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Maxim Pozdorovkin
Maxim Pozdorovkin is a Russian-American filmmaker based in New York. He is the director of ''The Truth About Killer Robots'', an HBO documentary that premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. ''The Truth About Killer Robots'' was described by The Guardian as "the year's most terrifying documentary". His film '' Our New President'' premiered at Sundance 2018 where it won a Special Jury Award. Variety also listed it as one of the ten best films from the festival. Pozdorovkin's other films include: '' Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer'' (Emmy winner), '' The Notorious Mr. Bout'' (Sundance 2014), '' Clinica de Migrantes'' (HBO). Upcoming feature documentary ''How to Rob Banks For Dummies'' is currently in post-production. Along with Joe Bender, Pozdorovkin co-founded Third Party Films, a Brooklyn-based production company. Pozdorovkin holds a PhD from Harvard University and is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He appeared on ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Americans
Russian Americans ( rus, русские американцы, r=russkiye amerikantsy, p= ˈruskʲɪje ɐmʲɪrʲɪˈkant͡sɨ) are Americans of full or partial Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in northwestern America. Russian Americans comprise the largest Eastern European and East Slavic population in the U.S., the second-largest Slavic population generally, the nineteenth-largest ancestry group overall, and the eleventh-largest from Europe. In the mid-19th century, waves of Russian immigrants fleeing religious persecution settled in the U.S., including Russian Jews and Spiritual Christians. These groups mainly settled in coastal cities, including Alaska, Brooklyn (New York City) on the East Coast, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon, on the West Coast, as well as in Great Lakes cities, such as Chicago and Cleveland. After the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Truth About Killer Robots
''The Truth About Killer Robots'' is a 2018 documentary made by Third Party Films. It describes the hitherto ignored issues related to robots that have been involved in human fatalities. Plot The documentary investigates the 2015 killing by a robot of an assembly line manager in a Volkswagen factory in Germany, a driverless Tesla car that hit a white truck ahead of it, and the use of drones by the police in the USA (especially in Dallas) to drop bombs on snipers and suspects. It also follows the use of artificial intelligence in facial tracking, use of robots in Japan including hotels staffed by them, Geminoids in Japan, and the use of facial recognition for targeted marketing. The films uses Isaac Asimov's ''"Three Laws of Robotics",'' first proposed by him in his 1942 short story '' Runaround'', and describes how human beings have in recent years ignored them. The film follows these with interviews with experts in the field, footage of real robots being used for bomb di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Toronto International Film Festival
The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to the festival were members of underrepresented groups, such as women and people of color. The Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, People's Choice Award was won by ''Green Book (film), Green Book'', directed by Peter Farrelly. Awards Juries Platform Jury *Lee Chang-dong"TIFF reveals Cannes-centric jury for 2018 Platform competition" ''The Globe and Mail'', May 10, 2018. *Béla Tarr *Mira Nair Canadian Feature Film Jur ...
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Our New President
''Our New President'' is a 2018 documentary produced by Third Party Films. It follows the story of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and is told entirely through footage from Russian state-sponsored media. ''Our New President'' is a satire about the Russian media and its take on American politics. The film was originally made as an amateur short 12 minute collage of short clips from Russian media outlets and amateur clips by Russians for Field of Vision. It was subsequently expanded into a full-length documentary, showing how the Russian media (especially Russia 1, Russia Today and NTV) overhyped the election of Trump in a Russo-centric manner, falsified information leading common Russian people to behave irrationally. Reception ''Our New President'' premiered in the World Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. It premiered on opening day of the festival. Our New President editors Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov won the World Cinema Documentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Punk Prayer
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Notorious Mr
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinica De Migrantes
''Clinica de Migrantes'' is a 2016 HBO documentary short produced by Third Party Films that investigates the intersection between immigration and healthcare through the work of Puentes de Salud, a volunteer-run network of clinics providing preventive care to the Latino community of South Philadelphia. It has won several awards, including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films Best Documentary Short Award and the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival Norman Vaughan Human Spirit Award (2016). Overview In ''Clinica de Migrantes,'' director Maxim Pozdorovkin looks at Puentes de Salud, a South Philadelphia clinic serving undocumented immigrants. Dr. Steve Larson and his team face numerous obstacles as they strive to help the community attain healthcare, when even a basic checkup is fiscally out of reach for many of the patients. The staffers treat approximately 10,000 patients each year, with little funding and space. As they plan on moving to a new facility, the viewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious and highly ranked universities in the world. The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses: the Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.9 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Endowment inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Show
''The Daily Show'' is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central with release shortly after on Paramount+. ''The Daily Show'' draws its comedy and satire form from recent news stories as well as political figures, media organizations, and often uses self-referential humor. The half-hour-long show premiered on July 22, 1996, and was first hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 17, 1998. Jon Stewart then took over as the host from January 11, 1999, until August 6, 2015, making the show more strongly focused on political satire and news satire, in contrast with the pop culture focus during Kilborn's tenure. Stewart was succeeded by Trevor Noah, whose tenure began on September 28, 2015. Under the different hosts, the show has been formally known as ''The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn'' from 1996 to 1998, ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' from 1999 until 2015, and ''The Daily Show with Trevor Noah'' si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style. Founded in August 2011, it has had a membership of approximately 11 women. The group staged unauthorized, provocative guerrilla gigs in public places. These performances were filmed as music videos and posted on the internet. The group's lyrical themes included feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his policies, and Putin's links to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. The group gained global notoriety when five members of the group staged a performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on February 21, 2012. The group's actions were condemned as sacrilegious by the Orthodox clergy and eventually stopped by church security officials. The women said their protest was directed at the Orthodox Church leaders' support for Putin during his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Russian Film Directors
The following is the list of Russian film directors. A *Vadim Abdrashitov *Sarik Andreasyan *André Andrejew *Oleg Anofriyev *Semyon Aranovich * Artur Aristakisyan B *Aleksei Balabanov *Kantemir Balagov *Boris Barnet *Yevgeni Bauer *Timur Bekmambetov *Lidia Bobrova *Sergei Bodrov * Sergei Bodrov, Jr. * Fedor Bondarchuk * Alexander Borodyansky *Vladimir Bortko *Arcady Boytler *Konstantin Bronzit *Dimitri Buchowetzki *Yuri Bykov C *Pyotr Chardynin *Pavel Chukhray D *Grigoriy Dobrygin *Ivan Dykhovichny E *Sergei Eisenstein *Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai *Nurbek Egen F * Costa Fam * Aleksey Fedorchenko * Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia * Dmitri Alexeyevich Frolov G *Levan Gabriadze *Vladimir Gardin * Sergei Gerasimov *Marion Gering *Aleksei Alekseivich German *Aleksei Yuryevich German *Valeriya Gai Germanika *Victor Ginzburg * Georgi Gitis *Alexander Goldstein *Vasily Goncharov *Stanislav Govorukhin *Alexis Granowsky *Yuli Gusman *Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez *Alexander Gutman I *Ikiru *V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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