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February’s IDA Documentary Awards Moves to March Virtual Event Amid Omicron Surge
The awards show is shifting from its original date of Saturday, Feb. 5, to Friday, March 4, and going from an in-person event to a virtual one.
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SUNDANCE Institute NonFiction Filmmaking Session: Philadelphia
Sundance Institute was back in Philly for another creative and energizing all day conference. I attended the inaugural event - SUNDANCE INSTITUTE'S NEW FRONTIER DAY LAB back in 2017.
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Philly Spotlight: TOTALITY: THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE DOCUMENTARY
Tinsel & Tine Highlights: Philly Filmmaker John N. Campbell’s By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Remember the spectacular total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, which had people taking off from work, driving cross country to get a better ogle at it? We just had a partial eclipse January 5, 2019, these happen more often, but before 2017, the last total solar eclipse in the continental U.S. occurred 38 years ago on February 26, 1979. Unfortunately, not many people saw it because it clipped just five states in the Northwest and the weather for the most part was bleak. Before that one, you have to go back to March 7, 1970.…
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Commentary – THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
Have you ever heard the term “Pandrogyny”? Neither had I until I saw the documentary film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. Filmmaker Marie Losier documents this unusual love affair between an underground, industrial music front man/woman – Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his/her better half – Lady Jaye. The two meet through a mutual dominatrix acquaintance and fall madly in love. So in love that Genesis and Lady Jaye decide rather than having a child (of which Genesis has two from a previous relationship) they would reform themselves into each other and therefore, symbolically, create one new person = Pandrogyny. The idea sounds like sick, obsessive love, yet strangely…
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Pom Wonderful presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
What I like most about this documentary is Spurlock himself. One scene in the film has him going through a rigorous Q & A session with a brand specialist to come up with his own brand in order to sell himself to the brands he wants to sell the movie to. (make sense?) Anyway, what they come up with is that Spurlock's own brand is Mindful and Playful, and this is a very good assessment...
