The young David Lloyd George’s dream of David and Goliath in Maurice Elvey’s The Life Story of David Lloyd George. On July 14th, the UK’s National Commission for UNESCO announced the 10 items and collections to be included in its first UK Memory of the World Register, which follows in the footsteps of UNESCO’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Documentary films'
Two Films Added to the New UK Memory of the World Register
July 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Awards, British cinema, Documentary films, Feature films
Tags: Britain’s Loneliest Isle·Maurice Elvey·St Kilda·The Life Story of David Lloyd George·UK Memory of the World Register
Waking Sleeping Beauty Screening at SCAD-Atlanta
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation studios, Documentary films, Film history and criticism
A free preview screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty, Don Hahn’s documentary on the Disney animation renaissance that started in the 1980s will be held at the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design, 1600 Peachtree St., in Event Space 4C, on Wednesday, April 14th, at 7:00 PM. The film will be presented [...]
Tags: Don Hahn·Peter Schneider·Savannah College of Art and Design·Waking Sleeping Beauty
Norman McLaren’s Films Added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Awards, Canadian cinema, Documentary films, Film history and criticism, Filmmakers, Short films
As the CBC reports, “The UNESCO Memory of the World Register has selected McLaren’s films to be held in its heritage collection of the most significant world cultural artifacts. “McLaren’s Oscar-winning anti-war film Neighbours is among 82 films and 52 film tests to be preserved.” The Memory of the World program is aimed at the [...]
Tags: Neighbours (1952)·Norman McLaren·UNESCO's Memory of the World
Pequeñas Voces (Born Under Fire)
July 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary films
Cartoon Brew’s Amid Amidi has posted this trailer for Eduardo Carrillo’s forthcoming Pequeñas Voces (Little Voices/Born Under Fire), a feature animated documentary about the ongoing guerrilla war in Columbia. The film’s website describes it as: … an animated documentary based on interviews and drawing workshops with a new generation of children (8 to 13 years [...]
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Fatenah
July 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Documentary films, Politics, Short films
I’m a bit late on this, but I think it important to take note of Fatenah, the new Palestinian animated documentary, which Erika Solomon at Reuters described on July 3rd as: The true story of a young Gazan woman’s futile battle against breast cancer has been commemorated in the first-ever Palestinian animated commercial film. “Fatenah” [...]
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Ari Folman on Funding Animated Documentaries
December 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Documentary films, Feature films
Although animated documentaries are one of the most exciting areas of filmmaking today, in an interview for Comingsoon.net, Waltz with Bashir director Ari Forman in discussing the problems getting funding, notes, The problem was clearing the film as an animated documentary. This was the main problem, because people sit in documentary funds, they get 10 [...]
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Waltz with Bashir
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Documentary films, Israeli cinema
Last year, Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis grabbed the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, helping to launch it on the road to international fame. It also brought a greater realization that animated films could be taken as seriously as their live-action brethren. Now, with Satrapi serving on this year’s Cannes jury, Waltz With Bashir, [...]
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Persepolis
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Documentary films, Feature films
Persepolis, directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud based on Satrapi’s series of four autobiographical graphic novels, has just opened here in Atlanta after earning considerable praise elsewhere. These include nominations for Best Animated Feature Oscar and Annie Award, a Special Jury Prize at Cannes, and being the official French entry for the Best Foreign [...]
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