“Crip Camp,” “Gunda” and “Time” are among the films that have made Doc NYC’s 2020 “Short List,” an annual attempt by the New York-based festival to identify the nonfiction films most likely to play a significant part in awards season.
Those three films were also included in the Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations for Best Documentary Feature, and on the International Documentary Association’s shortlist from which the Ida chooses nominees for the Ida Documentary Awards. They are the only three movies to land on all three lists.
Nine additional films on the Doc NYC list were also singled out either by the Ida or Critics Choice: “Boys State,” “Collective,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” “The Fight,” “MLK/FBI,” “76 Days,” “The Social Dilemma,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya.”
Other films on the Doc NYC list, which is made up of 15 documentaries, are “I Am Greta,” “On the Record” and “A Thousand Cuts.
Those three films were also included in the Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations for Best Documentary Feature, and on the International Documentary Association’s shortlist from which the Ida chooses nominees for the Ida Documentary Awards. They are the only three movies to land on all three lists.
Nine additional films on the Doc NYC list were also singled out either by the Ida or Critics Choice: “Boys State,” “Collective,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” “The Fight,” “MLK/FBI,” “76 Days,” “The Social Dilemma,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya.”
Other films on the Doc NYC list, which is made up of 15 documentaries, are “I Am Greta,” “On the Record” and “A Thousand Cuts.
- 11/9/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival and staple of the New York film community, announced the lineup for its 11th edition, running online November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The program includes new films about John Belushi, Pope Francis, Bill T. Jones, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more. The 2020 festival lineup includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by Bipoc directors (34% of the feature program).
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Several Sundance titles included in acquisitions haul.
Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired 10 new documentaries for digital and theatrical release.
Given the ongoing situation with closed cinemas due to the coronavirus outbreak, NonStop will evaluate release plans for each film in Scandinavia and the Baltics at a later date. The company’s documentary acquisitions include six films that played at Sundance.
They are:
Welcome to Chechnya, David France’s look at Lgbt refugees from the Russian republic, acquired from Submarine;
Assassins, Ryan White’s story of how two women were duped into killing Kim Jong-nam, cquired from Magnolia Pictures International...
Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired 10 new documentaries for digital and theatrical release.
Given the ongoing situation with closed cinemas due to the coronavirus outbreak, NonStop will evaluate release plans for each film in Scandinavia and the Baltics at a later date. The company’s documentary acquisitions include six films that played at Sundance.
They are:
Welcome to Chechnya, David France’s look at Lgbt refugees from the Russian republic, acquired from Submarine;
Assassins, Ryan White’s story of how two women were duped into killing Kim Jong-nam, cquired from Magnolia Pictures International...
- 4/1/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
France, Germany, Scandinavia among buyers.
Cinetic Sales Group and EyeSteelFilm have announced sales on the Sundance World Documentary Competition entry Influence ahead of its first Efm screening on Friday (21).
Rights to the story of Lord Tim Bell, and the notorious political campaigns masterminded by his PR firm Bell Pottinger have gone in France and Germany (Arte), Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment), Canada (Documentary Channel), and Africa (eTV).
Talks are ongoing with distributors in the Us and UK on the feature from South African filmmakers Richard Poplak and Diana Neille. After he established Bell Pottinger in 1987, the PR venture became one of the...
Cinetic Sales Group and EyeSteelFilm have announced sales on the Sundance World Documentary Competition entry Influence ahead of its first Efm screening on Friday (21).
Rights to the story of Lord Tim Bell, and the notorious political campaigns masterminded by his PR firm Bell Pottinger have gone in France and Germany (Arte), Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment), Canada (Documentary Channel), and Africa (eTV).
Talks are ongoing with distributors in the Us and UK on the feature from South African filmmakers Richard Poplak and Diana Neille. After he established Bell Pottinger in 1987, the PR venture became one of the...
- 2/20/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
When Tim Bell died in London last summer, the media response was largely, somewhat sheepishly, polite: It was hard not to envision the ruthless political spin doctor still massaging his legacy from beyond the grave. “Irrepressible” was the first adjective chosen in the New York Times obituary. “He had far too few scruples about who he would represent,” tweeted journalist Robert Peston, “but he was the best company, always honest with me, enormous fun.” These were among several dedications to portray the former head of disgraced PR powerhouse Bell Pottinger — a man who offered his services to the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet, and met his professional downfall by masking South African governmental corruption with race-baiting fake news — as a kind of incorrigible rogue, as if his amoral taste for profoundly bad company amounted to mere rakish bravado.
This is not a trap, thankfully, that “Influence” falls into,...
This is not a trap, thankfully, that “Influence” falls into,...
- 2/2/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Hot Docs today unveiled the first two documentary projects to receive production support through Hot Docs Partners, its Can$2.6 million ($1.9 million) cofinancing initiative that was launched a year ago at the annual festival in Toronto.
The most recent addition to Hot Docs’ Can$9 million ($6.7 million) production fund portfolio, Partners matches a select group of doc-friendly, socially conscious investors with Canadian and international feature-length projects that have key financing already in place, and strong potential to impact audiences in meaningful ways.
Partners is providing cofinancing support to “Influence,” directed by Richard Poplak and Diana Neille, the journalists who exposed the reputation-management firm Bell Pottinger. An international co-production between South Africa’s StoryScope and Chronicle Productions, and Canada’s Eyesteelfilm, “Influence” explores the dark art of geopolitical spin-doctoring.
Partners joins Sodec and the Canadian Media Fund to support “We Are Here,” directed and written by Ariel Nasr and produced by Loaded Pictures...
The most recent addition to Hot Docs’ Can$9 million ($6.7 million) production fund portfolio, Partners matches a select group of doc-friendly, socially conscious investors with Canadian and international feature-length projects that have key financing already in place, and strong potential to impact audiences in meaningful ways.
Partners is providing cofinancing support to “Influence,” directed by Richard Poplak and Diana Neille, the journalists who exposed the reputation-management firm Bell Pottinger. An international co-production between South Africa’s StoryScope and Chronicle Productions, and Canada’s Eyesteelfilm, “Influence” explores the dark art of geopolitical spin-doctoring.
Partners joins Sodec and the Canadian Media Fund to support “We Are Here,” directed and written by Ariel Nasr and produced by Loaded Pictures...
- 5/2/2019
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Preparatory to setting out across 17 Muslim countries in search of American pop-cultural infiltration, Richard Poplak initially threatens to write a completely unreadable book of endlessly overexcited proper-noun metaphors. Describing driving through Kazakhstan’s “Fruit Loop-hued gloamings,” he says, was like traveling “through a one act by Beckett, translated by Chekhov, with a soundtrack by Prokofiev.” A whole book of this kind of thing, sentence after bludgeoning sentence, would be wearisome (and Poplak never does stop making awkward three-part hybrid comparisons), but bear with it: The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit Of American Pop Culture In The Muslim World soon ...
- 9/9/2010
- avclub.com
by Vadim Rizov
Richard Poplak's The Sheikh's Batmobile, a very cool new book tracing how American pop culture has infiltrated the Muslim world, argues mass cultural product—rather than destroying the indigenous and increasingly rare—helps bring otherwise at-odds people together on a new plane of understanding, normalizing pluralistic values where that idea's unheard of. Poplak writes of Afghanistani bodybuilders training under watchful Arnold Schwarzenegger cut-outs and United Arab Emirates oil millionaires with too much money paying for custom-made Batmobiles. The argument goes all kinds of places (it's a compelling work of occasionally danger-baiting on-the-ground journalism) that raises an inadvertent point: Hollywood is very good at producing accidentally iconographic work, and very bad at taking account of the ways it affects people. They conquer mental space then don't acknowledge that.
Acknowledgment doesn't mean the simple act of references for their own sake, the more obscure the better (discussed by...
Richard Poplak's The Sheikh's Batmobile, a very cool new book tracing how American pop culture has infiltrated the Muslim world, argues mass cultural product—rather than destroying the indigenous and increasingly rare—helps bring otherwise at-odds people together on a new plane of understanding, normalizing pluralistic values where that idea's unheard of. Poplak writes of Afghanistani bodybuilders training under watchful Arnold Schwarzenegger cut-outs and United Arab Emirates oil millionaires with too much money paying for custom-made Batmobiles. The argument goes all kinds of places (it's a compelling work of occasionally danger-baiting on-the-ground journalism) that raises an inadvertent point: Hollywood is very good at producing accidentally iconographic work, and very bad at taking account of the ways it affects people. They conquer mental space then don't acknowledge that.
Acknowledgment doesn't mean the simple act of references for their own sake, the more obscure the better (discussed by...
- 9/2/2010
- GreenCine Daily
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