Nigel Noble (born 1943) is an English
sound mixer
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,
film director and
producer. He won an
Academy Award
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in
1982 for ''
Close Harmony
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'' in the category of
Best Documentary Short Subject.
Seven years later his film ''
Voices of Sarafina!
''Voices of Sarafina!'' is a 1988 American documentary film about the anti-apartheid musical stage play '' Sarafina!'' directed by Nigel Noble. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Leleti ...
'' was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected filmography
* ''
Close Harmony
A chord is in close harmony (also called close position or close structure) if its notes are arranged within a narrow range, usually with no more than an octave between the top and bottom notes. In contrast, a chord is in open harmony (also c ...
'' (1981)
* ''
A Stitch for Time'' (1987)
* ''
Voices of Sarafina!
''Voices of Sarafina!'' is a 1988 American documentary film about the anti-apartheid musical stage play '' Sarafina!'' directed by Nigel Noble. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Leleti ...
'' (1988)
* ''Porgy and Bess; An American Voice (1998)''
* ''Os Carvoeiros (2000) (The Charcoal People)''
* ''Gangs Escaping the Life (2001)''
* ''Portraits of Grief (2002)''
* ''The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2005)''
* ''They Killed Sister Dorothy (2008)''
* ''The Porch Light Project (2013)''
References
External links
*
1943 births
Living people
English audio engineers
English film directors
English film producers
People from Blackpool
English documentary filmmakers
Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
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