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DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (), also known as DMZ Docs, is a South Korean film festival for documentary films jointly presented by Gyeonggi Province, Paju and Goyang Goyang (''Goyang-si''; ) is a city in Gyeonggi Province in the north of South Korea. It is part of the Seoul Capital Area, making Goyang one of Seoul's satellite cities. It is one of the largest cities in the Seoul Capital Area, with a populatio .... Launched in 2009, it is held annually for seven days in September/October less than twenty kilometers from the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and showcases films dealing with "peace, coexistence and reconciliation." History * 1st DMZ Docs, October 21-26, 2009 : Films screened: 61 films from 33 countries : Opening film: ''The Heart of Jenin'', Lior Geller and Marcus Vetter, Germany : Closing film: * 2nd DMZ Docs, September 9-13, 2010 : Films screened: 74 films from 35 countries : Opening film: ''Peace'', Kazuhiro Soda, Japan : Closing film: * 3rd DM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goyang
Goyang (''Goyang-si''; ) is a city in Gyeonggi Province in the north of South Korea. It is part of the Seoul Capital Area, making Goyang one of Seoul's satellite cities. It is one of the largest cities in the Seoul Capital Area, with a population of just over 1 million. Ilsan, a planned city, is located in the Ilsandong-gu and Ilsanseo-gu districts of Goyang. It also includes Deogyang-gu which is closer to Seoul. Several institutions of higher learning are located in Goyang. These include Agricultural Cooperative College, Korea Aerospace University, and Transnational Law and Business University. Notable places Historic remains * Bukhansanseong Fortress * Heungguksa Temple * Seosamneung and Seooreung Royal Tombs, UNESCO World Heritage Sites * Haengju seowon (Confucial Academy) * Ilsan Bamgasi Choga (Straw-roofed House) Exhibitions * Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center * Goyang Oulim Nuri Arts Center * KINTEX * Aerospace Museum * Baedari Korean Traditional Wine Museum * Theme Zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ping Pong (2012 Film)
''Ping Pong'' ''(Never too old for gold)'' is a 2012 documentary film, that follows eight pensioners from around the world as they train for and compete in the over 80's table tennis world championship in Inner Mongolia. The film's world premiere took place at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. It has since appeared at Sheffield Doc/Fest (and was pitched at the Doc/Fest's 2010 MeetMarket), DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) is a public trust that organises the annual international film festival in Mumbai famously known as the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. Actor, producer and author Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the Chairperson ..., Guelph Festival of Moving Media, and San Francisco Doc Fest. The film opened in the UK with a theatrical release on 6 July 2012 and has since been shown at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Love, Don't Cross That River
''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' () is a 2013 South Korean documentary film that follows elderly married couple Jo Byeong-man and Kang Kye-yeol until the last moments of their 76-year marriage. Documentary filmmaker Jin Mo-young filmed Jo and Kang in the couple's mountain village in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province for 15 months. ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' premiered at the 2013 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. It was released in theaters on 27 November 2014 and through word of mouth became the most commercially successful Korean documentary/independent film of all time. Production Married couple, 98-year-old Jo Byeong-man and 89-year-old Kang Kye-yeol, were first featured onscreen in a five-episode segment titled ''Gray-haired Lovers'' on a KBS television documentary program that aired in 2011. After documentary filmmaker Jin Mo-young saw Jo and Kang on TV, he rushed to the couple's mountain village in Hoengseong Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Har'el
Alma Har'el ( he, עלמה הראל) is an Israeli-American music video and film director. She is best known for her 2019 feature film debut '' Honey Boy'', for which she won a Directors Guild of America Award. Her 2011 documentary '' Bombay Beach'', which took the top prize at Tribeca Film Festival, received a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2016, her documentary ''LoveTrue'' won the Grand Prix Best Documentary Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The same year, Har'el was named one of the "Top 12 female filmmakers ready to direct a blockbuster" by IndieWire. Har'el is noted for her ability to artistically blur the lines between documentary and fiction. Stephan Holden of ''The New York Times'' wrote about Har'el's film ''Bombay Beach'': " tlooks and feels like a fever dream about an alternate universe. Suffused with a sense of wonder, it hovers, dancing inside its own ethereal bubble". Early life Har'el was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay Beach (film)
''Bombay Beach'' is a 2011 documentary film directed and produced by Israeli filmmaker Alma Har'el. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award, won "Best Feature Documentary" at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and has been taught in several universities including Duke University and Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab and Film Center as a genre redefining work. Taking place in the Salton Sea, a rusting relic of a failed 1950s development boom, Bombay Beach is a dreamlike poem that sets three personal stories to a stylized melding of observational documentary and choreographed dance to music specially composed for the film by Zach Condon of the band Beirut, and songs by Bob Dylan. Filmmaker Terry Gilliam called the film, "A beautiful, quirky, and ultimately very moving film about the American Dream on the edge of a desert sea." Plot The film tells the story of three protagonists: Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Fahdel
Abbas Fadhel (Arabic عباس فاضل) is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq. Based in France since the age of 18 years, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D. In January 2002, he returned to Iraq with a French passport and filmed a documentary film, ''Back to Babylon (film)'', in which he asked himself: "''What have my childhood friends become? How have their lives changed? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?''" The country's dramatic situation is the background of this introspective investigation. One year later, in February 2003, when a new war seems imminent, Abbas Fadhel returned to Iraq with the intention of filming his family and friends, and the superstitious hope of protecting them against the dangers threatening them. When the war started, he returned to France and lost all contact with his family. Two months later, he again returned to Iraq and discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)
''Homeland: Iraq Year Zero'' is a 2015 documentary film written and directed by the Iraqi- French film director Abbas Fahdel. Synopsis Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion. Awards * Sesterce d'Or (Best Feature Film Award - International Competition), Festival Visions du réel, 2015 * Doc Alliance Selection Award, Locarno International Film Festival, 2015 * White Goose Award (Best Feature Film Award - International Competition), DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, 2015. * Award of Excellence (International Competition), and Citizens' Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2015. * Grand Prize and People's Choice Award, RIDM (Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal), 2015. * Silver Tanit, Carthage Film Festival, 2015. * Jury Prize, Milano Filmmaker Festival, 2015. * Public Award, Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM), Mexico, 2016. See also *Cinema of Iraq *Iraqi culture The Culture of Iraq (Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoav Shamir
Yoav Shamir ( he, יואב שמיר), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films ''Checkpoint (2003 film), Checkpoint'' and ''Defamation (film), Defamation''. Personal life Yoav Shamir was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. A ninth-generation Israeli from Tel Aviv, he is the son of two elementary school teachers. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in History and philosophy. He obtained a MFA in cinema with honours. He served as an Israeli soldier in the Israeli-occupied territories. Career Shamir's films have received awards from independent film festivals including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Shamir's documentaries made him a focal point of criticism and garnered accusations of anti-semitism. After the success of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defamation (film)
''Defamation'' ( he, השמצה; translit. Hashmatsa) is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. It examines antisemitism and, in particular, the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. A major focus of the film is the Anti-Defamation League. ''Defamation'' won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Content The film examines whether ''anti-Semitic'' has become an all purpose label for anyone who criticizes Israel and the idea that some Jews' preoccupation with the past—i.e., the Holocaust—is preventing progress today. Shamir decided to make ''Defamation'' after a critic of an earlier film accused him of antisemitism. Filmmaker Yoav Shamir states in the beginning of the film that as an Israeli he has never experienced antisemitism himself and wants to learn more about it since references to antisemitism in countries all over the world are common in the Israeli media. The film include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Mo-young
Jin Mo-young is a South Korean documentary filmmaker. He directed ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' (2014). Career Jin Mo-young has been directing and producing television documentaries since 1997. In 2012, he produced the feature film ''Shiva, Throw Your Life'' (directed by Lee Seong-kyu). Jin made his feature directorial debut in 2014 with ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'', about 98-year-old Jo Byeong-man and 89-year-old Kang Kye-yeol, who'd been married for 76 years. Jin filmed the elderly couple in their mountain village home in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province for 15 months, until Jo's death. ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' won the Audience Award at the 2014 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and Best Independent Film at the 2015 KOFRA Film Awards. The film was a surprise hit at the box office, drawing 4.64 million admissions to become the highest grossing Korean independent/documentary film of all time. Jin said, "I tried to shoot the lifelong love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chosun Ilbo
''The Chosun Ilbo'' (, ) is a daily newspaper in South Korea and the oldest daily newspaper in the country. With a daily circulation of more than 1,800,000, the ''Chosun Ilbo'' has been audited annually since the Audit Bureau of Circulations was established in 1993. ''Chosun Ilbo'' and its subsidiary company, Digital Chosun, operates the ''Chosun.com'' news website, which also publishes web versions of the newspaper in English, Chinese, and Japanese. The paper is considered a newspaper of record for South Korea. History The ''Chosun Ilbo'' Establishment Union was created in September 1919 while the ''Chosun Ilbo'' company was founded on 5 March 1920 by Sin Sogu. The newspaper was critical of, and sometimes directly opposed to, the actions of the Japanese government during Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). On 27 August 1920, the ''Chosun Ilbo'' was suspended after it published an editorial criticizing what it said was the use of excessive force by the Japanese police ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
