This week’s profiles end by wrapping up the first half of the Documentary Premieres: Rory Kennedy returns to Park City with LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM, a chronicle of the eleventh hour withdrawal of the US and its allies from Saigon.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: LAMBERT & STAMP
Earlier this week, the Documentary Premieres was expanded to include the first film to be announced for Sundance London 2014: James D Cooper’s LAMBERT & STAMP, about the aspiring filmmakers who became the managers of The Who.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: HAPPY VALLEY
Sundance alum Amir Bar-Lev brings the story of the Penn State scandal to Documentary Premieres with HAPPY VALLEY.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: FREEDOM SUMMER
Another Sundance alumnus brings his latest to this year’s Documentary Premieres section: Stanley Nelson returns to Park City with FREEDOM SUMMER, the chronicle of a key event in Civil Rights history.
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On DVD: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FAIR HOPE
Coming to DVD this coming Tuesday, January 14: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FAIR HOPE
S Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf’s look at the complex legacy of African American mutual aid associations in the South debuted at the San Diego Black Film Festival in 2012. The doc went on to screen at Chicago’s Black Harvest, Annapolis, BronzeLens, Langston Hughes, Pan African, and the San Francisco, Montreal, Newark, Texas, and American Black Film Festivals, among others.
I previously wrote about the film here.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: FINDING FELA
Documentary Premieres welcomes back Sundance alum Alex Gibney with his latest film: FINDING FELA, the story of the legendary Nigerian musician and political activist.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL
Moving over to this year’s Documentary Premieres section: Chapman Way and Maclain Way’s THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL, the untold story of the ragtag 1970s independent team, the Portland Mavericks.
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In Theatres: IF YOU BUILD IT
Coming to NYC’s IFC Center tomorrow, Friday, January 10 and to LA’s Landmark Nuart on Friday, January 24: IF YOU BUILD IT
Patrick Creadon’s inspiring look at the impact design can have on education premiered at Full Frame last year. It went on to screen at DOC NYC, AFI Docs, Newport Beach, Cucalorus, Austin, Heartland, Hot Springs, and the Hamptons, among others.
I included the film in my AFI Docs coverage here.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: WEB JUNKIE
Today’s first profile brings this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition to an end: From Israel/USA, Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia’s WEB JUNKIE, a look inside an Internet addiction rehabilitation program in China.
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2014 Cinema Eye Honors Winners
The 7th annual Cinema Eye Honors, recognizing achievements in non-fiction film from 2013, took place last night in a ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image, featuring opening remarks from Michael Moore and appearances by notable filmmakers including Steve James and Chris Hegedus, and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM‘s Lisa Fischer – one of the event’s “Unforgettable” nonfiction film subjects for 2013.
Here is the full list of winners:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
THE ACT OF KILLING (pictured above)
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Sarah Polley for STORIES WE TELL
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Nels Bangerter for LET THE FIRE BURN
Audience Choice Prize
SOUND CITY
Outstanding Achievement in Production
Signe Byrge Sørensen for THE ACT OF KILLING
Outstanding Nonfiction Film for Television
THE CRASH REEL
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
A STORY FOR THE MODLINS
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel for LEVIATHAN
Heterodox Award
POST TENEBRAS LUX
Outstanding Achievement in an Original Music Score
Yasuaki Shimizu for CUTIE AND THE BOXER
Spotlight Award
THE LAST STATION
Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation
Art Jail for CUTIE AND THE BOXER
Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
Zachary Heinzerling for CUTIE AND THE BOXER
Legacy Award
HARLAN COUNTY, USA, directed and produced by Barbara Kopple
Hell Yeah Prize
Josh Fox for GASLAND, PART 2
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