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List Of Directors And Producers Of Documentaries
Africa *Sidiki Bakaba *Safi Faye * Sorious Samura ('' Cry Freetown'', '' Return to Freetown'', ''Exodus'', '' Living with Hunger'', '' Living with Refugees'') * Nolan Davis ('' Passing Through: Woni Spotts, The First Black Woman to Travel to Every Country and Continent'' (1989) Asia * Aryana Farshad (Iran) * Channa Rai (India) *Ammar Aziz (Pakistan) *Anu Malhotra (India) *Sadaf Foroughi (Iran) * Suma Josson *Susumu Hani *Kazuo Hara * Fumio Kamei * Toshio Matsumoto *Tatsuya Mori *Shinsuke Ogawa *Anand Patwardhan (India) * Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (Armenian) * David Perlov *Mohammad Bakri (Palestine) *Avi Mograbi (Israeli Moroccan) * Nissim Mossek (Israel) * Makoto Satō * Noriaki Tsuchimoto *Mikhail Vartanov (Armenia) ('' Parajanov: The Last Spring'' ) * Wang Bing *Ruby Yang *Maheen Zia (Pakistan) * Anwar Hajher * Satyaprakash Upadhyay (India) ( Bunkar - The Last of the Varanasi Weavers) Australia *Wayne Coles-Janess ('' In the Shadow of the Palms'') *George Gittoes ('' Soundtrack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidiki Bakaba
Sidiki Bakaba (born in Abengourou, 1949) is an actor, scenario writer and director from Côte d'Ivoire. He lives and works in Abidjan. After studying at the National School of Drama of Abidjan, he conducted training at the Living Theatre and with Grotowski. In 2000, he became the director of the Palace of Culture of Abidjan (Palais de la Culture d'Abidjan) located at Treichville. He also founded the Actor's Studio (an actor training school in the Palace of Culture) Along with a significant acting career, he produced fiction films, documentaries such as ''Les Guérisseurs'' (1988) which won the award for best music at the Francophone Film Festival, as well as the Voice of Hope at FESPACO Ouagadougou in 1989. He directed short films such as ''Le Nord est tombé sur la tête'' (1985–1998) for TV5, ''Le Parole'' (1992), ''L'Anniversaire de Daymios'' (November 1992) and documentaries such as ''Cinq siècles de solitude'' and ''La victoire aux mains nues'' in 2002. A close support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Hara
is a Japanese documentary film director. After dropping out of university to work at a special education school, he made his 1972 debut work ''Goodbye CP'' about a group of individuals with cerebral palsy. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Hochi Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On''. That film also earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 2017 he released the documentary ''Sennan Asbestos Disaster'' which received the 2017 Audience Award at the Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival and the 2017 BIFF Mecenat Award at the Busan International Film Festival. His documentary works often depict people who push against the boundaries of propriety and obedience in Japanese society. Filmography As director * 1972: * 1974: ''Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974'' * 1987: ''The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On'' * 1994: ''A Dedicated Life'' (Zenshin shōsetsuka) * 1999: * 2005: (fictional f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Vartanov
Mikhail Vartanov (russian: Михаил Вартанов, links=no, hy, Միքայել Վարդանով, links=no, french: Mikhaïl Vartanov, links=no; b. February 21, 1937, RSFSR, Soviet Union, now Russian Federation, d. December 31, 2009, Hollywood, California) was a Soviet cinematographer who made significant contribution to world cinema with the documentary films '' Parajanov: The Last Spring'' and ''Seasons''. He is considered an important cinematographer and documentarian of his generation, noted for artistic collaborations with Sergei Parajanov and such influential documentary films as '' Parajanov: The Last Spring'', ''The Seasons'' (directed by Artavazd Peleshyan), ''The Color of Armenian Land'', and a series of essays including ''The Unmailed Letters''. Early career Vartanov's debut film, ''The Color of Armenian Land'', marked the beginning of his trademark style, afterwards dubbed as the "direction of undirected action." This documentary, featuring a stylized silent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
(11 December 1928, in Gifu Prefecture, Japan – 24 June 2008) was a Japanese documentary film director known for his films on Minamata disease and examinations of the effects of modernization on Asia. Tsuchimoto and Shinsuke Ogawa have been called the "two figures hattower over the landscape of Japanese documentary." Early years Tsuchimoto was born in Gifu Prefecture, but raised in Tokyo. Angered by the emperor system that led Japan into war, he participated in radical student groups like Zengakuren when he entered Waseda University and joined the Japanese Communist Party. For a time he was even involved in the JCP's plan for armed revolt in the mountains and also was arrested for participating in protests. Expelled from Waseda in 1953, he could initially only find work at the Japan-China Friendship Society until he ran into Keiji Yoshino, a filmmaker and executive at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga), a branch of Iwanami Shoten devoted to making educational and public re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Satō (film Director)
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Makoto Satō may refer to: *, Japanese actor * Makoto Satō (theatre) (佐藤 信, born 1943), Japanese theater director and playwright *, Japanese film director * Makoto Satō (baseball) (佐藤 誠, born 1975), player for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks The are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) as a member of the Pacific League. The team was formerly known as the Nankai Hawks and was based in Osaka. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissim Mossek
Nissim Mossek ( he, ניסים מוסק; born 1948) is an Israeli documentary film director, writer and producer for film and television. Since 1986, Mossek has been the director and editor for Biblical Productions. Regarded as a director with a social conscience, in 2004 Mossek won the Landau Award as the Best Director for documentary films. As a director and editor, Mossek explores subjects such as racism, homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to pe ... and other cultural boundaries in Israeli society. Filmography Director *''Wild West Hebron'' (2013) *''The Electric Stage: A Rock 'n Roll Legend'' (2008) *''Prison LTD.: Prison Privatization'' (2007) *''Citizen Nawi'' (2007) *''Golda's Revenge'' (2006) *''Operation Sphinx'' (2006) *''The Holy Land Revealed'' (2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avi Mograbi
Avi Mograbi ( he, אבי מוגרבי; born May 9, 1956) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker. Life and career Mograbi's grandfather founded The Mograbi Cinema ''(Kolnoa Mograbi)'', an Art Deco movie theatre in downtown Tel Aviv. Opened in 1930, it was probably Israel's most famous movie theater. It was the site of one of the largest celebrations following the 1948 partition and remained a vital national landmark until its demolition in the 1990s. Avi Mograbi was born in Tel Aviv to migrant parents. His mother fled to Palestine from Germany (at that time German Reich) in the 1930s; his father was born in Beirut, Lebanon to an Arab-speaking Jewish family. Like all Israeli citizens over the age of 18, he was required to join the Israel Defence Forces for military service. He was a non-combatant He became a reservist, and when in 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon, he was recruited to serve as a combatant. He conscientiously objected and was jailed. He studied philosophy at Tel Aviv Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Bakri
Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; ar, محمد بكري, he, מוחמד בכרי) is a Palestinian actor and film director.Biography Mohammad Bakri Official Website. Personal life Bakri was born in the village of Bi'ina in Israel. He went to elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of . He studied acting and at |
David Perlov
David Perlov (Hebrew: דוד פרלוב) (born 9 June 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died December 13, 2003, in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli documentary filmmaker. Biography David Perlov was born in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Belo Horizonte. At the age of 10, he went to live with his grandfather in São Paulo. At the age of 22, he moved to Paris and worked as a projectionist for the newly established Cinematheque. In 1957, he made his first short film, ''Tante chinoise'' (Old Aunt China), based on drawings of a 12-year-old girl of the French provincial bourgeoisie of 1890 which he found in the cellar of the Paris house in which he was living. In 1958, Perlov immigrated to Israel, settling with his wife Mira on Kibbutz Bror Hayil. The couple had two daughters, the twins Yael Perlov and Naomi Perlov. Film career In 1963, Perlov made a 33-minute documentary '' In Jerusalem'' (בירושלים, Be-Yerushalayim). This film came to be one of the most important films of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan
Artavazd Peleshyan ( hy, Արտավազդ (Արթուր) Փելեշյան, Artavazd (Art’ur) P’eleshyan; also ''Pelechian, Peleshian''; born February 22, 1938) is an Armenian director of essay films, a documentarian in the history of film art, a screenwriter, and a film theorist. He is renowned for developing a style of cinematographic perspective known as distance montage, combining perception of depth with oncoming entities, such as running packs of antelope or hordes of humans. Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov has referred to Peleshyan as "one of the few authentic geniuses in the world of cinema". Peleshyan was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Armenian SSR in 1979, and Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995. His films have been described as being on the border between a documentary and a feature film, somewhat reminiscent of the work of such avant-garde filmmakers as Bruce Conner, rather than of conventional documentaries. However, it has been noted that his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anand Patwardhan
Anand Patwardhan (born 18 February 1950) is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while others investigate nuclear nationalism and unsustainable development. Notable films include ''Bombay: Our City'' (''Hamara Shahar'') (1985), ''In Memory of Friends'' (1990), '' In the Name of God'' (''Ram ke Nam'') (1992), '' Father, Son, and Holy War'' (1995), '' A Narmada Diary'' (1995), ''War and Peace'' (2002) and ''Jai Bhim Comrade'' (2011), and ''Reason'' (2018) which have won national and international awards. Biography Patwardhan was born on 18 February 1950, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He completed a B.A. in English literature at Mumbai University in 1970, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Brandeis University in 1972, and a Master of Arts in Communication Studies at McGill University in 1982. He is a member of the Oscar Academy. Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinsuke Ogawa
(25 June 1935 - 7 February 1992) was a Japanese documentary film director. Ogawa and Noriaki Tsuchimoto have been called the "two figures hattower over the landscape of Japanese documentary." Career Ogawa began his career at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga) making PR (public relations) films alongside other important directors such as Tsuchimoto, Kazuo Kuroki, Yōichi Higashi, and Susumu Hani. Turning independent, he first made documentaries about radical political movements in 1960s and 1970s Japan, most famously the "Sanrizuka" or "Narita" series, which recorded the struggle by farmers and student protesters to prevent the construction of the Narita International Airport in Sanrizuka, Chiba Prefecture. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for '' Summer in Narita'' in 1970. Ogawa's was a committed form of documentary, which clearly took the side of those combatting unjust power. A growing sense that he did not understand the life of the farmers he was filmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
