Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards.
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
Tiger King is up for Best Entertaining Documentary alongside fellow Netflix title Love is Blind. Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats and The Devil Next Door are also both up for Best Documentary series.
The Best Cinema Documentary nominees are American Factory, which won the Oscar this year, alongside the Oscar nominated Honeyland and For Sama, with Midnight Family completing the field.
Full list of nominations:
Best Single Documentary – Domestic
The Family Secret
Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery & Brian Woods for Candour Productions...
- 9/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Other winners include 20,000 Days on Earth.
Oscar-nominated Virunga was one of the top winners at this year’s Grierson Awards, taking home Best Cinema Documentary.
The film, which was also nominated for a BAFTA at the beginning of this year, covers the fight between business interests, rebel groups, and rangers over the Congolese home of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.
Elsewhere at the awards, Grayson Perry received Documentary Presenter of the Year for his Channel 4 show, Who Are You?
Repeating its success from last year, Channel 4 won a total of five awards out of the 12 available, including Best Documentary Series and Best Entertaining Documentary.
As previously reported, Kim Longinotto was presented with the Grierson Trustees’ Award for achievement in the world of factual film.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chairman of the Grierson Trust said about the winners: “Once again our winning films demonstrate the vibrant, exciting and innovative ways in which the UK documentary industry...
Oscar-nominated Virunga was one of the top winners at this year’s Grierson Awards, taking home Best Cinema Documentary.
The film, which was also nominated for a BAFTA at the beginning of this year, covers the fight between business interests, rebel groups, and rangers over the Congolese home of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.
Elsewhere at the awards, Grayson Perry received Documentary Presenter of the Year for his Channel 4 show, Who Are You?
Repeating its success from last year, Channel 4 won a total of five awards out of the 12 available, including Best Documentary Series and Best Entertaining Documentary.
As previously reported, Kim Longinotto was presented with the Grierson Trustees’ Award for achievement in the world of factual film.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chairman of the Grierson Trust said about the winners: “Once again our winning films demonstrate the vibrant, exciting and innovative ways in which the UK documentary industry...
- 11/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
Sir Ian McKellen will narrate a Channel 4 documentary about Muslim drag queens.
Muslim Drag Queens is a First Cut documentary from director Marcus Plowright that aims to offer an insight into the clandestine gay Asian community in Britain.
Commissioning editor David Brindley said: "This is an incredibly important, surprising and moving film.
"Those who have chosen to tell their stories have done so with immense bravery and speak so eloquently about the struggles they have faced.
"With piercing honesty, Muslim Drag Queens gets right to the heart of a community that have up until now remained hidden from the wider British public."
The film focuses on three of the estimated over 100 Muslim drag queens in the UK who aim to gain acceptance and tolerance within their wider community.
These people are 33-year-old gay rights activist and out Muslim drag queen Asif Quaraishi/Asifa Lahore.
"There is a whole community...
Muslim Drag Queens is a First Cut documentary from director Marcus Plowright that aims to offer an insight into the clandestine gay Asian community in Britain.
Commissioning editor David Brindley said: "This is an incredibly important, surprising and moving film.
"Those who have chosen to tell their stories have done so with immense bravery and speak so eloquently about the struggles they have faced.
"With piercing honesty, Muslim Drag Queens gets right to the heart of a community that have up until now remained hidden from the wider British public."
The film focuses on three of the estimated over 100 Muslim drag queens in the UK who aim to gain acceptance and tolerance within their wider community.
These people are 33-year-old gay rights activist and out Muslim drag queen Asif Quaraishi/Asifa Lahore.
"There is a whole community...
- 7/29/2015
- Digital Spy
The Imitation Game star has been nominated for his leading role in BBC drama Sherlock.Scroll down for full list of nominations
Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for the third time as leading actor in his BBC role of Sherlock. This marks his sixth nomination for this category in his career.
Cumberbatch received a Best Actor Oscar nomination earlier this year for his role as Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.
The nominations, announced on Wednesday by actors Freddie Fox and Amanda Abbington, place Cumberbatch in a category alongside three others.
Toby Jones (Harry Potter, Captain America, The Hunger Games) is recognized for his role in Marvellous. The show received two other nominations including Single Drama and Supporting Actress for Gemma Jones.
James Nesbitt (The Hobbit) also received a leading actor nomination for The Missing, in addition to Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) for his role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries.
For...
Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for the third time as leading actor in his BBC role of Sherlock. This marks his sixth nomination for this category in his career.
Cumberbatch received a Best Actor Oscar nomination earlier this year for his role as Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.
The nominations, announced on Wednesday by actors Freddie Fox and Amanda Abbington, place Cumberbatch in a category alongside three others.
Toby Jones (Harry Potter, Captain America, The Hunger Games) is recognized for his role in Marvellous. The show received two other nominations including Single Drama and Supporting Actress for Gemma Jones.
James Nesbitt (The Hobbit) also received a leading actor nomination for The Missing, in addition to Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) for his role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries.
For...
- 4/8/2015
- by mam27@bu.edu (Monica Mendoza)
- ScreenDaily
Film’s Cool, the London-based mentoring initiative is holding a celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by screening the documentaries made by its students at the BFI Southbank on 13th June. Neil Crombie of Seneca Productions headed up the course – Change One Thing – which is aimed at introducing school children to documentary film-making.
The 10 week course gave North London students – aged 13-14 – the chance to learn various documentary making techniques including interviewing, development and exposition as well as a series of mentoring sessions with documentary directors and producers. By the end of the course they will each have produced a mini documentary on the subject of “one thing they would like to change.”
This is the second course to come out of London based mentoring initiative Film’s Cool, which was founded by Lost Tribe Productions CEO Hugh Spurling and teacher/author Oliver Rosen, with the aim of bringing movie-making into schools.
The first project, which ran in September 2011, called Film’s Cool First Class: Horror, gave a group of A-Level students the chance to produce and edit their own horror trailers and print-based campaigns, and to pitch their projects to industry experts and compete for work experience placements.
The trailers were premiered to industry professionals in January at Channel 4, including Film4’s new head of digital Anna Higgs, with seven awards being handed out at the event.
The latest scheme started in February and finishes with a screening of the documentaries at the BFI Southbank.
You can see more of Film’s Cool’s work on their Facebook page -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Films-Cool/172537176160552...
The 10 week course gave North London students – aged 13-14 – the chance to learn various documentary making techniques including interviewing, development and exposition as well as a series of mentoring sessions with documentary directors and producers. By the end of the course they will each have produced a mini documentary on the subject of “one thing they would like to change.”
This is the second course to come out of London based mentoring initiative Film’s Cool, which was founded by Lost Tribe Productions CEO Hugh Spurling and teacher/author Oliver Rosen, with the aim of bringing movie-making into schools.
The first project, which ran in September 2011, called Film’s Cool First Class: Horror, gave a group of A-Level students the chance to produce and edit their own horror trailers and print-based campaigns, and to pitch their projects to industry experts and compete for work experience placements.
The trailers were premiered to industry professionals in January at Channel 4, including Film4’s new head of digital Anna Higgs, with seven awards being handed out at the event.
The latest scheme started in February and finishes with a screening of the documentaries at the BFI Southbank.
You can see more of Film’s Cool’s work on their Facebook page -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Films-Cool/172537176160552...
- 6/26/2012
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
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