Earlier this month we spent a week at the Shire in the Woods in McGrath, Minnesota where we discussed storytelling, editing, and diagnosed what is and isn’t working with five projects in rough cut. We return inspired and excited for these films and filmmakers as they move towards the finish line in time for fall festival submissions!
Catapult Film Fund and True/False Film Fest today announced the selected films and mentors for their eighth annual Rough Cut Retreat, a summer gathering that immerses underserved filmmakers and industry mentors in a deeply creative retreat space. This year’s retreat will take place July 23-27 at Shire in the Woods in McGrath, Minnesota and is presented with support from CMP who share Catapult and True/False’s passion for bold and creative new nonfiction filmmaking.
The 2023 RCR supported films (and attending members of the film teams) are Agent of Happiness (directors Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó), How to Build a Library (co-director Christopher King and editor Michael Onyiego), Mai American (director Kevin Truong), There Was, There Was Not (director Emily Mkrtichian), and Untitled Residential School Documentary (directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie).
Mentors are chosen for their ability to guide filmmakers through the final stages of filmmaking, as well as their deep generosity of spirit. This year’s group includes director Steven Bognar (American Factory), editor Fiona Otway (Iraq in Fragments), director Yoruba Richen (The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks), editor David Teague (Life, Animated), and director Stephanie Wang-Breal (Blowin’ Up).
Rough Cut Retreat was born out of Catapult and True/False’s shared vision of supporting filmmakers who lack significant institutional support and feedback networks. These directors often work without access to informed critical feedback about their work, and RCR exists to counteract that marginalization, championing work that pushes boundaries both in its content and aesthetics. The retreat aims to provoke dynamic discussion, providing feedback and guidance at a critical moment in the post-production process.
Each year, five filmmaking teams are matched with mentors that have been hand-picked for their editorial insights and ability to aid filmmakers in realizing their vision. Over an intense four days of screenings and discussion they receive critical, supportive feedback, helping to move films from rough to fine cut with an eye on winter festival deadlines.
Previous RCR projects include: 2023 Sundance premiere Joonam (director Sierra Urich, 2022 RCR participant), 2023 Berlinale premiere Hummingbirds (directors Estefanía Contreras and Silvia Castaños, 2022 RCR participant) Documentary Director Special Jury Mention 2023 Tribeca Film Festival Break the Game (director Jane M. Wagner, 2022 RCR participant) 2022 Emmy Award Winner Mayor (director David Osit, 2019 RCR participant), and 2022 Oscar nominated Ascension (director Jessica Kingdon, 2021 RCR participant).
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The Catapult Film Fund Development Grant application is now open!
Apply by Monday, July 10th at 5:00pm PST.
Who should apply? Nonfiction filmmakers in development looking to create a work sample/fundraising piece that will help launch their project into production. Filmmakers should have access to the protagonists and a story at the core of the project that they are uniquely positioned to tell. Visit our website to read through the frequently asked questions before applying.
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Join us in congratulating our co-founder, Bonni Cohen, as she officially moves to Catapult’s Board of Directors!
“We really believe in not just the individual project, but the sustainability of a career in filmmaking.”
As reported in DEADLINE, we are proud to announce our 2023 Research Grant film teams: Sofian Khan; R.J. Lozada and Chris Filippone; Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn; Lauren Wimbush; and Farihah Zaman. Each film team will receive a $10,000 grant and six months of mentorship and professional development as they explore a new film concept. Now in its third year, our newest program expands Catapult’s commitment to supporting documentary filmmakers at the earliest stage.
Special thanks to our advisors Sara Dosa, Ramona S. Diaz, Jacqueline Olive, David Osit, and Kristine Samuelson who will offer guidance, feedback, and industry insights as our filmmakers conceptualize their projects. The Catapult Research Grant is made possible with support from XRM Media.
Join us as we congratulate co-founder Lisa Kleiner Chanoff as she officially transitions to her role as Chair of Catapult Film Fund’s Board of Directors. Lisa started Catapult with filmmaker Bonni Cohen in 2010 to fill a gap in the nonfiction landscape for early-stage funding. As Chair, she will lead board governance for our nonprofit and support Co-Directors Megan Gelstein and Theresa Navarro, who took the helm in 2022. READ MORE
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We are proud to announce our final slate of 2022 development grants – Catapult’s flagship program supporting documentary filmmakers when funding is riskiest and hardest to find.
After a competitive round of review, we selected eleven new projects that dare to expand the way we think about life, death, and our connection to one another. These are stories that truly stayed with us, ranging from Latinx visionaries fighting for accessibility in our cities to a women-led expedition tracking the “doomsday glacier” on Antarctica.
We believe early-stage support is essential and are happy to be the first industry funder onboard eight of these projects.
Visit the development page to read more about each of these projects.
It’s been a big year for Catapult as the team continues to welcome new people and new roles! We are excited to announce the addition of Miriam García as Program Officer and the promotion of Emily Hoover-Finnigan to Associate Director of Communications and Operations.
These changes reflect our dedicated efforts to support applicants and grantees, increase program outreach, and improve our internal processes as part of our mission to provide critical early-stage funding and mentorship to nonfiction filmmakers. Read more about Miriam and Emily below and be sure to follow us on socials. Next updates include the 2022 round two development grantees!
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As part of our shift to a co-leadership model, we are thrilled to announce the hiring of Theresa Navarro as Co-Director and Chief Operations Officer.
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We are now accepting applications for the next round of the Catapult Research Grant. The application closes Monday, November 14th at 5:00pm PST and the program will begin in early 2023.
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We return from the 7th annual Rough Cut Retreat excited and inspired by the work and creativity of this group and eagerly await the filmmaker’s next steps on the road to the final cut!
The Rough Cut Retreat is a collaboration between Catapult Film Fund and True/False Film Fest, with support from the Chicago Media Project, and took place at the Carey Institute for Global Good. The retreat unites nonfiction filmmakers and mentors in a creative, supportive, and engaged atmosphere. Filmmakers screen their rough cut and the group discusses storytelling, editing, and diagnoses what is and isn’t working with the film. Film teams leave with insight and ideas to move to the project towards the finish line in time for fall festival submissions.
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Nominated for 2022 Documentary Emmys are seven Catapult-supported films! Congratulations to the filmmaking teams on this recognition and achievement!
A THOUSAND CUTS, Director Ramona S. Díaz (Nominated for Best Documentary, Outstanding Social Issue Documentary)
FATHOM, Director Drew Xanthopoulos (Nominated for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary, Outstanding Sound)
IN THE SAME BREATH, Director Nanfu Wang (Nominated for Best Documentary, Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary, Outstanding Direction: Documentary)
MAYOR, Director David Osit (Nominated for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary)
PRAY AWAY, Director Kristine Stolakis (Nominated for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary)
STORM LAKE, Directors Beth Levison & Jerry Risius (Nominated for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary)
SIMPLE AS WATER, Director Megan Mylan (Nominated for Outstanding Direction: Documentary)
The Emmy Documentary Categories awards will take place on Thursday, September 29th, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. EST.
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Announcing the first grantees 0f 2022! It is with great pleasure that we announce the filmmakers receiving Catapult Film Fund’s first round of Development Grants for 2022. This extraordinary slate of projects tells a wide range of stories, including a widespread mysterious illness linked to government malfeasance in Canada, one woman’s life or death attempts to escape Afghanistan, the only in-house cable TV station set inside a Florida county jail, and an environmental entanglement and the complexities of stewardship as seen in Badlands National Park in South Dakota. These wildly diverse projects reflect Catapult’s firm commitment to championing distinctive nonfiction films from around the world. Meet the filmmakers and projects.
It is with much excitement and gratitude that we share news about Catapult. We are embarking on a new chapter, with a transition to a co-leadership model and the creation of two new positions. Megan Gelstein, Catapult’s longtime Senior Program Director, has been promoted to Co-Director and Chief Program Officer, effective immediately.
Announcing our latest development grantees! Meet them and read more about the films
The 2022 Rough Cut Retreat application is live!
Applications for the Catapult and True/False Rough Cut Retreat are now OPEN through April 29! APPLY HERE
At the height of summer, when filmmakers are neck-deep in the editing process, Rough Cut Retreat offers a one-of-a-kind mentorship experience. Launched in 2016, RCR unites nonfiction filmmakers and mentors in a creative, supportive, and engaged atmosphere.
The retreat will take place July 23-28 at The Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville, New York.
Questions? Email lindsey@truefalse.org
We are excited to announce the 2022 Catapult Research Grant cohort and advisors! Launched last year with support from XRM Media, the research grant is an expansion of Catapult’s commitment to providing support at the earliest stages when it is riskiest to give and hardest to find. Meet the cohort and advisors below and read more about the program on the Research Grant page.
Catapult Film Fund announces a $100,000 gift from XRM Media to support the Catapult Research Grant program. This brings XRM’s total program support to $150,000 over three years, which includes their initial grant to launch the research grant in its pilot year.
The 2022 Academy Award nominations are out and a special congratulations goes to two Catapult-supported films: When We Were Bullies (director Jay Rosenblatt) and Ascension (director/producer Jessica Kingdon, producers Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell). We are thrilled for the achievements of the filmmakers and the recognition from the documentary community.
Catapult receives an NEA grant!
We’re thrilled to share below the latest eight projects to receive our flagship development grants. These films exemplify the stories Catapult believes investing in; they reveal the state of the world and explore the complexities of the human condition.
Five films we previously supported — All That Breathes, Instant Life, Mija, Riotsville, USA, and The Territory — are heading to the Sundance Film Festival for their world premieres!
Catapult-supported films: Ascension (Dir. Jessica Kingdon), North by Current (Dir. Angelo Madsen Minax), Rebel Hearts (Dir. Pedro Kos), Storm Lake (Dirs. Beth Levinson, Jerry Risius), In the Same Breath (Dir. Nanfu Wang) are shortlisted for the 37th IDA Documentary Awards! Congratulations to the filmmakers. The awards will be held in February 2021.
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The Catapult Research Grant is now open! 🎉
Catapult’s Research Grant was launched last year to address a critical gap in early film funding: support at the research stage. This expands our ongoing commitment to developing nonfiction films and mentoring filmmakers by providing financial and professional resources even earlier. Five filmmakers will receive grants of $10,000 in addition to six months of mentorship and professional development opportunities. We are grateful for the support of XRM Media to continue this program.
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Catapult launched a decade ago to fill a gap in film funding by offering development grants. This year we added a new program, the Catapult Research Grant, to further expand our support for early stage funding which is often the hardest find. We just wrapped up the pilot program with the first cohort of research grantees.
Announcing the continuation of the Catapult Research Grant with major support from XRM Media!
Get to know Alina Simone, director of Black Snow (a recent grantee)
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Read about the most recent Rough Cut Retreat, with our True/False Film Fest partners and supported by the Chicago Media Project.
Latest grantees, Rough Cut Retreat recap, and Filmmaker Spotlight, read all about what Catapult has been up to this summer!
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Eight Catapult supported films head to Tribeca, opening Wednesday.Congratulations to the filmmakers!
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Following a Tribeca premiere in June, Pray Away will head to Netflix!
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The Catapult Research Grant is the newest expansion of our ongoing commitment to support nonfiction films and filmmakers. Our new program provides a $10,000 grant plus six months of mentorship and professional development to five filmmakers in the early conception and research phase of developing a new film idea.
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Welcome To Chechnya heads to HBO in recognition of Pride Month
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Updated regularly and in partnership with Firelight Media and ITVS, the International Documentary Association has consolidated a list of federal relief resources for filmmakers.
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We hope this finds you well and safe. We are reaching out to let you know a little bit about how and what we are doing.
At the moment, the Catapult Film Fund team is safely sheltered-in-place in San Francisco. Like you, we face the day-to-day challenges of working remotely, but are grateful to be connected and engaged with the inspiring work of non-fiction films.
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The Catapult-True/False Rough Cut retreat returns this summer! Applications now open. Apply here
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I CARRY YOU WITH ME (dir. Heidi Ewing) NEXT Audience Award & NEXT Innovator Award
CRIP CAMP (dir./prod. Jim LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham, prod. Sara Bolder) Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
WELCOME TO CHECHNYA (dir. David France, prod. Alice Henty, David France, Askold Kurov, Joy A. Tomchin) U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Tyler H. Walk
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Congratulations to the 6 Catapult Grantees premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival!
A Thousand Cuts
Crip Camp
I Carry You With Me
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Us Kids
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Catapult grantees took home 4 awards at the IDA Awards program. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, a most impressive group!
American Factory - Best Directors, Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert
Midnight Family - Best Editing, Luke Lorenzten & Paloma López Carrillo
The Raft - Best Musical Score, Hans Appelqvist
Freida Lee Mock received the Career Achievement Award
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American Factory directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert win Best Documentary at the IFP Gotham Awards! Fellow grantee and AXS founder, Jason DaSilva (When We Walk), was honored for his filmmaking.
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Thrilled to see 9 Catapult grantees nominated for Cinema Eye Honors Awards!
17 Blocks
Always in Season
American Factory
Hail Satan?
Life Overtakes Me
Midnight Family
Our Time Machine
The Raft
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🏆 Tune in tomorrow for the 40th Annual News and Documentary Emmy’s! 👏 Nominated are 3 Catapult supported projects:
🏆 ‘The Oslo Diaries’ - Outstanding Historical Documentary 🏆 ‘Survivors’ - Outstanding Social Issue Documentary 🏆 ‘Wildland’ - Outstanding Nature Documentary, Outstanding Cinematography, and Outstanding Editing
Also nominated is 2016 Rough Cut Retreat participant ‘Quest’.
As usual, PBS tops the nominations for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards by a mile, with an ever wider margin over the field than last year. But the big news is how close HBO came to overtakin…
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There’s more to the Satanic Temple than you might think… catch Hail Satan? in theaters to see for yourself! 😈
Goat pardonings, hummus and Christmas paraphernalia? By the time you’ve finished reading this, you might be tempted to join the Satanist Temple yourself.
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Thank you for your contributions to documentary film and for being part of the Catapult family 🧡
Most famous for his Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back and Bill Clinton presidential campaign chronicle, The War Room, Pennebaker died of natural causes on Aug. 1.
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On World Elephant Day, Elephant Path Film will be streaming on Facebook! August 12, 3pm ET / 12pm PT on WORLD Channel 🐘
WORLD Channel is the public media home to award-winning series America ReFramed, Doc World, Local,USA, and Stories from the Stage.
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Looking for seed funding for your project? Learn more about the ITVS Diversity Development Fund 👇
ITVS Diversity Development Fund gives producers of color up to $15,000 in research and development funding to develop a documentary film for public media | ITVS
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📣 Elephant Path Film will be streaming this Wednesday 8/7 on Witness - Al Jazeera! 📺
An inspiring documentary series that brings world issues into focus through compelling human stories.
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📣 In partnership with SFFILM, we are pleased to announce the three recipients of the 2019 SFFILM Catapult Film Fellowships. Congrats to the film teams! 🎉
Three documentary filmmakers have been presented the 2019 SFFILM Catapult Film Fellowships to produce their budding documentaries. Now in its second year, the grant program – produced by non-profit organization SFFILM ...
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Six Catapult grantees will be showcased at IFP’s Project Forum, September 15 – 19 in Brooklyn. Congratulations to the film teams! 👏
The Liegnitz Plot Mayor Murders That Matter A Place to Learn Untitled Storm Lake Project Punch 9 for Harold Washington The Bones
IFP, Filmmaker‘s publisher, announced today the 150 films, series, digital and audio projects to be showcased at the Project Forum this September. The Project Forum, says IFP, is
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😈 Haven’t seen Hail Satan? Lucky for you, it’s now streaming! 👏
All the newly streaming films of Netflix, Amazon Prime, iTunes, and more.
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17 Blocks will headline MTV’s new documentary film program! Proud to be an early supporter of this important and timely film.
The MTV Documentary FIlms czar is up and running.
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📣 MTV Documentary Films launches with Catapult supported 17 Blocks 🙌
Sheila Nevins has set her first projects in her new capacity as head of MTV Documentary Films: the feature “17 Blocks” and short “St. Louis Superman.” Both titles will have …
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Great opportunity alert! Check out the below announcement of a new partnership.
Tribeca Film Institute (TFI), Verizon Medias RYOT Films, and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) have announced their first-ever partnership: a collaboration at IDFA 2019 to elevate stories of climate change by filmmakers from affected communities around the world. TFI, RYOT F...
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Congrats to the producers headed to the Creative Producing Labs at the Sundance Institute! In attendance will be Catapult grantees Anya Rous (Pray Away) and Jameka Autry (Through the Night). 👏
Sundance Institute today announced Fellows and Advisors for the five-day 2019 Creative Producing Labs, as well as the three-day Creative Producing Summit which immediately follows; both take place at Utah's Sundance Mountain Resort. The Labs begins July 29, and the Summit August 2. These are t...
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Catapult grantee “Survivors” launched an oral history project “We Survive, Stories of the Ebola Outbreak” aimed at preserving the critical African perspective on the Ebola outbreak. Make a donation to the project today, and it will be matched! 🙌💵
WeSurvive: Stories of the Ebola Outbreak is a web-based, oral history database that allows users to access a substantial collection of personal video testimonials from Ebola survivors, their family members, and other community members affected by the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak. We believe it i...
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Please consider supporting the oral history project helmed by the brilliant filmmakers of SURVIVORS. And as a very special opportunity – on July 18th every donation will be matched up to 50%!
Support WeSurvive on Global Giving: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/wesurvive-stories-of-the-ebola-outbreak/ Mariama Kabba is an Ebola survivors from K...
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THE RAFT reviewed by Cosmopolitan Magazine. Of course they did.
A social experiment sent men and women adrift across the Atlantic
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📣 Announcing the latest grantees, the 2019 Rough Cut Retreat participants, films in distribution, and more in our Summer Newsletter! 📰
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“…a moving reminder of the harm that comes from denying the truth of crimes done by those in power.”
The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros in The Stranger
The doc looks at Spain’s state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity committed during Franco’s dictatorship.
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Exploring resignation syndrome in Life Overtakes Me
The mysterious phenomenon is the focus of the new Netflix documentary Life Overtakes Me.
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👏 Congratulations to all the new The Academy members, particularly Catapult grantees 🎉
Steven Bognar (dir. American Factory) Jessica Devaney (prod. Always in Season, The Feeling of Being Watched, Pray Away, The Rashomon Effect) Mor Loushy (dir. The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros) Carrie Lozano (dir. The Ballad of Fred Hersch) Farihah Zaman (dir. Remote Area Medical)
Inclusion and diversity is the key at any awards night as the Oscars expanded its roster of members recently. In order to diversify its ranks, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 842 new members from 59 countries, 50 per cent of whom are female and 29 per cent are people of c...
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The Raft is coming to the Bay Area!
"A document, as well as a documentary, of genuine consequence. The news is surprising, and pretty darned good." - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal The Raft opens tonight! Crew member and film subject Mary Gidley is #inthehouse for Q&As following the 7:15pm screenings tonight and tomorrow! Tix & info: http://bit.ly/2XefiqB
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Netflix announces that AMERICAN FACTORY will open globally in 190 countries on Netflix and in select North American theaters on August 21. So proud to be the first supporter of this incredible project.
This marks the first title from the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions to premiere on the streaming service.
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Dreamaway continues its successful international festival run! 👏
Dreamaway by director Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke received a Special Mention during its participation in the Official Competition of the Tripoli Film Festival. This is the film's second award in the Arab world, following the Bronze Prize for Best Artistic Contribution at the Luxor African Film F...
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Called a “startling and effective documentary” by the Los Angeles Times, The Feeling of Being Watched is in theaters this week in LA 🎟
Filmmaker Assia Boundaoui asks why her Arab American neighbors in the Chicago suburbs were the target of FBI surveillance in the 1980s and '90s.
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‘Through the Night’ heads to the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab! 🙌
Five fellows and their non-fiction projects, all women-directed, are taking part in the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab, starting today (June 21). Held at the Sundance Resort in Utah, ...
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Catapult grantee Davy Rothbart talks to The Hill about his recently released film 17 Blocks.
Filmmaker Davy Rothbart told Hill.TV during an interview on “Rising” that he hopes his latest documentary about a struggling family in Washington, D.C. will become a “tool for change” when it comes to addressing gun violence across the countr
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💯% stream the amazing short “Life Overtakes Me” on Netflix
A new documentary short examines children who suffer from Resignation Syndrome, where they become unresponsive for months or years, due to extreme stress.
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“It’s a powerful argument for how necessary it is to watch the watchers.”
The Feeling of Being Watched 👁 in the The Hollywood Reporter
In her first feature-length documentary, Assia Boundaoui explores the effects of a long-term, wide-ranging FBI probe on her Muslim American neighborhood.
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👏 Congratulations to Catapult-supported Loira Limbal, Jameka Autry and Malika Zouhali-Worrall of ‘Through the Night’ who are headed to Sundance Film Festival’s 2019 Documentary Edit and Story Lab! 🎞
On June 21, five boundary-pushing nonfiction film project teams will convene at the Sundance Resort in Utah for the 2019 Documentary Edit and Story Lab, Sundance Institute announced today.
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Great review of The Feeling of Being Watched 👁 in the Los Angeles Times
“You feel like you’re watching a ’70s conspiracy thriller, but this is today and it’s nonfiction.”
Filmmaker Assia Boundaoui asks why her Arab American neighbors in the Chicago suburbs were the target of FBI surveillance in the 1980s and '90s.
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Recognition, awards, and continued festival success for Dreamaway! 🤩
As part of its tour around the Arab world, Dreamaway by Egyptian director Marouan Omara and German director Johanna Domke will take part in the 11th Agadir International Documentary Film Festival(FIDADOC) (June 18-22). Organized by the Culture and Education through Audiovisual Association (ACEA) in....
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Midnight Family is off to the 65th Taormina Film Fest, bravo!
Save The full lineup has been announced for the 65th Taormina Film Festival, which will be taking place June 30th to July 6th in Taormina, Sicily. A few highlights include Spider-Man: Far
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XY Chelsea is Documentary of the Week on WNYC 👍 🎧
The documentary “XY Chelsea” profiles Chelsea Manning, alternately seen as a whistleblower or traitor, who spent longer in prison than any other American for leaking government secrets.
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A bit early for The Academy Award predictions? Either way, we are happy to see Hail Satan? mentioned!
There's currently 23 serious contenders for Oscar consideration. Here's the titles with the early lead.
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Thank you LA TIMES for the great review of THE RAFT. In theaters now!
Marcus Lindeen's mind-blowing nonfiction adventure "The Raft" explores a 1973 social experiment conducted during a transatlantic voyage.
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Life Overtakes Me is now streaming on Netflix! 👀 💻
In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.
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“‘Life Overtakes Me’ calls attention to an awful and easily preventable situation with calm and grace. It’s hard to ask much more of a documentary.” ❤️
'Life Overtakes Me' explores the rise of Resignation Syndrome, which has afflicted hundreds of child asylum seekers in Sweden over the past decade.
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The Raft is the The New York Times Critic’s Pick! Now in theaters ⛵️ 👍 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/movies/the-raft-review.html
A fascinating documentary re-examines a notorious anthropological experiment from the 1970s.
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Congratulations Midnight Family! Winner of Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Grant Jury Award 🎉👏
Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family won the grand jury award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, which held its closing ceremony last night (June 11). The Sundance premiere follows a family trying to m…
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“In Penny Lane’s documentary Hail Satan?, viewers learn how TST has challenged the Christian domination of public life in the United States”
The public square is dominated by Christianity. We should welcome efforts from the Satanic Temple to have religious minorities be part of public life.
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Great review of Midnight Family from their recent screening at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 👍
Fast-paced documentary following one of Mexico City's many private ambulances
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When We Walk will screen at the 30th anniversary of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 🙌
The festival reaches over 30,000 people in 26 cities around the world and is the longest-running human rights film festival.
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Congratulations to Catapult grantee Jessica Devaney! One of four recipients of Cinereach’s 2019 Producer’s Award 👏🎉
2019 Producer Award presented to Jessica Devaney, Alexandra Lazarowich, Kishori Rajan and Jamund Washington
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Another great review of THE RAFT - now in theaters!
A new documentary revisits one of the most bizarre anthropological experiments in modern history.
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Director Tim Travers Hawkins talks about his film ‘XY Chelsea’ airing on Showtime tonight!
In the new film “XY Chelsea,” director Tim Travers Hawkins keeps the whistleblower’s vulnerability front and center: “I hope she can flourish as a free woman.”
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A great piece in IndieWire on Catapult supported ‘The Raft’ 🌊⛵️
“…bizarre, captivating, and borderline unbelievable..”
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Before "The Real World" and the reality television boom, there was anthropologist Santiago Genovés' extremely dangerous sex raft.
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Check out the trailer for “XY Chelsea,” which airs Friday 6/7 on Showtime!
Produced by Pulse Films, XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison...
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Don’t miss “XY Chelsea,” which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in May and airs Friday 6/7 on Showtime!
In Showtime's "XY Chelsea," filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins aims to reframe the media's narrative around the Army whistleblower, who identifies as transgen...
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📣 Coming to Netflix June 14th - Life Overtakes Me
Aggretsuko: Season 2 The Alcàsser Murders Awake: The Million Dollar Game Charité at War Cinderella Pop Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce: Season 5 Leila Life Overtakes Me Marvel's Jessica Jones: Season 3 Marlon: Season 2 Murder Mystery Unité 42
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Hail Satan? is in theaters July 26th for Sundance Film Festival London at the Picturehouse Central! Review by The Digital Fix 👀
Penny Lane's documentary is devilish fun
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😈 Hail Satan? heads the the UK! Catch the trailer 👇
HAIL SATAN? It's the name of a fascinating new documentary that begs the question – Are we all a little bit Satanic? Watch the trailer and decide.
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The best things to watch in June! Rolling Stone picks ‘XY Chelsea’ 👍
From the return of HBO’s moms-behaving-badly murder mystery to a teen drama featuring sex, drugs and Zendaya — what to tune in for this month
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Great piece on ‘XY Chelsea’ in Film Threat 👏
“Regardless of how someone might feel about what she’s done, XY Chelsea will definitely give you some insight into why she did it and maybe will help inform a better understanding of what’s going on behind the scenes…”
XY Chelsea is the long-awaited documentary about the epic tale of Chelsea Manning’s exposè of American war crimes and the aftermath she faced. Going to prison and also transitioning while there, dealing with intense hatred from so-called patriots all over the country and being maligned one minute...
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Coming to Netflix in June… ‘Life Overtakes Me’! 👀
Netflix's June 2019 release dates have been announced with all new original shows and films dropping
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XY Chelsea review in the The Guardian 👍
A documentary about the trans activist and ex-army intelligence officer is intriguing but lacks wider context
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Great piece on The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros in the Los Angeles Times 📰
More than four decades after the death of Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish citizens seek justice an ocean away in the documentary “The Silence of Others.”
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Thank you Higher Ground for supporting Crip Camp!
The Obamas' inclusion of 'Crip Camp' in their Netflix/Higher Ground lineup speaks volumes about their allyship with the disability community.
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Catapult supported ‘Survivors’ is now streaming! 👀
"I need to tell the world how my people survived Ebola." Full documentary: aje.io/survivors
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📣 Life Overtakes Me is coming to Netflix on June 14th! 👀
Filmmakers examine a mysterious illness, Resignation Syndrome, which causes traumatized refugee children in Sweden to retreat into a coma-like state.
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Catapult funded 17 Blocks heads to San Francisco for SF Indie Fest! 🎟
20 years in the making 17 BLOCKs is an intimate chronicle of a DC-based family’s struggles with addiction and gun violence, directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Davy Rothbart. In 1999, nine-year-old Emmanuel Sanford-Durant and his family began to film their daily lives in America’s most dang...
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros is coming to US theaters!
"The Silence of Others" is an award-winning documentary film that tells the story of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship, who continue to seek justice to this day. Produced & directed by Emmy winners Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar. Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agus
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Hey San Francisco! The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros is coming to the Roxie Theater! 🎟
Film describes efforts to come to terms with atrocities
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American Family heads to AFI Docs as the Centerpiece film! Also screening: 17 Blocks, Midnight Family, and Always in Season 📽
The AFI Docs Festival has selected the Steven Bognar-Julia Reichert documentary “American Factory” as its centerpiece film, screening on June 21. The event will take place at the Warner…
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Midnight Family is headed to Sheffield Doc/Fest to compete in the Grand Jury Award category! 🤞
Academy Award- and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia‘s Diego Maradona and Kristof Bilsen’s Mother (pictured) are among the 180-plus films slated to screen at the 2019 edition of SheffieldDoc/Fest. As previously announced, Sheffield ...
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros wins Best Documentary at the Premios Platino 🏆
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” made a sweep of the 6th Premios Platino on Sunday, May 12, trouncing its fellow nominees in direction, cinematography, screenplay, sound, and best Iberoamerican film. The an…
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Midnight Family wins the special jury prize for cinematography at the Montclair Film Festival! 🙌
Other prize recipients at the 8th annual New Jersey event include 'Mickey and the Bear,' 'Mossville: When Great Trees Fall' and 'Premature,' which each won multiple awards.
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📣 Our Time Machine 时光机 takes home Best Cinematography from Tribeca, Comcast Documentary Winner from CAAMFest, & Grand Jury Award from Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 🏆 and continues with screenings around the US and beyond!
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine”–a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs o...
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BBC News recommends you watch The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros this month 👍
From the Sir Elton John biopic to a Vietnamese period drama, Nicholas Barber lists the films not to miss this month.
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The Los Angeles Times reviews XY Chelsea 📰👀
Chelsea Manning, the transgender whistleblower-activist star of the provocative documentary “XY Chelsea,” remains an elusive subject.
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NBC News reviews The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros
“One thing we wanted to do with the film is put up a mirror to the audience and say look, this past is not so past. It’s the present. And unless you address it, the past will keep coming back” -dir. Almudena Carracedo
“You have more than 100,000 bodies in mass graves that have never been exhumed even though families are fighting for the rights to give their loved ones a dignified burial."
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Following their Hot Docs premiere, When We Walk is off to the Human Rights Watch Film Festival!
The lineup for the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival has been announced, which will be taking place in New York from June 13 - 20. 13 films will be presented this year, over half of which are directed by women.
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros in the The New York Times 📰
This documentary follows a lawsuit that seeks to charge the enablers of Gen. Francisco Franco.
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Not 1, not 2, but 3 Catapult grantees 🙌 are recipients of the Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund, presented by Black Public Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Congrats to ‘A Place to Learn (Kevin Shaw, Rachel Dickson), ‘Through the Night’ (Loira Limbal, Jameka Autry) and ‘Gil Scott-Heron’ (Orlando Bagwell, Yvonne Shirley)
“These projects, and the makers behind them, speak to our mission to bring diverse content and makers to the public media audience”
Black Public Media (BPM) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) have announced the recipients of the Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarships. The $300,000 scholarship fund, made possible by CPB, is inspired by the life and work of Jacquie Jones, the Peabody Award-winning director and former e...
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👀 Inside peek of the ‘Colour of the Wind’ team pitching at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Pitch Forum where they won the $20k first look prize! 🙌
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🎉 Time For Ilhan takes home a Daytime Emmys Award! 🏆
We are proud to share that 'Time for Ilhan' Director/Producer Norah Shapiro has won a Daytime Emmys Award for Outstanding Direction for the film! Congratulations to Norah and the production team for this honor! 🏆🎬🤩 Ilhan Omar Catapult Film Fund GOOD DOCS Fuse
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🎉Congratulations Atomic Homefront, winner of the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in Domestic Television! 👏
A nonprofit human rights advocacy organization that works to realize Senator Robert F. Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world by advancing human rights.
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Great review of ‘XY Chelsea’ in the The Hollywood Reporter from their screening at the Tribeca Film Festival!
Activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning tells her side of a very fraught, fragmented story in Tim Travers Hawkins's edifying documentary.
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Thrilled that 2 Catapult supported projects won awards at Tribeca! Best Cinematography went to Yang Sun and Shuang Liang for “Our Time Machine” and the Best Editing went to Jennifer Tiexiera for “17 Blocks” Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to Tribeca. What an honor!
Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin’s Scheme Birds took home the Best Documentary Feature award last night (May 2) at the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival. The Scottish/Swedish film took home a ...
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Hail Satan? heads to London for the Sundance Film Festival! ✈️🇬🇧
Picturehouse Cinemas are located in city centres and are architecturally unique venues that provide café bars, restaurants and live events alongside the traditional movie-going experience.
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Part two of the Forum Report from Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, including Catapult Grantees ‘Instant Life’ (Aaron Schock & Mark Becker) and 💵 prize winner🥇’Colour of the Wind’ (Claire Sanford, Adam Pajot Gendron & Dagmar Jacobsen) 👇
The 20th edition of the Hot Docs Forum returned Wednesday (May 1) with the final 11 of 21 projects presented to an expert panel. In this second installment of Realscreen‘s ...
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Read part one of the report from the 20th edition of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Forum, including Catapult supported ‘The Bones’ by Jeremy Xido 🦖
The 20th edition of the Hot Docs Forum kicked off on Tuesday (April 30) with 10 out of 21 projects presented to an expert panel. In this first installment of a two-part report, ...
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Claire Sanford’s ‘Colour of the Wind’ takes home the First Look Prize of CAN$20,000 at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Congratulations to all the winners!
TORONTO — Director Hnin Ei Hlaing’s “Midwives,” which tells the story of two midwives who work side-by-side in a makeshift clinic, has won Hot Docs’ First Look program’s first prize and CAN$3…
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The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund is accepting applications for feature documentaries near post production. Apply now! 👇
Overview The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund (DFF) supports engaging documentaries in post-production which exhibit compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. Since its launch in 2011, the SFFILM Documentary Film Fund has distributed more than $750,000 to advance new w...
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Higher Ground Productions (The Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix) announce their latest slate including Catapult supported ‘American Factory’ and ‘Crip Camp’
Higher Ground Productions, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, has unveiled an initial slate of projects that include adaptations of Michael Lewi…
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When We Walk premieres at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 👏
Producer Richard O'Connell and director Jason DaSilva at WHEN WE WALK. Photo by David Spowart Photography
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Out Magazine talks with XY Chelsea director Tim Travers Hawkins 👀
Out spoke with filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins ahead of XY Chelsea’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere.
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📣 Attention Bay Area (also New York & L.A.)! Catapult supported, Academy Award Nominated The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros is coming to a theatre near you! 👀🎟
"The Silence of Others" is an award-winning documentary film that tells the story of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship, who continue to seek justice to this day. Produced & directed by Emmy winners Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar. Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agus
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Elephant Path Film is now streaming! 🌍🐘
The guardians of the last herd of forest elephants who are threatened by war and poaching.
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The The Chicago Critics Film Festival will screen Catapult grantees Life Overtakes Me and Our Time Machine 时光机 📽🎟
2019 Chicago Critics Film Festival
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Pitching at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, are three Catapult-supported films: The Bones (Jeremy Xido), Colour of the Wind (Claire Sanford), and Instant Life (Mark Becker & Aaron Schock) 👏
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in Toronto this week, the Hot Docs Forum will once again showcase some of the most anticipated films slated to hit the documentary world. Over the course of the two…
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Hail Satan? on NPR All Things Considered! 🎧
Hail Satan? is a new documentary that follows the rise of the Satanic Temple. NPR's Michel Martin discusses the film with director Penny Lane and the co-founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves.
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“The latest documentary by Penny Lane, Hail Satan? follows the history of the Satanic Temple and its colorful protests in the name of religious freedom and separation of church and state…”
Organization is the first satanic group granted tax-exempt status of other religious institutions
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IndieWire talks with Catapult grantee Sam Green about his latest work and his on-going project The Oldest Person in the World 🌍
Green's latest, "A Thousand Thoughts," tells the story of the Kronos Quartet, with the musicians playing alongside his film.
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‘Life Overtakes Me’ directors Kris Samuelson and John Haptas on air to talk about the film with KPFA Radio 🎧
Reyna Cowan interviews Berkeley-based directors: John Haptas and Kris Samuelson about their new documentary essay, Life Overtakes Me. The film looks at refugee children in Sweden who have become af…
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros in Variety “Looking for justice isn’t looking for revenge” 🖤
“Forgiven but not forgotten” is a platitude we routinely use to end disputes both petty and grievous, but it’s the reverse outcome — the mass forgetting of crimes and conflicts ne…
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Hail Satan? “…serves as a reminder of why we embrace nonconformity, pluralism and tolerance.” Great read in the Washington Post 👏
The film explores the group’s efforts to fight for the separation of church and state.
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Hail Satan? 😈 is coming to US theaters soon! Nice piece in the The Guardian 👇
The Satanic Temple’s progressive values are given rare insight in an eye-opening documentary and here, the film-maker and the head of the temple talk about the film’s vitality
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“Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? may look like a mockumentary, but it’s not.” The Wall Street Journal 📰👀👇
This documentary follows the Satanic Temple, a group whose provocative stunts shed light on the separation of church and state.
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Hail Satan? in Rolling Stone “…a portrait of religious freedom and social hypocrisy” 🔥
Penny Lane’s doc starts as a look at the Satanic Temple and ends as a portrait of religious freedom and social hypocrisy
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📰 The Los Angeles Times chats with Hail Satan? director Penny Lane 🔥
"Hail Satan?" documentary director Penny Lane and Satanic Temple leader Lucien Greaves explain that there is more to the group than trolling the religious right.
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Always in Season at the SFFILM Festival! 🧡
Director Jacqueline Olive at the screening of her documentary 'Always in Season' 📸 Terry Dudley
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Penny Lane of Hail Satan? talks with Vulture 👀
Lane’s breakout film is about the misunderstood world of Satanism. In a Halloween store in New York, we discuss how the Satanic Temple got serious.
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Seven Catapult Film Fund supported projects are screening at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival ! Don’t miss American Factory, Always in Season, Anbessa, Midnight Family, Our Time Machine 时光机, When We Walk and XY Chelsea!
The annual documentary fest looks backward at everyone from Miles Davis to Dag Hammarskjold, and looks around everywhere today from Dayton to Macedonia.
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Only a few hours to go before the brilliant Oscar shortlisted documentary Charm City premieres on PBS. NOT TO BE MISSED!
Every day, in every neighborhood, there are unsung heroes who lead with love. Their stories are rarely told. Meet a few who shine bright against the corrosive forces they are up against.
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Tribeca Film Festival (NYC) Sun, 4/28 - 5:30 pm (filmmakers & subjects in attendance) Tue, 4/30 - 7:00 pm (filmmakers & subjects in attendance) Fri, 5/3 - 7:00 pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/OTM_Tribeca
Hot Docs Documentary Festival (Toronto, Canada) Wed, 5/1 - 5:30 pm (filmmakers in attendance) Fri, 5/3 - 3:00 pm (filmmakers in attendance) Sun, 5/5 - 5:30 pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/OTM_HotDocs
DocLands (San Rafael, CA) Sat, 5/4 - 3:00pm (filmmaker in attendance) Tickets: http://bit.ly/OTM_doclands
LA Asian Pacific Film Festival (Los Angeles) Sun, 5/5 - 12:00 pm (filmmaker in attendance) Tickets: http://bit.ly/OTM_LAAPFF
CAAMFest (San Francisco & Oakland) Sat, 5/11 - 7:30 pm (filmmaker in attendance) Wed, 5/15 - 6:30 pm Tickets: https://caamfest.com/2019/movies/our-time-machine/
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Great news: Midnight Family will be in theaters this summer!
"Midnight Family" has been acquired by 1091, the studio formerly known as The Orchard. The film had premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
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Catapult grantees Our Time Machine 时光机 and American Factory will be screening across the bridge at the Rafael Theater during the DOCLANDS Documentary Film Festival May 2-5. Presented by California Film Institute 📽
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Catapult grantee ‘American Factory’ at the SFFILM Festival 🙌
Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert of 'American Factory' at the SFFILM Festival Lounge 📸 Tommy Lau
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Midnight Family screens at the SFFILM Festival 👏
SFFILM programmer Rod Armstrong with director Luke Lorentzen and producer Kellen Quinn of 'Midnight Family' 📸 Terry Dudley
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San Francisco Chronicle heads to the SFFILM Festival to catch Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? 😈📽
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A reflective piece in Film Threat about ‘Life Overtakes Me’ screening at the SFFILM International Film Festival ❤️🎞
One thing we can all agree on is there is a severe refugee crisis happening all over the world. The governments of small countries hold tight to what power they have, all at the expense of its citizens. The choice is to put your life at risk and stay in the place you’ve known as home all your life...
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DOC10 round-up where Hail Satan? and Midnight Family both screened 👏
Once again, the DOC10 Film Festival brought ten of the year’s most buzzworthy documentaries to Chicago’s Davis Theater over the weekend. Now in its fourth year, the brainchild of the Chicago Media Pro
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Great piece and conversation with Hail Satan? 😈 director Penny Lane in Vox 👀
“Lane’s films are always funny and weird and always pushing at the way we think about ‘truth.’”
What the director of Hail Satan? learned from making a documentary on the Satanic Temple.
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Catapult supported 17 Blocks heads to the Tribeca Film Festival! 👀
Using two decades of intimate home video, 17 Blocks tells the story of the Sanford family, whose struggles with addiction and gun violence eventually lead to a journey of love, loss, and acceptance
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Elephant Path Film premieres on WORLD Channel April 21st! 🐘
DOC WORLD brings international documentaries from around the globe to a US audience.
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Premiering May 1st at the Tribeca Film Festival, Showtime Networks just released a first-look trailer for the highly-anticipated Chelsea Manning documentary, “XY Chelsea”. Coming to Showtime June 7th.
Produced by Pulse Films, XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison...
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Great review of Midnight Family which screened at New Directors/New Films and heads to the SFFILM Festival next week!
Labor was a theme binding many selections at this year’s New Directors/New Films, which concluded this past weekend at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. That feels timely, in the wake of the success enjoyed and debates sparked by Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, about a loy...
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Great piece in Interview Magazine on Hail Satan?, coming to SFFILM Festival next week! 😈
A new documentary by Penny Lane has our writer fully convinced the Satanic Temple is doing the Lord's — er, the devil's — work.
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Thrilled to see filmmakers Arthur Pratt, Banker White, and Anna Fitch nominated for a Peabody Award for their Catapult supported project SURVIVORS. Congratulations to all the nominees!
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has announced the 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2018 The nominees were selected by unanimous vote of 19 jurors from more than 1200 entries from television radio/podcasts and t...
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After screening at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Hail Satan? comes to theaters soon!
Full Frame Review: Hail Satan? Joe Corey | April 8, 2019 | Film, Reviews | No Comments Over the past few years The Satanic Temple has been getting plenty of traction in the news. They have popped up giving ironic support to Rick Scott when he was governor of Florida. They demanded a statues of Bapho...
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Congratulations to Life Overtakes Me (dirs. Kris Samuelson & John Haptas) winners of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Audience Award!
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s acclaimed One Child Nation and David Hambridge’s Kifaru were among the winners at the 22nd annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced Sunday (April 7). Wang and ...
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American Factory, Midnight Family, and The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros are headed to the Montclair Film Festival!
The Montclair Film Festival will hold the world premiere of the restoration of the 1959 movie “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Variety has learned exclusively. The black-and-white film, direc…
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Time For Ilhan director Norah Shapiro talks to Newsweek about Omar’s “swift political rise”.
"There is something special about her," documentary maker Norah Shapiro said of Ilhan Omar.
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XY Chelsea will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been picked up by Dogwoof.
London-based film sales agent and theatrical distributor Dogwoof has acquired the international rights (excluding North America) to Tim Travers Hawkins’ feature-length documentary XY Chelsea ahead of its world premiere at the ...
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Luke Lorentzen’s documentary “Midnight Family” is named “7 exciting movies from emerging directors to watch for in 2019”.
These filmmakers made waves at the latest New Directors/New Films festival.
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Apply now to join us and our partners True/False Film Fest this summer at the Rough Cut Retreat for a one-of-a-kind mentorship experience. Deadline is April 15th.
At the height of summer, when filmmakers are neck-deep in the editing process, Rough Cut Retreat offers a one-of-a-kind mentorship experience. Launched in 2016, RCR unites nonfiction filmmakers and mentors in a creative, supportive, and engaged atmosphere. The retreat acts as a focus group for filmm...
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Life Overtakes Me heads to the Aspen Film’s Shortsfest!
“Quiet and intimate, the film unobtrusively ushers viewers into the homes — and stories — of three families with parents who now juggle domestic routines and the uncertainty of their asylum status with caring for an inert young patient.”
For anyone curious about the world around us, Aspen Shortsfest offers a rich trove of personal, innovative and timely documentaries.Sprinkled throughout the festival — opening tonight and running through
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The Independent sits down with Assia Boundaoui, dir. of The Feeling of Being Watched 👀
‘I think the violence in surveillance is in the one-way gaze: that they can see you, but you can’t see them’
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Midnight Family receives a special jury mention at CPH:DOX! 🎉
The winners of CPH:DOX 2019 are... The winners of the 16th edition of the international documentary film festival CPH:DOX have been announced at an Award Ceremony taking place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Friday evening. The main award DOX:AWARD went to ‘Ridge’ by Swedish John Skoog while ‘Searc...
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“…the jury unanimously gave the Firebird Award to Midnight Family directed by Luke Lorentzen for ‘its non-judgmental approach to a story of interlocked poverty and tragedy is deeply moving.’” -香港國際電影節 Hong Kong International Film Festival - HKIFF
Xinjiang-set “A First Farewell” was named the best film in the Chinese section of the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Firebird awards competition for young film makers. Montenegro-based Iva…
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Incredible review of Catapult supported Ringside in The Hollywood Reporter, which premiered at the 2019 Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival.
German director Andre Hormann documented two young boxers on Chicago's South Side in this Berlinale Generation premiere.
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If you missed 2019 Sundance this year, you can see all 5 Catapult supported projects at the 2019 SFFILM Festival opening April 10th! Always in Season, American Factory, Hail Satan?, Life Overtakes Me, Midnight Family.
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Time For Ilhan director Norah Shapiro goes behind the scenes about the documentary. https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/film/the-filmmaker-who-followed-the-trajectory-of-fearless-ilhan-omar-1.841293
Director Norah Shapiro tells us the story behind her documentary ‘Time for Ilhan’
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Midnight Family is headed to the New Directors/New Films festival in NYC! 👏
he New Directors/New Films Festival kicks off in New York tonight and runs through April 7, celebrating filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema, pushing the envelope in unexpected ways.
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Dreamaway heads to Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya as they continue a successful festival tour!
Dreamaway Takes Part in the Beirut Cinema Days at Metropolis Cinema
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Now streaming! Catapult grantee Time For Ilhan
Unless you live in Minnesota, Ilhan Omar may have first come to your attention around the time of her groundbreaking and successful run for Congress in 2018. But she made history even before that, when she became the only Somali-American ever…
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“…By turns terrifying and exhilarating, ‘Midnight Family’ unfolds with such velocity that it may take a while for your ethical doubts to catch up to what’s happening. When they do, they leave you gasping.” -The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/movies/new-directors-new-films-critics-notebook.html
This year’s festival includes a knockout documentary about a Macedonian bee-whisperer and a fantastical historical drama about an enslaved African boy.
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Catapult grantee Joonam (dir. Sierra Urich) will receive a grant from Tribeca Film Institute aimed at “…groundbreaking projects that bring marginalized voices with vital stories to tell, to a mainstream audience.” https://www.screendaily.com/news/tribeca-all-access-2019-selects-14-projects-from-under-represented-voices/5137883.article
Filmmakers to attend TFI Network during Tribeca Film Festival.
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As Spain struggles to confront its past, The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros shows signs of a shift.
Past and future collide as nationalist Vox party gears up for success in next month’s general election while exhumation of dictator draws closer
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Excited to see four Catapult grantees make their way to our hometown for the SFFILM Festival!
Always in Season (Dir. Jacqueline Olive; prod. Jacqueline Olive, Jessica Devaney)
American Factory (dir. Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert; prod. Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Julie Parker Benello)
Hail Satan? (dir. Penny Lane; prod. Gabriel Sedgwick)
Life Overtakes Me (dir. Kris Samuelson, John Haptas)
Midnight Family (dir. Luke Lorentzen)
Scientist F. Percy Smith pioneered “micro-cinema” – building his own equipment for time-lapse photography and ot...
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Jason Dasilva’s When We Walk is set to premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival! Congrats to the team! 🎉
First Nations/Métis filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s feature-length documentary nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up has been selected as the opening night film for the 2019 edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The ...
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The Best Mexican Film Award for $25,000 goes to “Midnight Family” at the FICG Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 👏
Luke Lorentzen's feature documentary premiered at Sundance.
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👋🏼 Catapult grantee dir. Luke Griswold-Tergis of Pleistocene Park Movie with Russian scientist Nikita Zimov last night at The Battery discussing the park’s efforts to revive an extinct ecosystem by reintroducing woolly mammoths. Read more about this fascinating project in The New Yorker 👇🏼
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Midnight Family wins Best Director (Luke Lorentzen) and Best Film at the 34th FICG Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. Congratulations to the team! 🎉👏
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Grit, The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros, and The Feeling of Being Watched will air on POV (PBS) this fall!
EXCLUSIVE: Women are front and center in PBS’ slate for its 32nd season of POV. A total of 16 feature films in this year’s lineup were created by women directors, while four of the five…
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Three Catapult supported films will screen at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival as part of the Special Presentations Program.
Always in Season (dir.Jacqueline Olive, prod. Jacqueline Olive and Jessica Devaney)
American Factory (dir. Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, prod. Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Julie Parker Benello)
XY Chelsea (dir. Tim Travers Hawkins, prod. Julia Nottingham, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa, Isabel Davis)
Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House is among the feature docs being showcased as special presentations at Hot Docs this year. The 15 documentary films selected are a high-profile collection of world and ...
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Three Catapult grantees have been selected to attend the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Forum to pitch their film! Congrats to The Bones (Jeremy Xido), Colour of the Wind (Claire Sanford), and Instant Life (Mark Becker & Aaron Schock).
Jeremy Xido’s The Bones and Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized (pictured) are among the 20 projects headed to this year’s Hot Docs Forum, an international documentary market and pitching event. Selected from more ...
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Opening the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is Catapult grantee American Factory!
Also screening: Always in Season, Grit, Life Overtakes Me, Midnight Family, Hail Satan?, The Raft.
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory has been selected as the opening night film for the 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The 115-minute film (pictured) explores the impact of a ...
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros takes home an Audience Award form Thessaloniki International Film Festival - ENG! 🎉
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival unveiled its top winners for its 21st annual event this past Sunday (March 10) in Greece. The Greek festival – which ran from March 1 to ...
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Midnight Family is screening at FICG Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara and vying for the festival’s largest cash prize.
A new crop of Mexican fiction films and feature-length documentaries premiering in Guadalajara’s (FICG) Premio Mezcal section are vying for the festival’s largest cash prize of 500,000 pesos ($25,8…
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Happy International Women’s Day! Proud to support these talented filmmakers.
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros screens at the Miami Film Festival this weekend
A portrait of Franco's victims fighting for justice forty years later, "The Silence of Others" is playing at Miami Film Festival 2019.
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Time For Ilhan releases 3/8 for International Women’s Day
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🎉Excited to see three Catapult funded projects premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, congrats to the filmmakers! 👏
17 Blocks (dir. Davy Rothbart, writer Jennifer Tiexiera, prod. Alex Turtletaub, Michael B. Clark, Marc Turtletaub, Rachel Dengiz, Davy Rothbart
Our Time Machine (dir./prod. Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang, writers S. Leo Chiang, Bob Lee)
XY CHELSEA (dir. Tim Travers Hawkins, writer Mark Monroe, prod. Julia Nottingham, Lucas Ochoa, Thomas Benski, Isabel Davis)
👉 Incase you missed it at the Sundance Film Festival, Directing Award winner AMERICAN FACTORY will also be screening!
Vital and visionary work from emerging and established filmmakers is at the heart of Tribeca's most eclectic feature filmmaking slate yet.
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Hail Satan?’s official trailer! Catch it in theaters this spring.
The filmmaker behind "Nuts!" and "Our Nixon" wowed Sundance audiences with her latest film.
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Hail Satan? comes to theaters this spring!
Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson Lucien Greaves totally anticipate backlash about "Hail Satan?" -- but Greaves has received no hate mail so far.
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Midnight Family will head to New Directors/New Films March 27 – April 7 in New York City! 🎥 👀
The annual New York City event will play home to a number of festival favorites, including Chinonye Chukwu’s Sundance winner.
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Congrats to Anbessa // a movie on their world premiere at Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival! 🎉
wow wow wow - we had a terrific world premiere at the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival ... sold-out screenings, inquisitive audiences, and all the feels all around. Thank you to our amazing film team - Mo Scarpelli Caitlin Mae Burke Misgan Assefa Girmayay, Danielle Perissi, Gelila Bekele, Pierce Varous (Nice Dissolve), Nico Leunen, Thomas Pooters, Tijn Hazen, Gustavo Gonzales (360 Studios Caracas), Erik K Skodvin, Maxine Leonard, Hilda Somarriba, Sweet Spot Docs / Anna Berthollet, D.D. Wigley, Danny Miller/Studio Say So, IDFAcademy, IDFA Forum, Catapult Film Fund, True/False Film Fest, Utah Film Center, Camden International Film Festival, Mountainfilm, Saad Mohseni / Moby Media Group + all the <3 from all the friends 🇪🇹️🦁❤️🙌
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Currently in production, The Liegnitz Plot explores the Holocaust through stolen stamp collections.
After conducting more than 50,000 interviews with world leaders, dignitaries and celebrities, Larry King may have met his match last month in Marthe Cohn,
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“A nuanced, layered reminder of how far we still have to go to correct the injustices of this country’s past and present.” -Always in Season
A report on two timely, urgent films from the U.S. Doc Comp section.
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The The Hollywood Reporter calls Always in Season ”Infuriating and eye-opening”
Jacqueline Olive's documentary examines the culture of lynching in the U.S., focusing on two cases several decades apart.
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Always in Season: “Haunting, difficult and necessary”
Lobbies and shuttles are the office water cooler of Sundance. 10:00 AM phone pitches for movies about baseball aren’t uncommon, and neither are frantic PR people. Yesterday someone on their phone was very much upset about the fireplace in their condo not working, while others I encountered were ex...
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Time For Ilhan is nominated by the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Documentary!
Following its Entertainer of the Year announcement, the NAACP Image Awards have announced their 2019 nominees. The iconic awards ceremony will be celebrating its 50th this year.
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46% of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival directors were women, including Hail Satan?, dir. by Penny Lane 👏
This year, Sundance Film Festival hosted 235 films across Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort in Utah. This was the festival’s most diverse year to date; 38 percent of the feature film …
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Great Hollywood reporter review of ‘Midnight Family” - 2019 Sundance Film Festival winner “Best Cinematography”!
A family-run ambulance business in Mexico City struggles to stay afloat in Luke Lorentzen's doc.
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Three Catapult Film Fund supported projects received top prizes at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival! Congratulations to AMERICAN FACTORY (Directing Award: U.S. Documentary) ALWAYS IN SEASON (U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency), and MIDNIGHT FAMILY (U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography). Thank you to everyone at Sundance for this tremendous honor.
Top Prizes Go To Clemency, One Child Nation, The Souvenir and Honeyland Brittany Runs a Marathon, Knock Down the House, Queen of Hearts and Sea of Shadows Win Audience Awards
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Three Catapult Film Fund supported projects received top prizes at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival! Congratulations to AMERICAN FACTORY (Directing Award: U.S. Documentary) ALWAYS IN SEASON (U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency), and MIDNIGHT FAMILY (U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography). Thank you to everyone at Sundance for this tremendous honor.
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Great interview in the Washington Post with the brilliant Marilyn Ness about her film CHARM CITY!
The push to get “Charm City” from the Oscar shortlist to nominee for best feature documentary.
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Hail Satan? screens this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival 👀
The name Satan conjures up the image of an oppressor; a demon who seduces members of the human race to sin; the endpoint of evil itself.In filmmaker Penny Lane’s
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The Feeling of Being Watched 👁🗨 heads the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London 👏
“It is in the act of looking back and talking out loud that we become less alienated, less petrified by our paranoia. Perhaps the only way to disrupt surveillance is make sure that those who do the watching are also being watched.”- Assia Boundaoui, director, The Feeling of Being Watched
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“Poetically composed and effortlessly segueing between graveyard-shift stillness and chaotic rides through the darkened streets of Mexico City, Midnight Family is a unique cinematic gem.” -Filmmaker Magazine
Poetically composed and effortlessly segueing between graveyard-shift stillness and chaotic rides through the darkened streets of Mexico City, Midnight Family is a unique cinematic gem. Director Luke Lorentzen spent nearly three months embedded night after night in a private ambulance run by the Och...
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Shedding light on the Satanic Temple in Hail Satan? Premiering here at the Sundance Film Festival!
Sundance 2019: Doc sheds light on the wildly misunderstood Satanic Temple
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Midnight Family is making its World Premiere here at the Sundance Film Festival! Great interview with director & DP Luke Lorentzen.
In Mexico City, there are only 45 publicly operated ambulances for a population of nine-million-plus, creating a need filled by private labor. Luke Lorentzen, whose first feature New York Cuts premiered at IDFA in 2015, embedded himself with one privately operated ambulance run as a family business,...
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“Society needs skeptics. It needs outsiders to stand up for themselves and fight against the dominant ideas”
Penny Lane, dir. of Hail Satan? discusses the film at the IndieWire/Dropbox lounge at the Sundance Film Festival.
Lucien Greaves shared his thoughts from the IndieWire Studio presented by Dropbox.
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Congratulations to the Always in Season team on a beautiful and moving film and to the Lacy family for sharing their story. #Sundance
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A lovely day on Main Street! Off to the premiere of Jackie Olive’s Always in Season, producer Jessica Devaney, editor Don Bernier 🙌🎥
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Hail Satan?, premiering to a full house at Sundance Film Festival right now! 👏
Whenever directors watch their own films, they always do so with the knowledge that there are moments that occurred during their production -- whether that's in the financing and development or shooting or post -- that required incredible ingenuity, skill, planning or just plain luck, but whose diff...
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We aren’t the only ones excited to see Hail Satan? at Sundance Film Festival!
Including Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson’s Late Night, Shia’s autobiographical Honey Boy, and Jake Gyllenhaal and Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw.
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“…thoroughly researched and beautifully produced documentary…” Great piece about Catapult-funded ‘The Oslo Diaries’ 🤝
Anyone who has followed the “peace process” since the infamous handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat knows all about the Oslo Accords. Or thinks they do.
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Announcing our full list of 2018 Catapult grantees! Proud to be supporting these amazing projects. Congratulations to the filmmakers! 🎉🙌
Catapult Film Fund 2018 Grantees
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Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival is Catapult grantee Hail Satan? “…the 95-minute feature might get people to confront some of their misconceptions about ‘the great overlord of the underworld, and have a laugh along the way.’”
When the 41st annual edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City, Utah this Thursday (Jan. 24), the snowy mountainside city will once again blossom to life ...
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Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a collection of documentaries about him and his work.
This Monday, we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the legacy of the Civil Rights movement. Check out our curated list of documentary films an...
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💻👀 Tomorrow our friends at ITVS will host a webinar about budgeting: from guidelines to building a realistic budget that will get your film finished on time and pay everyone an equitable salary. RSVP 👇
Hear from ITVS about basic budgeting: from guidelines to building a realistic budget that will get your film finished on time and pay everyone an equitable salary. Presented by David Eisenberg, Sr. Director of Production.
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📣 Our friends over at ITVS are accepting applications for their Open Call through 2/15. See below for more information on eligibility criteria 👇
Today join Supervising Producer Michael Kinomoto and guest speakers Jon Olshefski & Sabrina Gordon (Quest), and Laura Green & Anna Moot-Levin (The Providers) in a webinar to learn what ITVS is looking for. RSVP: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/ztti9
ITVS Open Call provides documentary film funding so you can complete your nonfiction work in progress, then present it on public media with our expert help and guidance. | ITVS
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Great review of Marcus Lindeen’s new documentary The Raft in Forbes!
Eleven strangers spend three months on a raft crossing the ocean - the Big Brother and Love Island of the 1970s.
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Congratulations to filmmaker Ramona Diaz, winner of a Creative Capital Award for her Catapult-supported project!
We are pleased to announce the selection of 50 projects by 58 individual artists that have received 2019 Creative Capital Awards. The artists represent some of the most exciting work being conducted in all disciplines from digital technology and performing arts to documentary film and visual practic...
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros Robert Bahar on documentary budgeting 👇💸
This is a fully revised look at documentary budgeting, and updates the 2006 Documentary article “Don’t Fudge on Your Budget: Toeing the Line Items.” At the center of the documentary "business" is the budget, which offers a map of the filmmaking process, expressing both the film you’re planni...
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The Raft opens in the UK on Friday 1/18!
When Santiago Genovés set sail across the Atlantic with 10 attractive people, he didn’t imagine it would end in hurricanes, epiphanies and murderous scheming. Marcus Lindeen’s new film retells a remarkable saga
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“What we wanted to do with the film was to be an instrument to open that conversation about forgetting, about our past, and also our present”. The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros is shortlisted for an Oscar by The Academy and is screening around Spain and the US.
For decade upon decade the remains of María Martín’s mother have lain beneath a roadway in Spain, her death unmarked except for her aging daughter’s lonely vigil. Cars pass indifferently across the…
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🎥 Come see The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros this Wednesday at 6:30pm at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema in San Francisco! Q&A with the filmmakers following the screening.
SEE THE RIVETING NEW TRAILER - Filmed over six years,The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. A cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past. This award-winning film is the second documentary feature from Emmy winners Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.). Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar and Esther García. Winner of the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival Panorama Audience Award and the Peace Film Prize, Grand Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Social Justice Award at Hamptons International Film Festival, Best Foreign Documentary at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival, and #2 Audience Favorite at IDFA 2018. Currently nominated for Best Feature Documentary at Spain’s Goya Awards, the continues to play cinemas across Spain and will be release in U.S. and Canadian theaters in Spring 2019.
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Apply now to Working Films’ Impact Kickstart grant! Open to feature length documentaries in late production or post-production that address issues of social or environmental justice. Artists of color, women, LGBTQ, gender nonconforming, and differently abled creators are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Ilhan Omar for Congress, the subject of Time For Ilhan, will become one of the first two Muslim women sworn in to Congress on Thursday.
Ms. Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, says America is not the golden land she learned about as a Somali refugee. “I wasn’t comfortable with that hypocrisy.”
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Shortlisted for an Oscar by The Academy are two Catapult-supported documentaries, Charm City & The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros! Congrats to the filmmakers! 🎉👏
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists of semi-finalists in nine separate categories. From here, the organization’s separate respective branches will vote to…
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One of the best shows on Netflix this year: Catapult-supported Wild Wild Country!
The best of this year on the streaming giant.
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros is nominated for a Premios Goya!
¡NOMINACIÓN AL GOYA A MEJOR PELÍCULA DOCUMENTAL! Estamos emocionadísimxs de anunciar esta increíble noticia: #ElSilencioDeOtros es uno de los 4 documentales nominados por la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España a Mejor Película Documental de los Premios Goya. Entre todxs estamos haciendo de esto un grito inmenso! GOYA NOMINATION FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE!! Really moved to announce this incredible news: The Silence of Others is one of 4 nominees for Best Documentary Feature to the Goyas (the Spanish Oscars). We are all together creating a huge movement!
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Two Catapult grantees win at the 34th Annual International Documentary Association Awards. Congratulations to the filmmakers! 🎉👏🏆
Wild Wild Country - Best Limited Series The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros - Pare Lorentz Award
“Zion” wins Best Short as Netflix's “Wild Wild Country” takes Best Limited Series.
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Congratulations to the Catapult grantees headed to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival! 🎉
Always in Season (Jackie Olive) American Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, & Julie Parker Benello) Hail Satan? (Penny Lane & Gabriel Sedgwick) Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen, Kellen Quinn, Daniela Alatorre, & Elena Fortes)
Today's first big announcement from the January festival also includes Midnight, NEXT, and Spotlight selections.
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Congratulations to Life Overtakes Me dirs. Kris Samuelson and John Haptas! The 5th Catapult-supported film headed to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 🎉
12 Episodic Works, 73 Short Films, 4 Special Events Join Festival Slate
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📢 Just announced! The latest 2018 grantees 🎉 Ghost Wives, The Girl with Seven Names, Tour Guide, Untitled Criminal Justice / High School Project, and Untitled Parkland Project. Read more about these fascinating projects, updates from Catapult-supported films, and what the team has been up to 👇
Catapult Film Fund News
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Hail Satan? (Penny Lane & Gabriel Sedgwick) picked up by Magnolia Pictures and will premiere at Sundance Film Festival! 👏
Penny Lane's film will have its world premiere as part of the festival's U.S. documentary competition.
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As The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros screens across Spain, directors Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo reflect on the film’s impact and the change in discourse around the country’s history.
We directed a film on Spain's greatest taboos—the horrors of the civil war and Franco's dictatorship. The response from young audiences amazed us.
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Tomorrow is the last day to apply for Catapult funding in 2018! We will resume on January 1st 2019. 👍
Catapult gives early support to propel projects forward that hold the promise of a story that should be uniquely told in film. We provide development funding, up to $20,000, to documentary filmmakers who have a strong story to tell, have secured access, and are ready to create a fundraising piece to...
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☃️Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings from Catapult Film Fund ❄️
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| Charm City heads to Independent Lens | PBS! |
A preview of Charm City's broadcast premiere this spring on Independent Lens | PBS ↓ (via Realscreen)
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Dreamaway heads to Cairo International Film Festival!
Cairo International Film Festival screenings dates! ⚡️ 26.11 - Hanager Theatre, Opera House - 9 PM 27.11 - Kareem Cinema, Hall 2 - 3:30 PM
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“…she takes into her own hands the very notion of being watched — and with a level of boldness we’d all do well to emulate.” Assia Boundaoui’s The Feeling of Being Watched screening at the Arab American National Museum
If you were living in a small community riven by paranoia and fear of surveillance, pointing a camera at its members and asking them to...
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The European Film Awards announced their nominees including The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros! 🎉
Nominations are in for the 31st European Film Awards with previous winner Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War leading the pack. The romance drama won the Best Director prize in Cannes and Pawlikowsk…
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📢 Attention filmmakers! Please note we will not be accepting applications in December and will resume January 1st 2019. Get those proposals in by November 30th at 11:59 PST!
Catapult gives early support to propel projects forward that hold the promise of a story that should be uniquely told in film. We provide development funding, up to $20,000, to documentary filmmakers who have a strong story to tell, have secured access, and are ready to create a fundraising piece to...
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros is nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award 👏
This year’s winners will be announced at the 2019 Honors Awards Ceremony, to be held on Thursday, January 10.
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You could say it’s a very important day for Ilhan Omar for Congress, the subject of Catapult-funded Time For Ilhan! ✍️🇺🇲️
Getting really real! #TimeforIlhan #representationmatters
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Ilhan Omar for Congress of the Catapult supported Time For Ilhan featured in NPR! 👏
Muslims make up a small voting bloc — they're about 1 percent of the U.S. population — but many feel a renewed sense of urgency to choose leaders who will represent them. "I want to send my message that we have a voice," one voter says.
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Grit: The Documentary is screening at DOC NYC 11/11 & 11/14! 🎟️👀
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Catapult grantees Mayor (David Osit), Through the Night (Loira Limbal), and Charm City (Marilyn Ness), awarded the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and Stories of Change grants! 👏🎉
Nanfu Wang‘s Born in China, Manuel Abramovich’s Cowboy Love (pictured) and Marilyn Ness‘ Charm City are part of the 33 documentaries that comprise the latest Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and ...
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The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros wins “Best Testimony on Politics” at the Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava 👏
Although some serious points were made, the mood was light and even jovial at the closing night of the 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Packed into Kino DKO II, a crowd of fil…
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“While it must have been tempting for those involved to release some of the shocking material at various points in those six years, its impact and news value is greater by being presented as a whole story of that period of filming.” - The Oslo Diaries in The Guardian
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 joins other recent films in nailing the lie that documentaries are not as ‘real’ as news
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| TONIGHT at 10/9c, WILDLAND kicks off a new season of Independent Lens | PBS. |
TONIGHT at 10/9c, WILDLAND kicks off a new season of Independent Lens | PBS.
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“As one watches Ilhan Omar navigate multilayered prejudice with grace and grit, one comes away with absolute joy for her success against the odds.” 👏
Of the many fine documentaries featured in the 2018 Mill Valley Film Festival, Time for Ilhan stands out for its sheer excitement and joy as we watch an
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| Catch Wildland on Independent Lens | PBS! |
Some documentarians would have filmed firefighters from the sidelines. For these filmmakers, that wasn't enough.
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DOC NYC announces “40 under 40” and we are proud to see so many Catapult grantees on the list! Congrats to Assia Boundaoui, Lyric R Cabral, Jessica Devaney, Sara Dosa, Maxim Pozdorovkin, Danielle Varga, and Farihah Zaman 🎉👏
American documentary festival DOC NYC and Topic Studios, First Look Media’s entertainment studio, have revealed the inaugural DOC NYC 40 Under 40 List. Women (22) and filmmakers of color make up ...
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“We’re asking for truth and justice. It’s all we have left.” The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros will screen in London before heading to home to Spain.
Stolen babies, torture, mass graves … Spain’s historic scandals have been hidden by decades of ‘national amnesia’. A new documentary aims to change all that
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Great review of “The Raft” in The Independent.
There might not have been evictions in this reality TV precursor – explored in a new documentary – but there was sex, mutiny, and very nearly a murder
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Wild Wild Country is nominated for 5 Critic’s Choice Awards! 👏
THIRD ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE DOCUMENTARY AWARDS NOMINATIONS UNVEILED FREE SOLO, MINDING THE GAP AND WILD WILD COUNTRY LEAD THE 2018 NOMINATIONS GALA EVENT TO TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT BRIC IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER STANLEY NELSON TO RECEIVE CRITICS’ CHOICE IMPACT A...
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| Catapult supported “Wildland” airs on Independent Lens | PBS! 👀 |
Monday, October 29 on Independent Lens | PBS “Fighting fire is just long hours of hard, boring work punctuated by moments of sheer terror.” How much can your mind, body, and spirit bear in the face of nature’s most extraordinary force? WILDLAND, next on PBS → https://to.pbs.org/2IvRLrq
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أمل - Amal and Dreamaway have been selected for the IBF Europe – Distribution Grant through IDFA Bertha Fund. Congrats to the filmmakers!
October 12, 2018 - Three documentaries have been selected for the IBF Europe – Distribution grant, which supports the distribution of co-productions between European and non-European producers.
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Catapult supported The Quiet Zone receives a Science Sandbox/Sundance grant!
Sundance Institute, in collaboration with Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation, announced the inaugural five filmmakers and projects being supported by the Science Sandbox Nonfiction Initiative, a new program aiding innovative artists in creating science-focused works and in conne...
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“There’s plenty to make you catch your breath during Marilyn Ness’s documentary Charm City” -The New York Times
Marilyn Ness’s documentary is dedicated to the memory of the more than 1,000 people said to be killed in Baltimore during the film’s making.
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“Hope and triumph lie in the fact that the victims will not stay silent as little by little, public pressure begins to force changes.” The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros continues to screen at festivals around the globe!
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled Spain in a military dictatorship from the general election of 1936 until his death, an era marked by the countless deaths and disappearances of his political
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👁️🗨️ The Feeling of Being Watched named Audience Favorite at The Boston Globe Film Festival!
Thank you GlobeDocs The Boston Globe Film Festival for opening your festival with THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED! We're so proud to be named the Audience Favorite!
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Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2018” Assia Boundaoui brings 👁️🗨️ The Feeling of Being Watched home to the Chicago International Film Festival 📽️
A mostly-complete local viewing guide
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Catapult supported The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros and Charm City are short listed for the International Documentary Association’s awards! 👏
For the first time, IDA has unveiled the shortlists in the Shorts and Features categories for their annual IDA Documentary Awards. The 34th edition of the ceremony will take place Saturday, December 8, 2018 at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Catapult talks development funding at the International Documentary Association’s Getting Real ‘18!
Photo by Susan Yin
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📢 The Feeling of Being Watched will be the GlobeDocs Opening Night Film on Tuesday 10/9! 📽️
A preview of the documentaries in this year’s annual documentary film festival.
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Great review of the Wild Wild Country soundtrack in Pitchfork 🎧
The score for this surprise Netflix hit about a religious community in rural Oregon revels in emotional indecision, asking you to choose the truth for yourself.
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Time For Ilhan dir. Norah Shapiro is a part of the ‘Film Fatales’ organization where female (nonbinary and transgender welcome too) directors come together for support, compassion, collaboration 💪🎬
When the local Film Fatales chapter came together, its members found camaraderie and a collaborative spirit.
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Opening tonight, the Vancouver International Film Festival will screen Catapult grantee “The Oslo Diaries”! 🇨🇦️
VIFF, the Vancouver International Film Festival, is back starting Thursday. Film buffs can once again binge on titles that won’t be at the local Cineplex but show us the world. The opening film, The Hummingbird Project wasn’t available to preview nor where other big titles that are showing just ...
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“The Oslo Diaries” wins Best International Feature-Length Documentary at the Jozi Film Festival 👏
The 7th Jozi Film Festival closed on 30 September with an awards evening held at The Marabi Club
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California? It’s complicated - almost 40 million people and 40 million stories. California Humanities invites proposals for the 2018 California Documentary Project (CDP) grant program that tell stories from every corner of the state and that explore California in all its complexity. Apply now for development and production grants for your short, podcast, web series, feature (and more)!
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🙌Catapult grantee and HBO Doc Films’ Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison, wins Outstanding Investigative Documentary at the Emmys / Television Academy congrats to the team! 🎉
American pubcaster PBS came away the big winner at the 39th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, held Monday (Oct. 1) in New York City, taking home seven trophies. The non-profit organization scored ...
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🙌 Proud to see four Catapult supported projects at the Mill Valley Film Festival! Congrats to Charm City, Grit: The Documentary, The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros, and Time For Ilhan. See you in the North Bay! 📽️
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Congratulations to Catapult supported Elephant Path Film! 🎉
Congratulations to the 2018 Portland EcoFilm Festival's Best Feature Film Award winner: ELEPHANT PATH (NJAIA NJOKU) by Todd McGrain TONIGHT 9:00 PM! Catch our Encore Screening of ELEPHANT PATH (NJAIA NJOKU) and Best Short Film Award winner SALMON WITHOUT RIVERS Buy tickets: bit.ly/2018EcoAwardWinners
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Catapult co-founders Lisa Kleiner Chanoff & Bonni Cohen and grantees Michèle Stephenson & Robert Bahar Get Real at the International Documentary Association #docsgetreal
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If you missed the Sundance 2018 premiere, “The Oslo Diaries” is now on HBO. Not to be missed.
Read more at HBO.com.
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The beautiful Wild Wild Country soundtrack is now available 🎧
Hear that? It's the sound of Utopia... "The exceptional score amps up the series's atmosphere and tone" - The Atlantic "A spirited, driving score from Brocker Way making Wild Wild Country uniquely absorbing" - Indiewire The score is now available: hyperurl.co/WildWildCountryOST
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🗽 New York! “Survivors” is screening at a theatre near you 👇
New York we are here. Hope you will join us for our two screenings Thursday & Friday, links in comment area...
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Congrats to Rebel Hearts! Headed to Fast Track film finance market at the LA Film Festival.
New Partnership With International Documentary Association
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👁️🗨️ The Feeling of Being Watched takes home the Audience Award at the Camden International Film Festival! 🎉Congrats to the team!
Alexandria Bombach’s On Her Shoulders and Assia Boundaoui’s The Feeling of Being Watched took home the Best Documentary Feature and Audience Award, respectively, at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival. The 14th edition of ...
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The Oslo Diaries is streaming on HBO Documentary Films through Oct. 15th! 📺
A new Netflix documentary examines the state of conversation around Roe v. Wade. And “The Oslo Diaries” revisits talks that led to the Oslo Accords.
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🇸🇱 ️WeOwnTV’s Survivors heads to the Camden International Film Festival! Screening Sept 15th 🎟️
September 15, 2018 12:37 pmSurvivors
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Wondering what to watch? 🤔 The The New York Times suggests Catapult supported The Oslo Diaries! Airing on HBO on Thursday.
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Screening tonight at the San Francisco Green Film Festival 🌍 is the International Premiere of Wind Should Be Heard Not Seen 🌬️ the short of Catapult supported Hwangsa.
A lyrical journey through countries and cultures, connected by an unlikely foe: dust. Originating in the deserts of Western China, gigantic dust clouds rise, engulfing everything in their path. Blowing across the globe, the film rides the winds of our changing planet, connecting us all through the a...
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The International Documentary Association will screen Catapult grantees Charm City and The Silence of Others / El Silencio de Otros as part of the 2018 Documentary Screening Series. 🎟️📽️
The curated screening series, devoted to the year's top docs, kicks off Sept. 12.
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Congratulations Wild Wild Country! 🎉 Winner of the Emmys / Television Academy award for Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Series 🏆
“Rick and Morty,” John Legend, “Queer Eye,” “SNL,” and others have also taken home early trophies
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“If you want to understand why peace failed and what happened, you have to look at these three years of the Oslo Accords,” Mor Loushy & Daniel Sivan’s “The Oslo Diaries” premieres 9/13 on HBO.
In 1993, relations between Israel and the Palestinians had reached an all-time low, negotiators from both sides met in secret in Oslo, Norway.
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Thank you to the wonderful Jennifer Battat and SFFILM for the support of these incredible doc projects, especially including Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s “The Gut” (w/t).
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s The Gut (w/t), Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s Honeyland are among the documentaries that have been awarded funding through the SFFILM Documentary Film Fund. The fund, backed by Jennifer ...
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Enjoy the Wild Wild Country soundtrack? 🎧 Listen to it soon!
With five Emmy nominations under its belt – including one for best documentary – Netflix’s “Wild, Wild Country” brings to life the incredible ‘80s tale of the Indian religious cult which set up cam…
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Survivors is coming to POV (PBS) this fall!
The 2014 Ebola outbreak is remembered as one of the most widely feared epidemics in recent memory. As the virus spread through West Africa, hysterical media reports outside the region fanned the flames of anxiety. However, according to Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, the “role that locals p...
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The Oslo Diaries reviewed in Los Angeles Times 📰
"The Oslo Diaries" is an intimate look at the negotiations that led to the landmark agreement between Israel and the PLO and how and why it all fell apart.
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📣Young Men and Fire 🔥 set to premiere at Camden International Film Festival! Also screening: The Feeling of Being Watched 👁️🗨️
Kahlil Hudson and Alex Jablonski‘s Young Men and Fire (pictured), Jane Gillooly’s Where the Pavement Ends and Lana Wilson’s series The Cure for Fear are among the titles set to enjoy their world premieres at the 14th Camden International ...
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THE OSLO DIARIES, which premiered at Sundance 20118 will debut on HBO in 9/13. Don’t miss this brilliant film.
In 1992, with Israeli-Palestinian relations at an all-time low and any communication between the two sides punishable by jail time, a select group of Israelis and Palestinians gathered secretly in Oslo for a series of clandestine meetings that would dramatically change the political landscape of the...
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“The Oslo Diaries is a striking document, mixing never-before-seen footage shot by the negotiators themselves and current reflections from participants”
A look back at that time when Israel and Palestine came so close to a lasting agreement
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ITVS Diversity Development Fund offers producers of color up to $25,000 in research and development funding to develop a documentary for public television. See below for details!
ITVS Diversity Development Fund gives producers of color up to $15,000 in research and development funding to develop a documentary film for public media | ITVS
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Catapult partners with SFFILM in grant making and mentoring filmmakers 🎥 Read in Forbes👇
We met with Noah Cowan, the Executive Director of SFFILM since 2014, to discuss what makes the Bay Area so appealing to the next generation of filmmakers.
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The Silence of Others, nominated for the 2018 European Film Awards! 👏🎉
The longlist includes the winners from both Sheffield Doc/Fest and IDFA.
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Time For Ilhan heads to Take One Action Film Festivals this fall!
Themes featured in this year's festival include female empowerment, the struggle for true democracy and the reality of displacement
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The Feeling of Being Watched at BlackStar Film Festival!
we came to Philly and basked in the light and affirmation of BlackStar Film Festival - after an engaging talk and a packed 300+ seat screening we were honored with the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, thank you Philadelphia for all the love!
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Catapult supported Wild Wild Country, nominated for 6 Emmys / Television Academy! 🙌
Kurt Russell had a couple of good reasons for hosting a reception on Saturday for “Wild, Wild Country,” the Netflix documentary about the 1970s and ‘80s Oregon-based Indian guru Bhagwan…
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👏Congratulations The Silence of Others! Directors Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar won the Founders Award for Best Foreign Non Fiction Film at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival 🎉
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- That's a wrap! Another Traverse City Film Festival has come and gone and several filmmakers are going home with awards has their films were named the top in their class. The full list of winners are listed below
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The Feeling of Being Watched 👁️🗨️ will screen at BlackStar Film Festival 8/5! Catch dir. Assia Boundaoui speak on the panel Revert the Gaze: The Relationship Between Surveillance and Film in Communities of Color 👀
The festival showcases films that may be difficult to find in mainstream theaters.
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Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar’s The Silence of Others ️ heads to the LA Film Festival! 👏
Film Independent's Los Angeles event boasts 42% female-directed entries.
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Congratulations to all the wonderful projects receiving Fork Films support including four Catapult supported projects: “The Rashomon Effect” (Directed by Lyric R Cabral) “Crip Camp” (Directed by Nicole Newnham Malarkey & Jim LeBrecht) “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” (Directed by Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster) and “Syrian Families Film” (Directed by Megan Mylan) Thank you Fork Films!
Fork Films, the New York-based production company founded by Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker, has revealed the 16 documentaries chosen to receive grants, which will go towards completing productio…
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🎥The Oslo Diaries screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival 🇮🇱️
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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project heads to the Creative Producing Labs at Sundance Film Festival!
Sundance Institute today announced the Fellows and Advisors slated for the annual weeklong Creative Producing Labs, which commence July 30 at Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah, as well as the industry leaders and other independent filmmakers who will gather for the three-day Creative Producing Summit...
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Congratulations to all the wonderful films and filmmakers honored yesterday with an Emmy nomination — with a special Catapult nod to “Vegas Baby” (Amanda Micheli) “Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison” (Kristi Jacobson) and “Unlocking the Cage” (DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus), and “Wild Wild Country” (Maclain Way and Chapman Way). It is an honor to support your important work.
The Las Vegas shooting, Hurricane Harvey, sexual assault, and human trafficking were among the issues that garnered nominations for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 39t…
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Catapult grantee Jason Dasilva talks about his latest doc with The New York Times
I have multiple sclerosis. Why can’t I move to another state to be closer to my son?
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The Oslo Diaries heads to HBO this fall! 👌
HBO has confirmed a fresh array of thought-provoking documentaries for the second half of 2018, including: Susan Lacy's JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS, the intimate story of an icon; Nathaniel Kahn's THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, an insider's look at today's money-driven art world; Kate Davis and David Heilbron...
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Thrilled to see Catapult Film Fund grantee Jason Dasilva’s How Healthcare Makes Disability a Trap part of The New York Times Op-Docs!
I have multiple sclerosis. Why can’t I move to be closer to my son?
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| Catapult supported Young Men and Fire comes to Independent Lens | PBS this fall! 👀👏 |
The award-winning PBS series Independent Lens opens its new season on Monday, October 29 with Young Men and Fire, a richly personal look at the lives of a western firefighting crew during one challenging season. Also on the fall schedule is Dawnland, which explores the devastating impact of the forc...
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Great review of Searching for Saraswati! 👏
The short documentary comes at a pertinent point, during the time of the BJP-led government, when myths have been regularly dressed up as facts to present India as a fount of scientific advancement.
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The subject of All We’ve Lost featured in the Montana Innocence Project
Larry Mansch was back and forth from the Missoula County jail Tuesday, having meetings with a man who had just learned that a judge overturned his homicide conviction.
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Elephant Path Film premieres at the Congo International Film Festival - CIFF!
So excited to announce that today our film had it's African Premiere at the Congo International Film Festival - CIFF! We are so grateful for this opportunity to share this story at CIFF with our first African audience, and we hope for many more opportunities to come!
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Congrats to Chapman and Maclain Way and the Wild Wild Country team!
Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country,” about an Oregon religious group led by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, snagged an Emmy nomination on Wednesday for outstanding documentary series.
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Thrilled to see Wild Wild Country nominated for Emmys / Television Academy in outstanding documentary or nonfiction series!
For the first time in years, the venerable Modern Family and its cast failed to nab a nomination, making room for several freshman comedies — and new faces.
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Wild Wild Country receives Emmys / Television Academy nominations! 👏🎉
'Game of Thrones' was the most-nominated program but HBO for the first time in 18 years did not lead the pack.
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Searching for Saraswati, now on The New York Times Op-Docs! 🙌
Hindu nationalism reaches new heights in a quest to find a sacred river.
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Excited to see Catapult Film Fund supported “Crip Camp” (James LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham, and Andy Gersh) head to the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab to work with an incredible lineup of mentors. Congratulations to all the filmmakers!
Eric Hynes serves as writer-in-residence.
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Great review in NOW Magazine of The Oslo Diaries 👏📰
Documentary on the Oslo Accord shows how close we came to peace in Israel-Palestine... and then along came Netanyahu
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Congrats to Catapult grantee Agnieszka Zwiefka and the Scars team! 👏
FILM NEW EUROPE is a free on-line daily information service that provides continually updated news about the film and TV industries in the 12 new European Union states plus Turkey. FNE is the only such resource based in Central Europe and is owned and run by and for the filmmakers themselves. Its mi...
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Welcome to The Academy, Catapult grantees! Francisco Bello, Katy Chevigny, Sara Dosa, Tony Gerber, Jim LeBrecht, Ivy Meeropol, Siam Mo, and Marco Williams
The Academy invites 928 artists and professionals to join this year.
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👀 Watch Ask the Sexpert, now on Amazon Prime!
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Great news - “Charm City” will air on PBS’ Independent Lens in spring 2019. Congratulations to Marilyn Ness (director), Katy Chevigny (producer) and the whole team.
American pubcaster PBS has acquired the North American distribution rights to two-time Emmy Award-winner Marilyn Ness‘ intimate documentary Charm City. The 106-minute film, which held its world premiere at the 2018 ...
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Read all about our new fellowship with our SFFilm partners in RealScreen!
SFFILM and the Catapult Film Fund are announcing the recipients of the inaugural round of the Catapult Documentary Fellowships. This round of fellowships, designed for filmmakers working in the early stages ...
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Catapult grantees The Force and Tig (Tig Notaro) featured in the best docs on Netflix! 👀💻
Truth is more streamable than fiction.
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Great article in Vanity Fair about “Wild, Wild Country” and the brilliant Lisa Nishimura.
Lisa Nishimura, the streaming giant’s head of documentary and comedy programming, is changing the way filmmakers and viewers approach nonfiction TV.
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Catapult grantees The Silence of Others & أمل - Amal win big at Sheffield Doc/Fest!
SHEFFIELD – Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s The Silence of Others and Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap took home top prizes at the 25th annual Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards. The six-day UK ...
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Great review of The Silence of Others in the Screen International, currently screening at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Spanish citizens attempt to seek justice for atrocities carried out by General Franco's regime
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Catapult grantee Elephant Path Film 🐘 premieres at San Francisco IndieFest’s Doc Fest at Roxie Theater. 🙌🎉
Such an amazing experience to have our World Premiere at the San Francisco IndieFest Documentary Film Festival!!!
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The Los Angeles Times discusses Wild Wild Country with Chapman and Maclain Way 📰
The Netflix series 'Wild, Wild Country' centers on guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, his followers and their creation of a city in rural Oregon, which raised the ire of the residents of a tiny nearby town. The conflict grew to include assassination attempts and bio-terror attacks.
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The Silence of Others wins the Grand Jury prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest and أمل - Amal takes home the Youth Jury Award. Congrats to the teams! 🎉🏆
The film takes in the struggle of Spanish citizens under Franco's dictatorship.
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Congrats to Elephant Path Film on their world premiere at San Francisco IndieFest’s Doc Fest! 👏🎉🐘
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Hailed by the The Irish Times 📰 “Wild Wild Country is an excellently-paced real crime documentary…” 👏
The band of eccentric wrestlers return while Gotham seems fun compared with murderous Brexit Britain
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أمل - Amal at the Sheffield Doc/Fest!
Our tour continues and this time we touch down England - Sheffield! After its screening today at Sheffield Doc/Fest followed by a Skype Q&A session with director Siam, AMAL will be screening again on Sunday 10 June at 16.45 | Curzon Cinema 1 #Amal #أمل #مصر #ArabCinema
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Congrats to the Survivors team who premiered at the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival! 🎉
Thank you @berthamoviehouse and @encountersdoc for a wonderful screening of SURVIVORS at the Isivivana theater in Kayelitsha! Follow our journey on social media here: Instagram: https://instagram.com/survivorsfilm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeOwnTV/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/weowntv #SurvivorsFilm #Ebola #SierraLeone #AfricaRising #AfricanHeroes #GlobalHealth
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The Silence of Others receives a standing ovation at Sheffield Doc/Fest! 👏
UK Premiere of The Silence of Others at Sheffield Doc/Fest: standing ovation! Really moving screening; questions ranged from Spanish new political landscape to the International Brigades. Six protagonists joined us in Sheffield! Next screening tomorrow at 14:15! Estreno en GB de The Silence of Others en el Sheffield Doc/Fest : ovación! Ha sido un proyección muy emotiva, con preguntas sobre el nuevo panorama político español o las Brigadas Internacionales. Esta vez nos han acompañado a Sheffield 6 protagonistas! Próxima proyección mañana a las 14:15. Chato Galante Paqui Maqueda Fernández Robert Bahar SolFran Sol David Lidón Martín
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“Who and what controls surveillance? Why are certain people chosen to be surveilled? What are the psychological impacts of being surveilled?” Assia Boundaoui, dir. of The Feeling of Being Watched 👁️🗨️ discusses the film at the Storytellers’ Institute of John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative - MDOCS
Skidmore College's John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) weekend-long Documentary Symposium, exploring the theme of surveillance, kicked off Thursday with keynote speaker Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui. "I wanted to pick a theme that created a conversati...
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Screening at Sheffield Doc/Fest, The Silence of Others “…chronicles the fight for justice as well as the search for the stolen children and the 100,000 bodies still thought to lie in unmarked civil war graves.” -The Guardian
The Silence of Others, backed by Pedro Almodóvar, seeks to end amnesia over dictator’s victims
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After a successful world premiere, catch Elephant Path Film screening again tomorrow night at Roxie Theater for Doc Fest (San Francisco IndieFest) 🎟️ 👇
Dzanga Bai-village of elephants-is a clearing in the rainforest in a remote corner of the Central African Republic (CAR). African Grey parrots swoop and rare Forest Elephants congregate here to bathe in the mud and drink the mineral-rich water. According to Andrea Turkalo, an American field biologis...
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🐘Elephant Path Film director Todd McGrain chats with Eat Drink Films 🔊
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Wild Wild Country chats live with the Los Angeles Times and Ma Anand Sheela about her participation in the film. 📱👀
Ma Anand Sheela talks about her participation in the film and the "open communication" between her and the filmmakers on "Wild Wild Country."
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The Silence of Others picked up by POV for US broadcast 📺
PBS’ long-running indie docu strand ‘POV’ has acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to Alexandria Bombach’s acclaimed film On Her Shoulders and Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s The Silence of Others. The 94-minute On ...
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Wild Wild Country chats with Deadline Hollywood about the series as the Emmys / Television Academy nomination announcement draws near! ✋🗳️
It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country became a certified cultural phenomenon. Maybe when it got the parody treatment on Saturday Night Live. O…
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Congrats 🎉 Catapult grantees Lyric R Cabral and Rabab Haj Yahya! Selected to participate in NeXt Doc this June 📽️☀️
Our 2017 NeXt Doc presenting filmmakers were: Sam Pollard, Sabaah Folayan and Cecilia Aldorando. Sam is a one of the trailblazers in diversifying the documentary field, with over 30 years of experience as a producer, editor and director. He screened ACORN and The Firestorm, and offered a deep an...
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Survivors heads to Capetown for Encounters South African International Documentary Festival!
After several years of intensive international collaboration, we are thrilled to announce the World Premiere of Survivors, at the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival! Congratulations to Arthur Victor Alexandia Pratt, Barmmy Boy Mansaray, M J Sessy Kamara and the entire team at WeOwnTV - Banker White, Anna Fitch, Emily Julius, Samantha Grant, Sara Dosa. We can’t wait to share this brave and important work with world. Thank you Don Bernier, Tyler Strickland, Andrew Gersh, Sam Griffin Freistühler Clevenger & Sarah Cannon for all your hard work and dedication. Screening info can be found here: http://www.encounters.co.za/film/survivors/ You can follow our journey on social media here: Instagram: https://instagram.com/survivorsfilm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeOwnTV/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/weowntv #SurvivorsFilm #SierraLeone #AfricaRising #AfricanHeroes
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The Silence of Others heads to Oslo!
Norwegian premiere of The Silence of Others at Oslo Pix: "The Silence of Others is a distressing and immensely important documentary, highlighting what is for many people an unknown part of history" June 6th (Q&A with Robert Bahar) and 9th. Almudena Carracedo http://www.oslopix.no/filmbase/2018/The_Silence_of_Others.html
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“Pleistocene Park” director Luke Griswold-Tergis perpares to transport Alaskan Bison to Russia, fascinating project! ✈️
A dozen bison from a ranch near Delta Junction are being sent to Russia in an attempt to recreate an ice age ecosystem in eastern Siberia.
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Survivors heads to the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival! 🎥 🇿🇦️
Survivors offers a unique window into a region that survived the most widespread outbreak of the virus, 21 months long, 28,000 people infected, only half of whom survived.
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Congratulations to Catapult Grantee Penny Lane who will receive this year’s SF DocFest Non-Fiction Vanguard Award Screening & Reception.
“Her filmmaking is pushing boundaries and is redefining what people think documentary is.”
Morgellons disease first appeared at the start of this century. It predominantly affects middle-aged white women who all report the same symptoms. Sufferers have a crawling sensation under their skin that causes sores and thin worm-like threads grow out of their skin. Medical science has no explanat...
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“As a documentary filmmaker it was a dream come true”. How Chapman & Maclain Way stumbled across the story of Rajneeshpuram and brought it to the big screen in Wild Wild Country 📽️
The new Netflix docuseries attempts to understand how a new-age movement transplanted from India came to commit the largest biochemical terrorist attack in United States history.
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Catapult grantee Luke Griswold-Tergis of “Pleistocene Park” is re-introducing large herbivores to the tundra to help slow the acceleration of global warming caused by permafrost melt. Fascinating read! 🐂❄️
GOLDSTREAM VALLEY — Haines filmmaker Luke Griswold-Tergis has gotten used to air freight companies saying no when he tells them he wants to charter a shipment of 12 bison yearlings
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Congratulations Catapult Grantees! 👏🎉 “Untitled Religious Activism Documentary” (Penny Lane) “Mississippi Red” (Kelly Duane de la Vega & Jessica Anthony) “Midnight Family” (Luke Lorentzen, Kellen Quinn, Daniela Alatorre, & Elena Fortes)
The Sundance Institute has announced the 23 recipients of its Documentary Film Fund’s latest round of grants. More than US$585,000 in targeted grants will support a roster of global indie non-fiction ...
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Directors Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar talk with AFI Docs about their documentary The Silence of Others.
A quest for justice fuels the powerful and provocative SILENCE OF OTHERS, from Emmy® Award-winning producers Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo. After Gen
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You can watch the Catapult-funded doc about Tig Notaro’s journey on Netflix 🎥
On her famous post-double-mastectomy performance: "I had some shame and sadness and discomfort about the way I looked after my surgery and I think that my brain going to, 'Oh, take your shirt off,' was something that I thought might help me."
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Chapman and Maclain Way talk with Wild Wild Country subject, Ma Anand Sheela about the success of the series.
Ma Anand Sheela, one of the main subjects of the Netflix docuseries “Wild Wild Country,” has become a breakout star of sorts, tearing the internet apart with debates regarding whether t…
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Thrilled to announce the US premiere of The Silence of Others at AFI Docs!
Thrilled to announce the US premiere of The Silence of Others at AFI Docs, in Washington DC. Previously Silverdocs, my first short documentary (Welcome, a Docu-Journey of Impressions) won the First Prize back in 2003, and we premiered Made in L.A. there! Beautiful to be back in Silver Spring, and to be in Washington’s E-Street Cinema! DC friends, come see the film and say hi! Robert Bahar Larry Kirkman Erica Ginsberg Sky Sitney Veronica d'Almeida Bahar Almudena Carracedo Kathryn Smith Pyle Lynn Hughes Matt Boratenski Kathy Lo Amy Margaret King Eduardo Gonzalez-Cueva https://www.goelevent.com/AFIDocs/e/TheSilenceofOthers
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Announced at the Festival de Cannes, a biopic of Wild Wild Country’s subject Rajneesh is in the works.
Leading Indian producer Subhash Ghai has joined forces with Rome-based Navala Prods. to launch biographical drama “Osho: Lord of the Full Moon.” The film will be structured as a large-budget India-…
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The Oslo Diaries heads to SIFF! 🍎☕🐟
Amidst a period of intense mutual hostility, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators defy policy to try to reach an unprecedented peace settlement.
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Documentaries creating change! 🙌
Mr. C, featured in Charm City, tells WMAR-2 News Baltimore that he has high hopes about the documentary creating real change on the streets. WATCH ↓
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High praises for The Feeling of Being Watched 👏👁️🗨️
“Boundaoui’s smart, unsettling documentary functions both as a real-world conspiracy thriller and a personal reflection on the psychological strain of being made to feel an outsider in one’s own home.” from Variety. #BeingWatched ##FBI #Surveillance #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #WomeninFilm Read more of their review here: http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/the-feeling-of-being-watched-review-1202801199/
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The Silence of Others continues its festival run!
Dear fiends, happy to announce that the film is currently playing in Poland at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in Warsaw, in the Amnesty Competition! Querid@s amig@s, contentos de anunciar que la película se estrenará mañana en Polonia en el Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival en Varsovia, en la Competición de Amnesty International. Robert Bahar Almudena Carracedo http://docsag.pl/en/movies/the-silence-of-others-2/?dist=warszawa
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أمل - Amal is headed to Sheffield Doc/Fest! 🇬🇧️👏🎥
Year2017 Duration83 min Filmed over six years, Mohamed Siam’s intimate and unflinching portrait of a politicised teenage girl in contemporary Egypt follows the titular Amal (whose name means ‘hope’) from the age of 15 through to adulthood. Confronting male authority figures and fellow protesto...
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Thrilled to announce Elephant Path Film will premiere at San Francisco IndieFest! 🐘👏
Dzanga Bai-village of elephants-is a clearing in the rainforest in a remote corner of the Central African Republic (CAR). African Grey parrots swoop and rare Forest Elephants congregate here to bathe in the mud and drink the mineral-rich water. According to Andrea Turkalo, an American field biologis...
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Assia Boundaoui of The Feeling of Being Watched, talks with No Film School about keeping filmmakers and subjects safe 🔊
“Maybe the only thing that can keep us safe is talking about it out loud.”
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Great review in Variety of “The Feeling of Being Watched”.
“It’s probably just the FBI, go back to sleep,” a bleary-eyed mom reassures her antsy daughter near the beginning of “The Feeling of Being Watched,” responding to som…
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👏 It was a very good year at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival - The Silence of Others & The Oslo Diaries
A review of Hot Docs 2018 shows that it was a very good year for the festival.
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The Silence of Others is a Top Ten Audience Favorite at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival! Congrats!
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Great review in Variety of The Feeling of Being Watched! 📰👏
“It’s probably just the FBI, go back to sleep,” a bleary-eyed mom reassures her antsy daughter near the beginning of “The Feeling of Being Watched,” responding to som…
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Charm City and The Feeling of Being Watched - docs that go beyond the headlines. Great piece by the International Documentary Association
What do you see at a film festival? At Tribeca Film Festival, that would be television programs, online episodes, online video, installations that incorporate virtual reality, 360 video and games. And films—especially the documentary films.
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Great review of Grit in POV Magazine “…sure to be one of the great eco docs of 2018.”
Grit is sure to be one of the great eco docs of 2018
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The best from Tribeca! Time For Ilhan 👏
Relationships -- good, bad and complicated -- were a hot topic at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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The Oslo Diaries heads to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival this summer! 📰 San Francisco Chronicle
"Hecho en México," the Roxie Theater's five-film festival in May, was born when Isabel Fondevila, the Roxie's director of programming, saw Everardo González's "Devil's Freedom" at the 2017 Guadalajara International Film Festival. The film - which won the festival's best Mexican film, best document...
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Filmmaker Magazine talks with Assia Boundaoui about The Feeling of Being Watched and turning the cameras on those who were watching her 👀
An Algerian-American raised in Bridgeview, Illinois, just south of Chicago, journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui grew up being watched. The FBI has been aggressively spying on her predominantly Arab-American community at least as far back as the '90s, despite the fact that the law enforcement or...
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The Silence of Others heads to Sheffield Doc/Fest! 👏 🇬🇧️
Over 200 projects announced, including 37 world and 70 UK premieres.
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“It’s one of the most powerful documentaries I’ve seen” -Christopher Cross reviews The Silence of Others in Goomba Stomp
During General Franco's forty years of dictatorship, Spain saw many being tortured and killed for any sign of dissent. Of course, there are several more unspeakable atrocities and The Silence of Others is a movie that doesn't shy away from them.
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Ma Anand Sheela, central to Wild Wild Country, raises numerous twists, turns, and feelings for viewers. Great piece from NPR
The Netflix documentary series about the Oregon Rajneeshi community that clashed with local and state government suggests there's no real answer to who was right that's entirely satisfactory.
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“This was the best film I saw at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.” - Ivy Lofberg for Goomba Stomp
History was made in the 2016 US elections when Ilhan Omar was elected as the first Somali-American Muslim legislator, taking a seat as the Minnesota State Representative. That she’s a woman and an immigrant is especially powerful given the current political climate.
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Wild Wild Country, already top of the list on the Business Insider’s best shows of 2018!
With excellent writing and performances that stand out among the overwhelming amount of TV shows that exist now, these are the best new shows of 2018 so far.
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Charm City named among the best! 🙌
Thank you, Flavorwire, for the thoughtful review and naming Charm City among the 'best' — "Intricately assembled and morally complex." ↓
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Great piece in Filmmaker Magazine 📰 on The Feeling of Being Watched! 👁️🗨️
"Government overreach into our private lives is an issue that affects us all. But it is also certainly true that we Americans are not all surveilled equally." Filmmaker Magazine caught up with director Assia Boundaoui during our international premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival... #BeingWatched #FBI #Surveillance #WomenInFilm #FemaleFilmmaker https://filmmakermagazine.com/105231-do-not-be-daunted-by-the-magnitude-of-the-challenge-in-front-of-you-assia-boundaoui-on-her-surveillance-doc-the-feeling-of-being-watched/#.WunaPNPwYch
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Great interview with Norah Shapiro and Representative Ilhan Omar about their documentary Time For Ilhan
“When Donald Trump came in and was spewing all that hate, I had a tendency to not get angry,” Ilhan Omar said. It was November 8, 2016, and Omar was addressing a crowd of supporters. “Because I knew that this message, this hateful message, was going to be the thing that that motivated minority...
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Proud to be supporting Sunset and the Mockingbird, the love story of jazz legend Junior Mance and Gloria Clayborne Mance. As he loses his identity to dementia, she reckons with her own.
In a career spanning 70 years, the pianist Junior Mance played with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, appearing on…
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Wrongfully convicted Chris Scott, of the documentary True Conviction, helps others in the same situation he was once in. Listen as he meets the man who actually committed the crime 🔊
This is a story about a very unusual meeting: Chris Scott spent 12 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. After his release, he met with Alonzo Hardy, who did time for his part in the crime.
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Screening at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival today and tomorrow, the Oslo Diaries goes behind the scenes of the secret negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the early 1990s.
Israeli filmmaker's film will have its national premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto.
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Congrats to the The Silence of Others team on their powerful film and standing ovation! 🙌
Two standing ovations at the North American premiere of The Silence of Others yesterday in Hotdocs! Lots of tears during and after the screening and a powerful discussion thereafter. It was also Chato’s 70th birthday (one of the main characters in the film) and we celebrated on stage! In the photo, Editor Ricardo Acosta, Chato Galante, Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar and editor Kim Roberts. Dos ovaciones en la premiere en Norte America de #ElSilenciodeOtros en Hotdocs! Muchas lágrimas durante y después de la proyección, y una potente conversación después. Era además el 70 cumpleaños de Chato (uno de los protas en la peli) y lo celebramos en el escenario! El la foto, Ricardo Acosta, Chato Galante, Almudena Carracedo, Robert y Kim Roberts.
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Excited to support Luke Griswold Tergis’ documentary about Pleistocene Park!
Part of the theory is that herd animals pack down snow, freezing the soil much deeper. Other herd effects may also reduce greenhouse gas production.
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| There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, run by three exonerated men who all spent decades in prison. Their mission: to free other innocent people still behind bars. True Conviction airs on Independent Lens | PBS tonight! 📺 Congrats to the team! |
TONIGHT 10/9c: Meet the detective team that knows the system from the inside.
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The powerful story of Time For Ilhan
In 1993 I left my birthplace of Minneapolis, seeking a hopefully glamorous future in New York City. Two years later, a 12-year-old Ilhan Omar and her family sought out Minneapolis as the site for their future, after spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp and escaping war in their native Somali...
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The Silence of Others dir. Almudena Carracedo talks with Women & Hollywood as they get ready to screen at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema for their North American Premiere! 👏🇨🇦️
Almudena Carracedo directed and produced her debut feature, the Emmy-winning documentary “Made in L.A.”
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The Feeling of Being Watched team kicking off Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival last night! Congrats! 🎉👏
The Feeling of Being Watched Q&A Photo by Taku Kumabe Photography and Design
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“Some documentaries make you angry. Some make you scared. Others make you question things you took for granted or didn’t think about at all. Assia Boundaoui’s The Feeling of Being Watched does all of the above.”
Some documentaries make you angry. Some make you scared. Others make you question things you took for granted or didn’t think about at all. Assia Boundaoui’s The Feeling of Being Watched does all of the above. The young journalist’s investigation into the monitoring of her hometown uncovers a ...
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Director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor wins the Macdowell Colony, New Hampshire Fellowship to continue work on her Catapult-funded feature doc “The Gut”. Congrats! 👏
Assistant professor of film and digital media Jennifer Maytorena Taylor has received a fellowship for a summer residency at one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations.
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Tonight at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival!
Our international premiere is tonight at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in #Toronto! 🇨🇦 Will you be there? #HotDocs25 #BeingWatched #FBI #Surveillance
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“Why did this happen and why is this likely still happening?”
-dir. Assia Boundaoui
The Feeling of Being Watched, which screened at Tribeca and heads to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, uncovered one of the largest counterterrorism investigations in United States history.
In her new documentary, "The Feeling of Being Watched," journalist Assia Boundaoui sought to find evidence for the paranoia she felt growing up in her Arab-American hometown. She ended up uncovering one of the largest counterterrorism investigations in United States history.
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Catch The Oslo Diaries at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival!
Brilliant film about the 1993 Oslo Accords shows how close we came to peace in the Middle East
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🔥The Hottest Hot Docs: Oslo Diaries (Toronto Life)
The return of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hot Docs and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
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| True Conviction airs Monday 4/30 on Independent Lens | PBS |
Christopher Scott served 13 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. His mission is that no one else gets that fate. Monday, April 30 on Independent Lens | PBS, tune into True Conviction at 10/9c.
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🗣️The Oslo Diaries heads to the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival as the buzziest title from producer Ina Fichman 📽️
Montreal-based film producer Ina Fichman says she wants to see as many premieres as she can during the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. But that could be a tall order: Fichman is not just looking to raise money for two projects currently in the works, she is also pres...
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| True Conviction is coming to Independent Lens | PBS on Monday 4/30! |
Monday, April 30 on Independent Lens | PBS: They served a combined 65 years for crimes they didn’t commit. Their mission is that no one else gets that fate. Tune into True Conviction at 10/9c.
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The Root recommends you see Charm City at the Tribeca Film Festival 👌
If Beyoncé can bring Wakanda to Coachella, we’re going to do the same for Tribeca, the annual film festival that reps the grit and greatness of New York City. As with last year, we here at The Root are here to give it to you, racks on racks of that beautiful black (except, perhaps, No. 5). This i...
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Excited to read about Catapult grantee All We’ve Lost in the Billings Gazette 📰
Winner of the best pitch at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the team is headed to the edit room! 👌🎞️
Wyoming filmmaker Preston Randolph wanted to tell a mother’s story when he set out to highlight the 30-year fight that Bobbi Clincher waged to free her son Barry Beach from
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Nearly half of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival’s line up include women directed films about women and Time For Ilhan is one of them! 🙌🎟️
In an age when the film industry is still dominated by men, the festival has achieved gender parity this year. Here is some of what you’ll see
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Charm City …“captures the beauty of the cityscape in the daytime, or the eerie effects of police lights flashing across faces and facades in the night.” - The Hollywood Reporter Screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. 🌃
'Cameraperson' producer Marilyn Ness chronicles the lives of several Baltimoreans in a feature documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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📰 Great review of Time For Ilhan, screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival! 🎞️
Ilhan Omar is the first Somali-American legislator in the United States. She and her family fled to Kenya when Somalia’s civil war began in 1991, and then four years later joined the wave of Somali immigration to Minneapolis-St. Paul. In Time for Ilhan, a documentary screening at the Tribeca Film ...
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Charm City screens this week at the Tribeca Film Festival!
Village Voice critics recommend the documentaries, genre pieces, and literary studies to seek out at Tribeca (including Charm City) ↓
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What is it like to be under constant surveillance? Assia Boundaoui digs to the heart of their experiences and the reason behind it in The Feeling of Being Watched 👁️🗨️ screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. 🎟️🎥
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🙌Standing ovation at the Time For Ilhan premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival! Huge congrats to Norah Shapiro, Jennifer Steinman Sternin, Jen Bradwell, Representative Ilhan Omar & the whole team! 👏
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Wild Wild Country sits down with IndieWire’s “Turn It On” podcast 🔊🎧
Duplass and directors Chapman Way and Maclain Way reveal how they got Sheela to talk, and share the "most terrifying component" of the entire clash between Oregon and Rajneeshpuram.
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Tribeca Film Festival must-see’s, Charm City!
Charm City is included in this round-up of Tribeca's must-sees, from Village Voice.
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Variety chats with Chris Swanson about the music behind Wild Wild Country
One of Netflix’s biggest success stories this year is unquestionably directors Chapman and Maclain Way’s “Wild Wild Country” docuseries. Now, an official soundtrack is set to be release…
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Salon talks with rep. Ilhan Omar, the subject of Time For Ilhan, headed to Tribeca this weekend!
Tune in for conversations around the latest political-themed documentaries
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Women & Hollywood talk with Time For Ilhan dir. Norah Shapiro about premiering at Tribeca and equality in the film business.
Norah Shapiro is a Minneapolis-based filmmaker who left a decade-long career as a public defender to pursue documentary filmmaking. Her…
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Films to see at Tribeca this weekend:
✔️ Charm City
"Directed by documentary powerhouse Marilyn Ness — she recently produced Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson — [Charm City] feels like an excellent addition to a recent string of strong political docs." - No Film School | Erik Luers
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Films to see at Tribeca this weekend:
✔️ The Feeling of Being Watched
Vulture named THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED among one of the '17 Films You Should See at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival'. Will you be watching? #Tribeca2018 http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/17-films-you-should-see-at-this-years-tribeca-film-festival.html
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“The only way to find good movies at Tribeca is to watch them.” The New York Times has watched and The Feeling of Being Watched is what they recommend 👍👍
Interested in going but not sure where to start? Our film critic watched dozens of movies and came up with this list of titles worth your time.
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The Feeling of Being Watched trailer! Premiering at Tribeca this weekend.
So EXCITED to share our teaser with you! THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED premieres Tribeca this Saturday, 4/21 in #NYC. Will you be there? #Tribeca2018
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Catapult supported “Survivors” is coming to POV this fall! Congrats to the team!
Announcing POV's 31st season on PBS and pov.org. ...
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Six Catapult grantees are headed to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival! 🇨🇦
أمل - Amal (Mohamed Siam) 4/29 6:45pm Isabel Bader Theatre 4/30 3:30pm Isabel Bader Theatre 5/6 10:15am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
The Feeling of Being Watched (Assia Boundaoui & Jessica Devaney) 4/26 8:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 4/27 12:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 5/4 9:15pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Grit (Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander, Tracie Holder & Matthew Syrett) 4/30 8:30pm Scotiabank Theatre 4 5/2 12:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 5/6 10:00am Isabel Bader Theatre
Oslo Diaries (Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan, Ina Fichman & Hilla Medalia) 5/1 9:00pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 5/2 12:30pm Isabel Bader Theatre
The Silence of Others (Almudena Carracedo Robert Bahar) 4/27 6:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 4/28 12:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 5/5 11:45am Scotiabank Theatre 3
Time For Ilhan (Norah Shapiro, Jennifer Steinman Sternin, Chris Newberry) 5/2 6:00pm Scotiabank Theatre 7 5/4 9:00pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 5/6 12:45pm Aga Khan Museum
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The Silence of Others heads to the Moscow International Film Festival!
Super proud: The Silence of Others will have its Russia premiere at the prestigious Moscow International Film Festival in a program called "Free Thought.” Very curious to hear audience reactions... Súper contentos: The Silence of Others tendrá su estreno en Rusia en el prestigioso Festival Internacional de Cine de Moscú en el programa “Pensamiento Libre”. Con mucha curiosidad de escuchar las reacciones de la audiencia... http://39.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff40/eng/films/?id=40136
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Excited for the Charm City premiere at Tribeca! Great piece highlighting women directed films including fellow grantees Time For Ilhan and The Feeling of Being Watched. 👏🎬
Marilyn Ness' Charm City takes viewers beyond the television headlines and over the front lines of violence in Baltimore; in doing so, it reveals the grit and compassion of the city’s citizens, police, and government officials trying to reclaim their future. (via Women & Hollywood)
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Saturday Night Live parodies the Wild Wild Country trailer. Catch all 6 episodes on Netflix if you haven’t already!
Former castmember Nasim Pedrad made a guest appearance as Ma Anand Sheela.
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“It’s important because it’s a story of hope and inspiration…” -Norah Shapiro, dir. of Time For Ilhan, which heads to Tribeca for its premiere! We can’t wait to see it on the big screen, congrats to the team!
Shapiro belongs to the Minneapolis chapter of the pro-women filmmakers organization Film Fatales, and sees “Time for Ilhan” as part of a larger movement and moment.
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Now open for submissions! Firelight Media’s Documentary Lab, headed by Loira Limbal, supports racially and ethnically underrepresented communities. Past grantees include Catapult-funded The Feeling of Being Watched, premiering at Tribeca.
The Firelight Media Documentary Lab is an 18-month fellowship program that supports filmmakers from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities working on their first or second feature length documentary film. The Lab provides filmmakers with customized mentorship from prominent leaders in....
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Check out the review of “Wild, Wild Country” in the Rolling Stone.
New series depicts the rise and fall of a 1980s utopian community – but some former members say their day-to-day lives were left out of the story
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The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on April 18th! Catch screenings of Catapult Film Fund grantees:
Charm City (Marilyn Ness & Katy Chevigny, Big Mouth Productions) 4/22 6:30 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-5 4/23 8:15 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-4 4/24 8:00 PM Cinépolis Chelsea 6 4/27 5:30 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-4
The Feeling of Being Watched (Assia Boundaoui & Jessica Devaney) 4/21 6:45 PM Cinépolis Chelsea 2 4/22 7:30 PM Cinépolis Chelsea 3 4/25 5:45 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-3 4/26 5:00 PM Cinépolis Chelsea 6 4/29 6:00 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-10
Time For Ilhan (Norah Shapiro & Jennifer Steinman) 4/21 3:30 PM Cinépolis Chelsea 8 4/22 8:15 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-4 4/23 3:45 PM Cinépolis Chelsea 8 4/27 8:15 PM Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-6
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After giving a winning pitch at the Hot Docs Forum, The Feeling of Being Watched will premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival!
Sponsored feature: presented by Hot Docs 2018
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Another screening added to the highly anticipated Tribeca Film Festival premiere of The Feeling of Being Watched! 🎟️👍
super exciting news to share! after selling out tickets to all four of our film screenings minutes after going live, Tribeca has kindly ADDED a SPANKING NEW fifth screening on Sunday 4/29 ... get your tickets here before they're gone: https://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/feeling-of-being-watched-2018
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The SFFILM’s International Film Festival kicks off tonight! Be sure to catch Catapult grantee City of the Sun by Rati Oneli.
Schedule, films, and tickets here: www.sffilm.org
This is "City Of The Sun - Trailer" by Syndicado on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Have you watched all 6 episodes? If so, Chapman and Maclain Way answer those questions you still have and revisit the characters you’re still wondering about 🤔
Filmmakers Chapman and Maclain Way dissect the hit Netflix series’s most memorable moments, give the sannyasins the “where are they now” treatment, and re-examine its unresolved story lines—including that wild tale about salmonella-infected beavers.
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Catch Catapult funded When God Sleeps on the PBS app!
Did you miss Monday's premiere of When God Sleeps? Stream this "intimate, compelling" (ScreenDaily) film online or via the PBS app, through 4/17.
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Is Netflix changing the documentary game? Wild Wild Country might be a good example in this piece by Forbes.
Netflix releases yet another exceptional documentary to their streaming service — 'Wild Wild Country.' Streaming has significantly altered the way documentaries are produced, watched and understood by the public.
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When God Sleeps by director Till Schauder premieres on ITVS Independent Lens | PBS TONIGHT at 10PM ET! Check your local listings for channel and info. Check out the film’s trailer here: https://to.pbs.org/2H3xRDp
Directed by Till Schauder, When God Sleeps is a rap-punk-rock documentary about Iranian musician Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women and human rights abuses.
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Fascinating article in Filmmaker Magazine about “The Raft” which won the top prize this past week at CPH:DOX.
Swedish artist, writer and director Marcus Lindeen stepped into documentary filmmaking with a very specific method in mind as to how he wanted to frame people’s stories. His particular obsession within the context of nonfiction is in the performative aspects of insinuating a camera within artifici...
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City of the Sun - a film by Rati Oneli is coming to SFFILM’s International Film Festival! It will screen at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts April 5th, 6th, and 12th. Don’t miss this stunning documentary. 🙌📽️
Documentary 'City of the Sun' by Rati Oneli screens at 2018 SFFILM Festival on April 5, 1:30 p.m., April 6, 8:30 p.m. and April 12, 6:00 p.m. at YBCA Screening Room.
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Fascinating NPR interview with directors Chapman and Maclain Way about their new Netflix series, Wild Wild Country.
Directors Chapman and Maclain Way explore the Rajneeshees — a cult behind the largest U.S. act of bioterrorism — in their new Netflix documentary mini-series, Wild Wild Country.
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Variety reviews the Raft, winner of ‘Best in Show’ at CPH:DOX
“The Raft,” the first feature-length documentary by Swedish artist and filmmaker Marcus Lindeen, has taken top honors at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX film festival, one of Europe’s …
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Wild Wild Country: the unsettling Netflix documentary that has critics raving!
Wild, Wild Country tells the twisted tale of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian guru who travelled from India to the United States in 1981.
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Oslo Diaries is headed to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival! Congrats!
The documentary film festival's 25th lineup has also reached gender parity
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Catapult grantees Riotsville, USA and How to Rob Banks for Dummies head to Copenhagen with their works-in-progress to present at CPH:DOX’s Forum!
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The International Documentary Association has awarded their Elevate Grant to two emerging women filmmakers of color. Congratulations to Catapult grantees Loira Limbal & Jackie Olive! Excited to see the continued support of your important stories.
Directors Loira Limbal and Jacqueline Olive will receive $25,000 to pursue feature-length projects that integrate journalism and filmmaking.
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Great read by IndieWire about the newly released series Wild Wild Country on Netflix.
The excommunicated cult leader is at the heart of Netflix's new docuseries, but Ma Anand Sheela represents more than just wild stories.
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So exciting. If you’re going to be at Tribeca do not miss this incredible film!
TIME FOR ILHAN will have its world premiere at the forthcoming 2018 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL (see screening info and details below).
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The Feeling of Being Watched documentary film is headed to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for its international premiere! Congrats to the team!
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Thrilled to see When God Sleeps and True Conviction included among the line up of brilliant films coming soon to Independent Lens on PBS!
Independent Lens brings you an award-winning slate of films this spring, starting with the critically-acclaimed Dolores next week. "From sea to shining sea, our upcoming lineup reflects the vast diversity of our country and its citizens,” said Independent Lens Executive Producer Lois Vossen. “...
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All six episodes are now on Netflix and absolutely not to be missed; “…go from one mind-blowing event and image to the next”.
In the documentary series “Wild Wild Country,” the tale of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Oregon colony prefigures our current cultural wars.
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Three Catapult supported films are headed to Tribeca! Congratulations to the filmmakers of Charm City, The Feeling of Being Watched documentary film, and Time For Ilhan!
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Congrats to the The Feeling of Being Watched documentary film team! See you Tribeca!
Excited to share some big news with you: THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED will be having its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival next month! Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been a part of this journey, we can’t wait to share the film with you all! Keep an eye on this page for updates on screenings happening in various cities, shukran :) #Tribeca2018 https://www.tribecafilm.com/stories/2018-tribeca-film-festival-feature-films-guide
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Yay Wild Wild Country! Looking forward to the Netflix premiere!
Mark your calendars! The binge-worthy 6-part doc series Wild Wild Country, supported by the TFI Documentary Fund, premieres on Netflix on March 16th. Watch the trailer now on Collider.com.
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Apply now to join us on this fantastic retreat with our partners True/False Film Fest!
TWO WEEKS left to submit to our 2018 retreat! This year, the retreat convenes at Carey Institute for Global Good's sprawling countryside campus and will take place from July 22-26. Apply online or email roughcutretreat@truefalse.org with questions. Launched in 2016, RCR unites nonfiction filmmakers and mentors in a creative, supportive, and engaged atmosphere. Rough Cut Retreat offers filmmakers & their projects thoughtful feedback to help move films from a rough cut to a final cut with an eye on winter festival deadlines. True/False & Catapult Film Fund are dedicated to supporting documentary work whose content and aesthetics push boundaries, and that provoke dynamic discussion.
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Deadline extended to 3/19, so there’s still time to apply for the SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship!
The SFFILM and Catapult Film Fund support filmmakers in the early stages of development on compelling, story-driven, feature documentary films.
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Huge congratulations to 3 Catapult Film Fund grantees premiering their films at Tribeca 2018; CHARM CITY (directed by Marilyn Ness Produced by Katy Chevigny) THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED (directed by Assia Boundaoui. Produced by Jessica Devaney) and TIME FOR ILHAN (directed by Norah Shapiro. Produced by Jennifer Steinman Sternin, Chris Newberry). Bravo to all.
The Tribeca Film Festival has set its full feature film slate for 2018, tapping 96 movies, including Drake Doremus’ “Zoe” — a sci-fi romance starring Ewan McGregor and Lea S…
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The New York Times will be talking about Wild Wild Country when it debuts next week on Netflix!
"Atlanta.” “The Americans.” And a laundry list of promising new shows. There’s a lot to look forward to.
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AMAL at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival!
[Amal - Tour] Amal by Siam will be screening tomorrow March 6 and on March 7 during the Thessaloniki International Film Festival! #Abboutproductions #Amal #Siam #TDF20
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Time to submit your applications for the Catapult Film Fund/SFFILM Documentary Fellowship! Due tomorrow by 5pm PST.
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Check out the trailer for WILD, WILD COUNTY below. With the six, hourlong episodes hitting Netflix on March 16th definitely get ready to binge watch this amazing documentary — you won’t believe what you’re watching actually happened.
You have to see to be a believer. A Netflix Original documentary series about a controversial cult leader who builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, res...
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So excited to see 2 Catapult Film Fund grantees chosen for the prestigious Chicken & Egg Pictures Accelerator Lab. What an honor to be among the list of 10 amazing films! Thank you so much Chicken & Egg!
Chicken & Egg Pictures: News From the Nest Welcoming our new Nest members, and wishing luck to our nominees! www.chickeneggpics.org We are thrilled to welcome and celebrate the third annual cohort of our Accelerator Lab for first- and second-time filmmakers: A Cops and Robbers Story, directed by Ili...
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Thrilled to see ALWAYS IN SEASON (Director Jacqueline Olive; Producer Ann Bennett) selected as one of 10 films chosen for a Tribeca Film Institute Grant. Thank you Tribeca!
EXCLUSIVE: The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) revealed today 10 grant winners for the 15th annual Tribeca All Access (TAA) program, which puts the spotlight on stories from historically underrepresen…
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AMAL and THE OSLO DIARIES are headed to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival! 🎥 🇨🇦️
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The Rough Cut Retreat returns this summer to the Carey Institute for Global Good with our partners, True/False Film Fest! Join this fantastic group of mentors and filmmakers for discussions and feedback as you move your documentary into the final cut. Applications due by March 25th.
At the height of summer, when filmmakers are neck-deep in the editing process, the Rough Cut Retreat offers a one-of-a-kind mentorship experience. Launched in 2016, RCR unites nonfiction filmmakers and mentors in a creative, supportive, and engaged atmosphere. Rough Cut Retreat offers filmmakers & t...
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Congratulations All We’ve Lost on their Best Pitch win at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival!
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The Silence of Others wins the Panorama Audience Award & The Peace Film Prize at Berlinale, congratulations!
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Thrilled to see Loira Limbals’ “Through the Night” selected as part of Chicken and Egg Pictures 2018 Accelerator Lab. What an honor to be amongst such a dynamic group - thank you Chicken & Egg!
Chicken and Egg Pictures has announced participants of their 2018 Accelerator Lab. Designed to support first- and second-time nonfiction…
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APPLY NOW! The SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship supports filmmakers in early development on compelling, story-driven, feature documentary films. The fellowship includes a $10,000 grant, curated mentors, guidance from SFFILM and Catapult Film Fund staff, and access to SFFILM’s FilmHouse residency. DEADLINE MARCH 5 https://www.sffilm.org/artist-development/grants-and-fellowships/catapult-documentary-fellowship
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2018 Berlin International Film Festival premiere! Congratulations to the team behind THE SILENCE OF OTHERS filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar and is exec produced by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar.
Cinephil picks up documentary.
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Congratulations! Another international prize for Rati Oneli’s CITY OF THE SUN named Best Documentary of the MiradasDoc festival in Tenerife, Spain.
Georgian film director Rati Oneli’s award-winning documentary City of the Sun about western Georgia’s mining city Chiatura and its residents has taken home another international prize, after it was named Best Documentary of the MiradasDoc festival in Tenerife, Spain. The judges of the cinema
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Tonight on HBO Documentary Films, watch Catapult supported Atomic Homefront “shine a light on the lasting toxic effects nuclear waste can have on communities”.
Look at the list of movies currently available on HBO
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Check out this fascinating interview with brilliant director Peter Nicks. Proud to support your important work.
The Director, who spent two years embedded with the Oakland Police Department, explains why we ‘have to learn how to hold multiple truths simultaneously.’
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Making its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and coming to Netflix next month, Wild, Wild Country directors Chapman and Maclain Way discuss their 6-part documentary.
‘Wild Wild Country’ directors Chapman Way and Maclain Way reveal how their crazy six-part Netflix documentary about the Bhagwan Rajneesh came together.
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HBO picks up “The Oslo Diaries”!
HBO has acquired all domestic television rights, including streaming, to Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan's feature documentary "The Oslo Diaries," the company announced Sunday. The film follows the secret 1992 negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders based on readings of the participants' di...
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Congratulations to the team of WILD, WILD COUNTRY, premiering at Sundance 2018 and airing on Netflix on March 16.
Netflix's documentary series about a guru cult's Oregon expansion in the '80s is full of unbelievable twists and intriguingly short on easy answers.
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Screening in its entirety at the Sundance Film Festival, Wild, Wild Country has viewers “…dying to know what happens next and is more wild and out there than any piece of fiction.” Also coming to Netflix 3/16!
The inside scoop from Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming Trevor Groth on how films are selected for the festival and which films he's most lookin...
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Receiving its world premiere at Sundance,The Oslo Diaries is the latest from Israeli filmmakers Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan. Check out this fascinating interview with the directors!
Receiving its world premiere at Sundance,The Oslo Diaries is the latest from Israeli filmmakers Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, who last came to Park City with 2015's Censored Voices, an exploration of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War through long-buried audiotape interviews with its on-the-ground soldiers....
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Incredible news: 6 Catapult supported projects are receiving IDA grants with all three Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund grantees going to Catapult supported films! Congratulations to the teams of Crip Camp, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project , When We Walk, Life Overtakes Me, The Rashomon Effect & Untitled Ramona S. Diaz Film.
The International Documentary Association has announced 13 grants to films worth a combined $205,000 and aimed at furthering inclusion and diversity, Variety has learned exclusively. The grants com…
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THE OSLSO DIARIES has it’s world premiere Sunday in the Sundance Film Festival’s World Documentary section. The doc uses never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews with key players — including the last on-camera conversation with former Israeli president Shimon Peres. Congratulations!
With the Oslo Peace Accords back in the news amid the fallout of President Donald Trump’s decision last month for the U.S. to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city, the timing is…
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THE FORCE premieres on Independent Lens on PBS tonight at 9 pm (check local listings). Just one year after winning at Sundance, this “hypnotic and eye-opening” film (Village Voice) is not to be missed!
At a powder keg moment in American policing, The Force presents a fly-on-the-wall look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, Missouri, and an explosive sex scandal. The "hypnoti...
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Congratulations to Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan, Ina Fichman, Ronny Merdinger, Avner Shahaf, Hilla Medalia, & Jean Tsien.
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🎥 See Catapult funded The Force on January 22nd!
"I’m not an abolitionist or an activist or an apologist, I’m someone who wants to understand all the perspectives on a very complicated issue." The Force premieres Monday, Jan 22 on Independent Lens | PBS.
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Congratulations to THE OSLO DIARIES premiering at Sundance 2018!
NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 18, 2018 -- The women of the New York Film Academy (faculty and alum) screen work at Sundance 2018, and demonstrate exceeding success in documentary.
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Proud to be an early supporter of this important new documentary “XY Chelsea”
If elected, Manning will be the first transgender member of the U.S. Senate.
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HBO has announced its documentary slate for the first half of 2018, including “Atomic Homefront” from Rebecca Cammisa. Such an honor to be included in such an incredible cohort of important films. Thank you HBO!
HBO has announced its documentary slate for the first half of 2018, including projects from Judd Apatow, Peter Kunhardt, Rebecca Miller and Mariska Hargitay. From Apatow comes a two-part, four-and-…
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Catapult Film Fund grantees at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival!
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Congratulations to The Oslo Diaries team!
THE OSLO DIARIES Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan take an unprecedented behind the scenes look at the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Festival Section: World Cinema Documentary Competition Country: I…
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Exciting news! Showtime will broadcast the Chelsea Manning Documentary ‘XY Chelsea’ later in 2018! Proud to be an early supporter of this important work.
The network's latest Laura Poitras-produced feature will debut later in 2018, as the network also firms up a roll-out for Liz Garbus' New York Times series.
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Exciting news! Showtime will broadcast Chelsea Manning Documentary ‘XY Chelsea’ later in 2018! Proud to be an early supporter of this important work!
A documentary on whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose struggle with gender dysphoria coincided with a 35-year prison sentence for revealing state secrets, will be released at an unspecified date l…
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Kicking off 2018 with some documentaries to look forward to including “XY Chelsea”
From Trump to Chelsea Manning, and the Weinstein scandal to the refugee crisis – here are some films to keep you entertained and informed this year.
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Now streaming on Netflix, “ASK THE SEXPERT” (Director Vaishali Sinha). Not to be missed!
Titled 'Ask The Sexpert', this documentary feature is an entertaining insight into the life of the 92-year-old sexologist who is a very popular public figure.
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Happy New Year! 2018 promises to be a great year for documentaries if this list is any indication! Looking forward to seeing “The Oslo Diaries” at the Sundance Film Festival.
We're making #52filmsbywomen easy for you this year.
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Vox highlights documentaries engaging audiences in new ways including “The Reagan Years”
Five types of nonfiction films challenged old paradigms and drew audiences into fresh ways of engaging reality.
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As the year comes to a close, the “Best of 2017” lists are coming out. Thank you Flavorwire for including “The Oslo Diaries”!
The hurricane of elements that’s led to such a rich and rewarding period of documentary filmmaking – technological advances reducing the cost of production, an explosion of online options for viewi…
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Thank you Sundance! Thrilled to see two Catapult Film Fund grantees selected for Sundance Film Festival 2018. Congratulations to WILD, WILD COUNTRY (Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way, Producer: Juliana Lembi) and THE OSLO DIARIES (Directors and screenwriters: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan, Producers: Hilla Medalia, Ina Fichman). It is an honor to be included in this incredible slate of films.
Founded by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that actively advances the work of independent storytellers in film and theatre.
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Congratulations to Catapult Film Fund grantee Ramona Diaz for her Spirit Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature her incredible film “Motherland”!
Coming-of-age drama “Call Me by Your Name” has scored six Spirit Award nominations, with “Good Time” and “Get Out” taking five each. “Lady Bird” and …
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Thrilled to see CAMERAPERSON and WEINER on this list of “61 Best Documentaries of All Time”. What an honor to be part of such an awe inspiring group of non-fiction films.
From films by Erroll Morris to Orson Welles, Laura Poitras to Les Blank, the Maysles to Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, here are the best documentaries ever made.
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Excited to expand our reach getting non-fiction films off the ground with our new exciting partnership with SFFILM!
New documentary fellowships available SFFilm, the nonprofit that fosters independent filmmaking and presents the San Francisco International Film Festival, recently made two documentary-related announcements: the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors nominees and the launch of a "new support program designed for n...
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Siam Mo’s Amal kicked off IDFA last night and Catapult is excited to head to Amsterdam to cheer on fellow grant recipients Ask the Sexpert, City of the Sun, and When God Sleeps with live performance by Shahin Najafi. See you there!
IDFA is one of the leading documentary events in the world, offering filmmakers and producers an international platform for creative documentaries. The 30th edition will take place November 15-26, 2017.
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Congratulations to Catapult Film Fund grantee Sierra Pettengill for being selected among 2017 Art of Nonfiction cohort. What an honor to be included in this very special group of artists.
Sundance Institutes Art of Nonfiction Initiative welcomes four Fellows and five Grantees, as well as three Nonfiction Critics Fellows, in its third year of granting key creative and financial support to inventive nonfiction storytellers working in the field today. This years Art of Nonfiction coh...
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Congratulations! Rati Oneli honored with two prizes at Minsk Film Fest for his gorgeous film ‘City of the Sun’.
Film director Rati Oneli has collected another international prize for his feature documentary City of the Sun with two awards at the Minsk International Film Festival in the capital of Belarus. Oneli's work on western Georgia's mining town Chiatura and its inhabitants impressed the judges of
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Brilliant article amongst seven non-fiction filmmakers (including Catapult grantee Peter Nicks) about the social impact of their films and how they earn their subjects’ trust. Not to be missed!
THR gathered seven nonfiction filmmakers — Evgeny Afineevsky ('Cries From Syria'), Greg Barker ('The Final Year'), Yance Ford ('Strong Island'), Matthew Heineman ('City of Ghosts'), Amanda Lipitz ('Step'), Brett Morgen ('Jane') and Peter Nicks ('The Force') — for a discussion about the social impact...
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TRUE CONVICTION, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, is being adapted for television. Congratulations to director Jamie Meltzer!
The Seth Gordon-produced documentary True Conviction, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, is being adapted for television. CBS is developing drama True Conviction based on the well-r…
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Check out this fascinating interview with Rebecca Cammisa, director of ATOMIC HOMEFRONT coming soon to HBO!
Interview with the director of ATOMIC HOMEFRONT
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Excited to partner with SFFILM in supporting documentary filmmakers with the new SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship! Accepting applications from filmmakers across the US beginning in January.
SFFILM, which champions filmmakers through programs inspired by the Bay Area, has partnered with the Catapult Film Fund on a support program designed for non-fiction filmmakers. The SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship ...
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Don’t miss FREEDOM TO MARRY - now streaming on Netflix!
A documentary about key players in the marriage equality fight started streaming Friday on Netflix
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Congrats to Motherland Film director Ramona Diaz, selected to be a 2017/18 Women at Sundance Fellow! (Sundance Film Festival)
Founded by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that actively advances the work of independent storytellers in film and theatre.
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Excited to announce new grantees, awards, events, and screenings in the latest Catapult Film Fund newsletter!
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LA friends, don’t miss ATOMIC HOMEFRONT in theaters in Los Angeles this week and their wonderful LA Times review below.
Documentary follows a group of St. Louis-area activist mothers as they challenge government agencies over hazardous radioactive waste.
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Congratulations to all the first grantees of the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund – especially CHARM CITY (Director Marilyn Ness; Producers Katy Chevigny and Julie Goldman) and THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED (Director Assia Boundaoui; Producer Jessica Devaney) Thank you IDA for all the incredible work you do.
The IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, with major support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, provides production and development funds to feature-length documentary films taking on in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories and integrating journalistic practice into t...
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San Francisco friends don’t miss this incredible opportunity to join IDA & ITVS for a special Master Class with celebrated Director Dawn Porter. This Saturday 10/21 at 10AM. Please RSVP via IDA website.
Join IDA and ITVS in San Francisco for a special Master Class with celebrated Director Dawn Porter on ethical obligations documentary filmmakers have to their subjects.
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Congratulations to ASK THE SEXPERT, winner of the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival Best Documentary Feature!
Documentary about Louisiana's coastal erosion is among those honored.
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Wonderful news! AMAL will be the Official Opening Film @IDFA in November, 2017. Thank you IDFA for this incredible honor. See you in Amsterdam.
IDFA proudly presents opening film Amal (2017) by Mohamed Siam. The 30th edition of IDFA opens on 15 November in Koninklijk Theater Carré with the world première of Amal by Egyptian director Mohamed Siam. This coming-of-age documentary follows an Egyptian teenager during the revolution and its long resonating aftermath until today. This film was made with support from the IDFA Fund and attracted finance at the IDFA Forum, making it a great example of what IDFA is all about. Amal has been selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary and the focus program Shifting Perspectives: The Arab World.
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“A new documentary focuses on a 91-year-old doctor as the unlikely hero who is saving Indians from wrong or poor knowledge about sex.” Congrats to the ASK THE SEXPERT team!
By Shilpa JamkhandikarA new documentary focuses on a 91-year-old doctor as the unlikely hero who is saving Indians from wrong or poor knowledge about
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If you’re in LA on Tuesday, 10/24/17 don’t miss ATOMIC HOMEFRONT An HBO Documentary Films Release at 7:30pm at The Landmark (10850 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA) Includes a post-film conversation with Director/Producer Rebecca Cammisa, Producer Jim Freydberg and Special Guests.
Atomic Homefront shines an urgent and devastating light on the lasting toxic effects that nuclear waste can have on communities. Focusing on a group of moms-turned-activists in St Louis, Missouri, the film follows the women as they confront the government agencies that are slow to provide aid and th...
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If you’re headed to the Cambridge Film Festival, don’t miss ASK THE SEXPERT. “Director Vaishali Sinha brilliantly captures Dr. Watsa’s treasured personality with compassion and humour”. Screenings 10/24 & 10/26
Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap, Richie Mehta and Google invited the people of India to share their stories about life in an evolving India
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Thank you Camden International Film Festival for including Catapult Film Fund in such a dynamic group. It was an honor to be part of the 2017 pitch session!
Each year, the Points North Institute magnetizes the fog-kissed landscape of coastal Maine to lure the best and brightest of the non-fiction universe to the
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If you’re going to the Mumbai Film Festival (Oct 12-19) don’t miss Vaishali Sinha’s ASK THE SEXPERT.
Vaishali Sinha’s absorbing documentary on the 92-year-old sex advice columnist will be screened at the Mumbai Film Festival.
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What an incredible new slate of projects from Sundance. We are honored to see 10 Catapult Film Fund grantees on the list. Congratulations to all. Looking forward to seeing your important work. Thank you Sundance!!
Works Span Feature Documentaries, Streaming Series and Virtual Reality; Topics Include Rust Belt Revitalization Efforts, Threats to Democracy, Police Corruption
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Congratulations to all six grantees - especially the two Catapult supported projects The Feeling of Being Watched (Assia Boundaoui, director/producer; Jessica Devaney, producer) and Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen, director; Kellen Quinn, producer).
Six compelling nonfiction film projects have been awarded 2017 Documentary Film Fund grants, which support feature-length docs in the post…
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Bay Area- don’t miss THE FORCE in theaters this weekend!
It's been a long journey, but this weekend, The Force opens in #BayArea theaters with more locations to come. Hope to see you there. Tickets & info: http://bit.ly/2xZr9Zr
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See you at the Camden International Film Festival! Excited to participate and connect with filmmakers.
Camden — The Points North Institute, parent organization of the Camden International Film Festival, has announced the 14 documentary filmmakers and media artists selected for its 2017 Artist Programs.
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Friends! NIGHT SCHOOL will have its National TV premiere tonight (Tuesday, 9/12) on PBS. Check your local listings for times. Not to be missed!
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Bay Area! Tune in today to KQED Forum at 10 AM PT for an interview with our director Peter Nicks. Live stream also available at: http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/. https://ww2.kqed.org/…/peter-nicks-documentary-the-force-l…/
Bay Area filmmaker Peter Nicks' new documentary "The Force" takes a close look at the Oakland Police Department during a tumultuous period marked by a sexual ex
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#SanFrancisco! Tickets are now available for The Force which opens in San Francisco Sept 15 at Landmark Theaters Embarcadero Center Cinema. Get yours today! https://www.landmarktheatres.com/…/emba…/film-info/the-force
Book tickets & view the latest movie showtimes for THE FORCE at Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema,CA
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Proud supporter of Norah Shapiro’s new documentary-in-progress “Time for Ilhan” about Ilhan Omar.
Thrilled to see Representative Ilhan Omar featured in TIME Magazine's gorgeous collection of "Firsts: Women Leaders Who Are Changing the World," in the company of these other remarkable women icons. Meanwhile, we are hard at work to bring our own in-depth film about her remarkable story to the world asap, stay tuned! #Firsts #TimeforIlhan Ilhan Omar #resist #documentary
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Don’t miss “The Reagan Show” airing on CNN this month!
One for the Gipper? “The Reagan Show,” a documentary built from over 1,000 hours of rare archival film, premieres on CNN at 9 p.m. ET on Monday night.
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“The Force” and “The Reagan Show” named among 2017 best documentaries. In wide release this month!
Ronald Reagan, rats, big game hunting, and the New York Public Library get compelling closeups.
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Catapult Film Fund is proud to have been an early supporter of upcoming documentary about Chelsea Manning, “XY Chelsea”.
The glitterati are feting Chelsea Manning with little regard for the fact that she jeopardized American security and innocent lives around the globe.
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Check out an interview with the filmmakers of “The Reagan Show” in Vogue. Don’t miss the broadcast premiere on CNN Monday, Sept. 4 at 8p ET!
Filmmakers Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez on Ronald Reagan, performer in chief.
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Catapult is proud to support THE FORCE and filmmaker Pete Nicks!
Peter Nicks explains how the film changed with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and two new scandals that rocked the department.
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Congratulations to Catapult Film Fund grantee “The Feeling of Being Watched”. What an honor to be selected for the 2017 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Grant.
Congrats to the 2017 grantees!
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We had a fantastic time with the True/False Film Fest crew at the Rough Cut Retreat last week. Big thanks to all the filmmakers who participated! Excited for your next steps with your films.
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It’s such an honor to have two Catapult Film Fund supported projects in this outstanding line-up. Congratulations to CAMERAPERSON and WEINER for being selected among the ‘Best Documentaries of the 21st Century”!
From “Leviathan” to “No Home Movie” and “This Is Not a Film,” there’s never been a deeper or more diverse time for documentary cinema.
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Proud to support Rebecca Cammisa’s newest film, “Atomic Homefront” which airs on HBO in early 2018 and will be showcased at the 2017 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. _ Rebecca Cammisa joined us on FOX 2 News in the Morning to discuss her HBO documentary, "Atomic Homefront." The film will be showcased at the 2017 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. The film highlights focuses on the West Lake-Bridgeton landfill, where residents have high rates of very r...
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If you are headed to the Sarajevo festival, don’t miss Rati Oneli’s “City of the Sun”, which has been distinguished with awards from three major European festivals over the last three months.
Tens of thousands of visitors flocking to the leading Balkan film festival in Sarajevo next month will see works by Georgian directors screened in virtually all of the major festival sections. Running from August 11-18, the Sarajevo Film Festival will host sections for works ranging from features
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Proud to support Rebecca Cammisa’s new documentary, “Atomic Homefront” which airs on HBO in early 2018.
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Congratulations to Rati Oneli and the whole team behind CITY OF THE SUN.
Director Rati Oneli's award-winning documentary City of the Sun received more international recognition on Tuesday as the jury team of Sheffield Doc/Fest documentary festival in the United Kingdom awarded one of the event's honours to the film. Oneli's feature about western Georgia's grim mini
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Congratulations to Rati Oneli for CITY OF THE SUN winner if the Art Doc prize at 2017 Sheffield Doc Festival!
Documentary festival announces winners.
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Special congratulations to Jacqueline Olive (director) “Always in Season” and Marilyn Ness (director), Don Bernier (editor) “Charm City” for their selection to the Sundance Institute annual Documentary Edit and Story Labs.
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Starting June 9th - if you are in NYC do not miss IFC Screening of #NIGHTSCHOOL - a truly incredible film.
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Friday, June 9th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00 Saturday, June 10th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00 Sunday, June 11th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00 Monday, June 12th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00 Tuesday, June 13th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00 Wednesday, June 14th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00 Thursday, June 15th – 12:25, 2:10, 4:05, 6:00
TICKETS AVAILABLE: http://www.ifccenter.com/films/night-school/
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Congratulations to the MOTHERLAND team. This incredible film will be released theatrically in the summer via The Film Collaborative, and will have its television premiere on PBS’s POV series in the fall. Not to miss!
FilmRise has bought exclusive North American distribution rights to Ramona S. Diaz’s documentary “Motherland,” which won the world cinema documentary special jury award for commanding v…
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The Last Season: Documentary Film gets an encore broadcast as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Check it out on @WorldChannel’s @AmericaReFramed 5/30 http://bit.ly/ARF_LastSeason #APAHM #MyAPALife
The Last Season: Documentary Film gets an encore broadcast as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Check it out on @WorldChannel’s @AmericaReFramed 5/30 http://bit.ly/ARF_LastSeason #APAHM #MyAPALife
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Catapult Film Fund is a proud supporter of this important new film.
“Chelsea XY” director Tim Travers Hawkins has been following the whistleblower for nearly three years.
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VEGAS BABY is finally available via iTunes in North America! And if you are in Los Angeles, the LA premiere will be on Monday, June 19th at 7:30pm in Beverly Hills.
We are thrilled to announce that Vegas Baby is now in the iTunes Store and ready to be added to your digital library! Click below to buy or rent the documentary now! If you have already seen it, please give us a like and a share! -------> http://bit.ly/2vegasbaby We launched on Mother’s Day to celebrate the power of motherhood while also acknowledging the struggles of those who are inundated with Hallmark reminders of what they don’t have. A huge huge thank you so our partners, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and Executive Producer Morgan Spurlock, we couldn't have done it without you! #vegasbabyfilm
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Director Rati Oneli claims Madrid fest award for ‘City of the Sun’!
Filmmaker Rati Oneli’s feature City of the Sun about Georgia’s mining town of Chiatura was honoured with the principal prize of the DocumentaMadrid International Documentary Film Festival in Spain’s capital last weekend. The director’s portrayal of residents of the grim industrial city was named
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Documentary filmmakers - The deadline to apply to #IFPFILMWEEK is Tuesday, May 23rd! Recent film alum include CAMERAPERSON, HOOLIGAN SPARROW, OBIT, PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW, and many, many more! We look forward to hearing your story!
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FILM SUBMISSIONS: http://straightjacketguerrillafilmfestival.com/ Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival, 2017 is now open for Feature Film submissions and Music Videos. It’s FREE to submit till June 3rd. To submit your work for the 2017 Festival’s consideration, simply email us a YouTube link to your Feature film (must be over 70min in length) or to your Music Video (must be for a gigging band). Please also include your production info, bio, website and film synopsis to: ants-productions@hotmail.co.uk Submission Deadline is June 3rd, 2017 **DIY Culture
Free Online Film Festival - Cult & Underground Cinema, submit your feature film
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Apply for post-production funding today! Deadline June 2.
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Congratulations to filmmaker Rati Oneli for his documentary CITY OF THE SUN for receiving the Award for Cultural Diversity at the annual goEast festival in Germany.
Two films by Georgian directors were singled out for prizes at the annual goEast festival in Germany, with the awards ceremony honouring filmmakers Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross and Rati Oneli on Tuesday. The directorial effort of Ekvtimishvili and her German co-director Gross was recognis
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Congratulations to the team behind WHEN GOD SLEEPS!
Up close and personal with Shahin Najafi, the German-based ‘Salman Rushdie of rap’
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Check out this fascinating IDA article about funding in a new political climate. Brilliant insight from Maxyne Franklin, Jenni Wolfson, Emily Verellen Strom and our own Lisa Kleiner Chanoff!
At the IDA's first Getting Real Conference in fall 2014, a group of prominent grant organizations got together to discuss the state of grant funding for documentary films, and they decided to keep the conversation going. In the two years between then and Getting Real '16, the funders convened to dis...
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Thrilled to see TRUE CONVICTION receive a Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival 2017. Congratulations to all the winners!
Rachel Israel’s romantic comedy “Keep the Change” and Elvira Lind’s documentary “Bobbi Jene” were among the top award winners in the juried competitions at the 2…
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Congratulations to ASK THE SEXPERT! If you are at Hot Docs, don’t miss this one!
Three movies based in India and featuring an eclectic cast of characters, from a 93-year-old sexologist to a six-year-old reincarnated as a rinpoche, will feature in North...
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Thrilled to see “Dream Away” by Marouan O’mara and Johanna Domke is selected for the IDFA Summer School 2017.
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Sixteen films have been selected to participate in the IDFAcademy Summer School 2017. During the Summer School, held July 3 – 8 in Amsterdam, up-and-coming international filmmaking talents from all over the world will get a chance to work on their film scripts or rough cuts un...
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THE REAGAN SHOW premieres at Tribeca 2017. Not to be missed!
Three historical documentaries—about police corruption, Rodney King, and Reagan’s media management—elucidate current conflicts.
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Only one more day…! Congratulations to TRUE CONVICTION, WHEN GOD SLEEPS and THE REAGAN SHOW.
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A huge congratulations to the team behind TRAPPED for being honored with a #PeabodyAward! This is an amazing accomplishment. Congrats to all who were recognized!
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors revealed today 12 winners in the Documentary category for programs released in 2016 The honorees part of the annual Peabody 30 include compelling stories about refugees sexual assault victims and their accusers warfare both on the ground and in the cyber arena and…
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If you’re lucky enough to be in Portugal on May 3, do not miss Rati Oneli’s CITY OF THE SUN screening at the IndieLisbon Film Festival.
Film directors Rati Oneli and Ana Chubinidze will feature at the IndieLisboa film festival in Portugal's capital with their acclaimed works City of the Sun and The Pocket Man next month. Set to launch on May 3, the festival celebrates independent filmmakers and their fiction, documentary and anim
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Congratulations to THE REAGAN SHOW listed as a ‘must-see” film at Tribeca 2017!
From returning favorites to a slew of fresh voices, this year’s festival has plenty of exciting films on offer. Here are the one you won’t want to miss.
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Thank you Rolling Stone. Looking forward to our premiere at #Tribeca next week!
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Do not miss the hometown screening of THE FORCE at the San Francsico Film Festival April 11 & 15.
For the powerful second film in his trilogy concerning the relationship between public institutions and the communities they serve, Pete Nicks (The Waiting Room) takes a powerful, immersive look at the Oakland Police Department. Filming from 2014-2016 with astonishing access, Nicks…
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Only three more days! Do not miss this wonderful film at The San Francisco International Film Festival April 6 & 8
A maternity hospital in Manila, Philippines, one of the busiest in the world, bursts at the seams with the chaos of new life, as cameras capture the shock of childbirth, the exhaustion of new motherhood, the discomforts of poverty, and the valiant efforts by hospital staff and loving family in the f...
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Good News! NIGHT SCHOOL is coming to theaters June 9th via Oscilloscope (and PBS and Netflix later this year).
The indie distributor adds new titles from Andrew Cohn, Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer.
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Recently released, we are proud to support Freedom To Marry Movie!
The documentary ‘The Freedom to Marry’ follows the LGBT campaign group as it nears the end of the momentous 2015 Supreme Court battle. How sure does victory remain?
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Posted by our very own Bonni Cohen Shenk…: “Trailer hit today for our new film, An Inconvenient Sequel. Timing is terribly ironic as today Trump began his dismantling of Obama’s clean power plan. Movie is out July 28th.” So proud!
Watch the new trailer for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. In theatres July 28, 2017. #BeInconvenient Climate Cha...
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An incredible film, by an incredible filmmaker, not to be missed!
The film makes the difficult decisions families and patients face wrenchingly real.
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Wise words from a brilliant Catapult Film Fund grantee! “Listening and being empathetic and respectful has gotten me Jeff Sessions as the enforcer of civil rights laws.” Go, Dawn Porter!
Why Dawn Porter doesn't believe the documentary community is guilty of identity politics....
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Thrilled to see so many Catapult Film Fund grantees on this powerful list. Congratulations to Kirsten Johnson, Dawn Porter and Elyse Steinberg! Proud to support stories both about and by women.
To celebrate Women's History Month this March, we went to the creators themselves – including directors, actresses, and producers – to get their thoughts on the need for female voices in film, the boundless nature of gender, and how to support stories both about and by women.
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A brilliant film not to be missed!
For the powerful second film in his trilogy concerning the relationship between public institutions and the communities they serve, Pete Nicks (The Waiting Room) takes a powerful, immersive look at the Oakland Police Department. Filming from 2014-2016 with astonishing access, Nicks…
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ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY to the Rough Cut Retreat! Launched in 2016, the Rough Cut Retreat unites filmmakers and mentors in a supportive and engaged atmosphere with the goal of moving films from a rough to fine cut. Rough Cut Retreat will take place July 23rd-27th at Gedney Farm in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. Apply by March 23rd! For more info visit roughcutretreat.org
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Very excited for Catapult Film Fund grantees WHEN WE WALK (Jason DaSilva) and THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED (Assia Boundaoui). Congratulations to all.
For the past 36 years, the Center for Asian American Media has curated, created and supported extraordinary documentaries and independent filmmakers through stories intended for public broadcast and public media. We have awarded nearly $5 million to over 300 films by and about Asian Americans.
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We’re accepting submissions for the Rough Cut Retreat! Launched in 2016, the Rough Cut Retreat unites filmmakers and mentors in a supportive and engaged atmosphere with the goal of moving films from a rough to fine cut. Rough Cut Retreat will take place July 23rd-27th at Gedney Farm in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. Apply by March 23rd! For more info visit roughcutretreat.org
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Very exciting Catapult news out of this amazing TriBeCa line-up. Congratulations to all!!
Thrilled announce that three Catapult Film Fund supported films will have their world premiere at Tribeca 2017 (THE REAGAN SHOW, directed by Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill, TRUE CONVICTION, directed by Jamie Meltzer and WHEN GOD SLEEPS, directed and written by Till Schauder). Congratulations to all the filmmaking teams.
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Thrilled announce that three Catapult Film Fund supported films will have their world premiere at Tribeca 2017 (THE REAGAN SHOW, directed by Pacho Velez and Sierra Pettengill, TRUE CONVICTION, directed by Jamie Meltzer and WHEN GOD SLEEPS, directed and written by Till Schauder). Congratulations to all the filmmaking teams.
Get ready to be engaged, inspired, and enthralled by these cinematic gems.
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Catapult Film Fund is proud to support this important work.
Editor's note: Over the next few weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the films that have been honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Oscar® nomination in the documentary category. You can see Extremis on Saturday, February 25 at 3:55 at the Writers Guild...
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Congratulations to Dan Krauss and the EXTREMIS team!
At the intersection between life and death lies the most difficult decision a family might ever make. Academy Award nominated documentary short Extremis, now streaming on Netflix.
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Award winning Left on Purpose will be available on iTunes this Friday 2/10!
Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy Left On Purpose directed by Justin Schein
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Left on Purpose is screening at NYC’s Cinema Village starting this Friday 2/10!
So reads the New York Times obituary that legendary anti-war Yippie activist Mayer Vishner asked to be posted after his death. Left on Purpose is the story of a four-year friendship between filmmaker Justin Schein and Mayer Vishner – Abbie Hoffman’s comrade in arms, former L.A. Weekly editor, and st...
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So proud of EXTREMIS (director Dan Krauss) on their 2017 Oscar nomination. Congratulations and good luck!
Our entire team is overjoyed at this incredible recognition and awed at what this nomination means for the people who courageously opened their lives to us. It is validation of the highest order that their stories will be shared widely and will impact the lives of many others.
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Don’t miss the broadcast premiere of SOLITARY on HBO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 10PM ET/PT.
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Congrats to the Catapult supported filmmakers Ramona Diaz director of MOTHERLAND for World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Commanding Vision and Peter Nicks winner of the Sundance directing award for THE FORCE. Way to go all!
Ceremony Caps Snowy Festival; Top Prizes Go To Dina, I don't feel at home in this world anymore., Last Men in Aleppo, The Nile Hilton Incident Chasing Coral, Crown Heights, Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language) and Gook Win Audience Awards
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Congratulations to the team behind the THE FORCE (Director Peter Nicks Producers Peter Nicks, Linda Davis and Lawrence Lerew).
PARK CITY, UTAH — For his documentary “The Force,” Oakland filmmaker Peter Nicks had set out simply to “examine the relationship” between the Oakland Police Department and the community it se…
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So pleased at the recognition of this important work.
Our entire team is overjoyed at this incredible recognition and awed at what this nomination means for the people who courageously opened their lives to us. It is validation of the highest order that their stories will be shared widely and will impact the lives of many others.
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Don’t miss Catapult Film Fund grantee Ramona Diaz’ new Op-Doc. Her feature-length documentary on the same subject MOTHERLAND premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Screenings continue through this weekend.
A day in the one of the world’s busiest maternity wards.
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Congratulations to Dan Krauss and the team of #EXTREMIS on their Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short!
Oscar nominees for the 89th annual awards were announced on Tuesday morning during a live-streamed event filmed in six cities around the globe. Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs was joined by D…
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Congratulations to the team of MOTHERLAND on their Sundance 2017 premiere!
The film will premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary Competition.
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Congratulations to the team of THE FORCE!
In the gripping, inspiring — and, ultimately, dispiriting — documentary The Force, a troubled police force tries to redeem itself, only to learn how nearly impossible the task may be. With superb use of vérité filmmaking, director Peter Nicks follows the Oakland Police Department over two years as a...
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Catapult’s Lisa Kleiner Chanoff and director Peter Nicks at the Sundance 2017 premiere of THE FORCE. Congratulations!
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Congratulations to the team of MA LIANG’S TIME MACHINE (S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun, Jean Tsien and Nick Fraser).
TFI Awards Funding to Six Deserving Tribeca All Access Grantees
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Congratulations to the team of THE QUIET ZONE!
Director Katie Dellamaggiore’s The Quiet Zone and Billie Mintz’s The Guardian are among the recipients of The Rogovy Foundation’s Winter 2017 Miller/Packan Documentary Film Fund award. Dellamgarriore’s The Quiet Zone takes audiences ...
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Congratulations to team of CAMERAPERSON (Director Kirstin Johnson Producer Marilyn Ness) for winning Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking at Cinema Eye Honors. Bravo!
The Cinema Eye Honors, which has been celebrating exceptional documentary filmmaking since 2007, wrapped its first decade tonight with its annual awards
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Congratulations to Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg, WEINER on their 2016 Directors Guild of America nominee!
Feature film nominees are scheduled to be announced tomorrow.
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Congratulations to THE FORCE (Director Peter Nicks) and MOTHERLAND (Director Ramona Diaz) for being selected to premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2017. We will see you in Park City!
66 Provocative, Bold Feature Films From 22 Countries‘New Climate’ Program Showcases Stories and Conversations on the Environment and Climate Change
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Congratulations Josh and Elyse!
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Fascinating read. Thank you Catapult Film Fund grantee Dan Krauss.
CA Magazine interviews alum/lecturer Dan Krauss re his extraordinary work, and teaching the next generation of documentary filmmakers: “I always say to my students, no simple stories. We don’t do simple stories.” --Dan Krauss
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Excited to see THE FORCE (director Peter Nicks) on this list of incredible films premiering at Sundance 2017. Catapult Film Fund is proud to be an early supporter of this important film.
A horror anthology from an all-star, all-female lineup, this quartet of femcentric scary stories boasts major genre talent (Southbound's Roxanne Benjamin, The Invitation's Karyn Kusama, filmmaker and Rolling Stone contributor Jovanka Vuckovic), some ominous titles for the segments ("Don't Fall," "He...
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Catapult is very proud to have supported his important film and these important filmmakers!
Every white heterosexual male should watch this film and consider the lessons it teaches.
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So thrilled for our own Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk on the premiere of this incredibly important film. We’re so proud of you both!
Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is getting a sequel. Paramount Pictures will release the follow-up from Participant Media next year. The film — titled “Follow Up to …
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Congratulations to Nels Bangerter who nabbed IDA’s 2016 “Best Editing” award for his work on the Catapult Film Fund supported film CAMERAPERSON. Bravo to all the winners!
The International Documentary Association also recognized “13th” and “Making a Murderer” as part of their 32nd annual festivities.
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Proud to support filmmaker Sam Green on his latest work THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD”.
Filmmaker Sam Green devised a solution to documentary’s second-place status in our media-saturated lives; he made them come alive.
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Thrilled to see two Catapult Film Fund grantees (WEINER & CAMERAPERSON) on the list of 15 documentary features to advance in the race to the Oscars. Congratulations to all!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday the names of 15 documentary features to advance in the race to the Oscars. See the list below. “Cameraperson,” Big Mouth Productions…
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What an incredible line-up. Thrilled that two Catapult Film Fund films will premiere at Sundance 2017. Congratulations to THE FORCE (Director Pete Nicks) and MOTHERLAND (Director Ramona Diaz) and all the other wonderful films in competition this year. Bravo!
66 Provocative, Bold Feature Films From 22 Countries‘New Climate’ Program Showcases Stories and Conversations on the Environment and Climate Change
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Congratulations to Catapult Film Fund grantee Kirsten Johnson for winning the The National Board of Review #FreedomofExpression Award for her film CAMERAPERSON! Bravo to all the winners!
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA NAMED 2016 BEST FILM OF THE YEAR BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW *** The Organization’s Annual Gala will be held on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 with NBC’s Willie Geist set to return as host New York, NY – (November 29, 2016) – The National Board of Review has named …
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So proud of the wildly talented Catapult Film Fund grantees who are nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Here’s to you Kirsten Johnson for CAMERAPERSON and Kristi Jacobson for SOLITARY. Congratulations to all the nominees.
'Manchester by the Sea' landed five noms, with 'Other People,' 'Jackie' and 'Free in Deed' racking up four mentions each.
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Congratulations to the winners of Women in Film Finishing Fund grant – especially the Catapulted Film Fund supported film MUDFLOW (by Cynthia Wade and Sasha Friedlander). Excited to see all of this wonderful work.
Women In Film today announced winners of the organization’s 31st annual Film Finishing Fund grant program. Four narrative features and six documentary films have been selected out of more tha…
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Two out of the five films listed are supported by Catapult Film Fund. Very proud to support such wonderful work. Congratulations to all!
There's no Oscar category tougher to predict than documentary feature, but at this point in the year it's clear the academy has an embarrassment of riches to choose from — 145 have been submitted this year. There are no sure things, but here’s a look at just a handful of the contenders.
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Catapult Film Fund is proud to support this important and timely film!
From the outset, it’s clear that the namesake organization in 2016’s “The Freedom to Marry” will become defunct following the June 26, 2015, U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The justices ruled 5-4 that same-sex marriage is a guaranteed right under the 14th Amendment’s due process...
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Catapult is a proud supporter of WEINER – listed as #1 of the best documentaries ever made.
Here are our picks for the 21 best documentaries ever made—plus some recs from their directors.
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Check out this fascinating interview with WEINER director Josh Kriegman. Catapult Film Fund is proud to support your important work!
"He really became this one dimensional punch-line," said the director.
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If you’re in Pittsburgh on Nov 16 be sure to check out the Catapult Film Fund supported “The Freedom to Marry” by Eddie Rosenstein.
Eddie Rosenstein’s film charts the decades-long struggle for legalizing same-sex marriage
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If you’re in Boston on Nov 11 be sure to check out Eddie Rosenstein’s “The Freedom to Marry” (Coolidge Corner Theatre) as part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival!
This year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival includes several documentaries.
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“The Healing Blues” A film by Ted Efremoff documenting the Healing Blues film, a cooperative community film between Greensboro College, The Interactive Resource Center and area musicians to raise awareness about homelessness and raise money to support homelessness outreach. The film tells the stories of people experiencing homelessness from their perspective, and they were a part of the writing process were given songwriting credit, and were compensated for their time. https://youtu.be/gEZ6db3keCY
This documentary film describes The Healing Blues film in which homeless storytellers and musicians in Greensboro, NC collaborated to create The Healing B...
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Great news! Three Catapult supported films are nominees in the 32 Annual IDA Documentary Awards (Extremis, Cameraperson and Weiner). It’s an honor to be included on such a dynamic list of films. Thank you IDA!
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AMAZING! Five Catapult supported films just received support from Sundance (Ma Liang’s Time Machine, XY Chelsea, Survivors, Mudflow and Untitled Missouri Film). Congratulations to all!
Works Include Feature Documentaries, Web Series, Virtual Reality and Transmedia films; Topics Include Police Violence, Natural Disasters, Income Inequality, Family Legacy, Trans RightsFrederick Wiseman, Khalik Allah, Cynthia Wade, Joshua Oppenheimer, Kirsten Johnson, Matthew Heineman and Lynette ...
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced 10 documentary shorts for the 2016 shortlist. Thrilled to see Catapult Film Fund supported “EXTREMIS” included on such an extraordinary list. Thank you to the Academy for such a prestigious honor and congratulations to all the nominees.
The Academy has revealed 10 documentary shorts that will advance in this year’s Oscar voting. Five nominees will be announced in January.
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If you are in LA on Nov 2 don’t miss the final installment of DocuClub LA in 2016 with a screening of the Catapult Film Fund supported “True Conviction” by director Jamie Meltzer and editor Jeff Gilbert.
Please join us Wednesday November 2, for the next DocuClub LA with a screening of True Conviction by filmmaker Jamie Meltzer.
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Need funding for your documentary? The Doc Film Money Map will show you how to take advantage of tax incentives available to doc filmmakers. Download it here: http://bit.ly/2eosDGk
Need funding for your documentary? The Doc Film Money Map will show you how to take advantage of tax incentives available to doc filmmakers. Download it here: http://bit.ly/2eosDGk
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Excited to see two Catapult Film Fund supported films nominated for Best Documentary (CAMERAPERSON & WEINER). Congratulations to all the nominees!
“Everybody Wants Some!!” and “Certain Women” round out the Best Picture field, while indies like “The Fits” and “Morris From America” also get some l…
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Proud that 2 (out of 18) of the most memorable nonfiction film subjects were Catapult supported films (CAMERAPERSON & WEINER). Congratulations to all The Unforgettables!
Cinema Eye, the organization that recognizes outstanding accomplishments in nonfiction filmmaking, today announced their annual list of The Unforgettables, the
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Excited to see FOUR Catapult supported films on the list of best documentaries so far in 2016. Congratulations to UNLOCKING THE CAGE, TRAPPED, WEINER, and CAMERAPERSON and to all the other fabulous films. It’s an honor to be part of such dynamic group.
Get real.
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Excited to announce that five Catapult Film Fund supported films have just been selected for the IDFA 2016 Forum! Congratulations to ALL ABOUT AMAL, CHINESE FACTORY, ONE BULLET AFGHANISTAN, THE OSLO DIARIES, and STATE .v SHUAI and all the other wonderful films. It’s an honor to be a part of such a dynamic group of films.
October 17, 2016 | The selection for IDFA Forum 2016 has been announced. This year's Forum welcomes 60 pitch teams from 25 different countries.
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Excited to see 5 Catapult Film Fund supported films selected for DOC NYC 2016. Congratulations to “The Freedom To Marry” (Eddie Rosenstein) “The Ballad of Fred Hersch” (Carrie Lozano/Charlotte Lagarde) “Cameraperson” (Kirsten Johnson) “Trapped” (Dawn Porter) “Weiner” (Josh Kriegman/Elyse Steinberg) and all the wonderful films selected!
The festival takes place November 10-17 at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and Chelsea’s SVA Theatre and Cinepolis Chelsea.
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