Tag: Citizenfour
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Documentary producer Jess Search dies at 54
Tributes paid to influential co-founder of Doc Society, who ‘lived a life of purpose on her own terms’The influential documentary producer Jess Search, who co-founded the non-profit Doc Society organisation, has died of brain cancer at the age of 54.She was involved in hundreds of projects including the overfishing documentary The End of the Line,…
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The Sundance 2023 Oscar Contenders: Jonathan Majors, ‘Past Lives,’ and Lots of Docs
Most Oscar documentary nominees launch at Sundance. There are exceptions, like winners “Citizenfour,” “Free Solo,” and “My Octopus Teacher,” but it remains the festival of choice for non-fiction films.A Sundance award doesn’t hurt, either: The 2022 documentary Oscar winner, Questlove’s “Summer of Soul,” began its journey as a 2021 Sundance double winner with an Audience…
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Laura Poitras’ opioids-crisis documentary wins Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Golden Lion goes to film about photographer Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sackler familyAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras’ epic documentary about photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the Sackler family and their art connections, has been awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the 79th Venice international film festival.Poitras, the…
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Remarkable Life Gets a Towering Film Befitting It
That title. Even before it screened, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” cast a shiver across the Venice Film Festival competition, sounding more like a line from a Yeats poem than the latest documentary from the director of “Citizenfour.” The big news: the film lives up to it. Already a robust director, Laura Poitras has…
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Neon acquires Laura Poitras doc ahead of Venice world premiere
Participant film will also play TIFF, NYFF.Neon has acquired North American rights to Laura Poitras’s documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed ahead of its Venice world premiere.The company will distribute the Participant film theatrically in North America in autumn followed by ancillary and digital release. The transaction marks the latest acquisition of a Poitras…
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Diane Weyermann, Participant Exec and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ EP, Remembered by Film Community
The passing of documentary film champion and Participant Media executive Diane Weyermann has left a mark on the film community. The Participant chief content officer and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died on Thursday at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer.Weyermann played a formative role in the documentary…
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Participant promotes Laura Kim to EVP marketing
Executive joined in 2014.Participant has promoted marketing and publicity veteran Laura Kim to EVP of marketing, effective immediately.Kim will assume broadened executive responsibilities with a focus on independent and international films and series combining with impact work. She continues to report to Participant’s president of worldwide marketing Christina Kounelias.She joined Participant as SVP of film…