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
The Hamptons Intl. Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Matthew Heineman’s “The First Wave” on Oct. 7 and buzzy titles including Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer” as the Saturday centerpiece film and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” in the additional spotlight selection. The in-person festival ends Oct. 13 with Wes Anderson’s “French Dispatch.” The festival takes place in the Hamptons on the Eastern End of Long Island, N.Y. from Oct. 7-13. Masks and proof of vaccination are required in theaters.
Spotlight Titles
Newly announced Spotlight titles include the East Coast premiere of Joe Wright’s “Cyrano,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial feature debut of “The Lost Daughter,” Academy Award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing” and Campion’s “The Power of the Dog.”
Signature Programs
As part of the Signature Programs, the Conflict and Resolution section will include Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,...
Spotlight Titles
Newly announced Spotlight titles include the East Coast premiere of Joe Wright’s “Cyrano,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial feature debut of “The Lost Daughter,” Academy Award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing” and Campion’s “The Power of the Dog.”
Signature Programs
As part of the Signature Programs, the Conflict and Resolution section will include Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,...
- 9/15/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma
- Variety Film + TV
The Woodstock Film Festival has announced the slate for its 22nd edition, with 11 world premieres among the 43 features on the bill.
The festival will take place September 29 to October 3 in three Hudson Valley communities about two hours north of New York City. In-person screenings and events will be featured throughout the fest’s five days, but online options will also enable attendees to connect amid the ongoing challenges of Covid-19.
Panels, concerts and comedy sets along with film screenings are planned in Woodstock, Kingston and Saugerties. Neon chief Tom Quinn is slated to receive the festival’s Honorary Trailblazer Award, an honor announced in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic.
The festival will kick off with Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about a pathbreaking Filipina-American garage band, with a performance by some of the band’s members following the screening. Music is an annual touchstone for Woodstock’s lineup,...
The festival will take place September 29 to October 3 in three Hudson Valley communities about two hours north of New York City. In-person screenings and events will be featured throughout the fest’s five days, but online options will also enable attendees to connect amid the ongoing challenges of Covid-19.
Panels, concerts and comedy sets along with film screenings are planned in Woodstock, Kingston and Saugerties. Neon chief Tom Quinn is slated to receive the festival’s Honorary Trailblazer Award, an honor announced in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic.
The festival will kick off with Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about a pathbreaking Filipina-American garage band, with a performance by some of the band’s members following the screening. Music is an annual touchstone for Woodstock’s lineup,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
PBS announced the fall slate of “Independent Lens,” the documentary anthology series presented by Itvs. The new season will premiere on October 11.
The films cover a host of social justice topics, such as how racial injustice affects families, the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, generational trauma in Indigenous communities and more.
The first film in the lineup is “Cured,” directed by Patrick Sammon and Benett Singer. It focuses on the psychiatrists and activists central in the opposition of the 1970s idea that homosexuality was a mental illness. After that is Mobolaji Olambiwonnu’s Tribeca audience award-winning “Ferguson Rises” about a father and son organizing a movement after the police killing of Michael Brown Jr.
Additional films in the slate include Jerry Risius and Beth Levison’s “Storm Lake,” about a family-run newspaper in Iowa struggling to keep its small town informed, and “Duty Free,” about filmmaker Sian-Pierre Regis taking his 75-year-old...
The films cover a host of social justice topics, such as how racial injustice affects families, the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, generational trauma in Indigenous communities and more.
The first film in the lineup is “Cured,” directed by Patrick Sammon and Benett Singer. It focuses on the psychiatrists and activists central in the opposition of the 1970s idea that homosexuality was a mental illness. After that is Mobolaji Olambiwonnu’s Tribeca audience award-winning “Ferguson Rises” about a father and son organizing a movement after the police killing of Michael Brown Jr.
Additional films in the slate include Jerry Risius and Beth Levison’s “Storm Lake,” about a family-run newspaper in Iowa struggling to keep its small town informed, and “Duty Free,” about filmmaker Sian-Pierre Regis taking his 75-year-old...
- 8/12/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Jerry Risius and Beth Levison’s astutely observed doc Storm Lake is a vital celebration of the role of community-based news gathering at a time when media revenues are way down and the credibility of the press has taken a hammering across much of the country. Chronicling roughly two years in the life of The Storm Lake Times, which has served the rural Iowan farm town for 30 years, the film is an engrossing account of a family business run with integrity and passion. It also doubles as restorative proof that, even in these divided times, respectful co-existence can still outweigh opposing political ...
- 6/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Jerry Risius and Beth Levison’s astutely observed doc Storm Lake is a vital celebration of the role of community-based news gathering at a time when media revenues are way down and the credibility of the press has taken a hammering across much of the country. Chronicling roughly two years in the life of The Storm Lake Times, which has served the rural Iowan farm town for 30 years, the film is an engrossing account of a family business run with integrity and passion. It also doubles as restorative proof that, even in these divided times, respectful co-existence can still outweigh opposing political ...
- 6/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"How long does the community support journalism? Because now people want to get their news for free..." We are proud to exclusively debut the first official trailer for a documentary film titled Storm Lake, from filmmakers Jerry Risius and Beth Levison. The film profiles the tough times and outstanding journalism of a small town newspaper called The Storm Lake Times, based in Storm Lake, Iowa (see Google Maps), near to Sioux City. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family fight to unite & inform their Iowan farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times — come hell or pandemic. The film will world premiere at 24th Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this month, then heads to AFI Docs for its DC premiere, Doc Edge for its international premiere, as well as other top festivals this year. It's always great to see doc films that remind us (also watch...
- 5/27/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
AFI Docs, the non-fiction film festival held each June in the D.C. area, announced a slate that includes four world premieres, including Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union.
Other feature film and series world premieres include The Slow Hustle, from director Sonja Sohn, focusing on a corruption scandal in the Baltimore police department; White Coat Rebels, from Greg Barker, looking at the outsized influence of Big Pharma and the medical professionals pushing back against it; and the previously announced Naomi Osaka, which will open the festival. Directed by Garrett Bradley, the project profiles the tennis star.
The festival runs from June 22-27, with a mixture of virtual and in-person screenings. The latter will be at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD.
The festival will close with the previously announced close with Cusp, and the centerpiece screening will be Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.
Other feature film and series world premieres include The Slow Hustle, from director Sonja Sohn, focusing on a corruption scandal in the Baltimore police department; White Coat Rebels, from Greg Barker, looking at the outsized influence of Big Pharma and the medical professionals pushing back against it; and the previously announced Naomi Osaka, which will open the festival. Directed by Garrett Bradley, the project profiles the tennis star.
The festival runs from June 22-27, with a mixture of virtual and in-person screenings. The latter will be at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD.
The festival will close with the previously announced close with Cusp, and the centerpiece screening will be Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.
- 5/26/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The International Documentary Association on Friday announced its latest round of grant funding. It’s providing a total of $245,000 out of two funds for 15 films, many of which are investigative works. The organization also announced its first class of Documentary magazine editorial fellows for a program meant to enhance opportunities for writers from underserved and underrepresented communities.
This year, 10 projects are set to receive $15,000 each from the Ida Enterprise Documentary Fund, which supports in-depth explorations of contemporary stories that into journalistic practice into filmmaking. The fund is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
Among them is “11 Questions,” the working title of the project from director-producer Cassandra Herrman, which is also getting funding from “Frontline.” This marks the first-ever joint-funding collaboration between Ida and the prestigious PBS series.
Herrman has been nominated for three News & Documentary Emmy Awards, most recently for...
This year, 10 projects are set to receive $15,000 each from the Ida Enterprise Documentary Fund, which supports in-depth explorations of contemporary stories that into journalistic practice into filmmaking. The fund is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
Among them is “11 Questions,” the working title of the project from director-producer Cassandra Herrman, which is also getting funding from “Frontline.” This marks the first-ever joint-funding collaboration between Ida and the prestigious PBS series.
Herrman has been nominated for three News & Documentary Emmy Awards, most recently for...
- 2/21/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
In the 11 seasons of CNN’s “Parts Unknown,” the late Anthony Bourdain taught us more about humanity than about food. The series captured six Emmy nominations this year, including four in below-the-line categories.
The show’s “Lagos” episode — which snagged noms in cinematography, picture e diting and sound mixing — details slices of the Nigerian megacity, which Bourdain describes as “the most dynamic, unrestrained and energetic expression of free-market capitalism and do-it-yourself entrepreneurship on the planet.”
Production prepped for three months, then spent several days scouting before recording more than 50 hours of footage, visiting affluent Victoria Island, where nightclubs cater to the elite; the floating shantytown of Makoko; and Computer Village, an electronics market where people repair goods as customers watch. Morgan Fallon, one of the three nominated DPs alongside Jerry Risius and Tarik Hameedi, cites the 1982 film “Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon” as a visual reference. “I fell in...
The show’s “Lagos” episode — which snagged noms in cinematography, picture e diting and sound mixing — details slices of the Nigerian megacity, which Bourdain describes as “the most dynamic, unrestrained and energetic expression of free-market capitalism and do-it-yourself entrepreneurship on the planet.”
Production prepped for three months, then spent several days scouting before recording more than 50 hours of footage, visiting affluent Victoria Island, where nightclubs cater to the elite; the floating shantytown of Makoko; and Computer Village, an electronics market where people repair goods as customers watch. Morgan Fallon, one of the three nominated DPs alongside Jerry Risius and Tarik Hameedi, cites the 1982 film “Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon” as a visual reference. “I fell in...
- 9/6/2018
- by Daron James
- Variety Film + TV
In the state where it takes place, "The Last Mountain" occupies the loneliest corner, the "last "referring to the Coal River Mountain, the only peak that hasn't been reduced to rubble for the sake of coal production in West Virginia. And the film itself, the latest from "The Price of Sugar" director Bill Haney, is equally isolating, a well-built argument against the destruction of the Appalachian mountains to feed our nation's energy needs that ditches any sense of objectivity early on and directs its message firmly at those who already lean towards banning corporations from drilling to prevent the destruction of the region and worse, the debilitating effects on the health of its citizenry as both the water and air become contaminated with coal dust.
Even amidst the debris, Haney clearly lays out the gradual demolition of mountain tops and the erosion of laws that were intended to protect them from the 1970s forward.
Even amidst the debris, Haney clearly lays out the gradual demolition of mountain tops and the erosion of laws that were intended to protect them from the 1970s forward.
- 6/2/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Translated, Jangaweed means "devil on horseback." The Jangaweed burn, shoot, rape, slaughter and pillage the western part of Sudan, Darfur. They are the Arab militia supported by the Arab-dominated Sudanese government and bent on wiping out the African and Christian population of Sudan.
In this scorching documentary, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg document the genocide perpetrated in that African nation, where more than 400,000 non-Arab people have been slaughtered. Nearly 3 million have been forced from their homes.
Filtered through the eyes of a gallant ex-Marine, Capt. Brian Steidle, who served as a military observer with the African Union in the western part of Sudan, the docu is an unnervingly powerful picture of atrocity. Steidle documented the unspeakable cruelty in more than 1,000 pictures that inspired a New York Times expose.
The Devil on Horseback is a cinematic salvo of heart-breaking interviews, onsite footage and pictures of unimaginable carnage. It is a powerful warning of another Rwanda in the making -- another one that world powers have not acted on. The U.N. Security Council has issued nine resolutions condemning the atrocities, all with abstentions from China, which has massive oil interests in the region. Sudan thumbs its nose, and the U.N. backs off.
Perhaps this powerful docu, to air this year on HBO, will spur action from more effective entities. Meanwhile, famished Darfur citizens pour into poverty-stricken, barren eastern Chad, living in refugee camps and searching for family members.
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK
A Break Thru Films production in association withGlobal Grassroots & Three Generations
Credits:
Producers: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg, Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells
Screenwriters-directors: Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Directors of photography: Jerry Risius, Phil Cox, Tim Hetherington, William Rexer II, Anne Sundberg, John Keith Wasson
Editor: Joey Grossfield
Music: Paul Brill
Cast:
Brian Steidle: Brian Steidle
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In this scorching documentary, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg document the genocide perpetrated in that African nation, where more than 400,000 non-Arab people have been slaughtered. Nearly 3 million have been forced from their homes.
Filtered through the eyes of a gallant ex-Marine, Capt. Brian Steidle, who served as a military observer with the African Union in the western part of Sudan, the docu is an unnervingly powerful picture of atrocity. Steidle documented the unspeakable cruelty in more than 1,000 pictures that inspired a New York Times expose.
The Devil on Horseback is a cinematic salvo of heart-breaking interviews, onsite footage and pictures of unimaginable carnage. It is a powerful warning of another Rwanda in the making -- another one that world powers have not acted on. The U.N. Security Council has issued nine resolutions condemning the atrocities, all with abstentions from China, which has massive oil interests in the region. Sudan thumbs its nose, and the U.N. backs off.
Perhaps this powerful docu, to air this year on HBO, will spur action from more effective entities. Meanwhile, famished Darfur citizens pour into poverty-stricken, barren eastern Chad, living in refugee camps and searching for family members.
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK
A Break Thru Films production in association withGlobal Grassroots & Three Generations
Credits:
Producers: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg, Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells
Screenwriters-directors: Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Directors of photography: Jerry Risius, Phil Cox, Tim Hetherington, William Rexer II, Anne Sundberg, John Keith Wasson
Editor: Joey Grossfield
Music: Paul Brill
Cast:
Brian Steidle: Brian Steidle
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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