Narrative Filmmaking

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Hirokazu Koreeda's Five Favorite Films

Rotten Tomatoes 02 Jul 2020

Though he isn’t a household name in the States, those who follow international film are already well aware of writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda, who began his career as a documentary filmmaker before transitioning to narrative features in the mid-’90s and making a name for himself on the festival circuit....

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Stony Brook Film Fest to reveal plans during special screening

Newsday 30 Jun 2020

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the two filmmakers hosted by actress Lori Singer, who narrates the documentary. The event will also include an announcement of the festival’s plans for 2020 ... .......

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Kaepernick subject of six-part Netflix series

Manila Standard Today 30 Jun 2020

Kaepernick, who has not played in the NFL since the 2016 season after starting his protest movement, will appear as himself as a narrator of the series, which will be guided by filmmaker Ava DuVernay ... “Too often we see race and black stories portrayed through a white lens,” Kaepernick said ... ....

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Netflix Kneels to Former NFL Star Colin Kaepernick, Series Scripted Already

Yahoo Daily News 29 Jun 2020

Kaepernick, who has not played in the NFL since the 2016 season after starting his protest movement, will appear as himself as a narrator of the series, which will be guided by filmmaker Ava DuVernay ... "Too often we see race and black stories portrayed through a white lens," Kaepernick said ... No release date was announced for the project. ....

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How the Trump campaign is drawing Obama out of retirement

Hartford Courant 29 Jun 2020

“We saw footage that the filmmakers had just begun to cut together and sent it to the president to look at,” said Priya Swaminathan, co-head of Higher Ground ... Part of what Obama finds so appealing about filmmaking is that it allows him to control the narrative....

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Birthday Special: Celebrating filmmaker Aanand L Rai and his journey at the movies

Mid Day 28 Jun 2020

Known for bringing alive the Hindi heartland on the big screen, Aanand L Rai is one filmmaker who's changing the narrative of Indian films with each passing day ... Interestingly, what sets him apart from every other filmmaker is how he's taking India towards a progressive future with a never seen before element attached to it....

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Birthday special: Celebrating ace filmmaker Aanand L Rai and his journey in film industry

International Business Times 28 Jun 2020

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12 Greatest Red Herring Movie Endings

What Culture 27 Jun 2020

They were part of an ingenious act of misdirection on the part of the filmmaker, to lead audiences towards a specific trope, idea or narrative thread, only to snap back in act three ......

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'EVERY DAY EPIC,' an outdoor screening of experimental films by Black artists, scheduled for tonight in OKC

The Oklahoman 27 Jun 2020

Here are the films and filmmakers included.  ... Kae’s creative practice combines narrative, documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking to explore themes such as filiation, tradition, and the creative Black art form that has been labeled "jazz." ... New York-based filmmaker ......

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Don’t Get Burned by “Wilder Than Wild Wildfire:” Documentary’s Omissions Mask Forest Service’s Logging Mission

CounterPunch 26 Jun 2020

Instead, the filmmakers focused on an entity called Yosemite-Stanislaus Solutions (YSS) that was involved in promoting logging of the Rim Fire forests ... Other problems stem from the way that the filmmaker’s narrative is built around significant distortions of the actual effects of the Rim Fire in order to create a bogeyman for the rest of the film....

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Don’t Get Burned by ‘Wilder than Wild:’ Wildfire Documentary’s Omissions Mask Forest Service’s Logging Mission

CounterPunch 26 Jun 2020

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Get busy livin'

Arkansas Online 26 Jun 2020

"Dying" is an adjective that can be applied to anything that lives ... Some people will find it overly arty, but its aspirations are admirable ... So they'll put up with him ... Some details feel planted and the filmmakers have a tendency to quirk things up a bit, but the performances are strong, and the narrative never collapses into wallowing sentimentality....

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Cuban heroes or traitors, a haunted Welsh vacation

The Signal 26 Jun 2020

By Richard Roeper. Signal Contributing Writer. ‘Wasp Network’. No rating. Running time. 128 minutes ... As I said ... Deep into the movie, we get a split-screen montage as a previously unheard offscreen narrator tries to explain what’s happening and who’s who and where this is all going. It’s as if the filmmakers realized in post-production they had a problem ... I....