Exclusive: Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment is partnering with the podcast Ear Hustle — part of the Radiotopia podcast network from Prx — on a docuseries adaptation.
Co-hosted by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in prison. A two-time Peabody Awards finalist, National Magazine Awards finalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist downloaded more than 78 million times, the show is made by a team both inside and out of San Quentin State Prison in California, traversing stories such as finding romance, grappling with a life sentence, trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, getting out and starting over, and beyond.
With the series to be directed by Erika Cohn, the two-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker behind New York Times Critics Pick Belly of the Beast, Revelations aims to capture authentic, raw and surprising stories of prison life by delving even...
Co-hosted by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in prison. A two-time Peabody Awards finalist, National Magazine Awards finalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist downloaded more than 78 million times, the show is made by a team both inside and out of San Quentin State Prison in California, traversing stories such as finding romance, grappling with a life sentence, trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, getting out and starting over, and beyond.
With the series to be directed by Erika Cohn, the two-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker behind New York Times Critics Pick Belly of the Beast, Revelations aims to capture authentic, raw and surprising stories of prison life by delving even...
- 3/21/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten documentary projects from eight countries have been selected as grantees of Project: Hatched, a Chicken & Egg Pictures program designed to support directors as they develop and launch strategic impact campaigns.
Many of the selected projects had prestigious premieres at film festivals, including Sundance and IDFA. But despite the high-profile debuts, the dismal docu marketplace has forced filmmakers to figure out various alternative distribution models. Project: Hatched funding can help filmmakers ensure an impact campaign around a project that in all likelihood took years to make. Even films such as this year’s Project: Hatched grantee title “Pay or Die,” which was acquired by MTV Documentary Films, are in need of funding for an impact campaign.
Each of the 10 selected film will receive $30,000, which will go towards completion funding and impact campaigns. This is the first year that the grant’s criteria were expanded to include international projects. Additionally, this...
Many of the selected projects had prestigious premieres at film festivals, including Sundance and IDFA. But despite the high-profile debuts, the dismal docu marketplace has forced filmmakers to figure out various alternative distribution models. Project: Hatched funding can help filmmakers ensure an impact campaign around a project that in all likelihood took years to make. Even films such as this year’s Project: Hatched grantee title “Pay or Die,” which was acquired by MTV Documentary Films, are in need of funding for an impact campaign.
Each of the 10 selected film will receive $30,000, which will go towards completion funding and impact campaigns. This is the first year that the grant’s criteria were expanded to include international projects. Additionally, this...
- 8/17/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Longtime APA literary agent Adam Perry has been promoted to Partner.
Perry began his career in the APA mailroom in 2011 and was promoted to agent in 2013. Since then, he has grown his roster of clients to represent such writers and directors as filmmakers Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou, Pachinko) and Akin Omotoso (Rise, Vaya), director Alejandra Marquez Abella (The Good Girls, A Million Miles Away), screenwriters Julia Cox (Nyad), Pat Casey & Josh Miller (Sonic The Hedgehog 1&2, Violent Night), Black List scribe Elyse Hollander (Blond Ambition, Guys and Dolls remake), creator-showrunner Ben Ketai (StartUp), screenwriters Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman (Knock at the Cabin, Harry’s All Night Hamburgers), Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo (Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Fudged), Co-ep’s Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt (Sweet Tooth, Star Trek Discovery), Co-ep Chuck Hayward (Ted Lasso), SuP Bobak Esfarjani (Alien, Kindred), writing trio Murder Ink. (Black Don’t Camp, Homecoming), screenwriters Cornelius Uliano & Bryan Schulz (Peanuts,...
Perry began his career in the APA mailroom in 2011 and was promoted to agent in 2013. Since then, he has grown his roster of clients to represent such writers and directors as filmmakers Justin Chon (Gook, Blue Bayou, Pachinko) and Akin Omotoso (Rise, Vaya), director Alejandra Marquez Abella (The Good Girls, A Million Miles Away), screenwriters Julia Cox (Nyad), Pat Casey & Josh Miller (Sonic The Hedgehog 1&2, Violent Night), Black List scribe Elyse Hollander (Blond Ambition, Guys and Dolls remake), creator-showrunner Ben Ketai (StartUp), screenwriters Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman (Knock at the Cabin, Harry’s All Night Hamburgers), Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo (Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Fudged), Co-ep’s Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt (Sweet Tooth, Star Trek Discovery), Co-ep Chuck Hayward (Ted Lasso), SuP Bobak Esfarjani (Alien, Kindred), writing trio Murder Ink. (Black Don’t Camp, Homecoming), screenwriters Cornelius Uliano & Bryan Schulz (Peanuts,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The 8th Annual Women’s Voices Now Film Festival: The Rights and Roles of Women: Redefining Our Shared Reality is in the books and the winning films have been selected by our jury:
Leslie J. Sacks Best Documentary Feature – Indebted to All Women
Best Documentary Short –Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me Lantos Foundation
Best Human Rights Documentary – This Stained Dawn
Best Creative Documentary – The Perfect Picture
Best First Time Filmmaker – Boucle en Onde
Best Youth Documentary Short – La Coiffeuse/The Hairdresser
Honorable Mentions:
Leslie J Sacks Grand Prize – Best Feature Documentary Film – Belly of the Beast
Best First Time Filmmaker – Grounded
Best Creative Documentary – The...
Leslie J. Sacks Best Documentary Feature – Indebted to All Women
Best Documentary Short –Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me Lantos Foundation
Best Human Rights Documentary – This Stained Dawn
Best Creative Documentary – The Perfect Picture
Best First Time Filmmaker – Boucle en Onde
Best Youth Documentary Short – La Coiffeuse/The Hairdresser
Honorable Mentions:
Leslie J Sacks Grand Prize – Best Feature Documentary Film – Belly of the Beast
Best First Time Filmmaker – Grounded
Best Creative Documentary – The...
- 3/30/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Mary J. Blige has released the powerful “See What You’ve Done,” from the new documentary Belly of the Beast.
Co-written by Blige, Nova Wav, and DJ Camper, the track opens with warm piano chords. “What’s goin’ on,” Blige sings. “When I gotta fight for a right that is rightfully mine?/What’s goin’ on.”
Directed by Erika Cohn, Belly of the Beast focuses on Kelli Dillon — a survivor of domestic and state violence and community intervention specialist — and a radical lawyer as they discover the sterilization of women...
Co-written by Blige, Nova Wav, and DJ Camper, the track opens with warm piano chords. “What’s goin’ on,” Blige sings. “When I gotta fight for a right that is rightfully mine?/What’s goin’ on.”
Directed by Erika Cohn, Belly of the Beast focuses on Kelli Dillon — a survivor of domestic and state violence and community intervention specialist — and a radical lawyer as they discover the sterilization of women...
- 10/16/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Belly Of The Beast
Erika Cohn, director of upcoming documentary Belly Of The Beast, last night released a statement condemning the alleged coerced sterilisation of migrant women held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre in Georgia, US.
"I have spent the past decade examining the human rights abuses, including forced sterilisation, in California’s women’s prisons as both a volunteer legal advocate and as a filmmaker," Cohn said. "Because of the levels of secrecy and privacy institutions hide behind, it’s incredibly difficult to uncover abuses of power and state sponsored violence. We demand immediate accountability for these eugenic practices, justice for the survivors and safeguards to prevent future abuses."
The sterilisations reportedly took place at the privately run Irwin County Detention Centre, located near the small town of Ocilla. A formal complaint was filed yesterday by Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights,...
Erika Cohn, director of upcoming documentary Belly Of The Beast, last night released a statement condemning the alleged coerced sterilisation of migrant women held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre in Georgia, US.
"I have spent the past decade examining the human rights abuses, including forced sterilisation, in California’s women’s prisons as both a volunteer legal advocate and as a filmmaker," Cohn said. "Because of the levels of secrecy and privacy institutions hide behind, it’s incredibly difficult to uncover abuses of power and state sponsored violence. We demand immediate accountability for these eugenic practices, justice for the survivors and safeguards to prevent future abuses."
The sterilisations reportedly took place at the privately run Irwin County Detention Centre, located near the small town of Ocilla. A formal complaint was filed yesterday by Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
At the 2018 Oscars, Mary J. Blige made history with “Mudbound” — by becoming the first Black woman to earn multiple Oscar nominations in the same year (for best supporting actress and original song). Now, she’ll be back in the Oscar race for her new song.
Variety has learned the Grammy-winning singer’s latest “See What You’ve Done” from the documentary “Belly of the Beast” will be submitted for the best original song for the 93rd Academy Awards set for next April.
You can hear parts of the song in the new trailer for the movie, directed by Erika Cohn, which offers an unflinching look at women who have been abused in the criminal justice system.
“I was moved by Erika Cohn’s important documentary ‘Belly of the Beast,'” Blige says in an email to Variety. “I immediately knew I wanted to be involved and was inspired to write...
Variety has learned the Grammy-winning singer’s latest “See What You’ve Done” from the documentary “Belly of the Beast” will be submitted for the best original song for the 93rd Academy Awards set for next April.
You can hear parts of the song in the new trailer for the movie, directed by Erika Cohn, which offers an unflinching look at women who have been abused in the criminal justice system.
“I was moved by Erika Cohn’s important documentary ‘Belly of the Beast,'” Blige says in an email to Variety. “I immediately knew I wanted to be involved and was inspired to write...
- 9/11/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Itvs, the non-profit organization responsible for funding documentary filmmakers, announced on Thursday the fall lineup for Independent Lens, a documentary anthology series airing Monday nights on PBS.
Starting Oct. 19 with Arthur Jones’ Sundance hit “Feels Good Man,” the slate includes diverse storytelling from award-winning directors and a directorial debut from HGTV’s “Property Brothers” co-host Jonathan Scott, who delivers “Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip” on Nov. 16. Itvs has presented Independent Lens and co-produced documentaries for the series for nearly two decades.
“Feels Good Man” tells the story of artist and cartoonist Matt Furie’s comic character Pepe the Frog. The documentary will delve into the controversy surrounding the character, which was turned into a symbol of hate online. The film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Hillary Bachelder’s “Represent” is up next on Oct. 26. The filmmaker focuses on three...
Starting Oct. 19 with Arthur Jones’ Sundance hit “Feels Good Man,” the slate includes diverse storytelling from award-winning directors and a directorial debut from HGTV’s “Property Brothers” co-host Jonathan Scott, who delivers “Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip” on Nov. 16. Itvs has presented Independent Lens and co-produced documentaries for the series for nearly two decades.
“Feels Good Man” tells the story of artist and cartoonist Matt Furie’s comic character Pepe the Frog. The documentary will delve into the controversy surrounding the character, which was turned into a symbol of hate online. The film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Hillary Bachelder’s “Represent” is up next on Oct. 26. The filmmaker focuses on three...
- 7/30/2020
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
The inaugural rePRO Film Festival with a spotlight on movies about reproductive health care and rights is set to open with Erika Cohn's Belly of the Beast, a documentary about forced sterilizations in California's women's prisons.
Cohn's legal probe of illegal health care procedures — often targeting women of color — will launch the virtual August 12 to 16 showcase of films about reproductive health care and activism, including access to abortion and sexual education. rePRO is programmed by festival founders Lela Meadow-Conner, Mallory Martin and Debby Samples.
“The three of us have young children ...
Cohn's legal probe of illegal health care procedures — often targeting women of color — will launch the virtual August 12 to 16 showcase of films about reproductive health care and activism, including access to abortion and sexual education. rePRO is programmed by festival founders Lela Meadow-Conner, Mallory Martin and Debby Samples.
“The three of us have young children ...
- 7/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The inaugural rePRO Film Festival with a spotlight on movies about reproductive health care and rights is set to open with Erika Cohn's Belly of the Beast, a documentary about forced sterilizations in California's women's prisons.
Cohn's legal probe of illegal health care procedures — often targeting women of color — will launch the virtual August 12 to 16 showcase of films about reproductive health care and activism, including access to abortion and sexual education. rePRO is programmed by festival founders Lela Meadow-Conner, Mallory Martin and Debby Samples.
“The three of us have young children ...
Cohn's legal probe of illegal health care procedures — often targeting women of color — will launch the virtual August 12 to 16 showcase of films about reproductive health care and activism, including access to abortion and sexual education. rePRO is programmed by festival founders Lela Meadow-Conner, Mallory Martin and Debby Samples.
“The three of us have young children ...
- 7/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
This year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival, streaming nationwide from June 11-20, is chock-full of impressive cinematic gems that delve into a wide variety of important topics woefully underrepresented onscreen. Beginning with opening night’s Belly of the Beast, the latest from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Erika Cohn (The Judge), which shines a light on the involuntary sterilizations running rampant in our Us federal prison system, the fest continues to express its commitment to strong films by and about women. Most notably there’s Juliana Fanjul’s harrowing Radio Silence — which trails longtime journalist Carmen Artesegui in her dangerous fight to […]...
- 6/11/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
This year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival, streaming nationwide from June 11-20, is chock-full of impressive cinematic gems that delve into a wide variety of important topics woefully underrepresented onscreen. Beginning with opening night’s Belly of the Beast, the latest from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Erika Cohn (The Judge), which shines a light on the involuntary sterilizations running rampant in our Us federal prison system, the fest continues to express its commitment to strong films by and about women. Most notably there’s Juliana Fanjul’s harrowing Radio Silence — which trails longtime journalist Carmen Artesegui in her dangerous fight to […]...
- 6/11/2020
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents its first full digital edition of bold new films that will be available nationwide, in response to this time of crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. The film festival will feature in-depth online discussions with filmmakers, film subjects, and Human Rights Watch researchers.
As individuals and communities across the world struggle to face the challenges of an unprecedented global pandemic, the restriction of basic human rights – including pathways to medical and economic survival – are felt most severely by those already impacted by stark inequalities. Now more than ever, the world needs powerful and uplifting stories about those demanding justice, equality and safety for themselves, their communities and future generations.
John Biaggi, Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival says “At a time when the world is experiencing a profound shared adversity, it is particularly heartening to witness the brave individuals and strong...
As individuals and communities across the world struggle to face the challenges of an unprecedented global pandemic, the restriction of basic human rights – including pathways to medical and economic survival – are felt most severely by those already impacted by stark inequalities. Now more than ever, the world needs powerful and uplifting stories about those demanding justice, equality and safety for themselves, their communities and future generations.
John Biaggi, Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival says “At a time when the world is experiencing a profound shared adversity, it is particularly heartening to witness the brave individuals and strong...
- 6/6/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
In today’s film news roundup, Romola Garai’s “Amulet” and crime drama ”Punching And Stealing” find homes and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival unveils a digital edition.
Acquisitions
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to the horror movie “Amulet,” the feature directorial debut of actress-turned-filmmaker Romola Garai.
The film, starring Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Imelda Staunton and Angeliki Papoulia, premiered in January in the Midnight section at Sundance. Magnet plans to release the film in theaters and on demand July 24.
“Amulet’ follows a former soldier who is left homeless after an accident and takes refuge in the decaying home of a lonely young woman in desperate need of help as she cares for her ailing mother. As he gets closer to and begins to fall in love with the young women, he notices strange and unexplainable phenomena.
“Amulet” is produced by...
Acquisitions
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to the horror movie “Amulet,” the feature directorial debut of actress-turned-filmmaker Romola Garai.
The film, starring Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Imelda Staunton and Angeliki Papoulia, premiered in January in the Midnight section at Sundance. Magnet plans to release the film in theaters and on demand July 24.
“Amulet’ follows a former soldier who is left homeless after an accident and takes refuge in the decaying home of a lonely young woman in desperate need of help as she cares for her ailing mother. As he gets closer to and begins to fall in love with the young women, he notices strange and unexplainable phenomena.
“Amulet” is produced by...
- 4/29/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The L.A. division of Women in Film on Monday announced nine new grantees for its 34th annual Film Finishing Fund.
Two of this year’s recipients have been selected at major film festivals: Sabrina Doyle’s narrative feature “Lorelei” will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Iram Parveen Bilal’s “I’ll Meet You There” was selected for the recently scuttled SXSW fest. Parveen Bilal and “And She Could Be Next” co-director Grace Lee were both previous grantees, in 2012.
The Film Finishing Fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to complete films that fit the established criteria of being created by, for or about women. The works-in-progress are viewed by a special jury of women in the industry who select the winning films.
Also Read: 15% in 2020?!: Female Directors Show No Gains on This Year's Studio Release Slates
This year’s nine grantees — including four receiving $25,000 grants from...
Two of this year’s recipients have been selected at major film festivals: Sabrina Doyle’s narrative feature “Lorelei” will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Iram Parveen Bilal’s “I’ll Meet You There” was selected for the recently scuttled SXSW fest. Parveen Bilal and “And She Could Be Next” co-director Grace Lee were both previous grantees, in 2012.
The Film Finishing Fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to complete films that fit the established criteria of being created by, for or about women. The works-in-progress are viewed by a special jury of women in the industry who select the winning films.
Also Read: 15% in 2020?!: Female Directors Show No Gains on This Year's Studio Release Slates
This year’s nine grantees — including four receiving $25,000 grants from...
- 3/10/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
It is a cliché to make movies on what makes all the difference when one is passionate about their work. But what if among the many who consider work as just a chore, there are a genuine few who find the meaning of life?
“The Judge” is screening at London Palestine Film Festival
This preface in no way describes the crux of the documentary, but it is what I could relate personally and charmed me into submission. Press around the world has nothing but praises for this work and same goes for the many film festivals.
Palestine is always linked to war and terrorism. And one wonders how normal the place actually is. And this documentary answers it with a plethora of normal people touched by an extraordinary life.
Kholoud Al-Faqih is an advocate who wants to be a judge in the Sharia court. In Palestine, civil and criminal cases...
“The Judge” is screening at London Palestine Film Festival
This preface in no way describes the crux of the documentary, but it is what I could relate personally and charmed me into submission. Press around the world has nothing but praises for this work and same goes for the many film festivals.
Palestine is always linked to war and terrorism. And one wonders how normal the place actually is. And this documentary answers it with a plethora of normal people touched by an extraordinary life.
Kholoud Al-Faqih is an advocate who wants to be a judge in the Sharia court. In Palestine, civil and criminal cases...
- 11/23/2019
- by Arun Krishnan
- AsianMoviePulse
“Creating a stimulating platform that brings together filmmakers, scholars and the public in order to encourage crucial dialogue regarding Palestine’s film industry, its culture and its politics.”
The London Palestine Film Festival (Lpff) 2019 will run in London from 15 to 30 November, in partnership with The Barbican, Curzon Soho, Institute Of Contemporary Arts (Ica), The Rio, The Tabernacle, Soas and P21 Gallery.
The Festival is proud to open its 2019 edition with the long-awaited, and now Cannes Awarded ‘Special Mention’, film “It Must Be Heaven”, by the honourable filmmaker, Elia Suleiman. The film was also selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Full Programme
It Must Be Heaven
Opening Night:
It Must Be Heaven (2019 l Elia Suleiman l 97’)
Lpff 2019 is proud to open with this long-awaited film from director Elia Suleiman.
Friday 15th November – Barbican @ 8:45pm
Family Affairs: Drama Shorts from Palestine...
The London Palestine Film Festival (Lpff) 2019 will run in London from 15 to 30 November, in partnership with The Barbican, Curzon Soho, Institute Of Contemporary Arts (Ica), The Rio, The Tabernacle, Soas and P21 Gallery.
The Festival is proud to open its 2019 edition with the long-awaited, and now Cannes Awarded ‘Special Mention’, film “It Must Be Heaven”, by the honourable filmmaker, Elia Suleiman. The film was also selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Full Programme
It Must Be Heaven
Opening Night:
It Must Be Heaven (2019 l Elia Suleiman l 97’)
Lpff 2019 is proud to open with this long-awaited film from director Elia Suleiman.
Friday 15th November – Barbican @ 8:45pm
Family Affairs: Drama Shorts from Palestine...
- 11/9/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) and Pond5 have once again teamed up to offer microgrants to indie filmmakers and artists.
The grants, which go as high as $7,500, are intended to help storytellers during “in-between” phases of their projects, such as research, festival travel or community screenings. They’re the kind of unexpected costs that can lead to financial heartache for artists who are already tight on cash.
“These filmmakers shouldn’t be putting stuff on their personal credit cards and in many cases they simply can’t,” said Amy Hobby, executive director of Tribeca Film Institute. “We want to help with the things that don’t often make it into an independent film budget.”
Seven projects were selected for the awards from a pool of more than 200 applicants. Artists being honored are Erika Cohn and Angela Tucker (“Belly of the Beast”); Zoe Miranda (“Blue Hour”); Matt Fifer, Kieran Mulcare, Ramfis Myrthil...
The grants, which go as high as $7,500, are intended to help storytellers during “in-between” phases of their projects, such as research, festival travel or community screenings. They’re the kind of unexpected costs that can lead to financial heartache for artists who are already tight on cash.
“These filmmakers shouldn’t be putting stuff on their personal credit cards and in many cases they simply can’t,” said Amy Hobby, executive director of Tribeca Film Institute. “We want to help with the things that don’t often make it into an independent film budget.”
Seven projects were selected for the awards from a pool of more than 200 applicants. Artists being honored are Erika Cohn and Angela Tucker (“Belly of the Beast”); Zoe Miranda (“Blue Hour”); Matt Fifer, Kieran Mulcare, Ramfis Myrthil...
- 7/18/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
“A Dangerous Son,” “The Facebook Dilemma,” “Independent Lens: Dolores,” “Independent Lens: The Judge,” “The Jazz Ambassadors,” “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” “Minding the Gap” and “Pov: The Apology” have been selected as the documentary winners at the 2019 Peabody Awards, Variety has learned.
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors also named Kartemquin Films the winner of an Institutional Award for the company’s commitment to “unflinching documentary filmmaking,” as well as telling an “American history rooted in social justice and the stories of the marginalized.”
Kartemquin was founded as a non-profit collective in 1966 and has served as a home for filmmakers to develop their craft and produce films that promote dialogue and democracy ever since. The company is behind projects such as “Hoop Dreams,” in addition to this year’s Peabody winner “Minding the Gap.”
The eight documentary honorees, part of the Peabody 30, highlights stories centered on women, mental illness,...
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors also named Kartemquin Films the winner of an Institutional Award for the company’s commitment to “unflinching documentary filmmaking,” as well as telling an “American history rooted in social justice and the stories of the marginalized.”
Kartemquin was founded as a non-profit collective in 1966 and has served as a home for filmmakers to develop their craft and produce films that promote dialogue and democracy ever since. The company is behind projects such as “Hoop Dreams,” in addition to this year’s Peabody winner “Minding the Gap.”
The eight documentary honorees, part of the Peabody 30, highlights stories centered on women, mental illness,...
- 4/16/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors revealed Tuesday eight winners in the Documentary category for programs released in 2018. The honorees, part of the annual Peabody 30, include profiles of unsung activists like Dolores Huerta, Lorraine Hansberry. Topics explored by the winning documentaries also include the “comfort women” of World War II; the challenges faced by parents of children living with mental health issues; the healing that skateboarding provides for three young men transitioning into adulthood; and the powerful, unregulated influence of social media on democracy.
The board also named Kartemquin Films winner of an Institutional Award for its commitment to unflinching documentary filmmaking and telling an American history rooted in social justice and the stories of the marginalized. Founded in 1966 in Chicago as a nonprofit collective, Kartemquin has served as a home for filmmakers to develop their craft and produce films that promote dialogue and democracy. Driven by the passionate belief...
The board also named Kartemquin Films winner of an Institutional Award for its commitment to unflinching documentary filmmaking and telling an American history rooted in social justice and the stories of the marginalized. Founded in 1966 in Chicago as a nonprofit collective, Kartemquin has served as a home for filmmakers to develop their craft and produce films that promote dialogue and democracy. Driven by the passionate belief...
- 4/16/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
The first Peabody Awards of 2019 were announced today, with eight documentaries being honored and Kartemquin Films set for an Institutional Award for its “commitment to unflinching documentary filmmaking and telling an American history rooted in social justice and the stories of the marginalized.”
The docus set as part of the 2019 Peabody 30 — six of which aired on public broadcasting stations — are HBO’s A Dangerous Son; Hulu’s Minding the Gap; and PBS’ Independent Lens: Dolores, Independent Lens: The Judge, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Pov: the Apology, The Facebook Dilemma and The Jazz Ambassadors. Read details of the honorees below.
Other Peabody winners will be announced in the coming days: Entertainment/Children’s & Youth on April 18 and News/Radio & Podcast/Web/Public Service programming on April 23. All the 2019 Peabody recipients will be honored during a ceremony May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
The docus set as part of the 2019 Peabody 30 — six of which aired on public broadcasting stations — are HBO’s A Dangerous Son; Hulu’s Minding the Gap; and PBS’ Independent Lens: Dolores, Independent Lens: The Judge, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Pov: the Apology, The Facebook Dilemma and The Jazz Ambassadors. Read details of the honorees below.
Other Peabody winners will be announced in the coming days: Entertainment/Children’s & Youth on April 18 and News/Radio & Podcast/Web/Public Service programming on April 23. All the 2019 Peabody recipients will be honored during a ceremony May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
- 4/16/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar-winning Spotlight producer Blye Faust and Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning producer Cori Shepherd Stern are launching the film, TV, and new media production company Based on Media.
In line with their previous work, Based On will focus on powerful, elevated entertainment that is both commercially and socially relevant – with a strong emphasis on series development and production. Current Based On project partners include Fox Searchlight, Participant Media, Focus Features, and FX, among others.
Based On is also committed to amplifying riveting investigative journalism through scripted series, films, and podcasts – and counts a range of Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists as sources and project partners. Notable announced projects include geopolitical thriller feature Trading in Starvation with Smokehouse, Rocklin Entertainment and Focus Features, based on reporting from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
The company is also currently in production on several documentaries directed by such filmmakers as Gabriela Cowperthwaite...
In line with their previous work, Based On will focus on powerful, elevated entertainment that is both commercially and socially relevant – with a strong emphasis on series development and production. Current Based On project partners include Fox Searchlight, Participant Media, Focus Features, and FX, among others.
Based On is also committed to amplifying riveting investigative journalism through scripted series, films, and podcasts – and counts a range of Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists as sources and project partners. Notable announced projects include geopolitical thriller feature Trading in Starvation with Smokehouse, Rocklin Entertainment and Focus Features, based on reporting from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
The company is also currently in production on several documentaries directed by such filmmakers as Gabriela Cowperthwaite...
- 4/11/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Judge, a new film by award-winning director Erika Cohn, tells the incredible story of how Kholoud Al-Faqih achieved her improbable dream of representing women in the Middle East’s all-male religious courts
This week, Small Changes host Lucy Lamble meets film-maker Erika Cohn, whose documentary In Football We Trust won her an Emmy.
Cohn’s latest film is The Judge, a documentary about a lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih, and the challenges she overcame to become the first female judge in the Middle East’s sharia courts. These religious courts deal with family issues and have a tremendous effect on women’s lives.
This week, Small Changes host Lucy Lamble meets film-maker Erika Cohn, whose documentary In Football We Trust won her an Emmy.
Cohn’s latest film is The Judge, a documentary about a lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih, and the challenges she overcame to become the first female judge in the Middle East’s sharia courts. These religious courts deal with family issues and have a tremendous effect on women’s lives.
- 11/28/2018
- by Presented by Lucy Lamble and produced by Danielle Stephens
- The Guardian - Film News
This documentary about Palestinian judge Kholoud al-Faqih includes a broad range of voices in an intelligent portrait of a changing society
This calmly intelligent and observant documentary by Erika Cohn depicts the life and work of Dr Kholoud al-Faqih, who in 2009 became one of only two women appointed as judges in the sharia courts of the Palestinian territories. Why only two? At first glance, the question is naive, even disingenuous. In this context, women’s rights are so clearly subordinate to those of men that it is perhaps a miracle there are any women judges at all. The work of a female judge appears to be considered appropriate specifically for family cases: ones in which errant husbands are made to pay maintenance to wives and children. Al-Faqih, who is charming and persuasive, does this with forthright briskness, not tolerating any nonsense from men trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities.
This calmly intelligent and observant documentary by Erika Cohn depicts the life and work of Dr Kholoud al-Faqih, who in 2009 became one of only two women appointed as judges in the sharia courts of the Palestinian territories. Why only two? At first glance, the question is naive, even disingenuous. In this context, women’s rights are so clearly subordinate to those of men that it is perhaps a miracle there are any women judges at all. The work of a female judge appears to be considered appropriate specifically for family cases: ones in which errant husbands are made to pay maintenance to wives and children. Al-Faqih, who is charming and persuasive, does this with forthright briskness, not tolerating any nonsense from men trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities.
- 11/22/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Utah native Erika Cohn was teaching film in Israel and Palestine via a Rotary scholarship when she met the subject of her film “The Judge” for the first time. She was at a conference with a friend when Palestine’s first female Shari’a judge, Kholoud Faqih, walked into the room and took her breath away, Cohn told the crowd after a showing of her film at the International Documentary Association’s annual screening series.
“She had this unbelievable charisma and presence that just radiated about the room,” Cohn said. After the two women spoke, Faqih invited Cohn to visit her courtroom. The filmmaker showed up to the Shari’a courts with her camera and her conversational Arabic, eventually gaining access. While she occasionally ran into trouble accessing the courts (especially when the Chief Justice changed), she knew she had to persevere because she wanted to tell Faqih’s story.
“She had this unbelievable charisma and presence that just radiated about the room,” Cohn said. After the two women spoke, Faqih invited Cohn to visit her courtroom. The filmmaker showed up to the Shari’a courts with her camera and her conversational Arabic, eventually gaining access. While she occasionally ran into trouble accessing the courts (especially when the Chief Justice changed), she knew she had to persevere because she wanted to tell Faqih’s story.
- 11/20/2018
- by Jean Bentley
- Indiewire
The film offers insight into the systems of the Shari’a court.
Specialist UK distributor Together Films has boarded Erika Cohn’s documentary The Judge, about the first female judge appointed to an Islamic Shari’a law court in the Middle East.
Together will release the film in 15 to 20 sites across the UK on November 23, with select screenings across wider Europe. Its release coincides with November’s Islampohobia Awareness Month in the UK, at a time when anti-Muslim incidents are on the rise, according to monitor group Tell Mama.
The documentary follows the appointment of Kholoud Al-Faqih to the courts,...
Specialist UK distributor Together Films has boarded Erika Cohn’s documentary The Judge, about the first female judge appointed to an Islamic Shari’a law court in the Middle East.
Together will release the film in 15 to 20 sites across the UK on November 23, with select screenings across wider Europe. Its release coincides with November’s Islampohobia Awareness Month in the UK, at a time when anti-Muslim incidents are on the rise, according to monitor group Tell Mama.
The documentary follows the appointment of Kholoud Al-Faqih to the courts,...
- 10/16/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Two of the season’s most reliable groups when it comes to forecasting the eventual Academy Awards nominees for Documentary Feature have now announced the shortlists for their own programs. The International Documentary Association (Ida) and Doc NYC, one of the largest documentary film festivals in the country, both boast great track records with either nominating, awarding and/or screening major contenders for the Oscars in recent years.
Doc NYC, who announced a short list of 15 titles for their 2018 festival which runs from November 8th to 15th, has overlapped their own short list with the academy’s short list with 9 to 10 titles in each of the last five years. In addition, they’ve included 4 to 5 titles that went on to be Oscar-nominated and in the last seven years they’ve screened the documentary that won the Academy Award.
Ida is comparably prescient, having matched their award nominees with the eventual...
Doc NYC, who announced a short list of 15 titles for their 2018 festival which runs from November 8th to 15th, has overlapped their own short list with the academy’s short list with 9 to 10 titles in each of the last five years. In addition, they’ve included 4 to 5 titles that went on to be Oscar-nominated and in the last seven years they’ve screened the documentary that won the Academy Award.
Ida is comparably prescient, having matched their award nominees with the eventual...
- 10/15/2018
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
Documentary hits “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and “Three Identical Strangers” are two of the 31 shortlisted films for the International Documentary Association’s award for top feature of 2018.
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Netflix’s “Shirkers,” and Hulu’s “Minding the Gap” were among the other high-profile titles unveiled on Tuesday.
Morgan Neville’s Fred Rogers story “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” has grossed $22.6 million domestically since its release in June, making it the 12th-highest-grossing doc of all time. Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” has also performed well with $12.3 million and is 26th on the list. “Fahrenheit 11/9” has reeled in $6 million since its Sept. 20 launch — far below the record $119 million grossed by Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” in 2004.
It’s the first time the Ida has unveiled the shortlists in the shorts and features categories. The 34th annual awards will take place on Dec. 8 at Los Angeles’ Paramount Theatre. Nominees...
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9,” Netflix’s “Shirkers,” and Hulu’s “Minding the Gap” were among the other high-profile titles unveiled on Tuesday.
Morgan Neville’s Fred Rogers story “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” has grossed $22.6 million domestically since its release in June, making it the 12th-highest-grossing doc of all time. Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” has also performed well with $12.3 million and is 26th on the list. “Fahrenheit 11/9” has reeled in $6 million since its Sept. 20 launch — far below the record $119 million grossed by Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” in 2004.
It’s the first time the Ida has unveiled the shortlists in the shorts and features categories. The 34th annual awards will take place on Dec. 8 at Los Angeles’ Paramount Theatre. Nominees...
- 10/9/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is among features in the running for documantary association honours.
Major award contenders Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo are among the thirty-one films on the shortlist for this year’s International Documentary Association (Ida) feature award.
The Ida has unveiled the shortlists for its feature and short categories for the first time this year. Up to ten nominees in each category will be selected from the shortlists and nominees will be announced – along with nominees for the Association’s Special Awards and Creative Recognition Awards - on...
Major award contenders Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Three Identical Strangers and Free Solo are among the thirty-one films on the shortlist for this year’s International Documentary Association (Ida) feature award.
The Ida has unveiled the shortlists for its feature and short categories for the first time this year. Up to ten nominees in each category will be selected from the shortlists and nominees will be announced – along with nominees for the Association’s Special Awards and Creative Recognition Awards - on...
- 10/9/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
MaryAnn’s quick take… A portrait as delightful as its subject: Kholoud Al-Faqih, a pioneer of Islamic jurisprudence and as fiery as any Western feminist. Essential viewing for its smashing of stereotypes. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
No man would ever cause problems with his wife” such as beating her or abandoning her. So insists a male lawyer in Palestine… a man who is also a bit suspicious of female judges: won’t they inevitably side with women in the disputes they adjudicate? Unlike male judges — and presumably male lawyers — that is, who are, of course, naturally unbiased.
This lawyer’s worries are prompted by Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first female judge — she was appointed in 2009; a few others...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
No man would ever cause problems with his wife” such as beating her or abandoning her. So insists a male lawyer in Palestine… a man who is also a bit suspicious of female judges: won’t they inevitably side with women in the disputes they adjudicate? Unlike male judges — and presumably male lawyers — that is, who are, of course, naturally unbiased.
This lawyer’s worries are prompted by Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first female judge — she was appointed in 2009; a few others...
- 5/3/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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Truth or Dare [my review]
Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, and Sophia Taylor Ali costar in this horror movie about a college drinking game that goes wrong. Cowritten by Jillian Jacobs. (male director)
Rampage [my review]
Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Marley Shelton costar in this sci-fi action movie about genetically engineered monsters. (male writers and director)
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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami [IMDb]
Sophie Fiennes directs this documentary about the performance artist.
The Judge [IMDb]
Erika Cohn directs this documentary about a female adjudicator in the Middle East.
20 Weeks [IMDb]
Leena Pendharkar writes and directs this drama about a couple facing a difficult pregnancy. Costarring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Jocelin Donahue, and Michelle Krusiec.
The Rider [IMDb]
Chloé Zhao writes and directs this drama about a (male) rodeo rider recovering from a traumatic brain injury.
Zama [IMDb]
Lucrecia Martel writes and directs this historical drama about a (male) Spanish officer in 17th-century South America.
Nana [IMDb] pictured
Serena Dykman...
Truth or Dare [my review]
Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, and Sophia Taylor Ali costar in this horror movie about a college drinking game that goes wrong. Cowritten by Jillian Jacobs. (male director)
Rampage [my review]
Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Marley Shelton costar in this sci-fi action movie about genetically engineered monsters. (male writers and director)
limited
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami [IMDb]
Sophie Fiennes directs this documentary about the performance artist.
The Judge [IMDb]
Erika Cohn directs this documentary about a female adjudicator in the Middle East.
20 Weeks [IMDb]
Leena Pendharkar writes and directs this drama about a couple facing a difficult pregnancy. Costarring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Jocelin Donahue, and Michelle Krusiec.
The Rider [IMDb]
Chloé Zhao writes and directs this drama about a (male) rodeo rider recovering from a traumatic brain injury.
Zama [IMDb]
Lucrecia Martel writes and directs this historical drama about a (male) Spanish officer in 17th-century South America.
Nana [IMDb] pictured
Serena Dykman...
- 4/13/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
There are scandalously few female-empowerment documentaries about Arab women that also aim to counter Islamophobia, which is why Erika Cohn’s “The Judge” is a welcome addition. What’s more, it’s impossible not to be impressed by Kholoud Al-Faqih, the arbiter of the title, who together with a colleague became the first female judges in Palestine’s Shari’a courts. Frustratingly however, Cohn’s understandable desire to praise her subject seems to have led her to muddy the timeline of events and downplay the existence of Faqih’s women colleagues. Greater attention to how and when information is revealed would make “The Judge” a far more valuable film, though given the subject’s topicality, there’s every expectation that media attention will be high following its late-April opening.
Women have been judges for criminal cases in Palestine since the 1970s, but Islamic scholars refused to countenance a female judge in the Shari’a courts,...
Women have been judges for criminal cases in Palestine since the 1970s, but Islamic scholars refused to countenance a female judge in the Shari’a courts,...
- 4/10/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
April 3, 2018 By Jordan D.M.
The Judge filmmaker Erika Cohn will participate in Q&A’s at the Laemmle Monica Film Center after the 7:30 Pm screenings on Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21.“The Judge” feature documentary is about a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih and her unlikely path to become the first woman judge in the Middle East’s religious courts.Watch the trailer here.
Interview with Women and Hollywood:
Tiff 2017 Women Directors: Meet Erika Cohn — ‘The Judge’10 September 2017, by Lyra H.Women and Hollywood
Erika Cohn is a director who has received numerous accolades for her work, including a Director’s Guild of America award for her film, When the Voices Fade, a narrative profile of the Lebanese-Israeli war of 2006. In 2013, Cohn founded Idle Wild Films, Inc., which has released three feature documentaries and produced numerous branded content and commercial spots, including Gatorade’s Win from Within series, for...
The Judge filmmaker Erika Cohn will participate in Q&A’s at the Laemmle Monica Film Center after the 7:30 Pm screenings on Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21.“The Judge” feature documentary is about a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih and her unlikely path to become the first woman judge in the Middle East’s religious courts.Watch the trailer here.
Interview with Women and Hollywood:
Tiff 2017 Women Directors: Meet Erika Cohn — ‘The Judge’10 September 2017, by Lyra H.Women and Hollywood
Erika Cohn is a director who has received numerous accolades for her work, including a Director’s Guild of America award for her film, When the Voices Fade, a narrative profile of the Lebanese-Israeli war of 2006. In 2013, Cohn founded Idle Wild Films, Inc., which has released three feature documentaries and produced numerous branded content and commercial spots, including Gatorade’s Win from Within series, for...
- 4/10/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Before she became the first female Shari'a judge in the Middle East, Kholoud Al-Faqih devoted her law practice to representing abused women. The Judge offers compelling evidence of the ways Al-Faqih's professional background and personal temperament make her a perfect fit for her caseload in the Islamic courts: matters of divorce, child support, domestic violence and abandonment, all going to the heart of women's rights in a tradition-bound but evolving society.
Erika Cohn's documentary could have delved deeper at key points, but in its engaging fashion it strikes one inspirational note after another as its follows an ambitious, tough-minded and...
Erika Cohn's documentary could have delved deeper at key points, but in its engaging fashion it strikes one inspirational note after another as its follows an ambitious, tough-minded and...
- 4/5/2018
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Muslim Shari’a courts in the Middle East have excluded women for centuries, and the influential religious legal system has never appointed a woman as a judge — until Kholoud Al-Faqih came along. The Palestinian lawyer tells her story in Erika Cohn’s new documentary “The Judge,” which will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival. IndieWire has the first look at the trailer below.
Cohn’s film follows Al-Faqih through her ongoing advocacy for women’s rights, providing a closeup look at the way she navigates personal and professional struggles while working her way up through the court system. She’s driven by several causes at once. “If I can’t achieve justice for myself, I can’t achieve justice for others,” she says in the film. It’s no big spoiler to note that she’s successful in that goal, since she now goes by the title Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih.
Cohn’s film follows Al-Faqih through her ongoing advocacy for women’s rights, providing a closeup look at the way she navigates personal and professional struggles while working her way up through the court system. She’s driven by several causes at once. “If I can’t achieve justice for myself, I can’t achieve justice for others,” she says in the film. It’s no big spoiler to note that she’s successful in that goal, since she now goes by the title Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih.
- 8/24/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
By Thom Powers
“Resistance is a key theme in this year’s documentaries,” said Tiff Docs Programmer Thom Powers. “We pay witness to rebels challenging the status quo in art, politics, sexuality, religion, fashion, sports and entertainment. They speak powerfully to our times as audiences seek inspirations for battling powerful and corrupt systems.”
Tiff’s 2017 documentary lineup goes deep into the lives of boundary-pushing characters — Grace Jones, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, and Eric Clapton, to name only a few of the most famous. But the celebrity factor isn’t enough to make a great film. What sets these docs apart is their directors’ ability to a bring fresh perspective.
Azmaish: A Journey through the SubcontinentBoom For Real The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Then there are figures whose names you may not recognize, but they become unforgettable after you see them on screen. They include Scotty Bowers, who was...
“Resistance is a key theme in this year’s documentaries,” said Tiff Docs Programmer Thom Powers. “We pay witness to rebels challenging the status quo in art, politics, sexuality, religion, fashion, sports and entertainment. They speak powerfully to our times as audiences seek inspirations for battling powerful and corrupt systems.”
Tiff’s 2017 documentary lineup goes deep into the lives of boundary-pushing characters — Grace Jones, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, and Eric Clapton, to name only a few of the most famous. But the celebrity factor isn’t enough to make a great film. What sets these docs apart is their directors’ ability to a bring fresh perspective.
Azmaish: A Journey through the SubcontinentBoom For Real The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Then there are figures whose names you may not recognize, but they become unforgettable after you see them on screen. They include Scotty Bowers, who was...
- 8/3/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
ThelmaA selection of films from the 2017 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with new films by Sebastián Lelio, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Darren Aronofsky, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo Del Toro, Joachim Trier, Wim Wenders, and many more.Special PRESENTATIONSOpening Night: Ladybird (Greta Gerwig)Closing Night: Sheikh Jackson (Amr Salama)Battle of the Sexes (Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton)Bpm (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)The Brawler (Anurag Kashyap)The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey)Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)Catch the Wind (Gaël Morel)The Children Act (Richard Eyre)The Current War (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio)Downsizing (Alexander Payne)A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie)The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois)Hostiles (Scott Cooper)The Hungry (Bornila Chatterjee)I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)Novitiate (Maggie Betts)Omerta (Hansal Mehta)Plonger (Mélanie Laurent)The Price of Success (Teddy Lussi-Modeste)Professor Marston & the Wonder Women...
- 8/3/2017
- MUBI
Following an initial round of premieres and the announcement that Borg vs. McEnroe will open Toronto International Film Festival 2017, they’ve now announced their lineup for Midnight Madness and Documentaries. Leading the pack of our most-anticipated among midnight tiles is Brawl in Cell Block 99, which is S. Craig Zahler’s follow-up to Bone Tomahawk and will premiere at Venice beforehand. There’s also the latest film from Joseph Kahn, Bodied, which will open the sidebar, and the first trailer has landed.
On the documentary side, there is Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – The New York Public Library, as well as new films from Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck), and more. Check out the new additions below, along with images and trailers where available.
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness Opening Film
Bodied Joseph Kahn, USA
World Premiere
Our #TIFF17 Midnight Madness Opening Night Film is @JosephKahn’s Bodied,...
On the documentary side, there is Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – The New York Public Library, as well as new films from Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck), and more. Check out the new additions below, along with images and trailers where available.
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness Opening Film
Bodied Joseph Kahn, USA
World Premiere
Our #TIFF17 Midnight Madness Opening Night Film is @JosephKahn’s Bodied,...
- 8/2/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Morgan Spurlock re-engages with the food industry, James Franco digs into the ‘worst film ever made’.
Top brass at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) unveiled on Tuesday selections in the Tiff Docs, Midnight Madness, and Short Cuts programmes.
The Canadian titles that are part of this year’s programme will be announced on August 9. The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from September 7-17 and will open with Borg/McEnroe.
Tiff Docs
The world premiere of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! joins a marquee Tiff Docs roster from renowned filmmakers that opens with Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami.
Selections include Brett Morgen’s profile of primatologist Jane Goodall in Jane; the story of three Hasidic Jews who attempt to join the secular world in One Of Us by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; Violeta Ayala’s Bolivian drug trade film Cocaine Prison; and Emmanuel Gras’ closing film Makala...
Top brass at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) unveiled on Tuesday selections in the Tiff Docs, Midnight Madness, and Short Cuts programmes.
The Canadian titles that are part of this year’s programme will be announced on August 9. The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled to run from September 7-17 and will open with Borg/McEnroe.
Tiff Docs
The world premiere of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! joins a marquee Tiff Docs roster from renowned filmmakers that opens with Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami.
Selections include Brett Morgen’s profile of primatologist Jane Goodall in Jane; the story of three Hasidic Jews who attempt to join the secular world in One Of Us by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; Violeta Ayala’s Bolivian drug trade film Cocaine Prison; and Emmanuel Gras’ closing film Makala...
- 8/1/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
They are two of the Toronto International Film Festival’s wildest sections — for very different reasons — and this year’s slate of both Midnight Madness and Documentary offerings appear to signal another strong lineup for the festival. Thrills, chills, terror, and scares await movie-goers, all care of unbelievable real-life stories and slightly less true tales for genre fans of all stripes.
This year’s Midnight Madness section will open with Joseph Kahn’s provocative World Premiere of “Bodied,” and also offers up the World Premiere of “The Disaster Artist,” directed by James Franco and based on the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film, “The Room.” (The film previously screened as a work-in-progress at SXSW.)
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
In his first year as programmer, Peter Kuplowsky is also welcoming back several fest alumni, including David Bruckner,...
This year’s Midnight Madness section will open with Joseph Kahn’s provocative World Premiere of “Bodied,” and also offers up the World Premiere of “The Disaster Artist,” directed by James Franco and based on the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film, “The Room.” (The film previously screened as a work-in-progress at SXSW.)
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
In his first year as programmer, Peter Kuplowsky is also welcoming back several fest alumni, including David Bruckner,...
- 8/1/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Camden/Tfi Filmmaker Retreat presented by CNN Films to take place in Maine.
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) top brass on Monday unveiled the third annual Filmmaker retreat in partnership with Points North Institute and CNN Films.
The event kicked off on Monday (19) in Camden and Rockport, Maine, and will run for six days, offering five Us-based documentary filmmaking teams with professional guidance and mentorship.
This year’s selected projects explore various issues facing Americans today, from Islamic radicalisation to immigration, birth tourism, reproductive rights, and national parks.
The retreat participants are:
Belly Of The Beast – Erika Cohn (director-producer); Angela Tucker (producer)
Border South – Raul O. Paz Pastrana (director-producer-cinematographer); Ellen Knechel (editor-co-producer)
How To Have An American Baby – Leslie Tai (director-producer); Jillian Schultz (co-producer)
The Mountain And The Magic City – Bridget Besaw (director-producer); Ben Severance (director-producer)
The Youth – Eunice Lau (director-producer); Arthur Nazaryan (director-producer).
Industry mentors include filmmaker Amir Bar Lev (The Tillman Story, Long Strange Trip); [link...
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) top brass on Monday unveiled the third annual Filmmaker retreat in partnership with Points North Institute and CNN Films.
The event kicked off on Monday (19) in Camden and Rockport, Maine, and will run for six days, offering five Us-based documentary filmmaking teams with professional guidance and mentorship.
This year’s selected projects explore various issues facing Americans today, from Islamic radicalisation to immigration, birth tourism, reproductive rights, and national parks.
The retreat participants are:
Belly Of The Beast – Erika Cohn (director-producer); Angela Tucker (producer)
Border South – Raul O. Paz Pastrana (director-producer-cinematographer); Ellen Knechel (editor-co-producer)
How To Have An American Baby – Leslie Tai (director-producer); Jillian Schultz (co-producer)
The Mountain And The Magic City – Bridget Besaw (director-producer); Ben Severance (director-producer)
The Youth – Eunice Lau (director-producer); Arthur Nazaryan (director-producer).
Industry mentors include filmmaker Amir Bar Lev (The Tillman Story, Long Strange Trip); [link...
- 6/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Despite having only a small population with a short history in the U.S., Samoans and Tongans are 28 times more likely than any other minority group to play football for the NFL. Over four years, filmmakers Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn followed the journey of four accomplished Polynesian high school football players, struggling toward achieving their lifelong, and probably life-changing, goal of professional recruitment. Impassioned, hard-working, and determined, the players' love for their families is equalled only by their love of this great American sport. Their evolution from childhood to adulthood in the competitive world of collegiate football is captured with incredible detail, revealing some of the severe pressures to succeed stemming from within the tightly knit Polynesian community. The constant threat of gang violence, addiction, and poverty could stand between these boys and their dreams. Even with loving mothers, siblings, and...
- 1/31/2015
- by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
- Indiewire
Announcements for the lineup for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 22nd and February 1st, are starting to roll out. Watch this page for updates as more films and sections are revealed.
Premieres
Brooklyn (John Crowley, UK)
Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg, USA)
Don Verdean (Jared Hess, USA)
End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, USA)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, USA)
Grandma (Paul Weitz, USA)
I Am Michael (Justin Kelly, USA)
I'll See You In My Dreams (Brett Haley, USA)
Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia, USA)
Lila & Eve (Charles Stone III, USA)
Mississipi Grind (Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, USA)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, USA)
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee, USA/Korea)
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland, USA)
Ten Thousand Saints (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, USA)
True Story (Rupert Goold, USA)
A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis, USA)
Zipper (Mora Stephens, USA)
Documentary Premieres
Beaver Trilogy Part IV (Brad Besser,...
Premieres
Brooklyn (John Crowley, UK)
Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg, USA)
Don Verdean (Jared Hess, USA)
End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, USA)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, USA)
Grandma (Paul Weitz, USA)
I Am Michael (Justin Kelly, USA)
I'll See You In My Dreams (Brett Haley, USA)
Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia, USA)
Lila & Eve (Charles Stone III, USA)
Mississipi Grind (Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, USA)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, USA)
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee, USA/Korea)
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland, USA)
Ten Thousand Saints (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, USA)
True Story (Rupert Goold, USA)
A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis, USA)
Zipper (Mora Stephens, USA)
Documentary Premieres
Beaver Trilogy Part IV (Brad Besser,...
- 12/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival has been slowly unveiling the films that will screen in Park City, Ut from January 22-February 1. We’ve already listed the midnight line up as well as the list of films in competition. Now, the Premieres have been revealed and the event is looking more and more promising. The entire slate include films directed by Noah Baumbach, James Ponsoldt, Paul Weitz, Jared Hess, Joe Swanberg, Charles Stone III and others. Here is the full list.
Premieres
A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year.
Brooklyn / United Kingdom (Director: John Crowley, Screenwriter: Nick Hornby, based on the book by Colm Tóibín) — 1950s Ireland: Eilis must confront a terrible dilemma — a heartbreaking choice between two men and two countries, between duty and true love. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent.
Digging for Fire / U.
Premieres
A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year.
Brooklyn / United Kingdom (Director: John Crowley, Screenwriter: Nick Hornby, based on the book by Colm Tóibín) — 1950s Ireland: Eilis must confront a terrible dilemma — a heartbreaking choice between two men and two countries, between duty and true love. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent.
Digging for Fire / U.
- 12/9/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A section that throws the competitive spirit out the window, but actively becomes part of the year-end docu-talk, last year’s dozen minus one offerings included current Oscar front-runner Steve James’ Life Itself and the controversial Happy Valley from Amir Bar-Lev. 2015 will be a highly flamable one, courting controversy friendly titles from established docu auteurs in Amy Berg (Prophet’s Prey), Kirby Dick (The Hunting Ground) and Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief). Here are the docu thirteen docu (world) premieres:
Beaver Trilogy Part IV/ U.S.A. (Director: Brad Besser) — A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah, inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as Beaver Trilogy. But the film itself is only part of the story.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution/ U.S.A. (Director: Stanley...
Beaver Trilogy Part IV/ U.S.A. (Director: Brad Besser) — A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah, inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as Beaver Trilogy. But the film itself is only part of the story.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution/ U.S.A. (Director: Stanley...
- 12/8/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Festival top brass have revealed a high-profile roster of out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres entries featuring many returning heroes, as well as a new Special Events section and panel participants including George Lucas.
Justin Kelly’s I Am Michael is likely to become a major talking point and stars James Franco and Zachary Quinto in the true tale of activist and Young Gay America co-founder Michael Glatze, who renounced his homosexuality and became a Christian pastor. The Exchange handles international rights.
James Ponsoldt’s David Foster Wallace film End Of The Tour (pictured, photo by Jakob Ihre) starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel makes the cut — Fortitude International is the international sales agent — as does the latest from the newly prolific Noah Baumbach, whose Mistress America stars his Frances Ha and Greenberg muse Greta Gerwig and arrives three months after the Toronto premiere of While We’re Young.
Sundance regulars Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowden return with Mississippi Grind...
Justin Kelly’s I Am Michael is likely to become a major talking point and stars James Franco and Zachary Quinto in the true tale of activist and Young Gay America co-founder Michael Glatze, who renounced his homosexuality and became a Christian pastor. The Exchange handles international rights.
James Ponsoldt’s David Foster Wallace film End Of The Tour (pictured, photo by Jakob Ihre) starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel makes the cut — Fortitude International is the international sales agent — as does the latest from the newly prolific Noah Baumbach, whose Mistress America stars his Frances Ha and Greenberg muse Greta Gerwig and arrives three months after the Toronto premiere of While We’re Young.
Sundance regulars Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowden return with Mississippi Grind...
- 12/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kurt Cobain, Nina Simone and Tig Notaro are among the big names getting documentary treatment at this January's Sundance Film Festival. On Monday (December 8), Sundance announced 13 documentaries that will be premiering out of competition at the Festival, which runs from January 22 to February 1 in Park City. It's a group of films from some of documentary cinema's biggest names and, unsurprisingly, from some of Sundance's most frequent attendees. Sundance regular Liz Garbus ("The Farm: Angola, USA") is taking the previously vacant Us documentary Day One Film slot with "What Happened, Miss Simone?" The documentary looks singer and activist Nina Simone was recently acquired by Netflix, which had "Mitt" in an out-of-competition slot at last year's Festival. Also coming from a Sundance favorite and also with TV distribution already in place is HBO's "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck," an authorized biopic of the Nirvana frontman that features Frances Bean Cobain as an...
- 12/8/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Festival top brass have revealed a high-profile roster of out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres entries featuring many returning heroes, as well as a new Special Events section and participants on two panels including George Lucas.
James Ponsoldt’s David Foster Wallace film End Of The Tour starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel makes the cut, as does the latest from the newly prolific Noah Baumbach, whose Mistress America stars his Frances Ha and Greenberg muse Greta Gerwig and arrives three months after the Toronto premiere of While We’re Young.
Sundance regulars Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowden return with Mississippi Grind starring Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn and Sienna Miller, while Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman introduce the New York Tompkins Square Park Riot drama Ten Thousand Saints starring the in-demand Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer.
Joe Swanberg brings Digging For Fire with Rosemarie Dewitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Peter Sarsgaard, [link...
James Ponsoldt’s David Foster Wallace film End Of The Tour starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel makes the cut, as does the latest from the newly prolific Noah Baumbach, whose Mistress America stars his Frances Ha and Greenberg muse Greta Gerwig and arrives three months after the Toronto premiere of While We’re Young.
Sundance regulars Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowden return with Mississippi Grind starring Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn and Sienna Miller, while Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman introduce the New York Tompkins Square Park Riot drama Ten Thousand Saints starring the in-demand Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer.
Joe Swanberg brings Digging For Fire with Rosemarie Dewitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Peter Sarsgaard, [link...
- 12/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 3rd annual Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (Pow!) has announced their full festival lineup, which includes 44 films from all over the world. The fest will run March 18-21 at the Hollywood Theatre.
Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.
The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:
March 18
7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”
Nous Deux Encore,...
Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.
The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:
March 18
7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”
Nous Deux Encore,...
- 2/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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