#Pare Lorentz Award

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The 3rd Academy Awards did not have a notable upset! I had to take matters into my own hands!

All Quiet on the Western Front, the WW1 anti-war film that was remade in 2022, was a winner in almost everyone's eyes.

The Love Parade had all of the characteristics of a 1920s upset (high ratings, high nominations). It was a romantic comedy/musical that felt like the exact opposite of All Quiet.

All Quiet on the Western Front was based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. Critics at Photoplay found it to be a remarkable adaptation of the book, while Pare Lorentz argued the writers and directors could have produced original work that would have been better than the adaptation.

I went into All Quiet with a sense of worry after watching the previous movies of the decade, but I was blown away. I would watch it (and the remake) again.

Variety described The Love Parade as a strong combination of musical numbers and plot, a sharp contrast to the previous Best Picture winner The Broadway Melody.

I adored The Love Parade, too. The humor in it was WILD and the songs were well done.

The 3rd Academy Awards were also the first to be (partially) filmed! We are still decades away from the Oscars being broadcast on television, but at least we have some records of these awards being received.

The Love Parade rivaled All Quiet on the Western Front in both Oscar nominations (6 being the most any film had received to date) and current reception from Rotten Tomatoes. So far, all upsets have had nominations for both Directing and Acting.

All Quiet won the Photoplay Medal of Honor in 1930 and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1990. Both films were selected as "Top 10 Films" for the years they were released, a new designation from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

#oscars #academy awards #3rd academy awards #film #movies #1920s #1930s #1920s film #1930s film #pre code film #all quiet on the western front #all quiet on the western front 1930 #the love parade #the love parade 1929 #oscar upsets

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The Redford Center Partners With Black Public Media For BPM's 2023 Climate Open Call

The Redford Center has partnered with Black Public Media for BPM's 2023 open call for climate stories. The center, which was co-founded by actors and activists Robert Redford and James Redford, is one of the only US-based non-profits dedicated to environmental impact filmmaking. Black Public Media will award a total of $230,000 in funding for feature-length documentaries and documentary or scripted shorts. Projects in all stages of production are invited and should be appropriate for public media distribution. The application window is September 1-25.

Stories that examine the impact of climate change on communities of African descent are encouraged. The projects can focus on how the crisis is being managed, environmental racism, health impacts, solutions, climate education, sustainable industries and climate policies. One $30,000 award will be given to a stand-alone or limited-series short film. Five $40,000 awards will be granted for broadcast or feature-length nonfiction film projects. Recipients of those awards might also get to participate in BPM's PitchBLACK Forum, which is the largest national pitch competition for independent filmmakers and creative technologists making content about the global Black experience. PitchBLACK competitors will face off for an additional $150,000 in funding. All Black Public Media funding awards are licensing agreements for public media distribution. 

Robert Redford and James Redford co-founded The Redford Center in 2005 and they will partner with BPM on the open call and offer advice and resources. 

“We are honored to partner with BPM on this open call, and grateful to BPM for creating this opportunity to center frontline filmmakers and projects focused on increasing knowledge and resonance of the importance of safeguarding our environment,” said The Redford Center Executive Director Jill Tidman. “As more and more people experience the effects of climate change, it is vital that we hear from and learn from communities who are often disproportionately impacted by it. I cannot wait to see what stories come through this effort."

The open call submissions link will go live on September 1st at  https://blackpublicmedia.org/for-media-makers/open-call/ and close on Monday, September 25 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

All applicants must be the producer or director of the project, be a US citizen, have a minimum of three years of producing and directing experience, or have a senior producer tied to the project. Key members of the creative team must include at least one person of color. 

Black Public Media will have free information sessions on August 29 and September 21. Applicants are encouraged to attend these sessions. Details on the information sessions and the open call will be available at https://blackpublicmedia.org. For more information, email: [email protected] or call 212-234-8200.

BPM's Climate Stories initiative is supported by the New York Community Trust Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

An independent panel of media professionals will review applications and select the winners who will be announced in December. 

BPM has supported climate projects in the past including Black Folk Don’t: Go Green (2012), by Emmy-award-winning director Angela Tucker; Pangaea (2016), by Olivia Peace; Midnight Oil (2023), by Bilal Motley (currently streaming in BPM’s new AfroPoP Digital Shorts) series; and Razing Liberty Square (broadcast premiere in Jan. 2024), by Katja Esson.

For more information on Black Public Media go to  www.blackpublicmedia.org.

#black public media #the redford center #robert redford #james redford

[eloscartimes]

Nominaciones a los IDA Documentary Awards

Lista de nominaciones de los #IDA Documentary Awards, reconocimiento a los documentales.

En la edición 38 de los IDA Documentary Awards (IDA), ‘Fire Of Love’ lidera con cinco nominaciones, mientras que ‘All that Breathes’ se lleva el premio Pare Lorentz. ‘The Territory’, ausente en la edición. Los ganadores serán revelados el 10 de diciembre. Nominaciones IDA Documentary Awards All That Breathes Screenshot Asia   Lista de nominaciones a los IDA Documentary Awards 2022   Mejor…

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The Hard Way

Ida Lupino often complained about getting the scripts Bette Davis refused to do at Warner Bros., but in the case of Vincent Sherman’s THE HARD WAY (1943), that was a good thing. And though Davis later regretted her decision, she wouldn’t have made sense as a woman who commits suicide at the film’s start. The story is told in flashback as Lupino remembers the drive that led her to get her and sister Joan Leslie out of their small factory town (captured in footage taken from a Pare Lorentz documentary) by pushing the girl into a theatrical career. There’s a lot wrong with the film. It’s hard to believe Leslie as a glamorous stage star, and her breakthrough number isn’t exactly the stuff overnight sensations are made of. The picture also stops dead at one point to follow her love life. But when it’s about Lupino clawing her sister’s way to the top it’s terrifically entertaining. As the vaudeville performer Lupino traps into marrying Leslie and then tosses aside, Jack Carson gets one of the first roles to indicate he could do more than just clown around. There are also strong performances from Roman Bohnen as Lupino’s husband, Faye Emerson as a waitress, Gladys George as an alcoholic star caught up in Lupino’s schemes and Lenore Maricle as a playwright who may or may not have been seduced by Lupino. The film bears more than a passing resemblance to MGM’s STAGE MOTHER (1933), in which Alice Brady is great in the title role pushing daughter Maureen O’Sullivan (just as improbable a stage star as Leslie). Lupino quite rightly won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress but couldn’t even muster an Oscar nomination in the year the Academy named Jennifer Jones its best actress. Yoicks!

#melodrama #ida lupino #classic hollywood

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William Susman at the Movies

William Susman at the Movies

belarca I think this is the fourth disc of the music of William Susman which has come across my desk. Let me say it is a delight to hear this man’s music and experience the range of his artistry. All releases of his music thus far have been on belarca records, a label founded by Susman to promote The Octet Ensemble and other artists who share an interest in the work of Susman and many of his…

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#Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union #Cello #film music #Joan Jeanrenaud #Music for Moving Pictures #Native New Yorker #Pare Lorentz #Pare Lorentz Award #Tsering Wangmo #Virgil Thomson #When Medicine Got it Wrong #William Susman #WPA

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Tim Disney has a producer of environmentally and socially-conscious documentaries and a director of narrative features. He served as executive producer on the documentaries “Gift of the Game,” “Racing Against the Clock,” “A Life Among Whales,” “The Price of Sugar” and “The Last Mountain,” which, in 2011, won both the International Documentary Assn.’s prestigious Pare Lorentz Award and was a nominee for the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. 

His feature directing credits include “A Question of Faith,” “Tempesta” and “American Violet.” In addition, he wrote and directed the short film “Southbound,” executive produced the feature dramas “The Giving” and “The Legend of Lucy Keyes,” and produced the fantasy-adventure film “Crusade in Jeans.” He is also an executive producer on “Janis,” the upcoming biopic of singer Janis Joplin starring Michelle Williams. Disney, who is the great-nephew of Hollywood pioneer Walt Disney and a graduate of Harvard University, currently serves as Trustee of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of California Institute of the Arts.

#film news #movie news #interview #tim disney #WilliamTheFilm #joseph n mauceri #joseph mauceri #terrorgram

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Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme has died of esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease, according to published reports. He was 73 years old.

Demme is best known for directing “The Silence of the Lambs,” the 1991 horror-thriller that was a box office smash and a critical triumph. The story of an FBI analyst (Jodie Foster) who uses a charismatic serial killer (Anthony Hopkins) to track a murderer became only the third film in history to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories ( picture, actor, actress, director, and adapted screenplay), joining the ranks of “It Happened One Night” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Though he had his greatest success terrifying audiences, most of Demme’s work was looser and quirkier. He showed a great humanism and empathy for outsiders in the likes of “Melvin and Howard,” the story of a service station owner who claimed to have been a beneficiary of Howard Hughes, and “Something Wild,” a screwball comedy about a banker whose life is turned upside down. He also scored with “Married to the Mob” and oversaw “Stop Making Sense,” a documentary about the Talking Heads that is considered to be one of the great concert films.

Following “The Silence of the Lambs,” Demme used his clout to make “Philadelphia,” one of the first major studio films to tackle the AIDS crisis and a movie that won Tom Hanks his first Oscar for playing a gay lawyer.

The director most recently made 2015’s “Ricki and the Flash,” starring Meryl Streep as an aging rocker who must return home to Indiana due to a family crisis.

He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for directing “Swimming to Cambodia” in 1988, and his 2009 feature “Rachel Getting Married” drew Indie Spirit nominations for best feature and director.

Demme won the International Documentary Association’s Pare Lorentz Award in 1997 for his film “Mandela,” and his docu “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains” picked up the Fipresci Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2007. He made two documentaries about Haiti, 1988’s “Haiti Dreams of Democracy” and 2003’s critically acclaimed “The Agronomist.” Of the latter the New York Times said, “The turbulence that led to the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti’s presidency gives ‘The Agronomist,’ a superb new documentary by Jonathan Demme, a melancholy timeliness. Its hero, Jean Dominique, embodies the fragile, perpetual hope that Haiti might someday nurture a just and decent political order.” Another standout documentary was 1992’s “Cousin Bobby,” about Demme’s cousin, an Episcopalian priest in Harlem.

In addition to “Stop Making Sense,” Demme did documentaries on the Pretenders, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, and he also directed quite a number of music videos, drawing a Grammy nomination in 1987 for best long form music video for “Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid.”

After the enormous success of “The Silence of the Lambs” (ranked No. 23 on IMDb’s Top 250 movies; worldwide gross $273 million), Demme returned a couple times to the conventional Hollywood thriller genre with 2002’s lighthearted “Charade” remake “The Truth About Charlie,” which starred Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton and proved a disservice to the classic Stanley Donen original, and 2004’s big-budget, high-profile remake of “The Manchurian Candidate,” starring Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber and Meryl Streep, which just about broke even but had its fans among those who had not seen John Frankenheimer’s classic original.

Demme’s very conventional 1993 film “Philadelphia,” starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, brought the subject of AIDS to the attention of Americans previously uninterested or biased against the disease’s perceived victims. Hanks starred as a man with AIDS wrongfully fired because of his condition, and Washington played his lawyer. The film won Oscars for Hanks’ noble, courageous performance and for Bruce Springsteen’s song “Streets of Philadelphia,” and Ron Nyswaner’s script was Oscar nominated. His 1998 adaptation of Toni Morrison novel “Beloved” starred Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey.

Demme came to the attention of Hollywood with the 1980 film “Melvin and Howard,” in which Jason Robards starred as a bearded, bedraggled Howard Hughes encountered by struggling Everyman Melvin Dumont, who helps Howard out — only to be left $156 million in a Hughes will of dubious authenticity. The film worked because it was not about Hughes but about Dumont, played by Paul Le Mat (one of Demme’s favorite actors). Roger Ebert said: “Dummar is the kind of guy who thinks they oughta make a movie out of his life. This time, he was right.” The film drew three Oscar nominations, winning for best supporting actress (Mary Steenburgen) and original screenplay (Bo Goldman), while Robards also drew a nomination.

The 1984 film “Swing Shift,” a romantic dramedy set on the homefront during WWII and starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, was directed by Demme but taken out of his hands by the studio and recut, reportedly to make Hawn’s characterization more flattering.

The same year, however, he also directed Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense.” Reviewing it when it was re-released in 1999, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the “tingle of satisfaction” that comes “when a piece of entertainment is so infectious, so original and so correct in its judgments that a viewer can sink into his seat — secure in the knowledge that you’re in good hands. Has there ever been a live concert film as vibrant or as brilliantly realized?”

In 1986 Demme perfectly paired Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffiths in the offbeat, New Wave-flavored indie comedy “Something Wild” and drew an erotically anarchical performance from Griffiths — she quickly convinces Daniels’ ordinary business guy that she’s capable of anything. The first hour of the film is, as Roger Ebert suggested, “filled with such a headlong erotic charge that it’s hard to see how he can sustain it” — and Demme couldn’t, but even the second half wasn’t bad. The film featured an impressive debut from Ray Liotta as Griffiths’ lunatic ex-boyfriend as well as performances by John Waters, John Sayles and cult band the Feelies.

Film Quarterly declared in 1987 that Demme’s career in the 1980s “represents the interesting case of an American director experimenting with film-making at once trendy and radical.” This was exemplified by both “Stop Making Sense” and “Something Wild.”

Demme next shot brilliant monologuist Spalding Gray’s “Swimming to Cambodia” for the screen, with excellent results all around. The Austin Chronicle said, “Laurie Anderson’s tribal score and Demme’s perfectly executed direction take us right inside the mind of this eccentric genius.”

The director’s 1988 comedy “Married to the Mob,” starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Alec Baldwin, with excellent supporting performances by Dean Stockwell as the Mafia boss and Mercedes Ruehl as his far fiercer wife, was a critical and popular success. The New York Times said: “Jonathan Demme is the American cinema’s king of amusing artifacts: blinding bric-a-brac, the junkiest of jewelry, costumes so frightening they take your breath away. Mr. Demme may joke, but he’s also capable of suggesting that the very fabric of American life may be woven of such things, and that it takes a merry and adventurous spirit to make the most of them. In addition, Mr. Demme has an unusually fine ear for musical novelty, and the sounds that waft through his films heighten the visual impression of pure, freewheeling vitality. If making these films is half as much fun as watching them, Mr. Demme must be a happy man.”

The 2008 film “Rachel Getting Married,” which bore some similarities to Noah Baumbach’s 2007 effort “Margot at the Wedding,” starring Nicole Kidman, while prefiguring Demme’s own “Ricki and the Flash,” provided an excellent vehicle for Anne Hathaway to demonstrate acting ability in a largely unsympathetic but intriguing role of a young woman, out of rehab long enough to attend the wedding of the sister she’s jealous of. It was also a celebration of multiculturalism, which struck some critics as didactic or politically correct.

Demme directed an adaptation of the Ibsen play “The Master Builder,” penned by and starring Wallace Shawn, in 2013. In 2015, in addition to “Ricki and the Flash,” he directed the docu-series “The New Yorker Presents,” bringing to life the iconic magazine.

Robert Jonathan Demme was born in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, and attended the University of Florida. Like John Sayles, he began his directing career in Roger Corman’s stable, helming women’s prison exploitation film “Caged Heat” in 1974; nostalgic road trip film “Crazy Mama,” starring Cloris Leachman, in 1975; and Peter Fonda action film “Fighting Mad” in 1976.

The Altman-esque look at small town residents who are CB radio users “Handle With Care” (aka “Citizens Band”) (1977), starring Paul Le Mat and Candy Clark, earned a review (albeit not a glowing one) in the New York Times: “Handle With Care” is “so clever that its seams show. Mr. Demme’s tidiest parallels and most purposeful compositions are such attention-getters that the film has a hard time turning serious for its finale, in which characters who couldn’t communicate directly come to understand one another at long last.”

He followed “Handle With Care” with the Hitchcockian thriller “Last Embrace,” starring Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin, but his next film, “Melvin and Howard” shared the sensibility of “Handle With Care” but showed an assured, mature director, and the acclaim it received firmly established Demme’s Hollywood career.

In 2006 Demme was presented with the National Board of Review’s Billy Wilder Award. Demme’s nephew, director Ted Demme, died in 2002 at age 38.

Demme was married to director-producer Evelyn Purcell. He is survived by second wife Joanne Howard and their three children: Ramona, Brooklyn and Jos.

RIP Jonathan Demme. Nice write up about his interesting career from Carmel Dagan in Variety.

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5 Arts Grants and Residencies

1. The Knight Foundation recently announced a $20,000 grant opportunity aiming to subsidize the cost of digital publishing systems for nonprofit or underrepresented news organizations. (Deadline: March 8th | USA) 2. IDAorg’s Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund is now accepting applications for production and post support. Grantees will receive up to $25K for original feature documentaries with the theme of U.S. criminal justice issues. (Deadline: April 19th) 3. There are just a couple of spots left for this weekend's Radio Boot Camp workshop, led by award winning veteran journalist Sally Herships. (Deadline: March 7th | Brooklyn, NY) 4. KALW is now accepting applications for their summer news internship. Gain experience reporting and producing in their newsroom-- and the word on the street is that they have killer dance parties! (Deadline: March 8th | San Francisco, CA) 5. The Missouri Review’s Annual Miller Audio Prize is underway! $1000 prize awarded for high-quality recordings of poets and writers reading their work and for audio documentaries on any subject. (Deadline: March 15th)

Source: AirMedia.org

#film grant #film funding #how to get work in radio #journalism internship #things to do near me #submissions wanted #poetry submission calls #writer submissions wanted

[mrmichaelchadler]

2018 IDA Documentary Awards Honor "Minding the Gap," "Mr. SOUL!" and More

The International Documentary Association (IDA) celebrated the winners of its annual awards (the "Oscars" of the documentary world) during a ceremony held on Saturday at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. On the same night it was named the Best Documentary of 2018 by the Chicago Film Critics Association, Bing Liu's debut feature, "Minding the Gap," earned the IDA's highest prize of Best Feature. It's the latest in a series of well-deserved accolades Liu's film has collected ever since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking. It has also been nominated for two major prizes at the the Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Documentary Feature. In addition to this top honor, Gordon Quinn, artistic director of Kartemquin Films, joined "If Beale Street Could Talk" director Barry Jenkins in presenting Liu with the IDA's Emerging Filmmaker Award. 

Liu's film explores his bond with longtime friends Zack and Keire, and how they have each grappled with the scars of domestic abuse while skating the near-vacant streets of Rockford, Illinois. Like many serious Oscar contenders this year, "Minding the Gap" was distributed via a streaming service, and can currently be viewed on Hulu. The nine other nominees for Best Feature included Stephen Maing's "Crime + Punishment," a scathing account of the NYPD's illegal practices, which earned the IDA Courage Under Fire Award. Maing brought all twelve of the department's whistleblowers onstage, and was greeted by the audience with a standing ovation. The Career Achievement Award went to filmmaker Julia Reichert, a three-time Oscar nominee for her films "Union Maids," "Seeing Red" and "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant." 

RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert presented the prize for Best Short Form Series to David Freid's MEL Films. And a film on which Ebert served as an Executive Producer, "Mr. SOUL!", the film about the trailblazing television icon, Ellis Haizlip, directed by Melissa Haizlip, shared the Best Music Documentary prize with Steve Loveridge’s "Matangi/Maya/M.I.A." Ricki Lake, the star of John Waters' original "Hairspray," served as the evening's host. A complete list of the winners can be found below.

2018 IDA Documentary Awards Best Feature: "Minding the Gap" (Hulu/POV. Director/Producer: Bing Liu. Producer: Diane Quon)

2018 IDA Documentary Awards Best Short: "Zion" (Netflix. Director/Producer: Floyd Russ. Producer: Carter Collins)

Best Curated Series: "POV" (POV/American Documentary. Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White)

Best Episodic Series: "The Trade" (Showtime. Executive Producers: Matthew Heineman and Pagan Harleman)

Best Limited Series: "Wild Wild Country" (Netflix. Directors: Chapman Way and Maclain Way. Producer: Juliana Lembi. Executive Producers: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Josh Braun and Dan Braun)

Best Short Form Series: MEL Films (Executive Producer: David Freid)

Best Music Documentary: "Mr. SOUL!" (Director/Producer: Melissa Haizlip. Co-Director: Samuel D. Pollard) "MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A." (Abramorama. Director/Producer: Steve Loveridge. Producers: Lori Cheatle, Paul Mezey and Andrew Goldman) 

Best Audio Documentary: "Caliphate" (The New York Times. Reporters: Rukmini Callimachi and Andy Mills. Producers: Andy Mills, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, and Asthaa Chaturvedi)

Best Cinematography: "Distant Constellation" (Cinephil. Cinematographer: Shevaun Mizrahi)

Best Editing: "Minding the Gap" (Hulu. Editors: Bing Liu and Joshua Altman)

Best Writing: "The Other Side of Everything" (Writer: Mila Turajlić)

Best Music Score: "Bisbee '17" (Composer: Keegan DeWitt) "Hale County This Morning, This Evening" (Cinema Guild. Composers: Scott Alario, Forest Kelley, and Alex Somers)

2018 IDA Documentary Awards Sponsored Special Awards

ABC News VideoSource Award Winner: "John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls" (HBO. Directors/Producers: Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt, and Teddy Kunhardt)

Pare Lorentz Award Winner: "The Silence of Others" (Cinephil/POV. Directors/Producers: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar) Honorable Mention: "The Distant Barking of Dogs" (Cinephil. Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont. Producer: Monica Hellstrøm)

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award Winner: "Circle" (National Film and Television School. Director: Jayisha Patel)

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The match-up for the 2nd Academy Awards was between The Broadway Melody, a romantic musical, and In Old Arizona, a western.

We've transitioned out of the silent film era, and these first few talking films don't hold up as well to the test of time, sadly.

The Broadway Melody was praised for being the "first talking musical comedy" with a perfect mix of visual effects and emotions. It also brought in a significant amount of money for MGM with a relatively small budget. However, Pare Lorentz of Judge warned viewers that it lacked a unique story.

I could not find budget info for In Old Arizona, but Fox was known for producing low to mid-range budget films at the time, including 1st Academy Award winner Sunrise. It received great praise from Photoplay and Variety, especially for its sound. Variety briefly mentions that the dialog interferes with the action, but clearly that did not stop people from coming out in droves to see it.

Current reception for these two films is, well, poor. Both films were groundbreaking for the time - The Broadway Melody for including singing and dancing, and In Old Arizona for its outdoor filming - but that's about it. Critics and the general audience describe The Broadway Melody's plot as a poor attempt at pulling together the musical numbers. Similarly, they find it difficult to get through In Old Arizona's poor plot and stereotyping.

There were 7 categories awarded in the 2nd Oscars ceremony, still with no official nominees. In the end, 7 films all received one Oscar each, the only time that has occurred. So far, the two upsets have received nominations for both Directing and Writing (screenplay), while the winners have not. These two are often used as current predictors. Both upsets have also beat the winner in total overall nominations.

I found The Broadway Melody difficult to get through, even at only 100 minutes long. The actual story line was muddled, and it relied too heavily on musical numbers. But hey, it was the first movie to do so!

In Old Arizona was also quite basic. It lasted 95 minutes but the entire plot was easily summed up by IMDb into one line. The dialog was also incredibly difficult to hear due to poor sound mixing and not speaking TOWARDS the camera! Oh well.

Not surprisingly, neither film took home the Photoplay Award at the time. Only In Old Arizona remains in the Academy Film Archive.

#oscars #oscars95 #academy awards #2nd academy awards #pre code film #film #movies #1920s film #1920s #the broadway melody 1929 #the broadway melody #in old arizona 1928 #in old arizona #oscarupsets

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Director Marcel Mettelsiefen at the IDA Awards in Hollywood December 10, where he earned the prestigious Pare Lorentz award for his short film “Watani, My Homeland.” The documentary about a family in #aleppo #syria who are forced to flee the civil war earned an #Oscar nomination #academyawards #oscars #syriancivilwar #syrianrefugees #watani #idaawards @idaorg #documentary #documentaries #nonfictionfilm More photos from the IDA Awards at Nonfictionfilm.com

#oscar #documentary #syrianrefugees #documentaries #syriancivilwar #academyawards #watani #aleppo #oscars #nonfictionfilm #syria #idaawards

[njawaidofficial]

IDA Documentary Awards 2017 Nominees (List in Full)

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IDA Documentary Awards 2017 Nominees (List in Full)

‘Metropolis of Ghosts’

Courtesy of Sundance

The IDA Documentary Awards on Wednesday unveiled its nominees within the classes of greatest function and greatest brief and the recipients of its artistic recognition awards.

The perfect function nominees are Metropolis of Ghosts, L.A. 92, Robust Island, Dina and Faces Locations. The winners in that class and one of the best brief class are determined by Worldwide Documentary Affiliation members. L.A. 92 additionally scored a nomination within the ABC Information VideoSource award class, the place it’s competing towards CNN Movies’ Elian, Netflix’s Icarus and Blood on the Mountain (co-distributed by Virgil Movies) and Kino Lorber’s Obit.

“The varied array of movies nominated this 12 months underscore the vibrancy and elasticity of documentary kind,” IDA government director Simon Kilmurry mentioned in an announcement. “These movies tackle essentially the most pressing up to date international issues — and essentially the most intimate emotional territory. All of them show the braveness and ingenuity of nonfiction media makers.”

By way of the artistic recognition award winners, Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva received for greatest cinematography for his work on Machines; Invoice Morrison received for greatest enhancing for his work on Dawson Metropolis: Frozen Time; Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin received for greatest music for his or her unique rating for Brimstone and Glory; and Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira and Gabriel Molera received for greatest writing for Donkeyote.

The IDA additionally will honor director Marcel Mettelsiefen’s Watani: My Homeland with the Pare Lorentz Award, with Joe Berlinger’s Intent to Destroy receiving a particular point out in that class.

The perfect restricted sequence nominees are HBO’s The Defiant Ones; Netflix’s The Keepers; Ken Burns’ The Vietnam Warfare for PBS; Spike’s Time: The Kalief Browder Story, government produced by Jay-Z; and Daughters of Future.

The perfect episodic sequence nominees are CNN’s Anthony Bourdain Components Unknown; Netflix’s Chef’s Desk; A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath; Nationwide Geographic’s Mars; and BBC America’s Planet Earth II.

The 33rd annual IDA Awards will happen Saturday, Dec. 9, at Los Angeles’ Paramount Theatre.

A full record of nominees follows.

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2017 IDA Award Nominees

2017 IDA Award Nominees

The 33rd annual IDA Awards will take place on Saturday, Dec. 9 at Los Angeles’ Paramount Theatre.

And the nominees are:

Pare Lorentz Award

Watani: My Homeland (Recipient) Director: Marcel Mettelsiefen

Intent to Destroy (Special Mention) Director: Joe Berlinger

ABC News VideoSource Award

Blood On The Mountain Directors: Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman Virgil Films/Netflix


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[rihaanpatel]

Awards & Recognition

• ‘Footpath School’ – Official Selection at Ammar Popular Film Festival 2016, Tehran, Iran. • ‘Footpath School’ - Official Selection at Docademia - Documentary for Academia, 2016, USA • ‘Be Earthian’ Official Selection at 39th 39 th Elche International Independent Film Festival 2016, Alicante, Spain • ‘Majestic Ring’ Nominated at Goldensun Short Film Festival 2016, Malta. • 'Majestic Ring’ Official Selection at Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, 2016, Australia • 'Majestic Ring’ Official Selection for Best Trailer at Barcelona Planet Film Festival, 2015 • 'Blood Monk’ Official Selection at Pare Lorentz International Film Festival, West Virginia, 2014, USA • 'Champal’ Official Selection at Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, India, 2014 • 'My Best Friend’ Official Selection at Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, India, 2014 • ‘Champal’ – Nominated at 24FPS 2011, Mumbai • ‘My Best Friend’ – Nominated and Awarded Best Digital Film at 24FPS 2011, Mumbai • ‘MAAC Satellite Ratna (Star)’ – For a student who made a Special Contribution for Institute, 2011 • ‘Champal’ – Special Achievement Award from MAAC (Maya Academy of Advance Cinematics) Satellite, 2011 • ‘Champal’ – Best Editing & Best Film at Ahmedabad Film Project 2011 (48 Hours Filmmaking Project), 2011 • ‘My Best Friend’ – Official Selection at 3rd International Film Festival Ahmedabad 2011, 6-9 October, 2011 • ‘The Burial of Daughters’ – 2nd Prize at 3rd Global Film Festival Noida 2010, 12-14 November 2010 • ‘The Burial of Daughters’ – Official Selection at 7th SEDICICORTO International Film Festival, Italy • ‘The Burial of Daughters’ – Nomination and Screening at 3rd International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (Dept of Cultural Affairs, Govt of Kerala) 2011 • ‘The Burial of Daughters’ – Winner at Sixteen:Nine International Film Festival 2011 • ‘The Burial of Daughters’ – 2nd Rank Nomination – Grand Challenger Photography – Frameflixx2 2010 (Frameboxx Animation Awards) • ‘Dust of Orphan’ – Nominated and Screened at Toronto Student Film Festival, 2010 • ‘Dust of Orphan’ – Official Selection in WNET Reel 13 New York / Audience Award WNET Reel 13 New York, 2009 • SHORT FILM AWARD by Mr. Al Gore (Ex-Vice President, USA), 2009 • Selection In Special Potential Batch at Shiamak Davar Institute for Performing Arts, 2009 • Special Thanks for contribution in Antena Hispana at CHANNEL 31 Melbourne, 2007