Tag / documentary

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Bite-sized blog post: Elena Rossini

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ELENA ROSSINI directed the documentary feature film The Illusionists (2015) which is “a feature-length documentary about the marketing of unattainable beauty ideals around the world.”

Rossini also started a multimedia project “celebrating the professional lives of women and providing real role models for the younger generations.” NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG WOMEN

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VIDEO: Elena Rossini: ‘The gender gap is narrowing almost across the board’
No Country for Young Women
The Illusionists Website
Career Lessons From A Young Female Film Director
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Lottie in Space (Documentary short)
 2015The Illusionists (Documentary)
 2009Ideal Women (Video short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Stephanie Soechtig

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STEPHANIE SOECHTIG has worked with Katie Couric on two documentaries Under the Gun (2016) and Fed Up (2014).

Soechtig began as an intern on 20/20 before venturing into documentary filmmaking.

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AMAZON

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Under the Gun Website
Variety
Director Stephanie Soechtig: ‘Gun owners are being duped by the NRA’
Director of Katie Couric Documentaries ‘Fed Up’ and ‘Under the Gun’ Calls Out NRA, Says She ‘Did Nothing Wrong’

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Under the Gun (Documentary)
 2014Fed Up (Documentary)
 2009/ITapped (Documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Sharon Shattuck

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SHARON SHATTUCK is an animator and director. Her feature documentary From This Day Forward (2015) premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

She formed her company Sweet Fern Productions with Flora Lichtman and they co-created the New York Times Doc Series Animated Life.

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NEW YORK TIMES

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Indiewire Interview
Sweet Fern Productions Website
From this Day Forward Website
New York Times

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Moon Mirrors (Short)
 2015From This Day Forward (Documentary)
 2015Animated Life: Pangea (Short)
 2013The Animated Life of A.R. Wallace (Documentary short)
 2012Whale Fall (After Life of a Whale) (Video documentary short)
 2010Parasites: A User’s Guide (Documentary short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Lesley Chilcott

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LESLEY CHILCOTT produced numerous documentaries, including Al Gore’s An Incovenient Truth (2006) for which she won an Academy Award, before directing her own documentaries.

Her documentary Code Girl (2015) about high school girls competing in teams to create apps.

 

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NETFLIX

CODE GIRL WEBSITE

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Code Girl Website
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Women & Hollywood Interview
Variety
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015CodeGirl (Documentary)
 2014A Small Section of the World (Documentary)
 2013CodeStars (Documentary short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Olivia Mori

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OLIVIA MORI is an accomplished costume designer who studied film at the Rhode Island School of Design before directing her first documentary feature Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012).

They crowdfunded the production (which required licensing much music) through Kickstarter.

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NETFLIX

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Filmmaker Magazine Interview
KICKSTART THIS! DREW DENICOLA, DANIELLE MCCARTHY & OLIVIA MORI’S ROCKIN’ DOC “BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME”
WPRK Radio Interview
Zimbio
New Zealand International Film Festival
Light in the Attic

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2012Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (Documentary) (co-director)

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Bite-sized blog post: Ivy Meeropol

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IVY MEEROPOL directed The Hill, a six part documentary series for the Sundance Channel about staffers in Congressman Wexler’s office.

Meeropol’s HBO documentary Heir to an Execution is about her search for the story of her grandparents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

 

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SUNDANCE TV

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Indian Point Film Website
‘I had to know why my grandparents died’
Women & Hollywood Interview
Interview
Catapult Film Fund
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Indian Point (Documentary)

 2014Death Row Stories (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

– Killer Cop (2014)
 2004Heir to an Execution (Documentary)
 1986America Undercover (TV Series documentary) (episode “Heir to an Execution”)
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Bite-sized blog post: Karen Bernstein

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KAREN BERNSTEIN has produced numerous documentaries including through the PBS program American Masters.

Her directing credits include a documentary about fimmaker Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny. The film screened at Sundance and SXSW and is distributed by IFC Films and Hulu.

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AMAZON

VIMEO

CRITERION

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES

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Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny website
Interview
Women Make Movies
Austin Film Society

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (Documentary) (co-director)

 2012Arts in Context (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

– Producing Light (2012)

 2004Art in Progress (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Art in Progress: Julie Speed
 2004Are the Kids Alright? (TV Movie documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Molly Bernstein

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MOLLY BERNSTEIN’s directorial debut Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay is distributed by Kino Lorber and tells the story of the famous magician Ricky Jay. Before directing she had edited numerous feature and television documentaries.

Bernstein received her MFA from Columbia and formed her company Particle Productions to create “Museum Quality Films” from start to finish.

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AMAZON

KINO LORBER

FANDOR

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Particle Productions
An Art that Nature Makes Website
Women and Hollywood Interview
Vanity Fair
Columbia Univeristy
Environmental Film Festival

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015American Masters (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

– Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice (2015)
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Bite-sized blog post: Rebecca Richman Cohen

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REBECCA RICHMAN COHEN studied law at Harvard and has directed documentaries on the subject. She founded her company Racing Horse Productions to tell stories about social justice.

Her film War Don Don (2010) was nominated for an Academy Award.

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CODE OF THE WEST WEBSITE

WAR DON DON WEBSITE

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Racing Horse Productions
New Day Films
Code of the West Website
War Don Don Website
Filmmaker Magazine
Harvard Law School
Indiewire

 

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Defending Gideon (Documentary short)
 2012Code of the West (Documentary)
 2010War Don Don (Documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Ally Walker

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ALLY WALKER received her degree in biochemsitry from UC Santa Cruz and was preparing for medical school (similar to Dorothy Arzner) before moving into film and television. Most of her career has been dedicated to work in front of the camera as an actor but in 2005 she released her directorial debut, the documentary For Norman Wherever You Are inspired by her experience trying to navigate the social care system in Los Angeles in order to help a baby and his mother.

Her narrative feature film Sex, Death and Bowling (2015) premiered at the San Diego Film Festival and is distributed in the US by Monterey Media.

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VIDEO: Interview 1
VIDEO: Interview 2
Interview 1
Monterey Media Acquires Ally Walker’s Debut Feature ‘Sex, Death and Bowling’
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2005For Norman: Wherever You Are (Documentary)