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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 the directing prize for “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” while the award for outstanding debut went to Ga...

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 honors for outstanding production and outstanding broadcast film. Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s B...

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 festival's full March 5–14 duration. In addition to a robust program of shorts and features, PIFF will also offer a pair of virtualspecial events. Keeping with NW Film Center executive director Amy Dotson’s commitment...

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, however, could safely give it a miss. Cue the arrival of Star, a separate hub of grown-up programming wi...

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-hour hearing today. The stocks fell and some Robinhood users lost their shirts. More from Deadline Te...