Andrew Berends’ gripping new documentary “Delta Boys” does something undeniably important: it puts human voices and faces behind the terms and datelines we run into almost every week in newspapers, on websites, and on cable new channel crawls. Words like “militant” and “rebels,” and places like Nigeria and the Niger Delta sadly mean little to most Westerners. It’s all happening, literally, in another part of the globe, a world far beyond our everyday existence. Berends, the award-winning filmmaker behind the acclaimed Iraq docs “The Blood of My Brother” and “When Adnan Comes Home” knows this. He understands our lack of knowledge, along with our naïveté. So his “Delta Boys” is, above all else, a teaching tool. Don’t let that scare you away. For “Delta Boys” is nothing if not involving, a brisk, focused 55-minute look at the realities of the Niger Delta’s oil...
- 1/15/2013
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Playlist
Tribeca reels out 62-pic shorts list
The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival has selected 62 shorts from 2,300 submissions, which will be presented in 10 separate, thematically related programs.
They include short narratives featuring Zooey Deschanel, Bob Geldof, Mariel Hemingway, Piper Perabo, Jay O. Sanders and Fisher Stevens.
Andrew Berends, whose feature documentary about Iraq, The Blood of My Brother, screened at the fest last year, returns with a new short he filmed in Kurdistan. Other directors making return visits to Tribeca include Marie Losier, Bill Morrison, Bill Plympton and Jay Rosenblatt.
In a separate development, the Tribeca Film Institute announced the launch of Tribeca Teaches: Films in Motion, a pilot program that kicked off Monday and will continue as part of the fest. In partnership with the Bronx Preparatory Charter School, it will educate historically underserved middle and high school students in the South Bronx about the art and process of filmmaking.
A three-part program, Tribeca Teaches will provide students with the tools to think critically about film through a TFI-created school curriculum, brings the spirit of the festival to the Bronx through a TFI-organized community day and screens an eclectic mix of films to enhance student awareness of how film can be used to understand others and to cultivate their own unique voice.
They include short narratives featuring Zooey Deschanel, Bob Geldof, Mariel Hemingway, Piper Perabo, Jay O. Sanders and Fisher Stevens.
Andrew Berends, whose feature documentary about Iraq, The Blood of My Brother, screened at the fest last year, returns with a new short he filmed in Kurdistan. Other directors making return visits to Tribeca include Marie Losier, Bill Morrison, Bill Plympton and Jay Rosenblatt.
In a separate development, the Tribeca Film Institute announced the launch of Tribeca Teaches: Films in Motion, a pilot program that kicked off Monday and will continue as part of the fest. In partnership with the Bronx Preparatory Charter School, it will educate historically underserved middle and high school students in the South Bronx about the art and process of filmmaking.
A three-part program, Tribeca Teaches will provide students with the tools to think critically about film through a TFI-created school curriculum, brings the spirit of the festival to the Bronx through a TFI-organized community day and screens an eclectic mix of films to enhance student awareness of how film can be used to understand others and to cultivate their own unique voice.
- 3/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IDA victory for 'Iraq in Fragments'
James Longley's Iraq in Fragments was named the best feature-length
documentary of the year at the International Documentary Assn.'s
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Friday night.
Iraq, which is also on the short-list of documentary Oscar documentary contenders, looks at the impact that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi people.
The other nominated features were Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Deliver Us from Evil, Showbusiness: A Season to Remember and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
Marcelo Bukin's Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel) was named best
short documentary at the IDA's gala, at the DGA Theatre in West Hollywood.
Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth was honored with the Pare Lorentz Award, recognizing a documentary filmmaker who represents both an activist spirit and a lyrical vision.
Andrew Berends received the Courage Under Fire Award for The Blood of My Brother.
Scholar and critic Dr. Patricia Aufderheide was honored with the IDA
Preservation & Scholarship Award. The Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award went to Christopher Quinn for God Grew Tired of Us, while Carrie Lozano claimed the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award for Reporter Zero.
PBS' American Experience series captured the IDA Award for a
Continuing Series, while the prize for Limited Series went to Off to War,
which aired on the Discovery Times Channel.
documentary of the year at the International Documentary Assn.'s
Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Friday night.
Iraq, which is also on the short-list of documentary Oscar documentary contenders, looks at the impact that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi people.
The other nominated features were Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Deliver Us from Evil, Showbusiness: A Season to Remember and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
Marcelo Bukin's Angel's Fire (Fuego de Angel) was named best
short documentary at the IDA's gala, at the DGA Theatre in West Hollywood.
Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth was honored with the Pare Lorentz Award, recognizing a documentary filmmaker who represents both an activist spirit and a lyrical vision.
Andrew Berends received the Courage Under Fire Award for The Blood of My Brother.
Scholar and critic Dr. Patricia Aufderheide was honored with the IDA
Preservation & Scholarship Award. The Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award went to Christopher Quinn for God Grew Tired of Us, while Carrie Lozano claimed the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award for Reporter Zero.
PBS' American Experience series captured the IDA Award for a
Continuing Series, while the prize for Limited Series went to Off to War,
which aired on the Discovery Times Channel.
- 12/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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