won big prizes at Sundance. Maybe you even got to walk a red carpet or two. But then it’s over. Your story has been told in one very specific, strategically edited way. The director got the acclaim and the trophies.
But what about you? You’re famous. Maybe not globally famous,...
- 6/14/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Four senior staffers who resigned in protest from the International Documentary Association are responding to a public statement from the IDA board dismissing their concerns about how the nonprofit organization is being run under new executive director Rick Pérez.
The board published a letter on the IDA website on Friday acknowledging “a number of documentary community members have expressed concern about recent changes at the IDA – particularly the resignations of four staff members.”
The board wrote that it hired “outside legal counsel and an independent investigator” to look into complaints from the four staffers – Maggie Bowman, Jina Chung, Amy Halpin and Poh Si Teng – about workplace conduct by Pérez.
“To protect the individuals’ privacy, we can’t address the specifics of the complaints in this letter…,” the board said, “however we can share that this investigator concluded that the claims were unsubstantiated.” The letter reiterated, “…[T]his result means that...
The board published a letter on the IDA website on Friday acknowledging “a number of documentary community members have expressed concern about recent changes at the IDA – particularly the resignations of four staff members.”
The board wrote that it hired “outside legal counsel and an independent investigator” to look into complaints from the four staffers – Maggie Bowman, Jina Chung, Amy Halpin and Poh Si Teng – about workplace conduct by Pérez.
“To protect the individuals’ privacy, we can’t address the specifics of the complaints in this letter…,” the board said, “however we can share that this investigator concluded that the claims were unsubstantiated.” The letter reiterated, “…[T]his result means that...
- 1/30/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The Criterion Collection will be heralding in 2021 with a mix of new and old. First up, Bing Liu’s stellar documentary Minding the Gap will be joining the collection, as will another documentary, Martin Scorsese’s playful Rolling Thunder Revue. Also arriving is a three-film Luis Buñuel box set focusing on his late career, featuring The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire. Larisa Shepitko’s final, harrowing feature The Ascent will also be getting a release.
Check out the cover art and special features below, and see more on Criterion’s website.
New high-definition digital master, approved by director Bing Liu, with 5.1 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-rayNew audio commentary featuring Liu and documentary subjects Keire Johnson and Zack MulliganNew follow-up conversation between Liu and documentary subject Nina BowgrenNew programs featuring interviews with professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and with Liu,...
Check out the cover art and special features below, and see more on Criterion’s website.
New high-definition digital master, approved by director Bing Liu, with 5.1 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-rayNew audio commentary featuring Liu and documentary subjects Keire Johnson and Zack MulliganNew follow-up conversation between Liu and documentary subject Nina BowgrenNew programs featuring interviews with professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and with Liu,...
- 10/16/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With the global premiere of National Geographic’s “Jane Goodall: The Hope” on Earth Day (April 22) and the April 19 premiere of the first two episodes of Michael Jordan series “Last Dance” — a ratings slam-dunk for ESPN — it’s deceptively easy to think all is right in the documentary world.
The coronavirus pandemic has created a huge, captive audience for documentaries à la “Tiger King,” while films are reaching millions of home-schooling students and connecting house-bound viewers to the outside world.
Meanwhile, broadcasters and streamers are moving up premiere dates and making select programming more widely (i.e. freely) available, while doc-championing independent U.S. distributors such as Magnolia, Kino Lorber, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Neon and Music Box have launched virtual cinemas as revenue-sharing partnerships that support local arthouse theaters.
The reality is that beyond the headlines for high-profile fare, the pandemic is exposing the fragility of the documentary ecosystem, where the...
The coronavirus pandemic has created a huge, captive audience for documentaries à la “Tiger King,” while films are reaching millions of home-schooling students and connecting house-bound viewers to the outside world.
Meanwhile, broadcasters and streamers are moving up premiere dates and making select programming more widely (i.e. freely) available, while doc-championing independent U.S. distributors such as Magnolia, Kino Lorber, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Neon and Music Box have launched virtual cinemas as revenue-sharing partnerships that support local arthouse theaters.
The reality is that beyond the headlines for high-profile fare, the pandemic is exposing the fragility of the documentary ecosystem, where the...
- 4/23/2020
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Gordon Quinn, the founder of the non-profit film organization Kartemquin Films, has been hospitalized and diagnosed with Covid-19, the organization said in a statement Friday.
Quinn had returned from a trip to Australia for the Australian International Documentary Conference on March 8 and fell ill. On Thursday, Kartemquin executive director Jolene Pinder informed filmmakers and alumni of the organization that Quinn had been hospitalized. Quinn is 78.
He’s currently on a respirator in the ICU and is being monitored closely by doctors, though his fever had abated and Pinder described his voice as “strong.” He had been in contact with his wife Meg, who is currently isolating at home.
Also Read: How the Coronavirus Has Upended Film Festivals - and What We Can Do About It (Guest Blog)
“Covid-19 is changing our lives in so many unimaginable ways literally minute-to-minute. I know the news that someone in our community is directly...
Quinn had returned from a trip to Australia for the Australian International Documentary Conference on March 8 and fell ill. On Thursday, Kartemquin executive director Jolene Pinder informed filmmakers and alumni of the organization that Quinn had been hospitalized. Quinn is 78.
He’s currently on a respirator in the ICU and is being monitored closely by doctors, though his fever had abated and Pinder described his voice as “strong.” He had been in contact with his wife Meg, who is currently isolating at home.
Also Read: How the Coronavirus Has Upended Film Festivals - and What We Can Do About It (Guest Blog)
“Covid-19 is changing our lives in so many unimaginable ways literally minute-to-minute. I know the news that someone in our community is directly...
- 3/20/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Gordon Quinn, a producer and co-founder of Kartemquin Films, the Chicago-based company behind such acclaimed documentaries as Hoop Dreams and Minding the Gap, has been diagnosed with Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Quinn, 77, was put on a ventilator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after apparently contracting the virus at the March 1-4 Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne, according to a note posted Thursday by friend Jenny Rohrer.
"Please pray, wish hard or do whatever you can to bring good health back to this wonderful man," she wrote.
With Quinn as artistic director, Kartemquin was ...
Quinn, 77, was put on a ventilator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after apparently contracting the virus at the March 1-4 Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne, according to a note posted Thursday by friend Jenny Rohrer.
"Please pray, wish hard or do whatever you can to bring good health back to this wonderful man," she wrote.
With Quinn as artistic director, Kartemquin was ...
- 3/20/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Gordon Quinn, a producer and co-founder of Kartemquin Films, the Chicago-based company behind such acclaimed documentaries as Hoop Dreams and Minding the Gap, has been diagnosed with Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Quinn, 77, was put on a ventilator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after apparently contracting the virus at the March 1-4 Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne, according to a note posted Thursday by friend Jenny Rohrer.
"Please pray, wish hard or do whatever you can to bring good health back to this wonderful man," she wrote.
With Quinn as artistic director, Kartemquin was ...
Quinn, 77, was put on a ventilator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after apparently contracting the virus at the March 1-4 Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne, according to a note posted Thursday by friend Jenny Rohrer.
"Please pray, wish hard or do whatever you can to bring good health back to this wonderful man," she wrote.
With Quinn as artistic director, Kartemquin was ...
- 3/20/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In this engaging film, two innocent, smiling nuns hit the streets of Chicago in 1968 to ask its citizens how happy they are
The second film by what would grow into Chicago powerhouse outfit Kartemquin, this 1968 documentary curio has the fun conceit of sending two smiling nuns out into the Windy City to quiz citizens about their lives. Directors Gordon Quinn and Gerald Temaner were inspired by Jean Rouch’s 1960 cinéma vérité touchstone Chronicle of a Summer. “How much should we do?” wonders Sister Marie Arné as she and Sister Mary Campion gather themselves before setting forth. Her efforts to demarcate their interviewing are almost a manifesto statement for the rawness with which vérité’s American counterpart, Direct Cinema, sought to encounter daily reality.
“Are you happy?” is what the sisters settle on: a humdinger they put to people in the streets, outside shopping malls, in museum and art galleries, to working men,...
The second film by what would grow into Chicago powerhouse outfit Kartemquin, this 1968 documentary curio has the fun conceit of sending two smiling nuns out into the Windy City to quiz citizens about their lives. Directors Gordon Quinn and Gerald Temaner were inspired by Jean Rouch’s 1960 cinéma vérité touchstone Chronicle of a Summer. “How much should we do?” wonders Sister Marie Arné as she and Sister Mary Campion gather themselves before setting forth. Her efforts to demarcate their interviewing are almost a manifesto statement for the rawness with which vérité’s American counterpart, Direct Cinema, sought to encounter daily reality.
“Are you happy?” is what the sisters settle on: a humdinger they put to people in the streets, outside shopping malls, in museum and art galleries, to working men,...
- 5/22/2019
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Combining time travel and a cruise ship has never been so hilarious. So describes this unique and magical “Same Boat” (directed by Chris Roberti and written by Roberti with Josh Itzkowitz), is a Chicago Premiere at the Midwest Independent Film Festival on April 2nd, 2019. Click here for tickets and details.
The very funny, warm and philosophical film presupposes a future in which time traveler assassins come back to save their world – which has been devastated by bad decisions in the past– through killing the evil people who will affect that devastation. When James (Chris Roberti) and his “intern” Mot (Julie Schonberg) are assigned the hit on Lilly (Tonya Glanz) while she is vacationing on a cruise ship, complications arise when James has feelings for his target. The whip-sharp comedy is full of authentic laughs derived from the plot and situations, plus the always weird vibe of a cruise ship.
The very funny, warm and philosophical film presupposes a future in which time traveler assassins come back to save their world – which has been devastated by bad decisions in the past– through killing the evil people who will affect that devastation. When James (Chris Roberti) and his “intern” Mot (Julie Schonberg) are assigned the hit on Lilly (Tonya Glanz) while she is vacationing on a cruise ship, complications arise when James has feelings for his target. The whip-sharp comedy is full of authentic laughs derived from the plot and situations, plus the always weird vibe of a cruise ship.
- 4/1/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – All through the 2019 Oscar Week, HollywoodChicago.com will rerun significant articles from 2018 that feature the nominees associated with Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony. Today is a Podtalk with director Bing Liu, who was the filmmaker behind a Best Documentary Feature nominee, “Minding the Gap.” The film seems to be a nostalgic profile of Liu’s youth in Rockford, Illinois, as he goes back to his hometown to explore the skateboarding culture that kept him balanced while growing up in a difficult home environment. What he found out about himself was an organic reveal in the film, both shocking and cathartic.
The film, available on the online Hulu Network, will also have a free TV broadcast on Monday, February 18th, 2019, on Chicago’s PBS Station Wttw. Besides Liu featuring himself in the documentary, he also profiles fellow Rockford skateboarders Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson, and finds commonality in their family lives.
The film, available on the online Hulu Network, will also have a free TV broadcast on Monday, February 18th, 2019, on Chicago’s PBS Station Wttw. Besides Liu featuring himself in the documentary, he also profiles fellow Rockford skateboarders Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson, and finds commonality in their family lives.
- 2/18/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Participant Media is reteaming with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steve James and his longtime production home, Kartemquin Films, on his latest documentary, “Chicago Story.”
Participant Media will finance the project, which will be produced by James and Zak Piper. Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann will executive produce with Alex Kotlowitz and Gordon Quinn. James, Piper, and Kotlowitz previously collaborated on “The Interrupters.”
The doc will be a portrait of Chicago today, captured at this crucial juncture in the city’s history – the upcoming mayoral election in February 2019. Principal photography is already underway.
“This is a film I’ve wanted to do for years, and right now seems the perfect time to make it. Chicago finds itself at a significant crossroads in so many ways as its citizens grapple with its future and who will lead them,” says James. “I’m thrilled to be partnering with Participant again after our wonderful collaboration on America to Me.
Participant Media will finance the project, which will be produced by James and Zak Piper. Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann will executive produce with Alex Kotlowitz and Gordon Quinn. James, Piper, and Kotlowitz previously collaborated on “The Interrupters.”
The doc will be a portrait of Chicago today, captured at this crucial juncture in the city’s history – the upcoming mayoral election in February 2019. Principal photography is already underway.
“This is a film I’ve wanted to do for years, and right now seems the perfect time to make it. Chicago finds itself at a significant crossroads in so many ways as its citizens grapple with its future and who will lead them,” says James. “I’m thrilled to be partnering with Participant again after our wonderful collaboration on America to Me.
- 12/10/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Bing Liu’s skateboarding movie “Minding The Gap” has won the International Documentary Association’s award for top feature of 2018.
Floyd Russ’s “Zion” was awarded best short. Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country” won for best limited series and HBO’s “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” took the ABC News VideoSource Award. PBS’ “Pov” won for best curated series, Showtime’s “The Trade” for best episodic series, Mel Films for best short form series, and Jayisha Patel’s “Circle” for the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.
Both Melissa Haizlip’s “Mr. Soul!” and Steve Loveridge’s “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.” were each awarded best music documentary while “Bisbee ’17” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” were each awarded best music score. The New York Times’ “Caliphate” took the inaugural award in the audio documentary category.
Ricki Lake hosted the ceremonies Saturday night for the 34th...
Floyd Russ’s “Zion” was awarded best short. Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country” won for best limited series and HBO’s “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” took the ABC News VideoSource Award. PBS’ “Pov” won for best curated series, Showtime’s “The Trade” for best episodic series, Mel Films for best short form series, and Jayisha Patel’s “Circle” for the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.
Both Melissa Haizlip’s “Mr. Soul!” and Steve Loveridge’s “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.” were each awarded best music documentary while “Bisbee ’17” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” were each awarded best music score. The New York Times’ “Caliphate” took the inaugural award in the audio documentary category.
Ricki Lake hosted the ceremonies Saturday night for the 34th...
- 12/9/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The 34th Ida Documentary Awards, hosted by Ricki Lake, took place Saturday night at Los Angeles' Paramount Studios.
Bing Liu's Minding the Gap received best feature honors, with Floyd Russ' short doc Zion, the limited series Wild Wild Country and docs about John McCain and M.I.A. among other high-profile winners.
Liu also received the emerging filmmaker award from director Barry Jenkins and Gordon Quinn, artistic director of Kartemquin Films.
“Both the best feature and best short categories recognized the remarkable range of work that was produced in 2018,” Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the International Documentary Association, said ...
Bing Liu's Minding the Gap received best feature honors, with Floyd Russ' short doc Zion, the limited series Wild Wild Country and docs about John McCain and M.I.A. among other high-profile winners.
Liu also received the emerging filmmaker award from director Barry Jenkins and Gordon Quinn, artistic director of Kartemquin Films.
“Both the best feature and best short categories recognized the remarkable range of work that was produced in 2018,” Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the International Documentary Association, said ...
- 12/9/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 34th Ida Documentary Awards, hosted by Ricki Lake, took place Saturday night at Los Angeles' Paramount Studios.
Bing Liu's Minding the Gap received best feature honors, with Floyd Russ' short doc Zion, the limited series Wild Wild Country and docs about John McCain and M.I.A. among other high-profile winners.
Liu also received the emerging filmmaker award from director Barry Jenkins and Gordon Quinn, artistic director of Kartemquin Films.
“Both the best feature and best short categories recognized the remarkable range of work that was produced in 2018,” Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the International Documentary Association, said ...
Bing Liu's Minding the Gap received best feature honors, with Floyd Russ' short doc Zion, the limited series Wild Wild Country and docs about John McCain and M.I.A. among other high-profile winners.
Liu also received the emerging filmmaker award from director Barry Jenkins and Gordon Quinn, artistic director of Kartemquin Films.
“Both the best feature and best short categories recognized the remarkable range of work that was produced in 2018,” Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the International Documentary Association, said ...
- 12/9/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Wild Wild Country wins best limited series.
Bing Liu’s Minding The Gap was named best feature at the 34th Annual Ida Documentary Awards on Saturday night (8).
Floyd Russ’s Zion won best short at the ceremony at Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, while Wild Wild Country was named best limited series.
“Both the Best Feature and Best Short categories recognized the remarkable range of work that was produced in 2018,” said Simon Kilmurry, Ida executive director. “In Minding The Gap we see the emergence of Bing Liu as a fresh, bold new voice in documentary. His film sneaks up on audiences and,...
Bing Liu’s Minding The Gap was named best feature at the 34th Annual Ida Documentary Awards on Saturday night (8).
Floyd Russ’s Zion won best short at the ceremony at Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, while Wild Wild Country was named best limited series.
“Both the Best Feature and Best Short categories recognized the remarkable range of work that was produced in 2018,” said Simon Kilmurry, Ida executive director. “In Minding The Gap we see the emergence of Bing Liu as a fresh, bold new voice in documentary. His film sneaks up on audiences and,...
- 12/8/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Features selection includes Free Solo, Rbg, Quincy.
John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm will open Doc NYC on November 8 following a strong reception at the recent world premiere in Telluride and the Canadian premiere in Tiff.
Neon acquired Us rights in Toronto to the film about Chester and his wife as they create a sustainable family farm in California, and will be release next spring.
The festival has also announced its 2018 Doc NYC Short List: Features and Short List: Short Films selections.
The Features selection is in its seventh year, and includes 15 entries, while the Short Films selection is...
John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm will open Doc NYC on November 8 following a strong reception at the recent world premiere in Telluride and the Canadian premiere in Tiff.
Neon acquired Us rights in Toronto to the film about Chester and his wife as they create a sustainable family farm in California, and will be release next spring.
The festival has also announced its 2018 Doc NYC Short List: Features and Short List: Short Films selections.
The Features selection is in its seventh year, and includes 15 entries, while the Short Films selection is...
- 9/27/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
Do you want to know what film is going to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature next February?
It’ll either be Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s “Rgb,” Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers,” Susan Lacy’s “Jane Fonda: A Life in Five Acts,” Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” or one of these 10 other docs:
“Crime + Punishment,” Stephen Maing; “Free Solo,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin; “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross; “Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu; “On Her Shoulders,” Alexandra Bombach; “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” Wim Wenders; “Quincy,” Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks; “Reversing Roe,” Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern; “The Sentence,” Rudy Valdez; “Shirkers,” Sandi Tan.
Those, at least, are the 15 films on the annual Short List compiled by the documentary festival Doc NYC. Since its inception in 2012, the list has...
It’ll either be Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s “Rgb,” Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers,” Susan Lacy’s “Jane Fonda: A Life in Five Acts,” Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” or one of these 10 other docs:
“Crime + Punishment,” Stephen Maing; “Free Solo,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin; “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross; “Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu; “On Her Shoulders,” Alexandra Bombach; “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” Wim Wenders; “Quincy,” Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks; “Reversing Roe,” Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern; “The Sentence,” Rudy Valdez; “Shirkers,” Sandi Tan.
Those, at least, are the 15 films on the annual Short List compiled by the documentary festival Doc NYC. Since its inception in 2012, the list has...
- 9/27/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Chicago – HollywoodChicago.com will be on the road in the Windy City this weekend, as Patrick McDonald (Editor and Film Writer) makes two appearances in different venues. The first will be a “Power Breakfast” sponsored by Women in Film Chicago, on the topic of “Giving and Receiving Feedback” at 10am September 8th, 2018, at Noisefloor Post Production House on Erie Street. For more details and tickets, click here.
Power Breakfast for Women in Film Chicago is September 8th, 2018
Photo credit: WIFChicago.org
The second appearance will be as moderator to a film Q&A, as the Gene Siskel Film Center on State Street welcomes filmmaker Bing Liu and his mentor/producer Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films on September 9th, 2018. Liu will be screening his amazing documentary “Minding the Gap.” In a comprehensive interview with HollywoodChicago.com, Liu outlined particulars of the filmmaker’s journey, and what seems to be a deceptively...
Power Breakfast for Women in Film Chicago is September 8th, 2018
Photo credit: WIFChicago.org
The second appearance will be as moderator to a film Q&A, as the Gene Siskel Film Center on State Street welcomes filmmaker Bing Liu and his mentor/producer Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films on September 9th, 2018. Liu will be screening his amazing documentary “Minding the Gap.” In a comprehensive interview with HollywoodChicago.com, Liu outlined particulars of the filmmaker’s journey, and what seems to be a deceptively...
- 9/7/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Sometimes, if a filmmaker is aligned, all of their experience, accessibility and life force combine to create a signature production. This is what happened to Bing Liu, who took his life as a skateboarder and explored beyond it to find what was essential. The result is the multiple award winning documentary, “Minding the Gap.”
The film, which is now available on the online Hulu Network, will have a special Chicago run at the Gene Siskel Film Center from August 31st to September 13th, 2018 (Filmmaker Bing Liu will also make various appearances throughout the run). The acclaimed documentary has been cleaning up in honors during its 2018 film festival screenings, including a Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Home in Rockford: Bing Liu (center) with ‘Minding the Gap’ Skaters Keire Johnson (left) and Zack Mulligan
Photo credit: Hulu
The young director Liu has deep...
The film, which is now available on the online Hulu Network, will have a special Chicago run at the Gene Siskel Film Center from August 31st to September 13th, 2018 (Filmmaker Bing Liu will also make various appearances throughout the run). The acclaimed documentary has been cleaning up in honors during its 2018 film festival screenings, including a Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Home in Rockford: Bing Liu (center) with ‘Minding the Gap’ Skaters Keire Johnson (left) and Zack Mulligan
Photo credit: Hulu
The young director Liu has deep...
- 8/29/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hulu has acquired the rights to Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s Sundance Festival documentary about three young men who bond across racial lines to escape their volatile, Rust Belt family lives.
The film will be released as a Hulu Documentary both theatrically across key markets in the Us and on Hulu on August 17.
Bing Liu’s feature debut, shot in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, chronicles the lives and friendships of his skateboarding friends over the course of 12 years. As Hulu describes, the director “searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends’ turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity.”
Among the film’s subjects is 23-year-old Zack, whose tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorates after the birth of their son, and 17-year-old Keire, struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. “While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera, his friends,...
The film will be released as a Hulu Documentary both theatrically across key markets in the Us and on Hulu on August 17.
Bing Liu’s feature debut, shot in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, chronicles the lives and friendships of his skateboarding friends over the course of 12 years. As Hulu describes, the director “searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends’ turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity.”
Among the film’s subjects is 23-year-old Zack, whose tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorates after the birth of their son, and 17-year-old Keire, struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. “While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera, his friends,...
- 6/5/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate retains international and Us distribution and home entertainment rights to Participant Media’s first docuseries.
Source: Kartemquin Films
America To Me
Starz has acquired the unscripted 10-part docuseries America to Me from Participant Media and Steve James that premiered in part in Sundance.
Participant Media and Kartemquin Films produced the series – the first five episodes premiered in Park City in the Indie Episodic showcase – that focuses on the challenge of racial and educational inequalities facing American teenagers today.
The series follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of one year. The school is regarded as one of America’s most exemplary and diverse public schools.
Starz acquired all Us multiplatform pay-tv and Svod rights to the series. Lionsgate, which represents international rights to Participant’s feature film and select documentaries, will retain all international and Us distribution and home entertainment rights to the series...
Source: Kartemquin Films
America To Me
Starz has acquired the unscripted 10-part docuseries America to Me from Participant Media and Steve James that premiered in part in Sundance.
Participant Media and Kartemquin Films produced the series – the first five episodes premiered in Park City in the Indie Episodic showcase – that focuses on the challenge of racial and educational inequalities facing American teenagers today.
The series follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of one year. The school is regarded as one of America’s most exemplary and diverse public schools.
Starz acquired all Us multiplatform pay-tv and Svod rights to the series. Lionsgate, which represents international rights to Participant’s feature film and select documentaries, will retain all international and Us distribution and home entertainment rights to the series...
- 1/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
We thought all the great vintage music documentaries were accounted for, but Murray Lerner’s look at the Newport Folk Festival in the mid-‘sixties is a terrific time machine to a kindler, gentler musical era. The mix of talent is broad and deep, and we get to see excellent vintage coverage of some real legends, before the hype & marketing plague arrived.
Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 892
1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Theodore Bikel, Cousin Emmy, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen,...
Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 892
1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Theodore Bikel, Cousin Emmy, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen,...
- 8/29/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
While the vast majority of our favorite films of last year have been treated with Blu-ray releases, one title near the top of the list we’ve been waiting the longest for is Kelly Reichardt‘s Certain Women. It looks like it’s been worth the wait as The Criterion Collection have unveiled their September releases and it’s leading the pack (with special features also an interview with the director and Todd Haynes!).
Also getting a release in September, is Michael Haneke‘s Isabelle Huppert-led The Piano Teacher and the recent documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (arriving perfectly-timed to the end of the new Twin Peaks). There’s also Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic psychodrama Rebecca and the concert film Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Check out the high-resolution cover art and full details on the releases below, with more on Criterion’s site.
Also getting a release in September, is Michael Haneke‘s Isabelle Huppert-led The Piano Teacher and the recent documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (arriving perfectly-timed to the end of the new Twin Peaks). There’s also Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic psychodrama Rebecca and the concert film Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Check out the high-resolution cover art and full details on the releases below, with more on Criterion’s site.
- 6/16/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Previous | Image 1 of 11 | NextChicago Theatre marquee announces the Roger Ebert event.
Chicago – April 4th will always be a bittersweet day for the film world, as it is the day in 2013 when film critic and Chicago icon Roger Ebert passed away. But his legacy lives on through his wife Chaz Ebert and their Ebert Foundation. To uplift the anniversary, the Foundation announced 21 new recipients of $1000 grants, for their organizational contributions to arts and improving the lives of Chicagoans. Included in that recipient group was the Chicago Film Critics Association, in which Roger Ebert was a member.
HollywoodChicago.com was there, and took Exclusive Portraits at the event, which included many prominent Ebert colleagues from the area and the grant recipients. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos © Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com.
EBERT1: Chicago Theatre...
Chicago – April 4th will always be a bittersweet day for the film world, as it is the day in 2013 when film critic and Chicago icon Roger Ebert passed away. But his legacy lives on through his wife Chaz Ebert and their Ebert Foundation. To uplift the anniversary, the Foundation announced 21 new recipients of $1000 grants, for their organizational contributions to arts and improving the lives of Chicagoans. Included in that recipient group was the Chicago Film Critics Association, in which Roger Ebert was a member.
HollywoodChicago.com was there, and took Exclusive Portraits at the event, which included many prominent Ebert colleagues from the area and the grant recipients. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos © Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com.
EBERT1: Chicago Theatre...
- 4/6/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Kartemquin Films is concluding its Fall Festival tonight on Friday, November 4th, 2016, with a special presentation of clips from three upcoming documentary projects. The film house, famous for the legendary “Hoop Dreams,” will show previews of ”America to Me” by director Steve James; “Eating Up Easter” by Sergio Rapu; and ”Dilemma of Desire” by Maria Finitzo. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
’America To Me,’ Directed by Steve James, Will Preview at the Kartemquin Films Fall Festival on Nov 4th, 2016
Photo credit: Kartemquin Films
“Throughout this year our 50 year history has been showcased and honored in a number of thrilling ways. But we wanted to now put an emphasis on the new projects and rich documentary filmmaking talent that is in our community,” noted Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films co-founder and Artistic Director. “This event is a chance to get a glimpse of the future of documentary filmmaking in Chicago.
’America To Me,’ Directed by Steve James, Will Preview at the Kartemquin Films Fall Festival on Nov 4th, 2016
Photo credit: Kartemquin Films
“Throughout this year our 50 year history has been showcased and honored in a number of thrilling ways. But we wanted to now put an emphasis on the new projects and rich documentary filmmaking talent that is in our community,” noted Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films co-founder and Artistic Director. “This event is a chance to get a glimpse of the future of documentary filmmaking in Chicago.
- 11/4/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
America To Me, capturing life at a top Chicago high school championing diversity, is Participant Media’s first unscripted series.
Participant Media has boarded respected Us documentary-maker Steve James’s upcoming unscripted series America To Me following a year in the life of a top Chicago high school with an exemplary track-record and one of the diverse student populations in the Us.
David Linde, CEO of Participant, announced the company’s involvement in the series during a Media Mastermind Keynote at Mipcom on Tuesday. He said America To Me represented the company’s commitment to socially relevant entertainment.
He also noted that it marked Participant’s first foray into the unscripted series arena. Having focused on feature films up until recently, Participant has started expanding into other formats in recent months to extend the reach of its content.
“Expanding into the unscripted realm with this vibrant and compelling series with a filmmaker of Steve’s calibre and creative...
Participant Media has boarded respected Us documentary-maker Steve James’s upcoming unscripted series America To Me following a year in the life of a top Chicago high school with an exemplary track-record and one of the diverse student populations in the Us.
David Linde, CEO of Participant, announced the company’s involvement in the series during a Media Mastermind Keynote at Mipcom on Tuesday. He said America To Me represented the company’s commitment to socially relevant entertainment.
He also noted that it marked Participant’s first foray into the unscripted series arena. Having focused on feature films up until recently, Participant has started expanding into other formats in recent months to extend the reach of its content.
“Expanding into the unscripted realm with this vibrant and compelling series with a filmmaker of Steve’s calibre and creative...
- 10/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
Documentarian Steve James, director of Life Itself and Hoop Dreams, will direct and produce America to Me, a nonfiction series looking at a year in the life of a Chicago public school.
Participant Media, whose production credits include Oscar-winners Spotlight and Citizenfour, will produce America to Me as the company's first nonscripted TV series.
James will direct and executive produce the series with Kartemquin Films. Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Justine Nagan and Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann of Participant will executive produce.
America to Me will focus on Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School, one of the country's most diverse ...
Participant Media, whose production credits include Oscar-winners Spotlight and Citizenfour, will produce America to Me as the company's first nonscripted TV series.
James will direct and executive produce the series with Kartemquin Films. Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Justine Nagan and Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann of Participant will executive produce.
America to Me will focus on Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School, one of the country's most diverse ...
- 10/18/2016
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Unbroken Glass” is a documentary directed by filmmaker Dinesh Das Sabu about his journey to uncover the truth following a family tragedy. Set to make its world premiere at the 2016 Seattle South Asian Film Festival on October 22, IndieWire has your first look at the film in the trailer below.
At the age of six, Sabu and his older siblings became orphans. With little to no idea who his parents were or where they came from, he decided to piece together their story and his in a documentary. Filmed over the course of five years, he soon discovered silenced family history of mental illness and disturbing truths – his mother was schizophrenic and died by suicide – all while reconciling the past and confronting the trauma of losing his parents.
Read More: ‘She Started It’ Trailer: Documentary Aims To Bolster Female Entrepreneurship
“I hope that telling my family’s story will raise awareness...
At the age of six, Sabu and his older siblings became orphans. With little to no idea who his parents were or where they came from, he decided to piece together their story and his in a documentary. Filmed over the course of five years, he soon discovered silenced family history of mental illness and disturbing truths – his mother was schizophrenic and died by suicide – all while reconciling the past and confronting the trauma of losing his parents.
Read More: ‘She Started It’ Trailer: Documentary Aims To Bolster Female Entrepreneurship
“I hope that telling my family’s story will raise awareness...
- 9/28/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Last Friday, 1,000 people gathered in Chicago to pay tribute to 50 years of Kartemquin, a non-profit documentary company that was started by three Univerisity of Chicago students amidst the political activism and direct cinema movement of the 1960s. When Stan Karter, Jerry Temaner and Gordon Quinn founded the documentary unit in 1966 the mission was to challenge social power-structures by telling intimate stories of ordinary people. Over the years that mission has largely stayed intact, but the method and approach as the company evolved and grew.
Gallery: Kartemquin’s 50 Year History in Pictures
In the 1970s, Kartemquin veered away from auteurism and entered their “collective” period. During this time they took a large step in the direction of left-wing activism and agitprop filmmaking, often becoming partners with those struggling for labor, women’s and civil rights by tackling issues of women’s healthcare, gentrification, race and poverty.
In the 1980s, Kartemquin left...
Gallery: Kartemquin’s 50 Year History in Pictures
In the 1970s, Kartemquin veered away from auteurism and entered their “collective” period. During this time they took a large step in the direction of left-wing activism and agitprop filmmaking, often becoming partners with those struggling for labor, women’s and civil rights by tackling issues of women’s healthcare, gentrification, race and poverty.
In the 1980s, Kartemquin left...
- 6/29/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The “direct cinema” and “cinéma vérité” movement pioneered by non-fiction filmmakers like Robert Drew and the Maysles was in part fueled by advances in camera technology. Similar to how the digital technology has forever altered our current documentary landscape, in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the big advancement was faster film stock (which needed less light for exposure) and portable 16mm cameras with a crystal sync — which allowed sound to be recorded independently and later synchronized in post-production. That gave tremendous freedom to filmmakers to follow subjects and capture everyday life.
Read More: How the Footage of Bernie Sanders Being Arrested in 1963 Was Discovered By Kartemquin Films
The intimacy and fluidity of these films that spawned from the new equipment inspired three aspiring documentarians from University of Chicago: Stan Karter, Jerry Temaner, and Gordon Quinn, who founded Kartemquin Films (the company’s name came from a combination of letters...
Read More: How the Footage of Bernie Sanders Being Arrested in 1963 Was Discovered By Kartemquin Films
The intimacy and fluidity of these films that spawned from the new equipment inspired three aspiring documentarians from University of Chicago: Stan Karter, Jerry Temaner, and Gordon Quinn, who founded Kartemquin Films (the company’s name came from a combination of letters...
- 6/24/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Chicago – In the final chapter of a three-part interview, Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films desires to evolve forward, soon after the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Chicago documentary house have past.
The “studio” Quinn co-founded has kept their integrity intact, and strives to keep cinematically exploring human drama that promotes understanding between all levels of contemporary society.
There have been several high profile documentaries that have expressed that understanding, and have forged a pathway that “Hoop Dreams” opened up for them. “Vietnam, Long Time Coming” (1998), “The New Americans” (2004) series on PBS, “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson” for Espn, “The Interrupters” (2011), “The Trials of Muhammad Ali” (2013) and “Life Itself” (2014) stand proudly alongside the best of the last 50 years, with three more films in post production awaiting release.
Director Steve James Composes ‘The Interrupters’ (2011)
Photo credit: Kartemquin Films
In Part Three, Kartemquin filmmaker Gordon Quinn reflects on the post “Hoops” year,...
The “studio” Quinn co-founded has kept their integrity intact, and strives to keep cinematically exploring human drama that promotes understanding between all levels of contemporary society.
There have been several high profile documentaries that have expressed that understanding, and have forged a pathway that “Hoop Dreams” opened up for them. “Vietnam, Long Time Coming” (1998), “The New Americans” (2004) series on PBS, “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson” for Espn, “The Interrupters” (2011), “The Trials of Muhammad Ali” (2013) and “Life Itself” (2014) stand proudly alongside the best of the last 50 years, with three more films in post production awaiting release.
Director Steve James Composes ‘The Interrupters’ (2011)
Photo credit: Kartemquin Films
In Part Three, Kartemquin filmmaker Gordon Quinn reflects on the post “Hoops” year,...
- 6/23/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – It has been 22 years since one of the greatest documentaries in film history was released, and it was created right here in Chicago by Kartemquin Films. “Hoop Dreams,” produced by Gordon Quinn (among others) and directed by Steve James, was a turning point for Kartemquin, which had at the time been making socially focused docs for over 30 years. As part of the film company’s 50th anniversary, Gordon Quinn revisits the groundbreaking film.
“Hoop Dreams” (1994) was the story of high schoolers William Gates and Arthur Agee, as they and their families experience the ups and downs of their path to basketball glory. Filmed as a fly-on-the-wall series of events, the documentary is a fascinating and emotional narrative on the levels of fulfillment in sports and in life. Snubbed at the Academy Awards for Best Documentary (it did get a nomination for Best Editing), the film earned a status as...
“Hoop Dreams” (1994) was the story of high schoolers William Gates and Arthur Agee, as they and their families experience the ups and downs of their path to basketball glory. Filmed as a fly-on-the-wall series of events, the documentary is a fascinating and emotional narrative on the levels of fulfillment in sports and in life. Snubbed at the Academy Awards for Best Documentary (it did get a nomination for Best Editing), the film earned a status as...
- 6/22/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Two months ago, producer/director/cinematographer/editor Gordon Quinn received the Baadasssss Award from the 2016 Cimm Fest, for his longtime contributions to the cinema scene in Chicago through Kartemquin Films. The famous production house, known for their documentaries, is celebrating their 50th anniversary.
Kartemquin began in 1966 when three newly minted University of Chicago grads partnered to create socially conscious films, and took part of their names – Stan KARter, Jerry TEManer and Gordon QUINn – to form Kartemquin Films. Towards the end of the 1960s, Karter and Temaner had moved on, and the late Jerry Blumenthal stepped in to become the de facto fourth founder. It is Gordon Quinn that remains after 50 years, and he is the standard bearer for a film company that seeks to be a home for independent filmmakers who develop documentaries that deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama – focusing on people whose lives are...
Kartemquin began in 1966 when three newly minted University of Chicago grads partnered to create socially conscious films, and took part of their names – Stan KARter, Jerry TEManer and Gordon QUINn – to form Kartemquin Films. Towards the end of the 1960s, Karter and Temaner had moved on, and the late Jerry Blumenthal stepped in to become the de facto fourth founder. It is Gordon Quinn that remains after 50 years, and he is the standard bearer for a film company that seeks to be a home for independent filmmakers who develop documentaries that deepen our understanding of society through everyday human drama – focusing on people whose lives are...
- 6/21/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
From Hoop Dreams to The Interrupters, the Chicago documentary production company can boast of some of the most searing documentaries ever made
For 50 years, Chicago documentary production company Kartemquin has been making thought-provoking documentaries that have had an international impact. Now 74, artistic director Gordon Quinn, burns with the same passion that saw him establish the collective. Sitting in his Chicago office, awards piled up on the shelves through the French doors, he sets out his original manifesto.
“We wanted to make films to make social change, to give people information, and to change the world for the better. We were very taken with telling people’s stories who don’t usually get told. We felt that that kind of storytelling had an important role to play in the democratic process. That’s what we were very committed to and passionate about; and we still are today.”
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For 50 years, Chicago documentary production company Kartemquin has been making thought-provoking documentaries that have had an international impact. Now 74, artistic director Gordon Quinn, burns with the same passion that saw him establish the collective. Sitting in his Chicago office, awards piled up on the shelves through the French doors, he sets out his original manifesto.
“We wanted to make films to make social change, to give people information, and to change the world for the better. We were very taken with telling people’s stories who don’t usually get told. We felt that that kind of storytelling had an important role to play in the democratic process. That’s what we were very committed to and passionate about; and we still are today.”
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- 5/20/2016
- by Alexander Bisley
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The hottest two days of the 2016 CIMMfest – the Chicago International Music & Movies Festival – is of course on the last two weekend days. After conferring their Baadasssss Award to Documentarian Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films on Friday, April 15th, it’s time for the Saturday/Sunday blitz to begin.
The Chicago International Movie & Music Festival
Photo credit: CIMMFest
HollywoodChicago.com recommends six kick-ass things to do at Cimm Fest to make the weekend (April 16th and 17th, 2016) rock…
CIMMcon
If you’re in entertainment, music, TV or film, these are the main days (April 16/17) of vital information and industry interaction! CIMMcon is the Midwest’s premier Film, Music, and Tech Conference. It features two full days packed with panels, presentations, workshops, and networking events led by key figures in entertainment, media arts, and technology.
For more information and complete schedule, click here.
David Bowie
Celebrate the life of one of...
The Chicago International Movie & Music Festival
Photo credit: CIMMFest
HollywoodChicago.com recommends six kick-ass things to do at Cimm Fest to make the weekend (April 16th and 17th, 2016) rock…
CIMMcon
If you’re in entertainment, music, TV or film, these are the main days (April 16/17) of vital information and industry interaction! CIMMcon is the Midwest’s premier Film, Music, and Tech Conference. It features two full days packed with panels, presentations, workshops, and networking events led by key figures in entertainment, media arts, and technology.
For more information and complete schedule, click here.
David Bowie
Celebrate the life of one of...
- 4/16/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The 2015 Ida Documentary Awards took place at the Paramount Theater hosted by comedian Tig Notaro. Notaro was quick to point out this was the first year of the awards being “broadcasted…” on Periscope, and for that reason alone maybe the last.
The Best Feature Award was given to Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence,” which made the Oscar shortlist earlier in the week and happens to be the film companion for “The Act of Killing.” “The Look of Silence” has been banned in Indonesia and screenings of the film are only available through NGOs, schools/universities, religious organizations and other limited outlets.
Read More: 12 Things Joshua Oppenheimer Wants You to Know About 'The Look of Silence
The winner for Best Short Award went to the animated short “Last Day of Freedom” directed by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman. The directors thanked the Ida for giving the award to an animated film.
Read More: Oscar Shortlisted Doc Short 'Last Day of Freedom' is a Gentle Animated Look at Complex Issues
Ida’s Career Achievement Award was presented to Gordon Quinn, Founder and Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films. The award was presented by Chaz Ebert, whose husband Roger Ebert was the subject of Quinn’s film “Life Itself” and by Haskell Wexler, influential cinematographer, producer, and director.
Academy Award® winning director Kathryn Bigelow presented the Courage Under Fire Award to Director Matthew Heineman for his immersive and brave work in the pursuit of truth in “Cartel Land.” Bigelow executive produced Heineman’s “Cartel Land.”
Read More: Matthew Heineman on Going Beyond the Headlines and Body Count in 'Cartel Land'
Ted Sarandos, the Chief Content Officer at Netflix, was awarded with The Pioneer Award, in recognition to the company’s game-changing and support to the production of non-fiction programming. The Pioneer Award is presented by the Ida to acknowledge extraordinary contributions to advancing the nonfiction form and providing exceptional vision and leadership to the documentary community.
Read More: 'Best of Enemies' Co-Director Morgan Neville on Intellectual Divas and the Theatricality of Politics
Actor, director and political activist Danny Glover presented Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation ( www.berthafoundation.org) with the Ida’s Amicus Award in recognition of their work supporting the essential needs of the non-fiction media landscape.
Full List of 2015 Ida Documentary Awards Honorees & Winners:
Career Achievement Award
Gordon Quinn
Pioneer Award
Ted Sarandos
Amicus Award
Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award sponsored by the Archibald Family Foundation
Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
Courage Under Fire Award
Matthew Heineman
Best Feature Award
"The Look of Silence"
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Drafthouse Films and Participant Media
Best Short Award
"Last Day of Freedom"
Directors: Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Pare Lorentz Award
"How to Change the World"
Director: Jerry Rothwell
Creative Recognition Award Winners
Best Cinematography
"The Russian Woodpecker"
Cinematography by: Artem Ryzhykov
Best Editing
"Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck"
Edited by: Joe Beshenkovsky and Brett Morgen
Best Writing
"Listen to Me Marlon"
Written by: Stevan Riley
Co-Writer: Peter Ettedgui
Best Music
"Best of Enemies"
Original Score by: Jonathan Kirkscey
ABC News VideoSource Award
"Best of Enemies"
Directors: Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville
Magnolia Pictures
Best Curated Series Award
"Independent Lens"
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen
Itvs, PBS
Pov
Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry and Chris White
Pov, PBS
Best Limited Series Award
"The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst"
Executive Producer: Jason Blum
Co-Executive Producer: Zac Stuart-Pontier
Produced by: Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
HBO
Best Episodic Series Award
"Chef’s Table"
Executive Producers: David Gelb and Andrew Fried
Netflix
Best Short Form Series Award
"Do Not Track"
Executive Producer: Hugues Sweeney
National Film Board of Canada, Upian, Arte, and Br
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
"The Archipelago"
Director: Benjamin Huguet
The National Film and Television School...
The Best Feature Award was given to Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence,” which made the Oscar shortlist earlier in the week and happens to be the film companion for “The Act of Killing.” “The Look of Silence” has been banned in Indonesia and screenings of the film are only available through NGOs, schools/universities, religious organizations and other limited outlets.
Read More: 12 Things Joshua Oppenheimer Wants You to Know About 'The Look of Silence
The winner for Best Short Award went to the animated short “Last Day of Freedom” directed by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman. The directors thanked the Ida for giving the award to an animated film.
Read More: Oscar Shortlisted Doc Short 'Last Day of Freedom' is a Gentle Animated Look at Complex Issues
Ida’s Career Achievement Award was presented to Gordon Quinn, Founder and Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films. The award was presented by Chaz Ebert, whose husband Roger Ebert was the subject of Quinn’s film “Life Itself” and by Haskell Wexler, influential cinematographer, producer, and director.
Academy Award® winning director Kathryn Bigelow presented the Courage Under Fire Award to Director Matthew Heineman for his immersive and brave work in the pursuit of truth in “Cartel Land.” Bigelow executive produced Heineman’s “Cartel Land.”
Read More: Matthew Heineman on Going Beyond the Headlines and Body Count in 'Cartel Land'
Ted Sarandos, the Chief Content Officer at Netflix, was awarded with The Pioneer Award, in recognition to the company’s game-changing and support to the production of non-fiction programming. The Pioneer Award is presented by the Ida to acknowledge extraordinary contributions to advancing the nonfiction form and providing exceptional vision and leadership to the documentary community.
Read More: 'Best of Enemies' Co-Director Morgan Neville on Intellectual Divas and the Theatricality of Politics
Actor, director and political activist Danny Glover presented Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation ( www.berthafoundation.org) with the Ida’s Amicus Award in recognition of their work supporting the essential needs of the non-fiction media landscape.
Full List of 2015 Ida Documentary Awards Honorees & Winners:
Career Achievement Award
Gordon Quinn
Pioneer Award
Ted Sarandos
Amicus Award
Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award sponsored by the Archibald Family Foundation
Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
Courage Under Fire Award
Matthew Heineman
Best Feature Award
"The Look of Silence"
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Drafthouse Films and Participant Media
Best Short Award
"Last Day of Freedom"
Directors: Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Pare Lorentz Award
"How to Change the World"
Director: Jerry Rothwell
Creative Recognition Award Winners
Best Cinematography
"The Russian Woodpecker"
Cinematography by: Artem Ryzhykov
Best Editing
"Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck"
Edited by: Joe Beshenkovsky and Brett Morgen
Best Writing
"Listen to Me Marlon"
Written by: Stevan Riley
Co-Writer: Peter Ettedgui
Best Music
"Best of Enemies"
Original Score by: Jonathan Kirkscey
ABC News VideoSource Award
"Best of Enemies"
Directors: Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville
Magnolia Pictures
Best Curated Series Award
"Independent Lens"
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen
Itvs, PBS
Pov
Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry and Chris White
Pov, PBS
Best Limited Series Award
"The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst"
Executive Producer: Jason Blum
Co-Executive Producer: Zac Stuart-Pontier
Produced by: Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
HBO
Best Episodic Series Award
"Chef’s Table"
Executive Producers: David Gelb and Andrew Fried
Netflix
Best Short Form Series Award
"Do Not Track"
Executive Producer: Hugues Sweeney
National Film Board of Canada, Upian, Arte, and Br
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
"The Archipelago"
Director: Benjamin Huguet
The National Film and Television School...
- 1/3/2016
- by Alejandro Torres Rezzio
- Sydney's Buzz
I previously profiled this new still-in-the-works documentary film from Chicago-based Kartemquin Films ("Hoop Dreams," "The Interrupters," "The Trials of Muhammad Ali"), titled "'63 Boycott," two years ago; they still need your help to complete it. Directed by Gordon Quinn ("A Good Man" documentary on choreographer Bill T. Jones), the film is about the 1963 Chicago school boycott, called “Freedom Day,” during which some 200,000 people, mostly school students, protested and marched over the school system's racist segregationist policies by then Cps Superintendent Benjamin Willis. The film...
- 12/9/2015
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Joshua Oppenheimer's searing documentary about the 1960s Indonesian genocide won big at the 31st Annual Ida Documentary Awards trampling down award season favorite "Amy." The Best Short Documentary award went to Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman's "Last Day of Freedom."
Here's the complete list of nominees and winners (highlighted) of the 31st Annual Ida Documentary Awards are:
Best Feature
"Amy"
"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"
"Listen to Me Marlon"
"The Look of Silence" -- Winner
"The Russian Woodpecker"
"What Happened, Miss Simone?"
Best Short Documentary
"Body Team 12"
"Claude Lanzmann: Specters of the Shoah"
"The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul"
"Object"
"Last Day of Freedom" -- Winner
ABC News VideoSource Award
"(T)error"
"Best of Enemies" -- Winner
"Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll"
"Night Will Fall"
"What Happened, Miss Simone?"
Curated Series Award
"30 For 30" (Espn)
"Independent Lens" (Itvs/PBS) -- Winner...
Here's the complete list of nominees and winners (highlighted) of the 31st Annual Ida Documentary Awards are:
Best Feature
"Amy"
"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"
"Listen to Me Marlon"
"The Look of Silence" -- Winner
"The Russian Woodpecker"
"What Happened, Miss Simone?"
Best Short Documentary
"Body Team 12"
"Claude Lanzmann: Specters of the Shoah"
"The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul"
"Object"
"Last Day of Freedom" -- Winner
ABC News VideoSource Award
"(T)error"
"Best of Enemies" -- Winner
"Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll"
"Night Will Fall"
"What Happened, Miss Simone?"
Curated Series Award
"30 For 30" (Espn)
"Independent Lens" (Itvs/PBS) -- Winner...
- 12/7/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Joshua Oppenheimer’s companion piece to The Act Of Killing earned the best feature award at the International Documentary Association’s 2015 Ida Documentary Awards on Saturday night.
The Ida’s Career Achievement Award was presented to Gordon Quinn, the Kartemquin Films founder and artistic director, while Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos collected the Pioneer Award.
The prize was presented “in recognition of the company’s game-changing and unwavering support of creating and showcasing nonfiction programming.”
Kathryn Bigelow awarded Matthew Heineman the Ida’s Courage Under Fire Award for Cartel Land.
Full list of winners:
Career Achievement Award
Gordon Quinn
Pioneer Award
Ted Sarandos
Amicus Award
Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award sponsored by the Archibald Family Foundation
Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
Courage Under Fire Award
Matthew Heineman
Best Feature Award
The Look Of Silence
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Best Short Award
Last Day Of Freedom
Directors:...
The Ida’s Career Achievement Award was presented to Gordon Quinn, the Kartemquin Films founder and artistic director, while Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos collected the Pioneer Award.
The prize was presented “in recognition of the company’s game-changing and unwavering support of creating and showcasing nonfiction programming.”
Kathryn Bigelow awarded Matthew Heineman the Ida’s Courage Under Fire Award for Cartel Land.
Full list of winners:
Career Achievement Award
Gordon Quinn
Pioneer Award
Ted Sarandos
Amicus Award
Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award sponsored by the Archibald Family Foundation
Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
Courage Under Fire Award
Matthew Heineman
Best Feature Award
The Look Of Silence
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Best Short Award
Last Day Of Freedom
Directors:...
- 12/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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