Films

New French Fipadoc festival marks swing to non-fiction film

January 22, 2019 rfi Leave a Comment

One of them is as an attempt to counter the effects of widespread disinformation. Fabrice Puchault, director of the Culture and Society unit at public-funded multilingual European channel Arte points out that this change in direction come as credible factual audiovisual matter is confronted with mushrooming fake-news or disinformation. "You cannot make a 60-minute film without a lot of work in thinking about the context, the social issues, your characters in the film of course, have to be placed in the middle of their society. Fake news is short, fake news is a statement, it is just an image." Documentary film make is about image too. He added: "You don’t just show a picture, just an image. You build a narration, build a story. To build a story is to make links, to give context, to organise." No matter what the subject. Be it an animal film, like France Télévisions preview screening at Fipadocs called L'Odyssée du Loup, The Wolf's Odyssey, about a wolf which has … [Read more...] about New French Fipadoc festival marks swing to non-fiction film

Documentary about “Sayat-Nova” film’s creation to be screened at Venice Film Festival

January 22, 2019 news Leave a Comment

YEREVAN. – The new digitization project for well-known Armenian films’ pieces which have not made it to these films has begun in 2018, and with the participation of British film producer Daniel Bird. Shushanik Mirzakhanyan, Director of the National Cinema Center of Armenia, told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am. In her words, this idea belongs to Bird himself. “Now we are restoring and digitizing ‘Sayat-Nova’ film’s all the pieces that are not included in the film, but have been preserved in our archives,” Mirzakhanyan explained. At the same time she noted that, based on those digitized pieces, it is planned to shoot a documentary about the “Sayat-Nova” film, and that this documentary is planned to be screened at various international film festivals—including the prestigious Venice Film Festival. “The work on the film is expected to be completed already in 2019,” head of the National Cinema Center of … [Read more...] about Documentary about “Sayat-Nova” film’s creation to be screened at Venice Film Festival

Driver filmed going WRONG WAY down Great North Road slip road in Newcastle

January 22, 2019 chroniclelive Leave a Comment

This is the shocking moment a clueless driver was filmed going the WRONG WAY down a slip road towards the Great North Road in Newcastle. The dashcam footage taken on Friday morning shows the silver Vauxhall headed in the right-hand lane towards the busy junction signposted for Gosforth Park. Filmed in rush hour in snowy conditions, driver Susan Robson was making her typical commute into work when she spotted the oncoming driver. Susan said: "I was being extra cautious because of weather and the usual school-run traffic. "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the car coming towards me. "I'm pleased I was in the other lane as the consequences could have been so much different." It is not known how much further the confused motorist ended up driving down the slip road or on to the Great North Road. The clip was filmed at about 8.35am, and Susan decided to share the dashcam footage of the shocking incident on Facebook. She finished: "If it wasn't for the dashcam footage I think … [Read more...] about Driver filmed going WRONG WAY down Great North Road slip road in Newcastle

Holocaust Memorial Day: JW3 to screen film about the only Englishman to survive Auschwitz

January 22, 2019 hamhigh Leave a Comment

PUBLISHED: 09:36 22 January 2019 Sam Volpe Finchley Road’s Jewish community centre JW3 is screening a film which tells the story of the single Englishman to survive Auschwitz. North London student Joshua Rocker made the film about Leon Greenman – called Survivor – during his gap year, after having promised to tell Mr Greenman’s story when he met him at the Jewish Museum in Camden aged just seven. The Ham&High featured Joshua in 2018 when he first showed the film at the museum for Holocaust Memorial Day last year. Back then he told us: “I wanted to keep the promise I made to him as a child. Because I didn’t have any funding for the film, I put the money I had earned on my gap year towards it.”Tickets for the latest film showing, which takes place at JW3 itself (341-351 Finchley Road) on Tuesday January 29 as part of extended commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day, cost £12 but the takings will be split … [Read more...] about Holocaust Memorial Day: JW3 to screen film about the only Englishman to survive Auschwitz