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Sheena M. Joyce
Sheena M. Joyce (born July 26, 1976) is an American film producer currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joyce produced the films ''Rock School'' (2005), ''Head Space'' (2006), ''Two Days in April'' (2007), '' The Art of the Steal'' (2009), ''Last Days Here'' (2011), ''Kelce'' (2023). She made her co-directorial debut with Don Argott Don Argott (born September 14, 1972) is an American documentary filmmaker and musician. He has directed several documentary films and has also worked as a producer and cinematographer. He co-owns the production company 9.14 Pictures with prod ... with 2012's '' The Atomic States of America''. She formed 9.14 Pictures with director and cinematographer Don Argott in 2002. Filmography References External links 9.14 Pictures American film producers 1976 births Living people {{US-film-producer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batman & Bill
''Batman & Bill'' is an American documentary film that premiered on Hulu on May 6, 2017. Directed, written and produced by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, the film explores the creation of the Batman, how Bob Kane was accepted as the sole creator, and how Bill Finger was never credited for his work despite creating much of the Batman mythos. Premise "Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that's not the whole truth. One author makes it his crusade to seek justice for Bill Finger, a struggling writer who was the key figure in creating the iconic superhero, from concept to costume to the very character we all know and love. Bruce Wayne may be Batman's secret identity, but his creator was always a true mystery." The documentary focuses on the efforts of Marc Tyler Nobleman to find out about the history of Bill Finger, his involvement with creating the Batman mythos, how Bob Kane got all the initial and subsequent credit and then refusing, until his later years, to acknow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Gandhi
Vikram Gandhi is an Indian American documentary filmmaker, producer, actor, and journalist. His works included ''Kumaré'' (2011), ''Barry'' (2016), ''Trigger Warning with Killer Mike'' (2019), '' 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez'' (2020)''.'' Biography Gandhi was born in New York and grew up in a Hindu household in New Jersey. His parents are Punjabi immigrants from Burma and his father works at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2000. After college, Gandhi worked as a freelance video journalist and reported on political, economic and human rights issues in Asia for ''The Economist'', ''Time'', ABC and CNN. He also worked as a cinematographer and producer of documentary films and commercials, and his clients included American Express, Energizer, Yahoo and Katy Perry. As a documentary filmmaker, Gandhi covered the emergence of the yoga industry in the US and, inspired by his own skepticism about religious movements, he starte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Producers
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Framing John DeLorean
''Framing John DeLorean'' is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce and written by Dan Greeney and Alexandra Orton, about the life of John DeLorean. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles, Dean Winters, Michael Rispoli and Jason Jones. The film was released on June 7, 2019, by Sundance Selects. While the film is structured as a documentary with a number of involved people as interview subjects, the film also features reenactments of certain important scenes of DeLorean's story. It also features behind the scenes footage of the participants of the reenactment scenes with the cast and crew, who provide their views on DeLorean out-of-character. Cast *Alec Baldwin as John DeLorean *Morena Baccarin as Cristina Ferrare *Josh Charles as Bill Collins *Dean Winters as John Valestra *Michael Rispoli as Jim Hoffman * Jason Jones as Jerry West *Dana Ashbrook as Ben Tisa *Josh Cooke as Howard Weitzman *Sean Cullen as Roy *William H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tucker (director)
Michael Tucker is an American documentary film director, best known for his recent documentary '' The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair''. He also directed a documentary in Iraq during the 2003 Iraqi War entitled ''Gunner Palace''. He was born in Hawaii. The Iraqi Experience From May 2003 to June 2004 he traveled to Iraq numerous times during the height of the Iraqi insurgency for the purpose of putting together a documentary. For two months he lived with the 2/3 Artillery, a.k.a. "The Gunners" in one of Uday Hussein's palaces where they were stationed. His film was aimed at capturing the lives and humanity of the soldiers who were situated in the center of Baghdad, one of the most volatile regions of the city. The film was co-directed by Petra Epperlein and distributed by Palm Pictures, with a release in the United States on March 4, 2005. He also co-directed a 16-minute short film called '' The Last Cowboy'' with Epperlein in 1998. Filmography * '' The Last Cowbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassam Tariq
Bassam Tariq (born October 22, 1986) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter born in Karachi, Pakistan. He co-directed and produced the Sundance-funded documentary '' These Birds Walk'' (2013) with Omar Mullick, and he was named in ''Filmmaker''s "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012. Tariq's works aim to uncover the diversity of Muslim life and experience. In addition to filmmaking, his diverse projects include blogging and writing, co-founding a halal butcher shop, and being a TED fellow. Tariq lives in New York City with his wife and son. Life and career Tariq was born in Pakistan and moved to the U.S. with his family at a young age. He grew up in New York's Astoria neighborhood and moved to Houston at age 11. Tariq received a Bachelor of Science (BS) in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. While in college, Tariq took a class called “Creativity in American Culture” that inspired him to start making films, which at first we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an American documentary filmmaker, best known for her documentary, '' Heroin(e)'' for which she received Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject nomination with husband Kerrin Sheldon at the 90th Academy Awards The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, .... Her production company is Requisite Media. Filmography * 2023: ''King Coal'' (documentary) * 2019: ''Tutwiler'' (documentary) * 2018: '' Recovery Boys'' (Documentary) * 2017: ''Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution'' (camera operator) * 2017: ''11/8/16'' (Documentary) * 2017: '' Heroin(e)'' (Documentary short) * 2017: ''Timberline'' (Short) * 2017: ''Betting on Trump: Coal'' (Documentary short) * 2015: ''Forager'' (Documentary short) (completed) * 2013: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Klayman
Alison Klayman (born 1984) is an American filmmaker and journalist best known for her award-winning 2012 documentary '' Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry''. Life and career Klayman grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Brown University in 2006 with a bachelor of arts degree in history. After her studies she went on a five-month trip to China with a college classmate and wound up staying to learn Chinese and work. She has contributed to PBS Frontline, National Public Radio and ''The New York Times''. After meeting artist Ai Weiwei while filming his exhibit for a local gallery, she started shooting footage for a longer documentary in December 2008. '' Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry'' debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize and a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Klayman's documentary on Abercrombie & Fitch focused on the store's success and controversies, including its racist and exclusionary practices. '' White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Junge
Daniel Junge (born ) is an American documentary filmmaker. On February 26, 2012, he won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for the film '' Saving Face'', which he co-directed along with Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Life and career Raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Junge is an alumnus of Cheyenne East High School and Colorado College and attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Junge made his feature debut with ''Chiefs'', a documentary about the Wyoming Indian High School basketball team. The film won the Grand Jury Award at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS's ''Independent lens''. Junge was selected by ''Filmmaker Magazine'' as one of their "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2002. Subsequent feature documentaries by Junge include ''Iron Ladies of Liberia]'' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and aired on over 50 broadcasters as part of the "Why Democracy" ... [...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] |
Garth Donovan
Garth Donovan (born 1976) is an American filmmaker and actor based in Boston, Massachusetts. Garth Donovan wrote, directed and starred in the 2003 comedy ''Everyone's Got One'' which was voted 'New England's Best Comedy' by the Boston Society of Film Critics, and one of the best local films of 2003 by Gerald Peary of The Boston Phoenix ''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the ''Portland Phoenix'' a .... Donovan wrote and directed the 2010 film ''Phillip the Fossil'', which won the SXSW Special Jury Award for Best Performance that year. Donovan gained notoriety for partially financing the production of the films by selling scrap metal. Donovan attended Stonehill College in Easton, MA. References External linksOfficial website* {{DEFAULTSORT:Donovan, Garth 1976 births Living people Filmmakers f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Believer (2018 American Film)
''Believer'' is a 2018 American documentary that examines the intersection between LGBT people and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) through the eyes of Dan Reynolds, lead singer of pop rock band Imagine Dragons. It focuses on his efforts to organize the LOVELOUD Festival in Orem, Utah in support of Utah LGBTQ youth. Filming took place in Salt Lake City and Orem, as well as New York City and Las Vegas, where Reynolds was born in 1987. The film's music was composed by Hans Zimmer. Also, Reynolds wrote two songs for the film. In January 2018, it was announced that HBO Documentary Films secured US distribution rights to the film. The LDS Church released a statement just 10 days before the 2017 LOVELOUD event, supporting the effort "to foster a community of inclusion in which no one is mistreated because of who they are or what they believe." Cast * Dan Reynolds * Aja Volkman * Ben McKee * Daniel Platzman * Wayne Sermon * Tyler Glenn * Savannah Skyler Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
