Tag / Indie Film

by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman

 

I had the opportunity to study with CHANTAL AKERMAN right before she left this world in October 2015. She was definitely eccentric in her brilliance and never filtered her points of view … which sometimes caused for controversy… nonetheless she clearly cared about film and those studying it and her passion for it never dulled.

Best known in academic and art house circles for her feminist epic Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) which she directed at the young age of 25 Akerman vacillated between documentaries and fiction but always remained faithful to expressing the truth as she saw it.

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Where to watch her films:

FANDOR

HULU

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

CRITERION COLLECTION

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Chantal Akerman: extraordinary artist of the everyday who we will miss for ever
Travelling Shots in Chantal Akerman’s D’est (aka From the East, 1993)
Then as Now, the Terrors of the Routine
New York Times Obituary
The New Yorker
Sense of Cinema
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2015No Home Movie (Documentary)
 2009À l’Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (TV Movie documentary)
 2007State of the World (segment “Tombée de nuit sur Shanghai”)
 2006Down There (Documentary)
 2003Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (TV Movie documentary)
 2002/IFrom the Other Side (Documentary)
 1999Sud (Documentary)
 1997Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
 1993From the East (Documentary)
 1993Monologues (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Le déménagement (1993)
 1991Lest We Forget (segment “Pour Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador”)
 1986La paresse (Short)
 1986Le marteau (Short)
 1986Mallet-Stevens (Short)
 1986Seven Women, Seven Sins (segment “Portrait d’une Paresseuse”)
 1984Paris vu par… 20 ans après (segment “1 “J’ai faim, J’ai froid”)
 1983L’homme à la valise (TV Movie)
 1983On Tour with Pina Bausch (TV Movie documentary)
 1983Les années 80 (Documentary)
 1980Dis-moi (TV Movie)
 1977News from Home (Documentary)
 1975Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (as Chantal Anne Akerman)
 1973Hanging Out Yonkers (Short)
 1973Le 15/8 (Short)
 1972Hôtel Monterey (Documentary)
 1972La chambre (Short)
 1968Saute ma ville (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay

After being told, “African Americans don’t go to indie films so we can’t fund your indie film with an African American cast,” AVA DUVERNAY made Middle of Nowhere (2012) without industry support and it screened at Sundance where she became the first African American woman to win Best Director at the festival. Using her experience as a publicist she formed a distribution company AFFRM to distribute her own films and those of other African American filmmakers.

Her next feature  film Selma (2013) was nominated for an Academy Award and she re-branded her distribution company AFFRM to ARRAY to encompass female filmmakers as well as people of color.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Ava DuVernay’s Website
ARRAY Website
Ava DuVernay’s AFFRM Rebrands as ARRAY, Acquires 2 Films
Barbie Made An Ava DuVernay Doll
Selma Director Ava DuVernay Says the Oscars Are “Just a Room in L.A.”
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2015Queen Sugar (TV Series) (pre-production)
 2015For Justice (TV Movie)
 2014Selma
 2013Scandal (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Vermont Is for Lovers, Too (2013)
2013Nine for IX (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
– Venus vs. (2013)
 2013/VIIIThe Door (Short)
 2009Compton in C Minor (Short)
 2008This Is the Life (Documentary)
 2006Saturday Night Life (Short)