Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Earlier this year, a group of filmmakers came to Tim Schafer with a pitch to make a documentary about his video game development company, Double Fine . His people would make a game and they’d film the whole process. But nobody knew how to pay for it. Read full article > >

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Kickstarter.com helps video game developers reboot old titles
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Exhaustive as it was, the American Master’s documentary “ Johnny Carson: King of Late Night ” on PBS Monday left out one of Carson’s favorite guests. She was my great-grandmother, Mildred Holt. I suppose it’s a forgivable oversight. The stooped, frail-looking woman in a powder-blue dress was neither a celebrity nor a newsmaker when she appeared on “The Tonight Show” in August 1987 . She was just a little old lady from a tiny town in Kansas—and by old, I mean historic. She was 105 at the time. But she had all her marbles, as well as a fierce, straight-shooting wit, and that was enough for Carson. Read full article > >

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In Mildred Holt, 105, Johnny Carson met his match
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
“The more we know, the more likely we are to do the right things.” That’s scientist and researcher Peter Gleick, speaking toward the end of “Last Call at the Oasis,” a galvanizing documentary about water and its impending urgencies — the harrowing lack of it and the deadly contamination of what remains. Read full article > >

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Essay: Participant Media invents an activist aesthetic
Tags: documentary, erin brockovich, lifestyle, peter-gleick, the-right, twitter, water
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Here at the Riverside Recreation Center in the Deanwood neighborhood of Ward 7, Ricky McNeill, Michael Samuels and Vernon Peterson are primed on documentary filmmaking 101. Ellie Walton and her assistant, Marley Moynahan, want to put the camera in their hands. They’ve assembled the trio for a brainstorming session about how best to approach store owners about job prospects for ward residents. Read full article > >

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Ellie Walton, documentary filmmaker and D.C. native, turns a wide lens on her city
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
African Cats is a documentary that follows the lives of a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs.

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VIDEO: Royal couple attend film premiere
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
Documentary already been lauded.
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‘Bully’ Wins PG-13 Rating
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
A documentary about bullying wins a battle to have the film’s rating lowered, after reaching a compromise with the US film classification board.

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Bully film classification amended
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Movie star Robert Redford says documentary films are taking the place of print journalism, blaming a decline in reporting standards at newspapers.

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Redford: Newspapers ‘in decline’
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
For Mike Daisey , the show apparently must go on. The once-acclaimed storyteller — now under fire for fabricating key parts of his scorching monologue about the lives of Apple’s factory workers in China — kept a long-scheduled appointment to speak Monday night at Georgetown University. Read full article > >

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Mike Daisey, still talking: Controversial storyteller apologizes, defends himself, in Georgetown appearance
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
She’s producing a documentary instead.
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Sharron Angle Won’t Run for Office
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
An acclaimed radio documentary about life in the Chinese factories that make Apple Inc.’s products contained “numerous fabrications” and included invented characters and incidents, the producers of the program acknowledged on Friday. Read full article > >

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‘This American Life’ cites ‘fabrications’ in documentary on Apple suppliers
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
If you find yourself in the doghouse, you can hope it would be as charming as this one: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for a child’s doghouse has been reconstructed, and is touring the country as the subject of a new documentary. Read full article > >

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s doghouse: Fallingwater for Fido?
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
ONLY ONCE IN the long history of “Doonesbury” has Garry Trudeau ’s syndicate ever intensely objected to one of his story arcs. It was 1985, a documentary purporting to show the reactions of a fetus had been released, and Trudeau satirized the film “The Silent Scream” with his own “prequel” strips featuring “little Timmy,” a 12-minute-old embryo. Read full article > >

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THE ‘DOONESBURY’ INTERVIEW: Garry Trudeau says to ignore abortion-law debate would have been ‘comedy malpractice’
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani women who survive revenge-based acid attacks are, in the words of one, the “living dead.” But their stories take on new life in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Saving Face,” which follows two victims with disfiguring acid injuries as they attempt to reclaim their dignity and identities. Read full article > >

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Pakistani film follows survivors of acid attacks
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Saturday, February 18th, 2012
The 1956 quasi documentary “On the Bowery,” which filmed the area’s characters, bars and flophouses, is finally being released on DVD.
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Crime Scene: ‘On the Bowery,’ on DVD, Captures a Grittier Time
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