Tag: Docs
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Franchises, Overseas Productions, and Docs – IndieWire – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] As SAG protestors set up outside HBO‘s Manhattan offices, the network’s CEO and chairman, Casey Bloys, was inside speaking to reporters about the network’s 2024 programming slate. Since the WGA and SAG strikes began in mid-2023, there has been continued speculation about what shows completed production, as well as where filming was able to…
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‘Lac-Mégantic,’ About Canadian Rail Disaster, Takes Hot Docs’ Top Audience Award – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Hot Docs has wrapped its 30th anniversary edition, handing out its top cash prize and announcing the audience top picks after an 11-day festival, which presented 214 films from 72 countries at 308 live screenings at venues across Toronto. Philippe Falardeau’s “Lac-Mégantic—This Is Not an Accident” topped the overall audience poll to win the…
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‘Made in Ukraine’ Boosts Ukraine Docs, Market Action, and Dialogue – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Last year, during an online panel at Hot Docs film festival featuring Ukrainian documentary filmmakers who were staying in place, Oksana Karpovych told attendees how she’d gained knowledge working alongside foreign media crews covering the war, and was now applying that to her own creative documentary projects. This year, at the festival’s 30th anniversary…
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‘The Mountains,’ ‘I Lost My Mom’ Win Top Jury Honors at Hot Docs – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Danish filmmaker Christian Einshøj’s “The Mountains” has won Hot Docs’ Best International Feature Documentary Award and a Cnd. $10,000 cash prize, it was announced this morning in Toronto at the festival’s awards ceremony, held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Produced by Made In Copenhagen, the film is an autobiographical family portrait using 30 years…
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Western Canadian Filmmakers, Industry Professionals Up Their Game at Hot Docs – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] With Hot Docs’ marquee market event the Forum and its sidebar operations back to live action, and the festival’s 30th anniversary adding a layer of buzzy excitement, docmakers and industry pros from Western Canada are hauling out a bumper crop of adventurous docs for audiences and buyers, and chatting in the real world about…
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Canadian Producer Bonnie Thompson to Be Honored at Hot Docs With Don Haig Award – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival has decided that Canadian media producer Bonnie Thompson will be the recipient of this year’s prestigious Don Haig Award. Thompson is the producer behind Cam Christiansen’s “Echo of Everything,” a feature length documentary exploring the power of music, which will have its world premiere at Hot Docs’ 30th-anniversary festival,…
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Jack Teixeira Arrested For Sharing Classified Docs On Discord- Armessa Music News
[ad_1] HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: STEFANI REYNOLDS / Getty / Jack Teixeira A member of the National Guard is in BIG TROUBLE with the US government for trying to look cool to members of his private Discord channel. NBC News first reported law enforcement officials linked 21-year-old Texas Airman Jack Teixeira to a trove…
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Docs Break Conventions, Go Behind World Events – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The world’s leading documentary film festival focused on new, hybrid, and convention-breaking filmmaking, CPH:DOX will celebrate its 20th edition from March 15-26, 2023. The milestone will be feted with 200 new films, 100 world premieres, 61 competition titles, and an intriguing line-up of guests, including Joan Baez, Nathan Fielder, Wim Wenders, Susan Matthews, José…
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FOX News Slammed After Docs Reveal It Knew Of The Big Lie- Armessa Music News
[ad_1] HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty FOX News is all but confirmed as an alleged propaganda network. Not that anyone should be surprised, but recently revealed court documents show that the network’s anchors knew guests like Rudy Giuliani were spreading lies, and they continued to hand them megaphones anyway. The…
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IDA Awards Grants to Three Docs, Including Berlin-Bound ‘Hummingbirds’ – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The Intl. Documentary Association (IDA) has announced three $25,000 grants for upcoming films through its Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund. The three documentaries are: Adamu Chan’s “What These Walls Won’t Hold”; Jalena Keane-Lee’s “Standing Above the Clouds”; and Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras’s “Hummingbirds,” which will have its world premiere at the…
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Sundance Oscar Contenders: Past Lives, Jonathan Majors, and Hot Docs – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Sundance 2023 yielded more nonfiction Oscar contenders, but a Best Actor nomination is possible if “Magazine Dreams” finds the right buyer. 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…