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If Paramount+ isn’t your go-to choice yet when you’re in a movie-watching mood, you might want to reconsider.
If Paramount+ isn’t your go-to choice yet when you’re in a movie-watching mood, you might want to reconsider.
- 1/27/2024
- by AVClub Staff
- avclub.com
HBO Max’s The Janes was among the top winners at the 44th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday, with the film — centered on a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion network in Chicago — taking home best documentary as well as best social issue documentary.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) presented the Documentary category winners during a live ceremony at the Palladium Times Square in New York City and streamed live on NATAS’ viewing platform powered by Vimeo, the second of a two-night celebration. The News category winners were announced in a ceremony held at the Palladium on Wednesday.
Scheduled presenters at the Thursday night Docs ceremony included HBO Documentary & Family Programming’s Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller, reporter Jelani Cobb, Nothing Compares director Kathryn Ferguson, NPR host and Is That Black Enough for You?!? writer-director Elvis Mitchell, Doc NYC co-founder Thom Powers and National Geographic correspondent Mariana van Zeller.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) presented the Documentary category winners during a live ceremony at the Palladium Times Square in New York City and streamed live on NATAS’ viewing platform powered by Vimeo, the second of a two-night celebration. The News category winners were announced in a ceremony held at the Palladium on Wednesday.
Scheduled presenters at the Thursday night Docs ceremony included HBO Documentary & Family Programming’s Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller, reporter Jelani Cobb, Nothing Compares director Kathryn Ferguson, NPR host and Is That Black Enough for You?!? writer-director Elvis Mitchell, Doc NYC co-founder Thom Powers and National Geographic correspondent Mariana van Zeller.
- 9/29/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Just a few weeks into filming, production on the second season of Apple TV+‘s “The Morning Show” had to shut down in early 2020 due the then-oncoming Covid-19 pandemic. Even though more than half of the season had already been written at that point, the writers decided to rewrite it in order to incorporate what would become the global health crisis of our time into the original storyline. For re-recording mixer Elmo Ponsdomenech, addressing the pandemic within the story was an emotional undertaking. “I won’t lie to you: during the first episode, it was a bit emotional seeing… a pan across [an empty] New York City,” he admits in a new webchat with Gold Derby. “It’s not the New York that most of us know or know of, so it made the hairs on your arm stand up a little bit.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Developed by Kerry Ehrin...
Developed by Kerry Ehrin...
- 5/21/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Nanfu Wang has had to deal with Chinese authorities targeting her family for several years, but the work she’s done for “In the Same Breath” has lead to the most serious instance of this intimidation. “This one was the most serious because three of my family members in different places were taken to police stations,” she tells us during our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video interview above). Authorities from the Chinese Communist Party have interrogated her mother and other family members due to her other documentaries about China, but the danger posed this time was on another level. “This one, the threats were if I were to ever make a film about China again, they would arrest my brother and my uncle.”
“In the Same Breath,” which is currently streaming on HBO Max, examines the government response to the Covid-19 pandemic in both China and the United States.
“In the Same Breath,” which is currently streaming on HBO Max, examines the government response to the Covid-19 pandemic in both China and the United States.
- 12/10/2021
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
There has been no better time than now for documentaries to educate and create a platform that enhances dialogue. Two years into the pandemic, documentarians have led the helm in starting conversations for viewers to learn and explore the lives of people and social constructs while audiences are still in their own pandemic bubbles.
At Variety’s FYC Fest Documentary Day, keynote speakers who have directed documentaries that have pushed the conversations forward, including Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul,” Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” and Samatha Stark’s “Framing Britney Spears,” spoke about their process of digging deep into their documentary subject, the renewed recognition of the media content and what conversations they hope to inspire.
Making A Documentary Requires Finding the Right Timing
“I met Amin when I was 15,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen said, referring to the Afghan refugee...
At Variety’s FYC Fest Documentary Day, keynote speakers who have directed documentaries that have pushed the conversations forward, including Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul,” Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” and Samatha Stark’s “Framing Britney Spears,” spoke about their process of digging deep into their documentary subject, the renewed recognition of the media content and what conversations they hope to inspire.
Making A Documentary Requires Finding the Right Timing
“I met Amin when I was 15,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen said, referring to the Afghan refugee...
- 12/9/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma, Selome Hailu and Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
With the threat of the Omicron variant bringing coronavirus uncertainty back into our daily lives, freelance journalist Brendan Borrell takes us back to the hazy, early days of the pandemic in this excerpt from his new book, The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine. Borrell tells the inside story of how Operation Warp Speed emerged from the Trump administration’s dysfunctional coronavirus response and gave the country vaccines in record time.
This excerpt describes the harrowing experience of Dr. Michael Callahan,...
This excerpt describes the harrowing experience of Dr. Michael Callahan,...
- 12/8/2021
- by Brendan Borrell
- Rollingstone.com
When “One Child Nation” director Nanfu Wang flew to China in early January of last year to see her mother and drop off her young son for a visit, little did she know at the time that the entire world was about to change. But by January 23, 2020, the Chinese government had locked down the city of Wuhan in what became a futile effort to stop the spread of Covid-19 from quickly moving around the globe and plunging society into its worst health crisis in a century.
Featuring incredible and clandestine footage recorded by Chinese citizens as well as heartbreaking interviews with American health care workers left without equipment or guidance on how to handle the coronavirus outbreak, Wang turned her personal brush with Covid-19 into the new film “In the Same Breath.” The documentary — an almost real-time history of the pandemic’s origins that dates back to December of 2019 — premieres...
Featuring incredible and clandestine footage recorded by Chinese citizens as well as heartbreaking interviews with American health care workers left without equipment or guidance on how to handle the coronavirus outbreak, Wang turned her personal brush with Covid-19 into the new film “In the Same Breath.” The documentary — an almost real-time history of the pandemic’s origins that dates back to December of 2019 — premieres...
- 12/6/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The river in Shengze Zhu’s fourth feature A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is not an ordinary river. It’s the longest in Asia and located at the heart of Wuhan, the city known as site of the coronavirus outbreak. But A River Runs is not exactly about the pandemic and how it affects Wuhan. The director treats the film more as an ode to her hometown, its people, and the fast-changing landscape that happens around the Yangtze River.
Filmed from 2016 to 2019––with additional CCTV clips taken in 2020––A River Runs contains 87 minutes of footage of Wuhan seen from a number of corners of the city: a construction site, a beautiful skyline across the river, high-rise buildings, colorful bridges, highways, riversides where people gather to see a light show. Yet, despite only being a series of footage sans much narrative, there’s a feeling, even sadness, through each shot.
Filmed from 2016 to 2019––with additional CCTV clips taken in 2020––A River Runs contains 87 minutes of footage of Wuhan seen from a number of corners of the city: a construction site, a beautiful skyline across the river, high-rise buildings, colorful bridges, highways, riversides where people gather to see a light show. Yet, despite only being a series of footage sans much narrative, there’s a feeling, even sadness, through each shot.
- 11/5/2021
- by Reyzando Nawara
- The Film Stage
Film at Lincoln Center on Tuesday revealed the slate for the Currents section of the 2021 New York Film Festival, a slate of cutting-edge and experimental works that showcase fresh voices in contemporary cinema. The section’s opening night film is “The Tsugua Diaries,” a pandemic-era tale that premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight about three housemates in lockdown from Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes (“Arabian Nights”).
Currents includes 15 features, plus 36 shorts contained in eight programs, and represent 27 countries. In addition to the Portuguese “The Tsugua Diaries,” several films center around the pandemic. Shengze Zhu’s “A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces,” is a meditation on Wuhan’s urban spaces before and after the outbreak, while Denis Côté’s “Social Hygiene” is an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange frank barbs from a humorous distance.
“Currents is the section of the festival that attests to cinema’s continued capacity for reinvention,” said Dennis Lim,...
Currents includes 15 features, plus 36 shorts contained in eight programs, and represent 27 countries. In addition to the Portuguese “The Tsugua Diaries,” several films center around the pandemic. Shengze Zhu’s “A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces,” is a meditation on Wuhan’s urban spaces before and after the outbreak, while Denis Côté’s “Social Hygiene” is an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange frank barbs from a humorous distance.
“Currents is the section of the festival that attests to cinema’s continued capacity for reinvention,” said Dennis Lim,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
How does someone document the onset of a raging pandemic? Director Nanfu Wang found herself tasked with that very question; her response is the Sundance 2021 selection “In The Same Breath.” The documentary is an unflinching look at Wuhan during the Covid pandemic’s earliest days. It’s a portrait of how one city confronted the unknown while also focusing on the human toll that is sometimes forgotten. It sounds like something you may want to avoid, we’ve all faced so much emotional trauma, but you watch five seconds of this trailer and you are gripped.
Continue reading ‘In The Same Breath’ Trailer: Nanfu Wang Chronicles The Pandemic’s Early Days In A Harrowing New Documentary at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘In The Same Breath’ Trailer: Nanfu Wang Chronicles The Pandemic’s Early Days In A Harrowing New Documentary at The Playlist.
- 8/6/2021
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
Since Covid-19 has touched every corner of the globe, Wuhan, China almost feels like a distant memory. Yung Chang’s latest documentary “Wuhan Wuhan” serves as a stark reminder of the virus’s geographical origins at the peak of its crisis. The film revolves around five characters: a young couple preparing for birth; a mother and son trapped in Covid bureaucracy; a kind psychologist in a temporary hospital; an ER doctor-nurse duo in Wuhan’s most serious ICU. Each story refreshes the viewer with the panic — yet compassion — of the pandemic’s earliest days, revealing intimate glimpses into their everyday lives.
Seeing Yung Chang’s film at the tail-end of the pandemic feels timely. It feels timely in another sense, as well: much in the spirit of Covid-19, Toronto-based Yung Chang never appeared on-set. Instead, he directed-edited the entire film remotely. Over Zoom, Chang shares with us some of the...
Seeing Yung Chang’s film at the tail-end of the pandemic feels timely. It feels timely in another sense, as well: much in the spirit of Covid-19, Toronto-based Yung Chang never appeared on-set. Instead, he directed-edited the entire film remotely. Over Zoom, Chang shares with us some of the...
- 5/7/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Yung Chang's quietly effective documentary Wuhan Wuhan is both a time travelling machine and an empathy machine. Straddling the cinematic line between Frederick Wiseman and Robert Altman, high praise that is both obvious and merited, Chang's film takes us back to February 2020, when Wuhan was just getting the initial wave of Covid-19, the worlds first battle with the novel coronavirus, under some semblance of control. The city is locked down and unsettlingly quiet, you are now, no doubt, familiar with images of urban landscapes with little traffic or people. The 11-million citizen city has 5 hospitals, as well as several hastily converted/erected field quarantine zones. All remain a whirr of activity in stark contrast to the rest of Wuhan. Beeping monitor machines give these places the...
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- 5/1/2021
- Screen Anarchy
With the help of covert reporters on the ground in China and direction from documentary filmmakers Hao Wu and Jean Tsien in New York, the team behind 76 Days was able to bring the bravery of frontline workers and the painful images of the impact of the novel coronavirus to a global audience.
To gain access to the highly restricted Wuhan hospitals during lockdown, two anonymous local reporters — who are also credited as co-directors on the film — used their press credentials to bypass security and shoot footage inside four different hospitals, director Hao Wu told THR’s Rebecca Keegan ...
To gain access to the highly restricted Wuhan hospitals during lockdown, two anonymous local reporters — who are also credited as co-directors on the film — used their press credentials to bypass security and shoot footage inside four different hospitals, director Hao Wu told THR’s Rebecca Keegan ...
- 1/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The co-director of the haunting documentary, filmed inside the city’s hospitals during the first outbreak, explains why it is so important
In the opening scene of 76 Days, the extraordinary inside story of how Wuhan’s hospitals coped with the initial wave of Covid, a sobbing daughter in full PPE begs to see her dying father. The staff refuse and restrain her. Soon after, she pursues her father’s body bag on to the street, only to watch as it is driven away. The woman crumples in the road, distraught and bereft.
Such harrowing partings have since been replicated hundreds of thousands of times the world over. Yet 76 Days derives incredible strength from being a chronicle of the first outbreak. It is a journey into the unknown. The intensive care unit is full of people infected with an unidentified plague. Overwhelmed nurses bolt the doors to a ward...
In the opening scene of 76 Days, the extraordinary inside story of how Wuhan’s hospitals coped with the initial wave of Covid, a sobbing daughter in full PPE begs to see her dying father. The staff refuse and restrain her. Soon after, she pursues her father’s body bag on to the street, only to watch as it is driven away. The woman crumples in the road, distraught and bereft.
Such harrowing partings have since been replicated hundreds of thousands of times the world over. Yet 76 Days derives incredible strength from being a chronicle of the first outbreak. It is a journey into the unknown. The intensive care unit is full of people infected with an unidentified plague. Overwhelmed nurses bolt the doors to a ward...
- 1/15/2021
- by Patrick Wintour
- The Guardian - Film News
Doc NYC, the documentary film festival set to run Nov. 11-19 in New York City, has unveiled its virtual 2020 edition lineup, with 23 world premieres, including Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s The Meaning of Hitler and Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan.
The upcoming festival as it goes online amid the pandemic will screen 107 feature-length documentaries among more than 200 films and events overall, organizers announced Thursday.
Also headed to Doc NYC is Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI; Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane; Tommy Oliver’s 40 Years a Prisoner; Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the States, and an international ...
The upcoming festival as it goes online amid the pandemic will screen 107 feature-length documentaries among more than 200 films and events overall, organizers announced Thursday.
Also headed to Doc NYC is Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI; Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane; Tommy Oliver’s 40 Years a Prisoner; Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the States, and an international ...
- 10/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Doc NYC, the documentary film festival set to run Nov. 11-19 in New York City, has unveiled its virtual 2020 edition lineup, with 23 world premieres, including Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s The Meaning of Hitler and Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan.
The upcoming festival as it goes online amid the pandemic will screen 107 feature-length documentaries among more than 200 films and events overall, organizers announced Thursday.
Also headed to Doc NYC is Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI; Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane; Tommy Oliver’s 40 Years a Prisoner; Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the States, and an international ...
The upcoming festival as it goes online amid the pandemic will screen 107 feature-length documentaries among more than 200 films and events overall, organizers announced Thursday.
Also headed to Doc NYC is Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI; Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane; Tommy Oliver’s 40 Years a Prisoner; Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the States, and an international ...
- 10/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
76 Days — which follows exhausted doctors and nurses in Wuhan, China struggling to cope as the deadly global outbreak of the new coronavirus first originated — will be eagerly anticipated at the Toronto Film Festival as it’s the first documentary from ground zero of the Covid-19 crisis to reach movie theaters.
The irony is the ongoing global pandemic will keep New York City-based co-director Hao Wu from physically attending the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 14 for his documentary about Wuhan’s 76 day Covid-19 lockdown from late January to early April.
“We were ...
The irony is the ongoing global pandemic will keep New York City-based co-director Hao Wu from physically attending the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 14 for his documentary about Wuhan’s 76 day Covid-19 lockdown from late January to early April.
“We were ...
- 9/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
76 Days — which follows exhausted doctors and nurses in Wuhan, China struggling to cope as the deadly global outbreak of the new coronavirus first originated — will be eagerly anticipated at the Toronto Film Festival as it’s the first documentary from ground zero of the Covid-19 crisis to reach movie theaters.
The irony is the ongoing global pandemic will keep New York City-based co-director Hao Wu from physically attending the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 14 for his documentary about Wuhan’s 76 day Covid-19 lockdown from late January to early April.
“We were ...
The irony is the ongoing global pandemic will keep New York City-based co-director Hao Wu from physically attending the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 14 for his documentary about Wuhan’s 76 day Covid-19 lockdown from late January to early April.
“We were ...
- 9/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Bombshell” writer Charles Randolph will tackle the coronavirus in an untitled “Wuhan Project” movie set and filmed on location in China, with Sk Global both financing and producing, the company’s co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin announced Saturday.
Randolph is currently writing the screenplay for the feature film, which will be his directorial debut. He plans to film the “Untitled Charles Randolph Wuhan Project” in China and other international locations with Chinese and international talent and crew.
The untitled film examines the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus (not explicitly named Covid-19 in the release), soon to become a global pandemic. Randolph and Sk Global will produce, and Margaret Riley will executive produce. Xian Li is the executive in charge of development and on the ground production for Sk Global.
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Randolph is currently writing the screenplay for the feature film, which will be his directorial debut. He plans to film the “Untitled Charles Randolph Wuhan Project” in China and other international locations with Chinese and international talent and crew.
The untitled film examines the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus (not explicitly named Covid-19 in the release), soon to become a global pandemic. Randolph and Sk Global will produce, and Margaret Riley will executive produce. Xian Li is the executive in charge of development and on the ground production for Sk Global.
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- 6/27/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Sk Global will finance and produce Oscar winner Charles Randolph’s screenplay. It’s being called the Untitled Wuhan Project, and examines the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to become a global pandemic. Randolph will make his directing debut.
Sk Global co-ceo’s John Penotti and Charlie Corwin made the deal and Randolph and Sk Global will produce and Margaret Riley will be executive producer. Xian Li is the executive in charge of development and on the ground production for Sk Global.
The project is slated to be filmed in China, utilizing Chinese and international talent and crew, as well in as other international locations. Randolph takes on the role of director after scripting the Fox News and Roger Ailes sexual harassment saga Bombshell, which starred Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
Sk Global co-ceo’s John Penotti and Charlie Corwin made the deal and Randolph and Sk Global will produce and Margaret Riley will be executive producer. Xian Li is the executive in charge of development and on the ground production for Sk Global.
The project is slated to be filmed in China, utilizing Chinese and international talent and crew, as well in as other international locations. Randolph takes on the role of director after scripting the Fox News and Roger Ailes sexual harassment saga Bombshell, which starred Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
- 6/27/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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