Distribution platform Gathr and documentary distribution agency Roco Films have teamed to create Roco Voices, a new speakers bureau.
Roco Voices, launching Nov. 14, will offer live speaking engagements with filmmakers and subject matter experts from Roco Film’s docu film catalog. The initial cohort of filmmakers to debut with Roco Voices include Academy Award winners and nominees Oliver Stone (“Nuclear Now”), Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”), Justine Shapiro (“Promises”), Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”), David France (“How to Survive a Plague”), Geralyn Dreyfous (“The Square”), and Roger Weisberg (“Sound and Fury”). (All Roco clients have the opportunity to opt-in.)
Powering Roco Voices is Gathr’s talent booking technology. (The company started beta-testing earlier this year.) The collaboration is a one-stop shop for Roco Films’ customers to search, discover, negotiate, and book filmmakers, doc talent and subject matter experts while also licensing impact-driven and educational film screenings.
“The shared experience of...
Roco Voices, launching Nov. 14, will offer live speaking engagements with filmmakers and subject matter experts from Roco Film’s docu film catalog. The initial cohort of filmmakers to debut with Roco Voices include Academy Award winners and nominees Oliver Stone (“Nuclear Now”), Ross Kauffman (“Born Into Brothels”), Justine Shapiro (“Promises”), Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”), David France (“How to Survive a Plague”), Geralyn Dreyfous (“The Square”), and Roger Weisberg (“Sound and Fury”). (All Roco clients have the opportunity to opt-in.)
Powering Roco Voices is Gathr’s talent booking technology. (The company started beta-testing earlier this year.) The collaboration is a one-stop shop for Roco Films’ customers to search, discover, negotiate, and book filmmakers, doc talent and subject matter experts while also licensing impact-driven and educational film screenings.
“The shared experience of...
- 11/14/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
This year’s Oscar race could make history with two possible best picture nominees directed by women — Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. If both women are nominated for best director, that would also be a historical moment. But though these accomplishments in the narrative field are possible, more women directors are breaking into the documentary categories. Four of the 15 shortlisted documentaries feature women at the helm: Jennifer Grausman (co-directed with Sam Cullman and Mark Becker) with Art and Craft, Tia Lessin (co-directed with Carl Deal) with Citizen Koch, Laura Poitras with Citizenfour and Rory Kennedy with Last Days in Vietnam. Additionally, three of the eight shortlisted documentary shorts feature female directors: Ellen Goosenberg Kent with Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Aneta Kopacz with Joanna and Lucy Walker with The Lion’s Mouth Opens. More often than not, women directors tend to...
Managing Editor
This year’s Oscar race could make history with two possible best picture nominees directed by women — Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. If both women are nominated for best director, that would also be a historical moment. But though these accomplishments in the narrative field are possible, more women directors are breaking into the documentary categories. Four of the 15 shortlisted documentaries feature women at the helm: Jennifer Grausman (co-directed with Sam Cullman and Mark Becker) with Art and Craft, Tia Lessin (co-directed with Carl Deal) with Citizen Koch, Laura Poitras with Citizenfour and Rory Kennedy with Last Days in Vietnam. Additionally, three of the eight shortlisted documentary shorts feature female directors: Ellen Goosenberg Kent with Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Aneta Kopacz with Joanna and Lucy Walker with The Lion’s Mouth Opens. More often than not, women directors tend to...
- 12/16/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
"Time Team America" is a PBS series that combines archaeological discovery with storytelling, exploring a different region and time in U.S. history through the eyes, ears and expertise of a team of adventurous archaeologists: Joe Watkins, Allan Maca, Meg Watters, Chelsea Rose and excavator Jeff Brown. They join forces with host Justine Shapiro to uncover historical secrets buried beneath the soil, applying the latest technology and the team’s collective expertise to solving the riddles of the past, against a ticking clock: the team has just 3 days to find out what it can at each site. In a recent episode, which I stumbled upon while researching something else, the...
- 8/18/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
(San Francisco) – 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the Independent Television Service (Itvs), one of the largest sources of funding for independent filmmakers. In recognition of this milestone, Itvs is launching the Itvs Indies Showcase, a free online film festival running from July 25 to September 23, 2011 in honor of the extraordinary contributions of independent filmmakers to public television.
The 20 unforgettable documentaries in the Itvs Indies Showcase represent glimpses of the collection of more than 1,000 productions Itvs has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting. Each full-length program will stream for free for three days on itvs.org/indies-showcase where viewers will also find a timeline of Itvs’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
Through the tenacity of filmmakers and their supporters seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television, Itvs was established by an unprecedented mandate of Congress to...
The 20 unforgettable documentaries in the Itvs Indies Showcase represent glimpses of the collection of more than 1,000 productions Itvs has supported as the country’s leading provider of independent films for public broadcasting. Each full-length program will stream for free for three days on itvs.org/indies-showcase where viewers will also find a timeline of Itvs’s history, film trailers, clips, interviews, an audience award contest, and more.
Through the tenacity of filmmakers and their supporters seeking to foster plurality and diversity in public television, Itvs was established by an unprecedented mandate of Congress to...
- 8/2/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
NEW YORK -- Arriving on our screens with an all too unfortunate timeliness considering the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East, this Oscar nominated documentary mostly succeeds in its aim of humanizing the Arab-Israeli conflict by examining it in microcosm, through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Israeli children living in or near the divided city of Jerusalem. While this video film could have benefited from some trimming -- a little of what children say often goes a long way -- "Promises" is at times an almost unbearably moving portrait of innocence lost and how ideologies easily infect young minds.
The movie is a collaboration among three filmmakers: Justine Shapiro, an American of South African descent; B.Z. Goldberg, an American who has lived in Israel for many years, and Carlos Bolado, a Mexican film editor. Together, they shot this effort on video, primarily between 1997 and 2000, during a period of relative calm in the region following the Oslo Accords.
The children profiled, who range in age from 11 to 13, include Yarko and Daniel, Israeli twins; Mahmoud, a Palestinian and avowed supporter of Hamas; Schlomo, an orthodox Jew who says he studies the Torah 12 hours a day; Sanabel, a secular Arab who uses dance to express Palestinian themes; Faraj, a Palestinian who lives in a refugee camp; and Moishe, a right-wing Israeli who dreams of revenge. The Arab and Israeli children all live within minutes of each other, but in divided sections of the city that may as well be different worlds.
The scenes featuring this disparate group yield a wealth of resonant moments. Yarko and Daniel interrogate their obviously embarrassed grandfather, whose family was killed in the Holocaust, about his lack of belief in God. They also describe in matter of fact fashion the mental precautions they must take every time they simply board a bus. Sanabel weeps while talking about her father, who has been incarcerated in an Israeli prison for the past two years. Moishe visits the grave of his 12-year-old friend who had been killed by terrorists. And so on. The tragedies, thankfully, are periodically leavened by more lighthearted moments, such as the spontaneous and friendly belching contest that breaks out between Israeli and Arab children, providing a convincing demonstration of true childhood priorities.
PROMISES
Cowboy Pictures
Directors/writers/producers: Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
Co-director/editor: Carlos Bolado
Executive oroducer: Janet Cole
Directors of photography: Yoram Millo, Ilan Buchbinder
Color/stereo
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The movie is a collaboration among three filmmakers: Justine Shapiro, an American of South African descent; B.Z. Goldberg, an American who has lived in Israel for many years, and Carlos Bolado, a Mexican film editor. Together, they shot this effort on video, primarily between 1997 and 2000, during a period of relative calm in the region following the Oslo Accords.
The children profiled, who range in age from 11 to 13, include Yarko and Daniel, Israeli twins; Mahmoud, a Palestinian and avowed supporter of Hamas; Schlomo, an orthodox Jew who says he studies the Torah 12 hours a day; Sanabel, a secular Arab who uses dance to express Palestinian themes; Faraj, a Palestinian who lives in a refugee camp; and Moishe, a right-wing Israeli who dreams of revenge. The Arab and Israeli children all live within minutes of each other, but in divided sections of the city that may as well be different worlds.
The scenes featuring this disparate group yield a wealth of resonant moments. Yarko and Daniel interrogate their obviously embarrassed grandfather, whose family was killed in the Holocaust, about his lack of belief in God. They also describe in matter of fact fashion the mental precautions they must take every time they simply board a bus. Sanabel weeps while talking about her father, who has been incarcerated in an Israeli prison for the past two years. Moishe visits the grave of his 12-year-old friend who had been killed by terrorists. And so on. The tragedies, thankfully, are periodically leavened by more lighthearted moments, such as the spontaneous and friendly belching contest that breaks out between Israeli and Arab children, providing a convincing demonstration of true childhood priorities.
PROMISES
Cowboy Pictures
Directors/writers/producers: Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
Co-director/editor: Carlos Bolado
Executive oroducer: Janet Cole
Directors of photography: Yoram Millo, Ilan Buchbinder
Color/stereo
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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