Category: Film & TV
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John Kaplan's Film To Air On PBS
Greetings everyone! We are so pleased to announce nationwide PBS stations broadcast for Not As I Pictured: A Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer’s Journey Through Lymphoma.
Adriana Zehbrauskas: Beyond Assignement
Beyond Assignment is a documentary produced by The Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami, which explores the approach of three female photojournalists (Adriana Zehbrauskas, Gali Tibbon and Mariella Furrer.
Link: ::: The Travel Photographer :::: Adriana Zehbrauskas: Beyond Assignment
Trailer for Zero Charisma – a movie about D&D players
Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews raised over $15k in preproduction costs on Indiegogo for their movie about Dungeons and Dragon players, called Zero Charisma.
Link: Trailer for Zero Charisma – a movie about D&D players – Boing Boing
Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube
Alix Lambert’s fascinating documentary from 2000 about Russian criminal tattoos, The Mark of Caïn, is available under a Creative Commons license and viewable in full on YouTube.
Link: Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube – Boing Boing
Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life
In a documentary released last year and out this week on DVD, entitled Marwencol, Malmberg takes audiences inside Hogancamp’s fictional city, his real life and his struggle with public recognition after his photographs started appearing in New York galleries.
Link: Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life | Raw File
The Bang Bang Club – Movie Trailers – iTunes
The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers – Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek – bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used their camera lenses to tell the world of the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa in the early 90s. This intense political period brought out their best work (two won Pulitzers during the period) but cost them a heavy price. Based on the book of the same name by Marinovich and Silva, the film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch and explores the thrill, danger and moral questions associated with exposing the truth.
Judge rules in favor of allowing hit documentary keep playing in Mexico theaters
A central message of the film is that greater transparency and openness can improve a system in which most convictions are not based on physical evidence and defendants are vulnerable to unfounded claims.
A message in the credits advises viewers to demand their legal hearings be recorded.
Link: Judge rules in favor of allowing hit documentary keep playing in Mexico theaters
Documentaries Provide Oscar Drama – NYTimes.com
In 2007, when the journalists Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington set out to make a documentary following a military unit in Afghanistan, they had no awards aspirations.
“Don’t get hurt, don’t get killed doing this — that was our first order of business,” Mr. Junger said