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Joslyn Barnes
Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and writer. Known for ''Bamako'' (2006), ''The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975'' (2011), ''Cemetery of Splendour'' (2015), ''White Sun'' (2016), '' Zama'' (2017), '' Strong Island'' (2017) for which she received an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination, and ''Hale County This Morning, This Evening'' (2018) for which she received an Oscar nomination again for Best Documentary Feature. Filmography * 2019: ''Easter Snap'' (Documentary short) (producer - produced by) *2018: '' Angels Are Made of Light'' (Documentary) (co-producer) *2018: ''Aquarela'' (Documentary) (co-producer) (post-production) * 2018: ''Capernaum'' (executive-producer) *2018: ''Hale County This Morning, This Evening'' (Documentary) (producer - produced by) * 2017: ''Sollers Point'' (co-producer) * 2017: ''That Summer'' (Documentary) (producer - produced by) * 2017: ''This Is Congo'' (Documentary) (execut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamako (film)
''Bamako'' is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, first released at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on 14 February 2007. The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako, the capital of Mali, amid the daily life that is going on in the city. In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are guided by special interest of developed nations, or whether it is corruption and the individual nations' mismanagement, that is guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries as well as the rest of the poor undeveloped world. The film even touches on European colonization and discusses how it plays a role in shaping African societies and their resulting poverty and issues. Danny Glover, one of the film's executive producers, also guest-stars as an actor in a Western film (called ''Death in Timbuktu'') that some children are watching on the television in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Changes Everything (2015 Film)
''This Changes Everything'' is a 2015 documentary film directed by Avi Lewis. It is based on the book '' This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate'' by Naomi Klein. The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. Synopsis The film surveys a number of environmental activists around the world: * Alberta, Canada— Crystal, a young indigenous Beaver Lake Cree Nation leader in Athabasca oil sands country, fights for access to a restricted military base. * Powder River Basin, Montana— Mike and Alexis, a goat ranching couple impacted by oil from a broken pipeline. They organize against fossil fuel extraction and form an alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the nearby reservation. * Halkidiki, Greece— Melachrini, a housewife opposed to mining and drilling projects by Canadian corporation Eldorado Gold; against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Producers
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Trouble The Water
''Trouble the Water'' is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. The film portrays a young couple surviving Hurricane Katrina, leading them to face their own troubled past during the storm's aftermath, in a community abandoned long before the hurricane hit. It features music by Massive Attack, Mary Mary, Citizen Cope, John Lee Hooker, The Roots, Dr. John and Blackkoldmadina. ''Trouble the Water'' is distributed by Zeitgeist Films and premiered in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on August 22, 2008, followed by a national release. Synopsis ''Trouble the Water'' opens the day the filmmakers meet 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott at a Red Cross shelter in central Louisiana, then flashes back two weeks, with Kimberly turning her new video camera on herself and her neighbors trapped in their Ninth Ward attic as the storm rages, the levees fail and the flood waters rise. Weaving 15 minutes of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Of This Sea
''Salt of this Sea'' ( ar, ملح هذا البحر, translit=Milh hadha al-bahr) is a 2008 Palestinian film directed by Annemarie Jacir and was an Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2008. It is Palestine's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. By Ian Mundell, , Sep. 22, 2008 The film stars Palestinian-American poet as Soraya, an American-born Palestinian woman, who heads to Israel and Palest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soundtrack For A Revolution
''Soundtrack for a Revolution'' is a 2009 documentary film written and directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman. This documentary traces the story of the Civil Rights Movement and the gains achieved by young African-American activists with an emphasis on their use of the power of music. ''Soundtrack for a Revolution'' had its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. ''Soundtrack for a Revolution'' was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Oscar shortlist for the Documentary Feature category of the 82nd Academy Awards. Guttentag and Sturman were nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. The film has screened at numerous festivals including Cannes, Tribeca, IDFA and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Music Guttentag and Sturman had contemporary artists interpret the music and the messages of the Civil Rights Movement including Wyclef Jean, John Legend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time That Remains
''The Time That Remains'' is a 2009 semi-biographical drama film written and directed by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The film stars Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri and Samar Qudha Tanus. It gives an account of the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present. Suleiman participated in the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, as his new film competed in the official selection category. ''The Time That Remains'' was also screened at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. In November 2009, the film won the Jury Grand Prize (with About Elly) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The film won the Critics Prize of the Argentinian Film Critics Association at Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Cast *Ali Suliman - Eliza's Boyfriend *Saleh Bakri - Fuad *Maisa Abd Elhadi - Woman in West Bank taxi *Zidane Awad - The Student *Elia Suleiman - ES *Menashe Noy - Taxi Driver *Izabel Ramadan - Olga *Yasmine Haj - Nadia *Leila Muammar - Thuraya References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'' ( th, ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ; ) is a 2010 Thai drama film written, produced, and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film, which explores themes of reincarnation, centers on the last days in the life of its title character, who is played by Thanapat Saisaymar. Together with his loved ones—including the spirit of his dead wife, Huay, and his lost son, Boonsong, who has returned in a non-human form—Boonmee explores his past lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness. ''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'' was inspired by the 1983 book ''A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives'' by Buddhist abbot Phra Sripariyattiweti. The film is the final installment in a multi-platform art project by Apichatpong Weerasethakul called "Primitive". It premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or, becoming the first Thai film to do so. Plot In a grassy area, a water buffa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House I Live In (2012 Film)
''The House I Live In'', directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2012 documentary film about the War on Drugs in the United States. Participants *Michelle Alexander (civil rights litigator and the author of 2010's ''The New Jim Crow'') *Shanequa Benitez (resident of Cromwell Towers housing project in Yonkers, New York) *The Honorable Mark W. Bennett (U.S. District Court Judge in Sioux City, Iowa) *Charles Bowden (journalist covering drug war-caused violence on the Mexico–U.S. border) *Mike Carpenter (Chief of Security at Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington, Oklahoma) *Marshal Larry Cearley (Police Officer in the village of Magdalena, New Mexico) *Eric Franklin (Warden of the Lexington Corrections Center in Lexington, Oklahoma) *Maurice Haltiwanger (sentenced to 20 years for crack cocaine distribution) * Dr. Carl Hart (Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, Columbia University) *Nannie Jeter (resident of New Haven, Connecticut) *Anthony Johnson (former small-time drug dealer i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway (2012 Nepali Film)
''Highway'' is a Nepali Anthological Film produced by Aadi Productions in association with Louverture Films. ''Highway'' was officially selected for and screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. It was critically acclaimed but it did not perform well at the box office. Plot Set against the backdrop of the new culture of bandhs (general strikes) that frequently immobilize post-conflict Nepal, ''Highway'' explores five different relationship stories that become intertwined during an ill-fated bus journey from eastern Nepal to the capital Kathmandu. While the passengers - each of whom urgently needs to be somewhere else await a resolution to the combustible strike that is blocking the only passable road, the film explores the psychological and spiritual bandhs that many Nepalese contend with. Cast * Saugat Malla as Ronit * Reecha Sharma as Kavita * Dayahang Rai as Manoj * Asha Maya Magrati as Radhika * Shristi Ghimire as Pooja * Karma Shakya as Abiral * Rajan Khatiwad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concerning Violence
''Concerning Violence'' is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Göran Olsson. It is based on Frantz Fanon's essay, ''Concerning Violence'', from his 1961 book ''The Wretched of the Earth''. American singer and actress Lauryn Hill served as the narrator in the English-language release of the film, while Finnish actress Kati Outinen provides narration for the original Swedish release. The film is an international co-production between Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and the United States. Synopsis The film narrates the events of African nationalist and independence movements in the 1960s and 1970s which challenged colonial and white minority rule. Release The film premiered in-competition in the ''World Cinema Documentary Competition'' at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 17 January 2014, after being pitched at the 2012 MeetMarket at Sheffield Doc/Fest. In May 2013, ''Films Boutique'' acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the film. The film also screened at 64th Berlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameraperson
''Cameraperson'' is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous different countries. ''Cameraperson'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and won the top prize at the Sheffield Doc/Fest. Reception ''Cameraperson'' has a 99% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 88 reviews, with an average score of 8.4/10; the site's consensus reads: "Fresh and inventive yet immediately accessible, Cameraperson distills its subject's life and career into an experience that should prove immediately absorbing even for those unfamiliar with her work." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 86, indicating "Universal Acclaim". Accolades As of January 2017, ''Cameraperson'' has won 23 international awards, including the following: Home media As it was distributed by Janus F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |