In 1990, Madonna launched her Blond Ambition World Tour. As over-the-top sexual as it was groundbreaking, the modern-pop spectacle was one of the most controversial concert events in music history. And it changed her life - and the lives of her seven backup dancers. The tour and the 1991 movie about it that followed, Truth or Dare, skyrocketed the pop icon's career to the next level and made her dancers - Luis Camacho, Oliver Crumes, Salim "Slam" Gauwloos, Jose Gutierez, Kevin Stea, Gabriel Trupin and Carlton Wilborn - celebrities in their own right. As Truth or Dare turns 25, Duth filmmakers Reijer Zwaan...
- 4/13/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
In 1990, Madonna launched her Blond Ambition World Tour. As over-the-top sexual as it was groundbreaking, the modern-pop spectacle was one of the most controversial concert events in music history. And it changed her life - and the lives of her seven backup dancers. The tour and the 1991 movie about it that followed, Truth or Dare, skyrocketed the pop icon's career to the next level and made her dancers - Luis Camacho, Oliver Crumes, Salim "Slam" Gauwloos, Jose Gutierez, Kevin Stea, Gabriel Trupin and Carlton Wilborn - celebrities in their own right. As Truth or Dare turns 25, Duth filmmakers Reijer Zwaan...
- 4/13/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
Award season as come to a close, and we’ve all been witness to what is a historic unprecedented run for one urgent film. The ripple became a wave when we were on hand to witness Laura Poitras collect multiple awards at the Cinema Eye Honors, and as predicted, the Academy Awards capped off a historic awards season run with an Oscar win. Here is our roundup and recap of the previous month’s film festival and award season headlines related to the docu film world.
Academy Awards
While Citizenfour took home the award for best documentary of the year, Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry’s Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 was given the Oscar for best short doc.
Berlin International Film Festival - Germany – February 5th – February 15th
When Darren Aronofsky and his presiding jury members announced the Berlinale winners, Patricio Guzmán’s long awaited follow-up to Nostalgia For The Light,...
Academy Awards
While Citizenfour took home the award for best documentary of the year, Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry’s Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 was given the Oscar for best short doc.
Berlin International Film Festival - Germany – February 5th – February 15th
When Darren Aronofsky and his presiding jury members announced the Berlinale winners, Patricio Guzmán’s long awaited follow-up to Nostalgia For The Light,...
- 3/3/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It is no surprise but the lives revealed in Heddy Honigmann’s Forever, set almost entirely in the Paris cemetery where some of the world’s most celebrated deceased are buried alongside the unknown or forgotten, have the potential to drop your jaw. Such stories lie behind each pair of eyes in the work of the Amsterdam-based filmmaker who has been peeling back the veil of presumption at least since 1993’s Metal and Melancholy.>> - Shari Kizirian...
- 10/22/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
It is no surprise but the lives revealed in Heddy Honigmann’s Forever, set almost entirely in the Paris cemetery where some of the world’s most celebrated deceased are buried alongside the unknown or forgotten, have the potential to drop your jaw. Such stories lie behind each pair of eyes in the work of the Amsterdam-based filmmaker who has been peeling back the veil of presumption at least since 1993’s Metal and Melancholy.>> - Shari Kizirian...
- 10/22/2014
- Keyframe
Fatherland / Tierra de los Padres (Nicolás Prividera, 2011). The presiding conceit of Prividera's sophomore feature Fatherland is noble, to say the least, if not a bit protracted. It joins the ranks of films like Heddy Honigmann's Forever as a testimonial to the fugacity of flesh and the vain "permanence" of the burial marker. Fatherland doesn't quite have the heart of Forever--it's more of an intellectual exercise concerned with the formal and somewhat avant-garde elements of film, plus a rigorous reconstruction of Argentine history through the words of its deceased intellectuals--but it provides a palpable sense of how Buenos Aires' La Recoleta Cemetery is a city within a city, a necropolis within the metropolis, and accomplishes same through its keen observation of architectural detail and...
- 9/13/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Loopline Film and Screen Training Ireland have announced an updated list of tutors for their upcoming Feature Documentary Workshop series taking place in Dublin in November and December. The workshop is aimed at Irish-based documentary makers who are developing a feature project and there will be 10 participants accepted on the workshop. The tutors now include filmmakers Heddy Honigmann (Oblivion, Forever, Crazy); Marc Isaacs & Rachel Wexler (Men in the City); Peter Liechti, winner of the Prix Europa award for his film 'The Sound of Insects'; Eric Daniel Metzgar (Reporter); David Kinsella (A Beautiful Tragedy); Phil Grabsky (The Boy Who Played on the Buddhas of Bamiyan) and Anne Aghion (My Neighbour, My Killer).
- 10/27/2009
- IFTN
Toronto -- The Hot Docs documentary festival on Thursday said it will give Dutch filmmaker Heddy Honigmann, best known for her portraits of displaced people worldwide, an outstanding achievement award at its upcoming event.
North America's largest documentary festival also said it will stage a retrospective of documentaries by Canadian filmmaker Kevin McMahon, while giving Toronto-based documentary programmer Rudy Buttignol an outstanding industry achievement award.
Hot Docs programming director Sean Farnel cited Honigmann's ability to draw "moments of profound emotional honesty" from people as diverse as cab drivers in Peru and Iranian ex-patriates in Paris in explaining his choice for this year's outstanding achievement award.
Honigmann will attend Hot Docs in Toronto to receive the tribute on April 27. The festival also will present a retrospective of her work, including the 2001 "Good Husband, Dear Son," a portrait of women in post-war Sarajevo who lost their sons or husbands, and "Metal and Melancholy," a 1993 film about cowboy taxi drivers in Peru.
Hot Docs also has programmed Honigmann's latest documentary, "Forever," which is set in Paris' famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Past recipients of the Hot Docs outstanding achievement award include Errol Morris, D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles and Werner Herzog.
In addition, Hot Docs will present "Focus on Kevin McMahon," a retrospective of documentaries from the co-founder of Primitive Entertainment.
McMahon's credits include the 1991 film "The Falls," a portrait of Niagara Falls; "Intelligence" (1998); and "Truth Merchants" (1998) a critique of public relations in the media.
Other filmmakers to receive 'Focus On ..." retrospectives at Hot Docs include Serge Giguere, Larry Weinstein, Nettie Wild, Shelley Saywell and Zacharias Kunuk.
Hot Docs also said that Rudy Buttingnol, most recently creative head of network programming at TVOntario for six years to 2006, will receive the first annual outstanding industry achievement award.
The 14th annual Hot Docs festival runs April 19-29.
North America's largest documentary festival also said it will stage a retrospective of documentaries by Canadian filmmaker Kevin McMahon, while giving Toronto-based documentary programmer Rudy Buttignol an outstanding industry achievement award.
Hot Docs programming director Sean Farnel cited Honigmann's ability to draw "moments of profound emotional honesty" from people as diverse as cab drivers in Peru and Iranian ex-patriates in Paris in explaining his choice for this year's outstanding achievement award.
Honigmann will attend Hot Docs in Toronto to receive the tribute on April 27. The festival also will present a retrospective of her work, including the 2001 "Good Husband, Dear Son," a portrait of women in post-war Sarajevo who lost their sons or husbands, and "Metal and Melancholy," a 1993 film about cowboy taxi drivers in Peru.
Hot Docs also has programmed Honigmann's latest documentary, "Forever," which is set in Paris' famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Past recipients of the Hot Docs outstanding achievement award include Errol Morris, D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles and Werner Herzog.
In addition, Hot Docs will present "Focus on Kevin McMahon," a retrospective of documentaries from the co-founder of Primitive Entertainment.
McMahon's credits include the 1991 film "The Falls," a portrait of Niagara Falls; "Intelligence" (1998); and "Truth Merchants" (1998) a critique of public relations in the media.
Other filmmakers to receive 'Focus On ..." retrospectives at Hot Docs include Serge Giguere, Larry Weinstein, Nettie Wild, Shelley Saywell and Zacharias Kunuk.
Hot Docs also said that Rudy Buttingnol, most recently creative head of network programming at TVOntario for six years to 2006, will receive the first annual outstanding industry achievement award.
The 14th annual Hot Docs festival runs April 19-29.
- 8/18/2008
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of FestsFULL Frame FESTIVALWhere: April 12 to 15, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('April 12, 2007'); Location: Durham, North Carolina - United States Official Website: fullframefest.org/What: Founded in 1998 by Nancy Buirski, and now recognized as the premier documentary film festival in the United States by both The New York Times and indieWIRE, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival celebrates the power and artistry of documentary film. The festival is an important arena for documentary filmmakers — a place where they can showcase their work theatrically in an environment that stimulates conversation and community between other filmmakers, industry executives and the general public. Sections: (Click for more info!) Full Schedule: Power of Ten: Special Programming: Panel & Workshops8 Bit - Marcin Ramocki, Justin Strawhand Alice Sees The Light - Ariana GersteinAngels in the Dust - Louise HogarthThe Ants - Kaoru IkeyaBanished - Marco WilliamsBeyond Selinunte - Salvo CucciaBlockade - Sergei Loznitsa
- 4/11/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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