The 58th Golden Horse Awards took place on November 27, 2021, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. The event was hosted by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee. The best short documentary film was won by Lin Youen with In Their Teens, while the best documentary award was won by ...
Agnès Varda films are like some kind of magic to me. Right before I was about to give birth for the first time, I went and saw one last film at the cinema knowing I wouldn’t be back for a while. It left me feeling warmed and my heart uplifted. It was Agnès Varda’s road ...
Jeju is a 24-minute travel documentary about one family’s slow travel adventure on a Korean island named Jeju. It’s a bike-packing adventure, friendly enough for the whole family. Along the way, they meet remarkable people and discover the island’s unique landscapes. The film was featured at the Korean Expat and Indie Film Festival and the International Bicycle Film Festival in ...
The fact that the Chinese communist regime wants to ban the Oscars broadcast later this month is nothing new. China is no stranger to being subjected to criticism from other countries for its dictatorial and aggressive policies on media services. The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bans many popular online services and apps in the ...
Renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has just released (via Vimeo on demand) the film Cockroach — a visual record of the final moments of an independent, democratic Hong Kong. “Cockroaches” is what the protesters call themselves, and although this name had been used toward them as an insult from the pro-Beijing side, it’s a term ...
People from Melbourne, Australia will likely recognize the words: “Grand sale, grand sale, grand sale. Where? In Brunswick and Footscray.” These lines have been uttered in ads countless times since the early 1980s. And the man who used this slogan is Franco Cozzo, a penniless Italian immigrant who went on to become a millionaire furniture ...
The Holocaust is one of the biggest genocides of the 20th century that has left a huge impact on world history. Many movies have been made that seek to capture the horror of the event. Finding Manny is an hour-long documentary directed by Kacey Cox that gives a glimpse into the life of Holocaust survivor ...
My Octopus Teacher is a documentary made by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed. It showcases the friendship between filmmaker Craig Foster and an octopus from South Africa. The documentary premiered on Netflix this September and has been attracting rave reviews from critics as well as audiences. The octopus from ‘My Octopus Teacher’ The documentary covers ...
Honeyland, directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, is a documentary that follows the life of Hatidze, a beekeeper from Macedonia in Europe. Shot over three years, the film explores the meaning of life and how human beings are connected to the ecosystem as well as to the other people around them. Macedonian beekeeper Over ...
In 2012, director Genevieve Bailey released a documentary called I Am Eleven in which she explored the lives of 11-year-olds from all across the world. The documentary was created after a 6-year journey during which Bailey talked to kids from Japan, England, Thailand, India, Morocco, and so on. The documentary ‘I Am Eleven’ When Bailey ...
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