Category: Film & TV

Reely and Truly: A Fascinating Short Film About the Nature of Photography Today

Reely and Truly: A Fascinating Short Film About the Nature of Photography Today

Editor’s note: This short film contains some explicit language and images. Watching photographer and filmmaker Tyrone Lebon’s short film Reely and Truly

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/19/reely-truly-fascinating-exploration-nature-photography-today/

Watching photographer and filmmaker Tyrone Lebon‘s short film Reely and Truly is, at times, a jarring experience. One moment you’re talking about fashion photography, the next you’re exploring New York City’s underbelly.

November 20, 2014
HBO’s Last Patrol Premieres – LightBox

LightBox | Time

Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/10/hbo-last-patrol-sebastian-junger/#1

The Last Patrol, Sebastian Junger’s third and final chapter in a trilogy of films about war and its devastating effects on soldiers, came to fruition after he and documentary photographer Tim Hetherington made plans to walk from Washington D.C. to New York City along railroad lines.

November 10, 2014
Magnum announces TV drama in development based on agency’s founding | dvafoto

Magnum announces TV drama in development based on agency’s founding

October 13, 2014
Point and Shoot – Movie Trailers – iTunes

Point and Shoot – Movie Trailers – iTunes

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and bought a motorcycle and a video camera & began a three-

Link: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/pointandshoot/

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and bought a motorcycle and a video camera & began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in (and filmed) the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution & personal transformation.

October 13, 2014
Rick Smolan’s Trek with TRACKS, from Australian Outback to Silver Screen | PROOF

Rick Smolan’s Trek with TRACKS, from Australian Outback to Silver Screen

In 1977 photographer Rick Smolan was traveling in Australia on assignment for Time magazine when he encountered an angry woman in the small town of Alice Springs. Little did he know that 37 years later their story would be dramatized by movie stars. “I wa

via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/19/rick-smolans-trek-with-tracks-from-australian-outback-to-silver-screen/

In 1977 photographer Rick Smolan was traveling in Australia on assignment for Time magazine when he encountered an angry woman in the small town of Alice Springs. Little did he know that 37 years later their story would be dramatized by movie stars.

September 19, 2014
Juxtapoz Magazine – Made You Look: A Film about Creativity in the Digital Age

Juxtapoz Magazine – Made You Look: A Film about Creativity in the Digital Age

As an independent print publication in 2014 who has seen similar trends, the trailer for this documentary makes us happy. Made You Look is a…

Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/design/made-you-look-a-film-about-creativity-in-the-digital-age

Made You Look is a documentary about the UK DIY graphic arts scene of the 21st century. Via candid interviews with top British creatives, publishers and agency owners we explore the fact that more people than ever seem to be turning to analogue means of creating things, even though we are living at the height of the digital era

September 5, 2014
Such a subtle movie trailer

Such a subtle movie trailer

August 20, 2014
Juxtapoz Magazine – Banksy “Better Out Than In—The Movie” Trailer

Juxtapoz Magazine – Banksy “Better Out Than In—The Movie” Trailer

If you remember, Banksy just won the 2014 Webby for Person of the Year, basically because for one month in NYC, he took over the Internet with his bra…

Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/street-art/banksy-better-out-than-in-the-movie-trailer

Banksy just released a trailer for “Better Out Than In—The Movie,” which could just be his acceptance video for the Webby Award, or an upcoming movie. Anyway, its on the Internet.

June 12, 2014
Sebastian Junger’s Self-Financed and Self-Released Film Korengal | A Photo Editor

Sebastian Junger’s Self-Financed and Self-Released Film Korengal – A Photo Editor

CLICK to purchase tickets a note from Sebastian Junger I’m writing to let you know that my next film, KORENGAL, is about to come out on May 30th in New York. Tim and I had planned to make a follow-up to Restrepo, but a few weeks after going to the Oscars,

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2014/05/28/sebastian-jungers-self-financed-and-self-released-film-korengal/

Restrepo was intended to give civilians an idea of what combat feels like; KORENGAL is completely different. It is meant to help soldiers – and civilians – understand the experience of war

May 28, 2014
‘Hornet’s Nest’: Memorial Day war movie by father and son journalists opens | Poynter.

‘Hornet’s Nest’: Memorial Day war movie by father and son journalists opens

The trailer for Mike and Carlos Boettcher’s new movie “The Hornet’s Nest” that opens in theaters nationwide today says right up front the film is “Not based on a true story.” Then a second message appears on the screen, “This is the true story.”

May 23, 2014
Cannes 2014: The Salt of the Earth review – photographer Sebastião Salgado is a magnetic subject | Film | theguardian.com

Cannes 2014: The Salt of the Earth review – photographer Sebastião Salgado is a magnetic subject

A documentary portrait of the renowned Brazilian photographer by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado manages to be both illuminating and uplifting

via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/20/cannes-2014-the-salt-of-the-earth-film-review-sebastiao-salgado?CMP=twt_gu

A documentary portrait of the renowned Brazilian photographer by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado manages to be both illuminating and uplifting

May 20, 2014
More thoughts on Maier

More thoughts on Maier

I finally got a chance to see Finding Vivian Maier recently. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Going in I wasn’t sure what to ex…

Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/05/more-thoughts-on-maier.html

I finally got a chance to see Finding Vivian Maier recently. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Going in I wasn’t sure what to expect. I have mixed feelings about Vivian Maier and the way her legacy and has been handled. And this was a debut film by an untested film-maker which had received a range of reviews. Was it just a big commercial? Would it reveal secrets? I couldn’t tell. I didn’t even know if I wanted to see it.

May 14, 2014
Organic Rising

ORGANIC RISING

Demystifying the organic food movement in the U.S. directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Suau. | Check out ‘ORGANIC RISING’ on Indiegogo.

via Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/organic-rising#home

Anthony SUAU has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy, and two World Press Photos of the Year for his photography. He has twice received an International Center of Photography (ICP) Award and was honored with the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal award. As a TIME magazine contract photographer for twenty years his images have been published and exhibited worldwide and he has published four successful books. Currently he is directing the feature documentary film “Organic Rising.”

May 1, 2014
See Photos from the Mad Men Set

LightBox | Time

Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/03/27/mad-men-set-photos/#1

“The whole shoot was fascinating,” Majoli told Lightbox. “[The show’s creator] Matthew Weiner is so meticulous in his job that you want to be equally diligent. It’s all about trust — the more trust you receive, the more responsible you feel to give it your very best.

March 27, 2014
Street Life

Link: Street Life | PDN Photo of the Day

Filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn shines a light on New York City street photography in her new documentary “Everybody Street.” The film features interviews with renowned street shooters, including Elliott Erwitt, Rebecca Lepkoff, Joel Meyerowitz, Ricky Powell and Jamel Shabazz, who discuss everything from how they got their start in photography to the esthetics of digital versus analogue imagery and the state of the photo industry today.

March 25, 2014
Move over, ‘The Room’, there’s a new kid in town…

Link: Move over, ‘The Room’, there’s a new kid in town…

March 3, 2014
Creators of a documentary that highlights photojournalism in Afghanistan raises more than $70,000

Link: Creators of a documentary that highlights photojournalism in Afghanistan raises more than $70,000 | Poynter.

Frame By Frame, a documentary that originated as a Kickstarter project, aimed to raise $40,000 by Aug. 28. As of today, it has raised $70,301.

August 30, 2013
Landscape Photographer Edward Burtynsky Explores Another Endangered Resource: Water

Landscape Photographer Edward Burtynsky Explores Another Endangered Resource: Water | PDNPulse

Edward Burtynsky, the photographer renowned for his monumental photographs that explore how human activity alters the landscape, has spent the last five years investigating our exploitation of a precious natural resource: Water. Spanning ten countries, “W

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/08/landscape-photographer-edward-burtynsky-explores-another-endangered-resource-water.html

The film was shot in 5K high-definition video, to capture the details in his aerial views and landscapes: a ritual swim by worshippers in India’s Ganges River, an enormous dam in China, leather tanneries pumping water in Bangladesh, a suburban development sprawling across former desert in Arizona, dryland farming in Spain.

August 27, 2013
Documentary Follows Four Afghan Photojournalists Determined to Build Free Press

Link: Documentary Follows Four Afghan Photojournalists Determined to Build Free Press | Feature Shoot

July 31, 2013
Worth a look: Everybody Street

Link: Worth a look: Everybody Street | dvafoto

I just caught up with the trailer above, and I’ve got to say I’m excited about Everybody Street. It’s a look at street photographers who’ve been working in New York over the past few decades, long before Humans Of New York or street style blogs such as The Sartorialist rose to popularity

July 30, 2013