Bad Press, King Coal, Joonam and Fantastic Machine are all award-winning documentaries, yet in the race for Oscar recognition, they’re underdogs. Despite the many honors they have collected at festivals around the world, each of these exceptional films has struggled to land distribution, complicating efforts to get attention from Academy voters.
Instead of throwing up their hands and leaving things to fate, the teams behind the four documentaries have taken the remarkable step of banding together to launch a joint For Your Consideration campaign, Do It Yourself fashion. Oscar-winning King Coal producer Diane Becker, Joonam producer Keith Wilson, and Bad Press co-director Joe Peeler join the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to talk about their groundbreaking venture.
Typically, these films would consider themselves rivals, pitted against each other...
Instead of throwing up their hands and leaving things to fate, the teams behind the four documentaries have taken the remarkable step of banding together to launch a joint For Your Consideration campaign, Do It Yourself fashion. Oscar-winning King Coal producer Diane Becker, Joonam producer Keith Wilson, and Bad Press co-director Joe Peeler join the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to talk about their groundbreaking venture.
Typically, these films would consider themselves rivals, pitted against each other...
- 12/5/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Succession star Arian Moayed is getting behind the award-winning documentary Joonam as it makes a push for Oscar consideration.
The Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor-writer-director, who was born in Iran and grew up in the U.S., has signed on to executive produce Joonam, a story of three generations of women who form part of the Iranian diaspora. The film opens theatrically on December 1 at Firehouse: Dctv’s Cinema for Documentary Film in New York, expanding to other cities throughout December and January.
We have your first look at the documentary in the trailer below.
‘Joonam’ director Sierra Urich with her mother Mitra Samimi Urich at the Sundance Film Festival.
In the deeply personal film, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Persian-American director Sierra Urich feels a growing sense of urgency to come to terms with her roots in Iran, the country her mother, Mitra, and her grandmother, Behjat,...
The Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor-writer-director, who was born in Iran and grew up in the U.S., has signed on to executive produce Joonam, a story of three generations of women who form part of the Iranian diaspora. The film opens theatrically on December 1 at Firehouse: Dctv’s Cinema for Documentary Film in New York, expanding to other cities throughout December and January.
We have your first look at the documentary in the trailer below.
‘Joonam’ director Sierra Urich with her mother Mitra Samimi Urich at the Sundance Film Festival.
In the deeply personal film, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Persian-American director Sierra Urich feels a growing sense of urgency to come to terms with her roots in Iran, the country her mother, Mitra, and her grandmother, Behjat,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The Gotham Awards, honoring the best in American independent films, held their 32nd annual event on Monday night, November 28, launching the fall and winter awards season. So who were the big winners? Scroll down for the complete list of film and television champs in all categories, updating live throughout the night.
SEE2023 Oscars: Best Picture Predictions [Updated: November 28]
Nominees were decided by panels of film and television critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. The winners were then selected by juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors, and others directly involved in filmmaking. Those small juries change from year to year and from category to category, so these awards can produce surprising results.
Telling the story of a composer and conductor who comes under fire, “Tar” led the nominations with five bids including Best Feature, as well as for writer-director Todd Field‘s screenplay and for the performances by lead actress Cate Blanchett...
SEE2023 Oscars: Best Picture Predictions [Updated: November 28]
Nominees were decided by panels of film and television critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. The winners were then selected by juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors, and others directly involved in filmmaking. Those small juries change from year to year and from category to category, so these awards can produce surprising results.
Telling the story of a composer and conductor who comes under fire, “Tar” led the nominations with five bids including Best Feature, as well as for writer-director Todd Field‘s screenplay and for the performances by lead actress Cate Blanchett...
- 11/29/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Slowly moving away from the docu world, but keeping with real life subjects, filmmaker Travis Mathews first gained entry into Sundance with the New Frontier played Interior. Leather Bar. back in 2013. Fast-forward a couple of years and he might be headed there again. While Oscillate Wildly has been on the Sffs/Krf fast track and landing several West Coast grants and it was reported that shooting took place during the summer, unless this was shot completely off the radar, we believe we’re a tad too early with this one. If not, then we called it.
Gist: Written by Travis Mathews and Keith Wilson, Ben is a hot-headed young gay man with a mild form of spastic cerebral palsy that expresses itself in his swaying walk and intermittent muscle spasms. He lives a solitary and routine life in a working-class neighborhood of Austin, Texas, with no family and few friends.
Gist: Written by Travis Mathews and Keith Wilson, Ben is a hot-headed young gay man with a mild form of spastic cerebral palsy that expresses itself in his swaying walk and intermittent muscle spasms. He lives a solitary and routine life in a working-class neighborhood of Austin, Texas, with no family and few friends.
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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