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RIDM
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (french: Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal) is a Canadian documentary film festival, staged annually in Montreal, Quebec. In English, the festival now goes by the name Montreal International Documentary Festival, while retaining the French-language abbreviation RIDM). History The RIDM was founded in 1998 by documentary filmmakers who wanted to create a platform for new perspectives and innovative practices in documentary film. The program, organized around social, political and environmental themes, features distinctive films chosen for their unique perspective and artistic strengths. Workshops and panel discussions welcome audiences, professionals and partners alike. Forum RIDM Formerly known as “Doc Circuit Montréal”, the RIDM is also home to "Forum RIDM" Quebec's foremost documentary marketplace, established in 2004, to support and stimulate independent documentary production in Quebec and to bring fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Isacsson
Magnus Isacsson (1948 - August 2, 2012) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films investigated contemporary political issues and topics in social activism. Early life and television career Isacsson was born in Sweden in 1948. His father founded and ran an art school and his mother taught children with learning disabilities. Isacsson first became involved with photography, with photographs exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm when he was 18 years old. He immigrated to Canada in 1970. He first worked as a radio producer for Sveriges Radio and the CBC, before moving into television to direct reports for the English– and French-language CBC television networks, for such programs as '' The Fifth Estate'' and '' Le Point''. Film career Frustrated by the creative constraints of working for TV networks, Isacsson began a career as an independent filmmaker in 1986. His film ''Uranium'', the story of radioactive contamination on Native land by Canada's uranium mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Real Life
''My Real Life'' (french: Ma vie réelle) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Magnus Isacsson and released in 2012. The last film Isacsson completed before his death, the film centres on the experiences of four young men in suburban Montréal-Nord who have turned to hip hop music as a creative outlet. The film premiered at the 2012 Montreal International Documentary Festival, where it was the winner of the Grand Prize for Best National Feature.Charles-Henri Ramond"Ma vie réelle de Magnus Isacsson sort en DVD" ''Films du Québec'', September 17, 2013. Due to Isacsson's death in August, it was screened as part of a tribute retrospective of several of his films at the Cinémathèque québécoise.T'Cha Dunlevy, "RIDM festival to pay tribute to Magnus Isacsson; Lineup features 110 films, including 43 Quebec premieres". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 25, 2012. The festival also announced the creation of the Magnus Isacsson Award, to honour Canadian films with a strong social mess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol (film)
''Sol'' is a 2014 Canadian documentary film by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Susan Avingaq about Solomon Uyarasuk, a musician/circus performer who died in police custody in Igloolik, Nunavut. The film questions the claims by the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment that Uyarasuk hanged himself in his cell, and also explores the wider issue of Nunavut's very high suicide rate. The film played at the 2014 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The film subsequently won the Grand Prize for Best Canadian Feature at the RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival and was included in the list of Canada's Top Ten feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF. On March 8, 2016, it was named Best Documentary Program at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Québékoisie
''Québékoisie'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins and released in 2013.Éric Moreault"Québékoisie: pour combattre les mythes" ''Le Soleil'', November 30, 2013. The film documents a bicycle trip undertaken by the duo along Quebec Route 138 between Quebec City and Natashquan, to explore the relationship between Quebec's indigenous and non-indigenous populations. The film premiered in 2013 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, where it won the Magnus Isaacson Award for socially conscious filmmaking. The film received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Documentary Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic. His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s. His German mother had been evacuated from Berlin due to the Allied bombing of Germany. He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man. After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958. Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968. He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s. From 1974 to 1984, when its publication ceased, he edited the magazine '' Filmkritik' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Hélène Cousineau
Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a Canadian film director and producer."Cinq questions à... Marie-Hélène Cousineau" '' La Presse'', October 18, 2013. Originally from , she moved to , (now in |
Dieudo Hamadi
Dieudo Hamadi (born 1984) is a documentary filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.François Ekchajzer"Le cinéaste Dieudo Hamadi, porte-parole des victimes de l’autre guerre des Six-Jours" ''Télérama'', October 7, 2021. Born in Kisangani, he was a teenager when the Six-Day War broke out in the region. His first short documentary film, ''Ladies in Waiting (Dames en attente)'', won the Pierre et Yolande Perrault Grant for an emerging filmmaker at the Cinéma du Réel film festival in 2010. The film was part of '' Congo in Four Acts'', an anthology of four short films by emerging Congolese filmmakers. In 2013, his film ''Town Criers (Atalaku)'' won the festival's Joris Ivens Prize for Best First Film. In 2014 he won the festival's Potemkine and Société civile des auteurs multimédia awards for '' National Diploma (Examen d'état)'', and in 2017 he won the festival's Grand Prize for ''Mama Colonel''. In 2018, his film '' Kinshasa Makambo'' won the Tim Hetherington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazim Öz
Kazim Öz (born 1973, Dersim) is a Kurdish film director, scriptwriter and producer. In 1992 he began acting at Teatra Jiyana Nû, while also working on movies. Early life and education Kazim Öz lived in the countryside in the Dersim region until he was seventeen years old. In his childhood he took care of the families goats. He studied civil engineering at the Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, and following Television and Cinema at the Marmara University, from where he also received his master degree in 2003. His first documentary ''Destên Me Wê Bibin Bask Emê Bifirin Herin...'' was released in 1996. Since 1996, he was involved in the activities of the movie department of the Mesopotamia Culture Center, which today is known as the Mesopotamian Cinema Collective. Professional career Since 1996 until today he stayed attached to the films. His most acclaimed movies are ''Bahoz, Zer, Son Mevsim: Şavaklar'' (Documentary) amongst others. Kazim Öz's movies often get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let The Fire Burn
''Let the Fire Burn'' is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE (Philadelphia organization), MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directed and produced by Jason Osder and was released by Zeitgeist Films in October 2013. Synopsis The MOVE (Philadelphia organization), MOVE organization was originally established as a "back to nature" movement that practiced "environmentalism, green" methods. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department decided to take action to evict the group from their row house at 6221 Osage Avenue. When gunfire broke out and tear gas was not enough to pull the MOVE members out of the house, the police decided to drop explosives on the house. A fire soon began to blaze, endangering the several children now trapped inside the house. In a controversial decision, the police opted to "let the fire burn", resulting in the destruction of over 60 homes and the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Longinotto
Kim Longinotto ( Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer; born 8 February 1948, London) is a British documentary film maker, well-known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto has made more than 20 films, usually featuring inspiring women and girls at their core. Her subjects have included female genital mutilation in Kenya (''The Day I Will Never Forget''), women standing up to rapists in India (''Pink Saris''), and the story of ''Salma'', an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family for decades. Early life Born Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer to an Italian father and a Welsh mother on 8 February 1948; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of 10, she was sent to an all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip. She discover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Higgins
Olivier Higgins (born 1979) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec.Éric Moreault"Mélanie Carrier et Olivier Higgins : Au cœur du plus vaste camp de réfugiés au monde" ''Le Soleil'', February 19, 2021. The cofounder with his wife Mélanie Carrier of the production studio Mö Films, the duo concentrate primarily on films about the relationships of the world's indigenous peoples with the wider world. The duo's first film '' Asiemut'', chronicling a bicycling trip they took in Asia, was released in 2006. They followed up in 2011 with the feature documentary ''Encounters (Rencontre)'', and the short documentary ''Ice Philosophy (L'homme de glace)''. Their 2013 film '' Québékoisie'' was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 16th Jutra Awards. In 2019 they collaborated with photographer Renaud Philippe on '' Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour)'', a multimedia museum show and documentary film about the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
