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‘Collective’ Named Top Documentary at Cinema Eye Honors Other awards go to “Time,” “Welcome to Chechnya,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “The Mole Agent”Steve Pond | March 9, 2021 @ 6:37 PM Last Updated: March 9, 2021 @ 6:54 PM AWARDS BEAT Magnolia The Romanian film “Collective” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2020 at the 13th annual Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based awards show devoted to all facets of documentary filmmaking. Kirsten Johnson took ...

Alexander Nanau’s Collective took the top award at the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors, winning outstanding achievement in non-fiction filmmaking, while Kristen Johnson won the outstanding direction honor for her film Dick Johnson Is Dead. Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s feature-length documentary American Factory secured both awards during last year’s event. The film later went on to win best documentary feature at the 2020 Oscars. Garrett Bradley’s Welcome to Chechnya received ho...

This weekend, the Portland International Film Festival returns for its 44th year, after a truncated 2020 iteration and brief fall revival. Rather than retreat to a fully virtual model, the NW Film Center has opted for a hybrid presentation: certain titles will be screened at a Zidell Yards drive-in, and others will be available online for the festivals full March 5–14 duration. In addition to a robust program of shorts and features, PIFF will also offer a pair of virtuals...

Last modified on Sat 20 Feb 2021 14.44 EST It’s nearly a year since Disney+ made its way to the UK in what must surely rank as one of the most fortuitously timed launches in media history. Just as Britain went into its first Covid-19 lockdown, harried parents were suddenly presented with approximately a zillion hours of Disney and Disney-adjacent streaming content, from classic animation to National Geographic to The Mandalorian. Child-free adults with little interest in family fare, howe...

House GameStop Hearing Delves Into Robinhood, Reddit And WallStreetBets Deadline 2/19/2021 Vlad Tenev, founder of retail stock trading app Robinhood, told a House Committee on Thursday that “the financial system should be open to everyone,” including frenzied buyers of GameStop and AMC Entertainment whipped up by a Reddit chatroom. He apologized profusely that a funding rule had forced the app to subsequently block share purchases – a temporary restriction that was a focus of the five-h...

Embrace the season with downtown Midlands Winter Fest Organizers have lined up ice games, other events Midland Daily News FacebookTwitterEmail Winter Fest is slated for Feb. 27 in downtown Midland. (Screen photo/City of Midland) Downtown Midland invites people of all ages to embrace the season with some socially-distanced outdoor fun during Downtown Winter Fest. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27 and will include live music, games made out of ice, picnic tabl...

Nonfiction Streaming Platform Documentary+ Launches New Global Platform Houses the Best Collection of Feature Documentaries, Cult Classics and Shorts News provided by Share this article LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Documentary+, a global nonfiction streaming platform, launched today to serve as the preeminent home for feature-length and short documentary films. With a large curated collection, the Documentary+ film library ranges from Academy Award-winners to festival darlings an...

Article content Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions. That (expletive) fogs the mind when you should be paying attention and be swept into the illusion.” We apologize, but this video has failed to ...

"Uncle Tom" is a smashing success, but lists of the best documentaries of 2020 keep leaving it out...

Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen.