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It won two awards at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards(CCDA) in November 2020, the Grand Teton Award at the Jackson Wild Media Awards in August 2020 and the Best Feature Film award at the EarthX film festival. On Tuesday, Pippa and James were also nominated for a Directors Guild Award. Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed are nominated for Documentary for My Octopus Teacher! pic.twitter.com/jeo0D7EuCv— Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) March 9, 2021 We live in a world where facts and fiction get blurr...

During the Amarillo City Council election in May 2019, each of the incumbents retained their respective seats by a significant margin, with each of the candidates gaining more than 6,500 votes than their second-place opponents.  According to previous Globe-News reports, Place One Amarillo City Council candidate Hayden Pedigo received 2,089 votes to incumbent Elaine Hays’ total of 10,828 votes. This comes after Pedigo made a Harmony Korine-inspired campaign video that went viral.  Two years...

A.J. Croce – By Request (Compass): “Over the past three decades, A.J. Croce has established his rep as a piano man and serious vocal stylist who pulls from a host of American traditions and anti-heroes — it’s part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. While his last album, JUST LIKE MEDICINE, paired him with soul legend Dan Penn and an all-star cast of players, his new album was born of memories — of favorite artists and shows, but mostly, of late-night gatherings with groups of f...

Lisson Gallery now representing Garrett Bradley Garrett Bradley (born 1986) lives and works in New Orleans. LONDON .-Lisson Gallery announced exclusive worldwide representation of American artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley. Bradley works across narrative, documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice and cultural histories in the United States. Adopting archival material alongside newly shot footage, Bradley’s...

The SXSW Film Festival is excited to announce the esteemed jurors for this year’s Narrative and Documentary Feature competitions, Louis Black “Lone Star” Award, our new Brightcove Illumination Award, Shorts Programs, Music Videos, Poster Design, Title Design and Virtual Cinema competitions. Jury winners will be announced at sxsw.com on Friday, March 19. The 2021 SXSW Film Festival Awards and presented by Brightcove. Narrative Feature Competition Amanda N’Duka, Deadline reporter and co-...

‘Taipei Suicide Story’ one of the top winners Submitted by Slamdance KEFFs "Taipei Suicide Story" took home the Grand Jury and Audience awards for Narrative Feature​ at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. Courtesy of Slamdance The 27th ​Slamdance Film Festival today announced the winners of their annual Sparky Awards in Audience, Jury and Sponsored categories. Top winners include ​”Taipei Suicide Story,”​ ​directed by KEFF, ​”CODE NAME: Nagasaki​,” directed by Fredrik S....

Shortlist categories: Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score) and Music (Original Song) Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Premise: George C. Wolfe directed this adaptation of a 1982 August Wilson play about the blues singer Ma Rainey. The story mostly takes place during a heated recording session in Chicago during 1927, as Ma Rainey and an upstart trumpeter talk about their dreams and how America continues to hold them back for being Black. Shortlist category: Makeup and Hairstyling Runtime: 1...

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 93rd Academy Awards.  One hundred five songs were eligible in the category.  Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title: “Turntables” from “All In: The Fight for Democracy” “See What You’ve Done” from “Belly o...

SA doccie film My Octopus Teacher shortlisted for Oscar nomination 12 February 2021 11:12 AM Share This: Filmmaker Craig Foster credits the international success of his documentary My Octopus Teacher to a phenomenal team effort. The local documentary film is in the running for an Oscar nomination. My Octopus Teacher has made the Oscars shortlist for the Documentary Feature category and its one of 15 projects that are being considered for a nomination. The final list of nominees for the 93rd Aca...

NYFA Community Among Shortlist for 93rd Academy Awards After teasing the annual announcement of shortlists for this year’s upcoming Oscar nominations, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally announced nine categories of shortlists on Tuesday afternoon. Included among the list in the Documentary Feature category was All In: The Fight For Democracy from NYFA alum and producer Lisa Cortés; Boys State from Documentary Cinematography instructor Claudia Raschke; and Dick Johnson...