By Maria Esteves – December 7, 2012
As glaciers around the world are disappearing and sea level rising 60 percent faster than projected, the timing is right for a documentary on climate change. Jeff Orlowski’s CHASING ICE is truly one of the year’s best film! Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) team member Orlowski documented award winning American photographer James Balog 25 camera network project capturing the erosion of glaciers in Iceland, Greenland and Alaska from 2007 to 2012 in s...
By Maria Esteves – November 12, 2012
The New York Premiere of CHASING ICE, directed by Jeff Orlowski commenced Friday, November 9, at the Cinema Village. A special Q&A discussion with filmmaker Orlowski and National Geographic photographer James Balog, director, Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) immediately followed. Questions posed by the audience to director Orlowski and Balog included What was the budget for the making of the film, How did you pick the Glaciers, Do you have plans to show th...
The 35th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF), sponsored by Starz Entertainment and produced by the Denver Film Society, announced today its full Festival line-up. SDFF will run November 1 through November 11 in Denver. The complete list of films can be viewed at denverfilm.org/festival.
"Election day is not the only big event happening this November. The Starz Denver Film Festival will celebrate its 35th edition with signature events and a diverse line-up of films from around the glo...
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21
ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER AT LINCOLN CENTER
Featuring a selection of Mountainfilm festival favorites and most popular guests including:Chasing Ice - Photographer James Balog explores some of the Earth's most remote reaches to film vanishing glaciers.Big in Bollywood - A struggling Indian-Am...
WINNERS XV CINEMAMBIENTE 2012 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION
The INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION jury (members: Yann Arthus-Bertrand [president], Luca Argentero, Neri Marcoré, Kathleen Mullen, and Andrew Nisker) awards the prize of € 5000 offered by Asja for the best international documentary to
THE BIG FIX
directors
Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell
The film draws attention to the as yet unresolved environmental ...
Sundance Institute and The O2 announced today the programme of 14 narrative and documentary feature films that will make their UK premieres at the inaugural Sundance London festival, taking place at The O2 from 26-29 April. These films premiered in January at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah – the premier independent film festival in the United States.
“I welcome the opportunity to see how people in the UK experience these films,” said Robert ...
This year's Sundance Film Festival theme, LOOK AGAIN was intended to mean < Look again at the world and your place within it> question your pre-conceived notions and assumptions, shake up and readjust your perception on issues, but to more reality based observers, it could also be interpreted as <Look Again at Broken America> the broken lives, broken homes, broken Banking/ Financial/Economic institutions,its broken health care, schooling, welfare, criminal justice and p...
This year's Sundance Film Festival theme, LOOK AGAIN was intended to mean < Look again at the world and your place within it> question your pre-conceived notions and assumptions, shake up and readjust your perception on issues, but to more reality based observers, it could also be interpreted as the broken lives, broken homes, broken Banking/ Financial/Economic institutions,its broken health care, schooling, welfare, criminal justice and prison systems- all corroded by greed, corruption,...
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
Robert Redford, Founder and President of Sundance Institute remarked, "We are, and always have been, a festival about the filmmakers. So w...
Exclusive
Media Group's (EMG) documentary unit, Spitfire Documentary Films, is teaming
with Flat-Out Films and Diamond Docs to produce the definitive feature
documentary on Formula One motor racing, the highest class of auto racing
sanctioned by the FIA and the richest, most glamorous sport in the world. The
announcement was made today by EMG's Co-Chairman & CEO Nigel Sinclair.
The creative team comes from Diamond Docs, who recently helped craft the 2010
Acade...
