The Cinema Eye Honors announced the winners for its documentary films and series competition Friday in Manhattan, with “32 Sounds” taking the honor for outstanding nonfiction feature. Maite Alberdi won outstanding direction for “The Eternal Memory” together with Kaouther Ben Hania for “Four Daughters,” while “Paul T. Goldman” won outstanding nonfiction series.
See all the winners below:
—Outstanding Nonfiction Feature
32 Sounds
Directed by Sam Green
Produced by Josh Penn and Thomas O. Kriegsmann
—Outstanding Direction
Maite Alberdi
The Eternal Memory
Kaouther Ben Hania
Four Daughters
—Outstanding Editing
Michael Harte
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
—Outstanding Production
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson Rath, Derl McCrudden and Vasilisa Stepanenko
20 Days in Mariupol
—Outstanding Cinematography
Ants Tammik
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
—Outstanding Original Score
Jd Samson
32 Sounds
—Outstanding Sound Design
Mark Mangini
32 Sounds
—Outstanding Visual Design
Thomas Curtis and Sean Pierce
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
—Outstanding Debut
Kokomo...
See all the winners below:
—Outstanding Nonfiction Feature
32 Sounds
Directed by Sam Green
Produced by Josh Penn and Thomas O. Kriegsmann
—Outstanding Direction
Maite Alberdi
The Eternal Memory
Kaouther Ben Hania
Four Daughters
—Outstanding Editing
Michael Harte
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
—Outstanding Production
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson Rath, Derl McCrudden and Vasilisa Stepanenko
20 Days in Mariupol
—Outstanding Cinematography
Ants Tammik
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
—Outstanding Original Score
Jd Samson
32 Sounds
—Outstanding Sound Design
Mark Mangini
32 Sounds
—Outstanding Visual Design
Thomas Curtis and Sean Pierce
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
—Outstanding Debut
Kokomo...
- 1/13/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay, Caroline Brew, Jaden Thompson and Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
FilmsDespite the many limitations, documentary filmmakers continue the work of speaking the truth about what is going on in the country, through the voices of people.Still from Anand Patwardhan's 'Reason'Four years ago, just before the screening of veteran documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan’s Reason at a film festival in Kerala, the Union government tried to stop it. Within hours, the state’s Chalachithra Academy, which organised the festival, went to the High Court and won the order that allowed them to screen it on the last day. The 4-hour-long film, which chronicles the killing of rationalists and incidents of mob lynching in India of the time, ran to a full house. This is a struggle that some documentary makers in the country go through over and over again. By the mid-70s, a few documentarians began to speak the truth about what was going on in the country,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
Culture wars are a global phenomenon, increasingly contaminating the world of news. There have always been news outlets that lean left or right but now channels in search of ratings push “values” rather than “facts”, champion commentary over information gathering and instead of debating those who disagree with them, label them with nebulous terms like “woke” or “unpatriotic”. While people considering division along cultural lines might immediately think of the US, the problem has also become acute in Narendra Modi’s India as Vinay Shukla’s timely documentary shows.
In it, he follows the day-to-day life of award-winning journalist Ravish Kumar who, at the time, was working for Ndtv (he now hosts his own YouTube channel). Kumar is shown to be a thoughtful journalist, who isn’t scared to ask questions about unemployment or the conditions many in rural India are living in. Thanks to sharp juxtaposing from editor Abhinav Tyagi.
In it, he follows the day-to-day life of award-winning journalist Ravish Kumar who, at the time, was working for Ndtv (he now hosts his own YouTube channel). Kumar is shown to be a thoughtful journalist, who isn’t scared to ask questions about unemployment or the conditions many in rural India are living in. Thanks to sharp juxtaposing from editor Abhinav Tyagi.
- 7/17/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
News anchor Kumar stays quietly courageous amid nationalist hysteria in Vinay Shukla’s tense documentary – but its final note of hope has been undermined by recent events
Events have overtaken this sombre documentary, which, though interesting and relevant, doesn’t encompass important recent developments. It is about the sinister pro-Modi nationalist hysteria in India that infected the country’s quasi-Fox TV channels, and one moderate journalist who politely stood against it: Ndtv’s news anchor Ravish Kumar. This was especially true in the unbearably tense period before the 2019 election in which Modi was victorious, when the Indian government launched an airstrike on Balakot in Pakistan in retaliation for a terrorist attack on an Indian police convoy in Pulwama in Kashmir.
Indian TV’s shrill pundits denounced traitors everywhere, and this documentary by Vinay Shukla details Kumar’s quiet courage in just carrying on with his reports on the...
Events have overtaken this sombre documentary, which, though interesting and relevant, doesn’t encompass important recent developments. It is about the sinister pro-Modi nationalist hysteria in India that infected the country’s quasi-Fox TV channels, and one moderate journalist who politely stood against it: Ndtv’s news anchor Ravish Kumar. This was especially true in the unbearably tense period before the 2019 election in which Modi was victorious, when the Indian government launched an airstrike on Balakot in Pakistan in retaliation for a terrorist attack on an Indian police convoy in Pulwama in Kashmir.
Indian TV’s shrill pundits denounced traitors everywhere, and this documentary by Vinay Shukla details Kumar’s quiet courage in just carrying on with his reports on the...
- 7/12/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Disney releases “Elemental” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” were locked in a near dead heat at the U.K. and Ireland box office, with the animated elements edging out the veteran archaeologist.
“Elemental” debuted with £3.049 million ($3.876 million), according to numbers from Comscore. In its second weekend, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” whipped up £3.046 million ($3.873 million) for a close second and now has a total of £13.1 million.
If looking at weekend numbers alone, Harrison Ford’s last adventure as the man in the hat won the race as the “Elemental” numbers include “limited secret sneak previews from across the market,” according to Disney.
Sony’s “Insidious: The Red Door” scared up £2.2 million in a third place debut. In its sixth weekend, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” swung to £964,566 in fourth position for a total of £27.7 million.
Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,...
“Elemental” debuted with £3.049 million ($3.876 million), according to numbers from Comscore. In its second weekend, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” whipped up £3.046 million ($3.873 million) for a close second and now has a total of £13.1 million.
If looking at weekend numbers alone, Harrison Ford’s last adventure as the man in the hat won the race as the “Elemental” numbers include “limited secret sneak previews from across the market,” according to Disney.
Sony’s “Insidious: The Red Door” scared up £2.2 million in a third place debut. In its sixth weekend, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” swung to £964,566 in fourth position for a total of £27.7 million.
Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Earlier this year, Indian news network Ndtv — one of the only remaining mainstream media channels in the country that raised questions against its government — was acquired by the country's top oligarch, the Adani Group. An open supporter and old friend of the country's prime minister, Gautam Adani's acquisition further raised doubts about the state's crackdown on freedom of speech and expression, manifested by disqualification of opposition MPs and wide crackdown on dissenters as well as dissidents. Following the acquisition, one of the country's most talked about senior journalists resigned from the news channel. Vinay Shukla's poignant new documentary tells the story of that one journalist.
“While We Watched” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase
The 92-minute documentary starts with Ravish Kumar walking into an abandoned floor with its walls and ceilings being taken apart. Holding a flashlight in his hand, he walks across the room,...
“While We Watched” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase
The 92-minute documentary starts with Ravish Kumar walking into an abandoned floor with its walls and ceilings being taken apart. Holding a flashlight in his hand, he walks across the room,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Aryan Vyas
- AsianMoviePulse
MetFilm Distribution has acquired the U.K. and Ireland rights to Vinay Shukla’s multi-award-winning documentary ‘While We Watched’, reports ‘Variety’.
Produced by the UK’s Lono Studio and BritDoc Films, the documentary is a newsroom drama chronicling the working days of former popular Ndtv journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation, ‘Variety’ adds.
A Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Kumar resigned after controversial billionaire Gautam Adani took over the company.
‘While We Watched’ debuted at Toronto in 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices award, followed by Busan, where it picked up the Cinephile award, according to ‘Variety’. Most recently, the film won the international competition at Helsinki’s DocPoint Festival.
Shukla had previously co-directed the 2016 political documentary ‘An Insignificant Man’ on the rise of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party. ‘While We Watched’, Shukla told ‘Variety’, is “my love letter to journalism”.
He...
Produced by the UK’s Lono Studio and BritDoc Films, the documentary is a newsroom drama chronicling the working days of former popular Ndtv journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation, ‘Variety’ adds.
A Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Kumar resigned after controversial billionaire Gautam Adani took over the company.
‘While We Watched’ debuted at Toronto in 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices award, followed by Busan, where it picked up the Cinephile award, according to ‘Variety’. Most recently, the film won the international competition at Helsinki’s DocPoint Festival.
Shukla had previously co-directed the 2016 political documentary ‘An Insignificant Man’ on the rise of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party. ‘While We Watched’, Shukla told ‘Variety’, is “my love letter to journalism”.
He...
- 2/14/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
MetFilm Distribution has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to Vinay Shukla’s documentary “While We Watched.”
Produced by the U.K.’s Lono Studio and BritDoc Films, the documentary is a newsroom drama intimately chronicling the working days of Indian broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation. Kumar, a Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, was a senior journalist at Indian news platform Ndtv, who resigned after billionaire Gautam Adani took over the company.
“While We Watched” debuted at Toronto in 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices award, followed by Busan, where it won the Cinephile award. Most recently, the film won the international competition at Helsinki’s DocPoint Festival.
Shukla previously co-directed controversial Indian political documentary “An Insignificant Man.”
Shukla said: “ ‘While We Watched’ is my love letter to journalism. It’s an urgent newsroom horror film — there is a story of hope...
Produced by the U.K.’s Lono Studio and BritDoc Films, the documentary is a newsroom drama intimately chronicling the working days of Indian broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation. Kumar, a Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, was a senior journalist at Indian news platform Ndtv, who resigned after billionaire Gautam Adani took over the company.
“While We Watched” debuted at Toronto in 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices award, followed by Busan, where it won the Cinephile award. Most recently, the film won the international competition at Helsinki’s DocPoint Festival.
Shukla previously co-directed controversial Indian political documentary “An Insignificant Man.”
Shukla said: “ ‘While We Watched’ is my love letter to journalism. It’s an urgent newsroom horror film — there is a story of hope...
- 2/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Several months after making a hostile takeover bid for New Delhi Television (Ndtv), one of India’s most trusted news sources, the Adani Group will control nearly 65 of the company.
The Adani Group is chaired by billionaire Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia and the third richest man in the world.
In August, Adani’s Amg Media Networks Limited (Amnl) acquired some 29 of Ndtv indirectly, by buying out loans to the company and after an open offer to acquire more of the company, owned a 37 stake in the company, becoming the single largest shareholder in the process.
Ndtv had said in a statement at the time that the loan buyout “was executed without any input from, conversation with, or consent of the Ndtv founders.”
On Friday, Ndtv founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy decided to sell 27.26 of their 32.26 share in the company to Amnl, it was disclosed in Ndtv regulatory filings.
The Adani Group is chaired by billionaire Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia and the third richest man in the world.
In August, Adani’s Amg Media Networks Limited (Amnl) acquired some 29 of Ndtv indirectly, by buying out loans to the company and after an open offer to acquire more of the company, owned a 37 stake in the company, becoming the single largest shareholder in the process.
Ndtv had said in a statement at the time that the loan buyout “was executed without any input from, conversation with, or consent of the Ndtv founders.”
On Friday, Ndtv founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy decided to sell 27.26 of their 32.26 share in the company to Amnl, it was disclosed in Ndtv regulatory filings.
- 12/23/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Award-winning Indian journalist Ravish Kumar has stepped down from his role at broadcaster Ndtv, which is in the process of a hostile takeover by Indian billionaire Guatam Adani.
His resignation came one day after Ndtv co-founders Prannoy and Radhika Roy resigned as directors of Rrpr Holding, one of the backers of Ndtv. On November 22, the Adani Group started the process of acquiring an additional 26 stake in the broadcaster, which following the acquisition of a 29.18 stake announced in August, gives it a controlling 55 share.
Ndtv put out a statement in August saying that Adani’s move to acquire the shareholdings had been undertaken without first consulting the co-founders, who hold a 32.26 stake.
Founded by Prannoy and Radhika Roy in 1984, Ndtv is regarded as one of the last media platforms in India prepared to criticize the Indian government and ruling Bjp party’s policies. Adani is a close ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
His resignation came one day after Ndtv co-founders Prannoy and Radhika Roy resigned as directors of Rrpr Holding, one of the backers of Ndtv. On November 22, the Adani Group started the process of acquiring an additional 26 stake in the broadcaster, which following the acquisition of a 29.18 stake announced in August, gives it a controlling 55 share.
Ndtv put out a statement in August saying that Adani’s move to acquire the shareholdings had been undertaken without first consulting the co-founders, who hold a 32.26 stake.
Founded by Prannoy and Radhika Roy in 1984, Ndtv is regarded as one of the last media platforms in India prepared to criticize the Indian government and ruling Bjp party’s policies. Adani is a close ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- 12/1/2022
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Documentary about the state of news in India to receive its European premiere at IDFA.
Paris-based documentary specialist Cat&Docs has acquired international rights to Vinay Shukla’s While We Watched, which is receiving its European premiere at International Documentary Festival Amstedam (IDFA), after winning prizes at Toronto and Busan.
Cat&Docs will represent the film in all territories excluding the UK, US, India and Qatar, which are handled by the filmmakers.
The documentary goes inside the newsroom of India’s Ndtv — one of the country’s most trusted news channels — and follows veteran journalist Ravish Kumar, who is known for...
Paris-based documentary specialist Cat&Docs has acquired international rights to Vinay Shukla’s While We Watched, which is receiving its European premiere at International Documentary Festival Amstedam (IDFA), after winning prizes at Toronto and Busan.
Cat&Docs will represent the film in all territories excluding the UK, US, India and Qatar, which are handled by the filmmakers.
The documentary goes inside the newsroom of India’s Ndtv — one of the country’s most trusted news channels — and follows veteran journalist Ravish Kumar, who is known for...
- 11/10/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
TIFF 2022Independent Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja’s ‘To Kill a Tiger’ and Indian filmmaker Vinay Shukla’s ‘While We Watched’ (or ‘Namaskar! Main Ravish Kumar’) both won Amplify Voice Awards at TIFF.Suresh NellikodeA scene from To Kill a Tiger | Image courtesy: TIFFAs the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) came to a close on Sunday, September 18, two India-based movies bagged top honours for their directors for bravely taking up challenging subjects. Independent Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja’s To Kill a Tiger and Indian filmmaker Vinay Shukla’s While We Watched (or Namaskar! Main Ravish Kumar) both won Amplify Voice Awards. To Kill a Tiger is a documentary, made with the help of the National Film Board of Canada, that took 8 years to shoot. The film tells the story of a 13-year-old girl from a poor family in a village in Jharkhand who is brutally gang-raped. The...
- 9/20/2022
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
Includes new work from Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Werner Herzog and Klaus Hӓrӧ.
New work from Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Werner Herzog and Klaus Hӓrӧ are among TIFF Docs and Contemporary World Cinema line-ups announced on Wednesday (August 17).
In TIFF Docs, Cowperthwaite’s The Grab exposes the systematic acquisition of food and water resources by international governments and private companies. Herzog returns to the fray with Theatre Of Thought, in which he explores the cutting edge of brain research.
The selection includes Mark Fletcher’s nature documentary Patrick And The Whale (pictured) and opens with Sacha Jenkins’ Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.
New work from Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Werner Herzog and Klaus Hӓrӧ are among TIFF Docs and Contemporary World Cinema line-ups announced on Wednesday (August 17).
In TIFF Docs, Cowperthwaite’s The Grab exposes the systematic acquisition of food and water resources by international governments and private companies. Herzog returns to the fray with Theatre Of Thought, in which he explores the cutting edge of brain research.
The selection includes Mark Fletcher’s nature documentary Patrick And The Whale (pictured) and opens with Sacha Jenkins’ Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.
- 8/17/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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