Tag: Ascension
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Cph:forum Lineup Includes Projects From ‘Honeyland,’ ‘Ascension,’ ‘Time Trial’ Filmmakers
Cph:forum, the financing and co-production event held during Cph:dox documentary film festival in Copenhagen, will introduce new projects by filmmakers such as Ljubomir Stefanov (“Honeyland”), Jessica Kingdon (“Ascension”), Finlay Pretsell (“Time Trial”), Ousmane Samassekou (“The Last Shelter”), Mila Turajlić (“The Other Side of Everything”), Tonislav Hristov (“The Good Postman”), Iryna Tsilyk (“The Earth Is Blue…
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‘Amy,’ ‘Free Solo,’ ‘Mole Agent’ Filmmakers Among Speakers at Cph:dox Conference
Oscar winning filmmakers Asif Kapadia (“Amy”) and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”), Oscar nominees Maite Alberdi (“The Mole Agent”) and Jessica Kingdon (“Ascension”), and Emmy nominee Jialing Zhang (“One Child Nation”) are among the lineup of speakers at Cph:conference, which runs during Cph:dox, Copenhagen’s documentary film festival.The discussion program, which runs under the banner “Future…
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Documentary Awards Rack Up for Oscar Nominees ‘Flee’ and ‘Summer of Soul’
The 37th Annual International Documentary Association Awards, streamed online Friday night, capped a big week for nonfiction awards that also included the 15th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, presented live in New York on Wednesday.Both awards groups honored Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated immigration saga “Flee” (Neon) with their top honors, while the Danish International Feature Oscar…
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‘Flee’ Wins Top Prize of Outstanding Nonfiction Feature at Cinema Eye Honors for Documentaries
The Oscar-nominated “Flee” took home the top prize at the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors on Tuesday evening at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.Going into the evening, Neon and Participant Media’s “Flee” led the field with a total of seven nominations, while “Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not…
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Paramount Plus, Showtime and More New Doc Distributors Offer Worthy Oscar Competition
This year’s documentary Academy Award feature race is historical on many fronts. Four of the five nominated films were directed by people of color; Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee” made history by scoring three Oscar nominations: not only the doc feature category but also in the animated feature and international feature categories; Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu…
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‘Summer Of Soul’, ‘The Rescue’, ‘Ascension’ among DGA doc nominees
Feature and first-time feature nominees to be announced on Thursday.Ascension, Attica, Exterminate All The Brutes, Summer Of Soul and The Rescue have been nominated in the Directors Guild of America documentary category announced on Wednesday (26).Jessica Kingdon is in the running for Ascension, Stanley Nelson for Attica, Raoul Peck for Exterminate All The Brutes, Ahmir…
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‘Summer of Soul’ Takes Top Honor at Critics Choice Documentary Awards
The Critics Choice Association awarded “Summer of Soul” the top prize at the sixth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which honors the best achievements in nonfiction released in theaters, on TV, or on major digital platforms. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s look at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival took home the most awards of any film, with…
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IDA Awards Build Oscar Buzz with 2021 Shortlists for Best Documentary Feature and Short
The 2021 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards has revealed the shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories. In a year crowded with festival hits and critically hailed nonfiction (see the Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations), with more debuts unspooling at the upcoming Doc NYC, every reputable nonfiction awards group helps to curate the…
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Chinese Tribeca winner ‘Ascension’ lands US deal
Distributor plans October 8 and awards-qualifying run.MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ascension, Jessica Kingdon’s portrait of the “New China” that was a double award winner at 2021 Tribeca Festival.‘Ascension’: Tribeca ReviewThe company will release Ascension on October 8 and qualify it for awards consideration later this year. The film shot in 51…
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‘Ascension’ Explores a Lost Generation of Humanity Within China’s 21st Century Boomtimes [Tribeca Review]
One person assembles plastic bottle pumps, another paints areola on sex dolls, and a different individual takes a business etiquette class to learn the proper way to smile (one shows eight teeth…the top ones). All of them are Chinese citizens struggling to find and maintain a foothold in their country’s race towards global domination, and…