Tag: Boys State

  • ‘The Mission’ Review: A Deadly Missionary Trip Gets a Postmortem That Doubles as Media Criticism

    ‘The Mission’ Review: A Deadly Missionary Trip Gets a Postmortem That Doubles as Media Criticism

    In 2018, an Evangelical Christian man named John Chau made a covert voyage to North Sentinel Island to visit one of the last voluntarily “uncontacted” tribes on the planet. The people of the island enjoy the protection of the Indian government after choosing to eschew contact with modern society — and outsiders are prohibited due…

  • The Future of Documentary Filmmaking Is Bright, but It Remains a High-Risk Endeavor

    The Future of Documentary Filmmaking Is Bright, but It Remains a High-Risk Endeavor

    IndieWire turns 25 this year. To mark the occasion, we’re running a series of essays about the future of everything we cover.Remember when documentaries were deeply honorable but commercially unviable? “Knock Down the House” shattered Sundance records in 2019 when Netflix bought it for $10 million; Apple and A24 broke that record the next year…

  • ‘Boys State’ Wins Best Documentary Special at the 2021 Emmys

    ‘Boys State’ Wins Best Documentary Special at the 2021 Emmys

    “Boys State,” the Apple TV+ documentary film directed and produced by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special on Sunday afternoon.The documentary special, which premiered on Apple’s streaming service in August 2020, followed a group of teenage boys in Texas who created a representative government. Apple’s…

  • Filmmakers Attribute Growing Demand for Documentaries to Streaming Sites

    Filmmakers Attribute Growing Demand for Documentaries to Streaming Sites

    Documentary and docuseries creators have found themselves amidst a rapidly expanding market for their work.During the FYC Fest documentary roundtable, Variety‘s Matt Donnelley discussed the state of documentary filmmaking with panelists including “Time” director Garrett Bradley, “Boys State” director Amanda McBaine, “Rebuilding Paradise” director Ron Howard, “The Dissident” director Bryan Fogle, “Welcome to Chechnya” director…

  • ‘Boys State’: How Filmmakers Captured Frenetic Energy Through Editing

    ‘Boys State’: How Filmmakers Captured Frenetic Energy Through Editing

    Every year, the American Legion sponsors high school boys as they’re given a crash course on American politics. In 2017, Boys State (as it is known) made national news when Texas voted to secede from the union — shining a spotlight on the event.Filmmaker Jesse Moss (“The Overnighters”) read an article in The Washington Post…

  • /Filmcast Ep. 581 – Boys State (Guest: Roxana Hadadi)

    /Filmcast Ep. 581 – Boys State (Guest: Roxana Hadadi)

    David weighs the risk and reward to see Tenent in theater while Jeff raves about #Slashtag, the hashtag used to recommend movies to the whole gang. For the feature of the week, David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Roxana Hadadi to review Boys State. See what this winner of Sundance Documentary Grand Jury, directed…

  • Boys State review – amazing study of teenagers running for pretend office

    Boys State review – amazing study of teenagers running for pretend office

    The gloves and training wheels come off as a group of smart, poignantly naive and utterly insufferable Texas boys get together to simulate governmentIt’s not clear to me if this is a heartwarming study in young people’s idealism or a Lord of the Flies bloodbath with smug feral demons in white T-shirts. It’s not clear…

  • Sundance Film Festival: London Goes Online

    Sundance Film Festival: London Goes Online

    The organizers of Sundance Film Festival: London, the U.K. iteration of the Park City indie pic fiesta, are to hold a boutique event online, running Aug. 7-9.Sundance London, organized by Sundance Institute and Picturehouse Cinemas, was due to run May 28-31, but was postponed due to the Covid pandemic.The festival will now present three feature…

  • Film News Roundup: San Francisco Film Festival Opening With ‘Boys State’

    Film News Roundup: San Francisco Film Festival Opening With ‘Boys State’

    In today’s film news roundup, a pair of long-running film festivals in San Francisco and Cleveland are moving ahead and Warner Bros.’ Fred Hampton biopic gets additional backing and Dule Hill gets cast.Film FestivalsThe San Francisco International Film Festival has set the documentary “Boys State” as its opening night film for April 8 at the…

  • Apple and Netflix Cancel on SXSW as Coronavirus No-Shows Grow

    Apple and Netflix Cancel on SXSW as Coronavirus No-Shows Grow

    Coronavirus fears have impacted SXSW Film with Apple’s decision to pull out of SXSW entirely, a move that will preclude the premieres of the Spike Jonze’s documentary “Beastie Boys Story” as well as screenings of “Central Park” from “Bob’s Burgers” creator Loren Bouchard and the docuseries “Home.” Sources close to the situation said that the…