The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed today the 15 films that have made their shortlist for the Best Feature Documentary category in the 83rd Academy Awards. They include: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC) Enemies of the People, Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films) Exit through the Gift Shop, Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures) Gasland, Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC) Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont, directors (White Pine Pictures) Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures) The […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 18, 2010Select stories from our Fall issue are now online. They include an interview with Olivier Assayas on his epic, Carlos; Charles Ferguson talks about Inside Job, his doc on the global economic crisis; and Lena Dunham and Caveh Zahedi sit down to discuss their autobiographical style of filmmaking. Plus, a look at why Digital Intermediate has become an essential tool for filmmakers, we ask a number of indie producers about their business models and don’t skip this issue’s Culture Hacker and Industry Beat columns. The issue hits stands next week, but you can read the whole issue now on your […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Oct 25, 2010Charles Ferguson follows up his hard-hitting Iraq War documentary, No End in Sight, with another investigative look at a complicated and controversial subject: the global economic crisis. In Inside Job, Ferguson indicts the growth of the banking industry for causing the global economic crisis, asking why not a single person has gone to jail because of it. By Scott Macaulay
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 25, 2010