Think Drive-in sans automobile. Think film festival that isn’t over with the blink of an eye. We’ve mentioned just how important a role it has in supporting works in progress from the participating Ifp’s Independent Filmmaker Lab folks, but it’s also a indie film love-in destination for some of the more innovative items found on the film fest circuit. Brooklynites and visiting cinephiles have several reasons to rejoice as the Rooftop Films folks have unveiled their 2015 Summer Series program and they’ll be serving up a must see plate of indie, docu and shorts.
Among the more tantalizing offerings, Sundance is well repped with Tangerine, The Wolfpack and Finders Keepers and SXSW menu offerings are found in Trey Shults’ Krisha award-winner and in Bob Byington’s 7 Chinese Brothers, which technically opens the 19th edition on May 30th. Here is the list of feature film offerings (dates...
Among the more tantalizing offerings, Sundance is well repped with Tangerine, The Wolfpack and Finders Keepers and SXSW menu offerings are found in Trey Shults’ Krisha award-winner and in Bob Byington’s 7 Chinese Brothers, which technically opens the 19th edition on May 30th. Here is the list of feature film offerings (dates...
- 5/5/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Finnish documentary expert Leena Pasanen has been appointed as the first non-German in the almost 60-year history of Dok Leipzig to succeed Claas Danielsen as its festival director.
Pasanen previously worked in documentary programming at public broadcaster Yle and as the director of the European Documentary Network in Copenhagen, among others.
She will take up her post on January 1, 2015 with an initial five-year contract .
Claas Danielsen, who has headed Dok Leipzig as festival director for the past ten years, will open his swansong edition on Oct 27 with Citizenfour, the final part of Laura Poitras’ 9/11 trilogy, centred on Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan and Ulrich Seidl’s Im Keller are among 12 titles selected for the International Competition for Feature Documentaries to compete for the €10,000 Golden Dove.
Other films in this competitive section include Fernand Melgar’s The Shelter, which premiered at Locarno in August; Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s 15 Corners Of The World; Giovanni Donfrancesco’s [link...
Pasanen previously worked in documentary programming at public broadcaster Yle and as the director of the European Documentary Network in Copenhagen, among others.
She will take up her post on January 1, 2015 with an initial five-year contract .
Claas Danielsen, who has headed Dok Leipzig as festival director for the past ten years, will open his swansong edition on Oct 27 with Citizenfour, the final part of Laura Poitras’ 9/11 trilogy, centred on Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan and Ulrich Seidl’s Im Keller are among 12 titles selected for the International Competition for Feature Documentaries to compete for the €10,000 Golden Dove.
Other films in this competitive section include Fernand Melgar’s The Shelter, which premiered at Locarno in August; Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s 15 Corners Of The World; Giovanni Donfrancesco’s [link...
- 10/21/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Cologne, Germany -- Regional pubcaster Wdr cleaned up at this year's Adolf Grimme Awards, the most prestigious independent TV honors in Germany, winning seven trophies for its drama and nonfiction programming.
Wdr's Adolf Grimme-winning telefilm "Outta Control!" with its subject matter of generational conflict and school shootings, seemed particularly prescient following the brutal school killings in Germany this month.
Other drama winners included period miniseries "Teufelsbraten" (Hellion) and family drama "Die zweite Frau" (The Second Wife), both from Wdr, as well as "Wholetrain," a look at Berlin's graffiti sprayer scene produced by Zdf, and "Das wahre Leben" (The True Life) from fellow pubcaster Ard.
Wdr all but swept the documentary category, winning for political docs "Losers and Winners," "Live and Die for Kabul" and "The Big Sell-Off" and also picked up a special Grimme for "Brinkmann's Rage," a look at the anger and eloquence of 1970s poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann.
Wdr's Adolf Grimme-winning telefilm "Outta Control!" with its subject matter of generational conflict and school shootings, seemed particularly prescient following the brutal school killings in Germany this month.
Other drama winners included period miniseries "Teufelsbraten" (Hellion) and family drama "Die zweite Frau" (The Second Wife), both from Wdr, as well as "Wholetrain," a look at Berlin's graffiti sprayer scene produced by Zdf, and "Das wahre Leben" (The True Life) from fellow pubcaster Ard.
Wdr all but swept the documentary category, winning for political docs "Losers and Winners," "Live and Die for Kabul" and "The Big Sell-Off" and also picked up a special Grimme for "Brinkmann's Rage," a look at the anger and eloquence of 1970s poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann.
- 3/25/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Friday gave the jury prize for best international feature documentary to "Losers and Winners", a German film from Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken about a German factory taken apart to be rebuilt in China.
A special jury prize in the international feature film category went to U.S. filmmaker Michael Skolnik's "Without the King", a portrait of the impoverished nation of Swaziland, home of Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy.
Elsewhere, the best Canadian feature documentary category saw the top prize go to Bryan Friedman's "The Bodybuilder and I", a feature film about the estranged relationship between the filmmaker and his elderly, bodybuilding father.
In the same category, the special jury prize went to Serge Giguere's "Driven by Dreams", an inspiring feature about seniors passionately enjoying life in their twilight years.
And the best mid-length documentary trophy went to Canadian filmmaker Johanna Lunn's "Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time," a groundbreaking National Film Board of Canada documentary about victims of murder and terrorism who struggle to forgive the aggressors.
A special jury prize in the international feature film category went to U.S. filmmaker Michael Skolnik's "Without the King", a portrait of the impoverished nation of Swaziland, home of Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy.
Elsewhere, the best Canadian feature documentary category saw the top prize go to Bryan Friedman's "The Bodybuilder and I", a feature film about the estranged relationship between the filmmaker and his elderly, bodybuilding father.
In the same category, the special jury prize went to Serge Giguere's "Driven by Dreams", an inspiring feature about seniors passionately enjoying life in their twilight years.
And the best mid-length documentary trophy went to Canadian filmmaker Johanna Lunn's "Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time," a groundbreaking National Film Board of Canada documentary about victims of murder and terrorism who struggle to forgive the aggressors.
- 4/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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