Optician Juan Solano (seen in his Brooklyn shop Solano Optical Boutique) shares his story (along with Veronica Garcia-Hayes and Peter Dunlap-Shohl) in Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate and informative Matter Of Mind: My Parkinson’s
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. At the 95th Academy Awards in 2023, Woody Harrelson presented Michael J Fox the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Oscar for his career, and The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The documentary on Fox’s life, Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth) was shortlisted for this year’s Oscar.
Anna Moot-Levin with Laura Green and Anne-Katrin Titze on Juan Solano: “Juan we connected with because we were very interested in following someone through the process of Dbs [Deep Brain Stimulation] surgery"
Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate and informative Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, written by Jason Sussberg,...
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. At the 95th Academy Awards in 2023, Woody Harrelson presented Michael J Fox the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Oscar for his career, and The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The documentary on Fox’s life, Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth) was shortlisted for this year’s Oscar.
Anna Moot-Levin with Laura Green and Anne-Katrin Titze on Juan Solano: “Juan we connected with because we were very interested in following someone through the process of Dbs [Deep Brain Stimulation] surgery"
Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate and informative Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, written by Jason Sussberg,...
- 3/28/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Award-winning PBS documentary series “Independent Lens” has released its spring slate of documentary films, which will begin debuting on April 24. This season’s films will highlight a myriad of marginalized communities and current affairs by documenting both personal and important stories from around the world.
First to debut is documentary film “Free Chol Soo Lee” from filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi. The Sundance favorite uses archival material to travel back to 1970’s San Francisco and tell the story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant who was wrongfully convicted of murder, and the Asian American activist movement that sought to free him.
Following is Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green’s film “Matter of Mind: My Als”, which will premiere May 1. The documentary tells the story of three people in the U.S. living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Reed Harkness’s film “Sam Now” premieres May 8, and shares the...
First to debut is documentary film “Free Chol Soo Lee” from filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi. The Sundance favorite uses archival material to travel back to 1970’s San Francisco and tell the story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant who was wrongfully convicted of murder, and the Asian American activist movement that sought to free him.
Following is Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green’s film “Matter of Mind: My Als”, which will premiere May 1. The documentary tells the story of three people in the U.S. living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Reed Harkness’s film “Sam Now” premieres May 8, and shares the...
- 3/30/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
2012 appears to be the year for younger, i.e. under 10 years old, underground fests to blow it wide open and go for broke. This time it’s the 4th annual Oakland Underground Film Festival that is expanding its horizons into a blowout four-day, much more densely packed affair, running on Sept. 27-30 at several different locations.
Expanding on the types of films they screen, this year Oakuff is jammed pack with a wide variety of documentaries, thrillers, a bevy of short films and a special tribute to blaxploitation films hosted by BadAzz MoFo’s David Walker.
The fest opens on the 27th with skateboarding filmmaker Stacy Peralta’s latest, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, which documents his own involvement with California board culture along with peers like Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen. Following that will be Ya’Ke Smith’s complex drama about the effects of child molestation.
Other documentaries in...
Expanding on the types of films they screen, this year Oakuff is jammed pack with a wide variety of documentaries, thrillers, a bevy of short films and a special tribute to blaxploitation films hosted by BadAzz MoFo’s David Walker.
The fest opens on the 27th with skateboarding filmmaker Stacy Peralta’s latest, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, which documents his own involvement with California board culture along with peers like Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen. Following that will be Ya’Ke Smith’s complex drama about the effects of child molestation.
Other documentaries in...
- 9/25/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.