Tag: Documentary
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Yes, Jack Black is awesome and 40 Watts from Nowhere
By Chad Aiggia, Screenmancer Staff Yes, Jack Black (“School of Rock, “A Minecraft Movie,“ “Kung Fu Panda,” ”Jumanji”) is a real musician, beyond awesome, and now signs on as executive producer for badass rock and roll documentary “40 Watts From Nowhere.” Since you asked, this tasty project comes from filmmaker and OG Pirate Radio Queen…
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Josh Brolin rolling dirty for Pay Dirt Supercross
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Remember when JAWS, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer, hit screens and changed the way everyone looked at the beach? A few years earlier in 1971, a film by Bruce “Endless Summer” Brown came out that changed the way everyone looked at the dirt. Starring motorcycle buff Steve…
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SFFILM reveals 2021 Documentary Film Fund Winners
San Francisco, CA: Today SFFILM announced the four winners of 2021 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund (DFF) grants totaling $60,000 which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Now in its tenth year, DFF was created to support non-fiction films that are distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters, and an innovative visual approach. The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund…
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94TH OSCARS® International, Doc and Animated Films in the hunt for gold arrive
Screenmancer has the complete list of eligible films for the 94th Academy Awards®, including THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD from Norway, and a double nomination for FLEE in documentary and animation, among other surprises. LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the…
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FLEE, a brave new stylistic animated documentary
Review by Robin Menken Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s award-winning animated doc FLEE opens in U.S. theaters on December 3. NEON acquired FLEE at Sundance, and the film is also an official selection at Cannes that recently won the Annecy Festival (France) Cristal award and the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. It’s the story…
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BRITNEY VS SPEARS from Netflix rips down the Conservatorship Curtain
by Screenmancer When the Oops, I Did It Again Popstar Britney Spears found herself the subject of CBS News “Timeline: Britney’s Meltdown” her fate from the then-temporary conservatorship on Feb. 1, 2008 was litigated in the media. It became a permanent humiliation for the next 13 years. Now there is a new release to lift…
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LFG on HBOMax spotlights US Women’s Soccer saga for pay
by Screenmancer Staff LFG is an acronym for sports rallying cry “Let’s F*cking Go,” and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Alex Nix Fine and Sean Fine have shined a spot on the saga behind the US Women’s Soccer team’s fight for equal pay. Three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the players filed a class-action,…
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CBSN takes BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE from Lucy Walker, Topic Studios
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: CBSN today announced the acquisition of “Bring Your Own Brigade” from two-time Oscar® nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker and Topic Studios. Walker takes the audience on an illuminating eyewitness journey into the very heart of a raging inferno in “Bring Your Own Brigade,” a character-driven exposé that answers a question…
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Amblin to Mars with JPL, ILM, Amazon: Ryan White’s GOOD NIGHT OPPY
Curated by Screenmancer Staff Culver City, CA: Amazon Studios, Film 45, Amblin Television and Tripod Media are co-producing the upcoming feature documentary Good Night Oppy from director Ryan White. With the support of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the film tells the inspirational true story of Opportunity, a Mars Exploration Rover,…
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FFS, a pig and chicken paean from Victor Kossakovsky, or GUNDA With the Wind?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Ever watch a movie and get an allergic reaction? Okay that’s heavy on light sarcasm, but “visionary” Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s GUNDA could give some cinephiles hives when NEON releases it on Dec. 11. While director-turned-film critic Paul Thomas Anderson dubs GUNDA “more like a potion than like a movie,”…
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Swan song to MUSIC GOT ME HERE, watch it on Laemmle Virtual Dec. 4
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent During the holidays, how many of us know our loved ones are finding new ways to get their adrenaline rush? In the great un-lockdown outdoors, a lot of rugged adventures can go sideways. Life is about risk, but not without a mask lately. In MUSIC GOT ME HERE, an…
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ZAPPA mines the totality of Frank, watch the viewing party, Nov. 27
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Before reviewing ZAPPA, which is available to view now from Magnolia Pictures, the question is whether only a musician is qualified to speak with authority on the influential totality of Frank Zappa. Then you realize anyone who is part of his fandom has felt Zappa’s musical influence. That being…
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“I’d rather be an anarchist than a professional” BELUSHI crashes into Showtime
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Known for The Blues Brothers band from ANIMAL HOUSE after honing his craft on the original SNL, here was a comedian who was neither mean-spirited nor profanity-laced, but literal comedy magic on screen and in person as the one and only, John Belushi. Now an R.J. Cutler documentary, BELUSHI will car-crash the…
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Director & Writer Fredrik Gertten of PUSH: a Director’s POV
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Cancel rent? You’ve probably seen the hashtag floating in the zeitgeist of Social Media. In these tumultuous times globally, affordable housing is more of an issue than ever, with the pandemic’s lockdowns forcing limited work hours or terminations. Ever wonder who your landlord is, or if there’s a human…
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Touch Wood: Wood Entertainment drops in with Pro Skater Tony Hawk in August
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Wood Entertainment just announced the August 18 digital/VOD release of the highly awesome documentary entitled PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN – THE TONY HAWK VIDEO GAME STORY. “PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN is a robust, real-life story of our successful video game series as told by those who created it, and many who…
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