Exclusive: Award-winning filmmakers Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard are partnering on a documentary about the late Archbishop Carl Bean, the pioneering gay African American singer turned pastor and AIDS activist.
Production is underway on the feature I Was Born This Way, which takes its title from Bean’s 1977 Motown Records gay disco anthem that celebrated LGBTQ identity and later became the inspiration for Lady Gaga’s hit “Born This Way.” Junge, who won an Oscar for the 2012 documentary short Saving Face, and multiple Emmy-winner Pollard (When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts), are working with Bean’s estate to make their film.
The documentary will include “exclusive, in-depth interviews” with Bean filmed before his death in September 2021 at age 77, and will also incorporate “never before seen archival footage and rotoscope animated recreations,” according to a release from the filmmakers.
“Bean overcame brutal homophobia as a young man,” the release noted,...
Production is underway on the feature I Was Born This Way, which takes its title from Bean’s 1977 Motown Records gay disco anthem that celebrated LGBTQ identity and later became the inspiration for Lady Gaga’s hit “Born This Way.” Junge, who won an Oscar for the 2012 documentary short Saving Face, and multiple Emmy-winner Pollard (When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts), are working with Bean’s estate to make their film.
The documentary will include “exclusive, in-depth interviews” with Bean filmed before his death in September 2021 at age 77, and will also incorporate “never before seen archival footage and rotoscope animated recreations,” according to a release from the filmmakers.
“Bean overcame brutal homophobia as a young man,” the release noted,...
- 3/18/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The documentary community is not backing down from Donald Trump. At the Doc NYC annual Visionaries Tribute lunch in New York Thursday, four honorees from the documentary world received prestigious awards, but rather than bask in the glow of accolades, the winners seized their time in the spotlight to address the urgent need to expose the truth now more than ever as the start of Trump’s presidency draws near.
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“I don’t think the election of Trump changes anybody’s personal agenda,” Jonathan Demme said after receiving one of two lifetime achievement awards presented Thursday, the first day of the one-week documentary festival. “We still have our agendas and we’re still going to push for meaningful progressive change. The bar is just higher.”
The other lifetime achievement award recipient, Stanley Nelson, told the...
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“I don’t think the election of Trump changes anybody’s personal agenda,” Jonathan Demme said after receiving one of two lifetime achievement awards presented Thursday, the first day of the one-week documentary festival. “We still have our agendas and we’re still going to push for meaningful progressive change. The bar is just higher.”
The other lifetime achievement award recipient, Stanley Nelson, told the...
- 11/11/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Acclaimed auteur Werner Herzog takes viewers into the red-hot magma-filled craters of some of the world’s most active and astonishing volcanoes in his new documentary “Into the Inferno.”
Accompanied by volcanologist and co-director Clive Oppenheimer (who he met ten years ago while filming “Encounters at the End of the World”), the duo take an unforgettable journey across the globe, from Antarctica, to the hottest desert in the world in Ethiopia, to Iceland, and even to the generally inaccessible center of North Korea, to visit some of the world’s most scared volcanoes. A new visually stunning trailer and poster have just been released by Netflix. Check them out below.
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“Volcanoes could not care less about what we are doing up here,” Herzog says in the trailer, and with that offers...
Accompanied by volcanologist and co-director Clive Oppenheimer (who he met ten years ago while filming “Encounters at the End of the World”), the duo take an unforgettable journey across the globe, from Antarctica, to the hottest desert in the world in Ethiopia, to Iceland, and even to the generally inaccessible center of North Korea, to visit some of the world’s most scared volcanoes. A new visually stunning trailer and poster have just been released by Netflix. Check them out below.
Read More: Werner Herzog’s ‘Into The Inferno’ Is A Red Hot Return To Form — Telluride Film Festival Review
“Volcanoes could not care less about what we are doing up here,” Herzog says in the trailer, and with that offers...
- 10/17/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
One of the most talked-about films to premiere at Sundance this year was Antonio Campos’ “Christine.” Written by Craig Shilowich, the film stars Rebecca Hall as television reporter Christine Chubbuck who tragically took her own life live on the air in 1974.
IndieWire has an exclusive clip from the film which features Hall going up to a couple who seem “very much in love” and tells them they’d be perfect for a human interest story. “Sorry to interrupt, you just made my night,” she tells the couple before she leaves. “Don’t lose sight of what you have here.”
Read More: ‘Christine’ Trailer: Rebecca Hall Is a Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in Antonio Campos’ Disturbing Drama
The movie received rave review from critics who praised Hall for her performance as the titular character battling depression. Calling it “one of the most enthralling and compelling films we saw at Sundance,...
IndieWire has an exclusive clip from the film which features Hall going up to a couple who seem “very much in love” and tells them they’d be perfect for a human interest story. “Sorry to interrupt, you just made my night,” she tells the couple before she leaves. “Don’t lose sight of what you have here.”
Read More: ‘Christine’ Trailer: Rebecca Hall Is a Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in Antonio Campos’ Disturbing Drama
The movie received rave review from critics who praised Hall for her performance as the titular character battling depression. Calling it “one of the most enthralling and compelling films we saw at Sundance,...
- 10/14/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Halloween is just around the corner and for those creative types who aren’t satisfied with just showing up to a party as Harley Quinn or any other superhero, there’s plenty of other awesome Hollywood-inspired options to choose from. Might we suggest dressing up as a “Stranger Things” character, but better yet, the Demogorgon.
In the video below, courtesy of Ellimacs SFX and Vulture, you can learn how to create an epic mask that looks like the Upside Down monster from the hit Netflix series. All you need is: wire, masking tape, liquid latex, flour, red and black food coloring , white ellimorph plastic, red yarn, clear varnish and runny fake blood. (Intermediate crafting skills wouldn’t hurt either.)
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This costume will definitely give you top points at any Halloween contest. Though...
In the video below, courtesy of Ellimacs SFX and Vulture, you can learn how to create an epic mask that looks like the Upside Down monster from the hit Netflix series. All you need is: wire, masking tape, liquid latex, flour, red and black food coloring , white ellimorph plastic, red yarn, clear varnish and runny fake blood. (Intermediate crafting skills wouldn’t hurt either.)
Read More: ‘Stranger Things’: David Harbour Auditions For The Role of Eleven in Funny or Die Video
This costume will definitely give you top points at any Halloween contest. Though...
- 10/14/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Documentarian Owsley Brown’s third feature, “Serenade for Haiti,” is bound for New York City’s prestigious Doc NYC festival next month, and continues his burgeoning tradition of exploring and celebrating music and art. The film was shot over a seven-year period and focuses on the Sainte Trinité Music School in Port-au-Prince, all the better to capture a little-seen side of Haiti and some of its wonderfully talented youth.
The film is billed “as story of resilience and great humanity [that] unfolds as the teachers and students of Sainte Trinité sustain a deep commitment to music and education against extraordinary odds, including the destruction of their school in the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent efforts to rebuild it.”
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The country — and school’s — legacy of and dedication to classical music takes center stage, bolstered by...
The film is billed “as story of resilience and great humanity [that] unfolds as the teachers and students of Sainte Trinité sustain a deep commitment to music and education against extraordinary odds, including the destruction of their school in the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent efforts to rebuild it.”
Read More: Film Based on Riveting Account of Haitian-American Nazi Prisoner on Clandestine Mission, in the Works
The country — and school’s — legacy of and dedication to classical music takes center stage, bolstered by...
- 10/14/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
On Thursday, May 20 the city of Louisville will be inspired by a moment of its own history with the world premiere of Owsley Brown III's documentary film, Music Makes a City. The timely tale follows two visionaries, Mayor Charles Farnsley and Louisville Orchestra's first Music Director, Robert Whitney as they faced the odds making Louisville, Kentucky and its orchestra world renowned for new music.
- 5/4/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
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