Thursday, January 21, 2010
3 Icarus titles selected in the ALA Video Roundtable Notable Videos for Adults
MALLS R US, OPERATION FILMMAKER and IN SEARCH OF MEMORY made the cut!
Make sure to check them out if you have not seen them already.
Press release available here.
Labels: ALA, american library association, awards, in search of memory, malls r us, operation filmmaker
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
FAT CHANCE receives an ALA Award
We are pleased to announce that the film FAT CHANCE by Yuka Sekiguchi was awarded the American Library Association Video Round Table's Notable Videos for Adults prize.
When single mom and filmmaker Yuka Sekiguchi, overweight at nearly 200 pounds and fast approaching fifty, determines to lose weight in hopes of becoming healthier and happier, she decides to film her struggle, figuring that public humiliation will be a strong incentive to succeed.Labels: academic conferences, american library association, awards, body image, fat chance, yuka sekiguchi
New prize for THE PRIZE OF THE POLE!
Staffan Julén's film, THE PRIZE OF THE POLE, received the Best Expedition Film Award at the 2008 Explorers Club Film Festival. The film will be screened on Saturday June 14th at 1:30pm at the Explorers Club in New York City.
This documentary combines biography and history as it accompanies the Inuit hunter Hivshu, a.k.a. Robert E. Peary II, on a quest to trace the story of his great grandfather and his other ancestors, including the Eskimo family the famous Arctic explorer brought back with him to New York as part of an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in 1897.
Labels: anthropology, Arctic, awards, exploration, film festival, Inuits
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
OPERATION FILMMAKER Awarded Best Documentary Feature
Following 10 days, 160 films, and thousands of moviegoers, the 17th Annual Florida Film Festival came to a close last weekend with a highly anticipated awards reception recognizing the best in American Independent Film.
Nina Davenport's OPERATION FILMMAKER was awarded the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2008 Florida Film Festival!
The film will open at the IFC Center in NYC on June 4th.
Labels: awards, festival news, Iraq
2 FRIF films receive awards at the 2008 Montreal International Festival of Films on Art
LOOKING FOR AN ICON was the recipient of the Award for Best Educational Film, while EILEEN GRAY received the Best Portrait Award.The 10-day International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) was created in 1981 and has been striving ever since to increase public awareness and appreciation of the arts by promoting works by film, television and video artists and professionals.Labels: architecture, arts, awards, festival news, photography
Thursday, November 29, 2007
First Run / Icarus Films at the AAA's Annual Conference Film Series
Labels: academic conferences, anthropology, awards, cinema studies, news
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Guzmán Urzúa Wins Best Director Award
Camila Guzmán Urzúa won the prize for Best Director for
THE SUGAR CURTAIN at the Santiago Film Festival in Santiago, Chile last week. Urzúa documents her journey back to her childhood home in Cuba to revisit the so-called “golden age” of her childhood, while her memories contrast with the backdrop of present-day reality for her friends who stayed behind and those who left.
Labels: awards, camila guzman urzua, Cuba, el telon de azucar, festival news, sugar curtain
FOREVER and OUR DAILY BREAD Win Fest Prizes
Heddy Honigmann's newest film
FOREVER just won Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's Inspiration Award, a juried award given to the film "that best exemplifies the value and relevance of world religions and spirituality."
FOREVER will also be screening at the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival and Hot Docs in Toronto. We are also that this weekend,
OUR DAILY BREAD took the top jury award for Best Feature Documentary at the Ashland International Film Festival in Oregon. Find out where you can see these and other titles on our
Playdates page.
Labels: awards, festival news, Geyrhalter, Heddy Honigmann
Heddy Honigmann Receives Honors at Upcoming Festivals
We are please to announce that Heddy Honigmann will be receiving
Hot Docs'
Outstanding Achievement Award and
San Francisco Film Society will bestow its
Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award during their April festivals
. Both awards are for exceptional, lifelong achievement in documentary. We have launched a new web page about Honigmann in our
Featured Filmmakers section where you can read about her life and career, called by Karen Cooper, Director of Film Forum in New York, "one of the most brilliant documentarians working today."
Labels: awards, festival news, Heddy Honigmann, site updates
OUR DAILY BREAD and THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT
on 2006 Top Ten Lists
OUR DAILY BREAD has been selected to many film critics' top ten lists around the country. The New York Times' lead critic Manohla Dargis named it one of the best films of the year, non-fiction or fiction.
OUR DAILY BREAD is also #2 on the Best Documentary List on the 2006 indieWIRE film critics' poll, where Chris Marker's latest THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT is #5. 107 critics participated in the first
indieWIRE Critics Poll, which is the successor to
The Village Voice's Annual Poll.
Labels: awards, Chris Marker, critics picks, press
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Grand Prize for OUR DAILY BREAD at
Environmental Film Festival
The prizes and acclaim keep coming for
OUR DAILY BREAD. It was just awarded the Grand Prize at the
2006 Paris International Festival of Films on the Environment.
The
critics raved when the film opened recently in New York and Chicago, and the film is now moving across the country.
Check our Screenings Page.
Labels: agribusiness, agriculture, awards, ecology, festival news, sustainablility
Prizes and Screenings at the Upcoming
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival
LA SIERRA was given the Award of Excellence, the highest honor the SVA bestows on a film.
THE DEVIL'S MINER was given an Award of Commendation, while
COMPADRE won the Fieldwork Prize, “since the problems it depicts are so like those of many anthropologists in the field, and so rarely discussed.”
Tags: anthropologyLabels: academic conferences, anthropology, awards, cultural anthropology
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
PROTEUS Wins Prestigious Award
from the American Historical Association
PROTEUS: A NINETEENTH CENTURY VISION, a multi-layered, animated exploration of the 19th century's fascination with the undersea world, about the intersection of spirituality, art and science, is according to
Science Magazine,
"A Truly Stunning Film! Lebrun successfully fuses his selection of images and text to bring to life the drama behind this 19th century vision of nature." Labels: academic conferences, awards, ecology
Shui-Bo Wang Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Shui-Bo's first film,
SUNRISE OVER TIANANMEN SQUARE, a stunning autobiography of his youth during the historic upheavals of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. His second film,
SWING IN BEIJING, is a feature documentary on the underground art scene in China, and the new release
THEY CHOSE CHINA is his third film.
Labels: awards, new releases
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