The Territory
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Fire of Love and The Territory Lead the 16th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors, a leading awards body that celebrates nonfiction filmmaking, announced today its full list of nominees for 2022. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love (Filmmaker’s summer issue cover) and Alex Pritz’s The Territory both lead with seven nominations each across several categories, including editing, cinematography, sound design, direction and Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. Other films with multiple nominations are Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (our recent fall issue cover), Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes and Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream, among others. Women are particularly well-represented among this year’s nominees, including five out of six filmmakers highlighted in […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 10, 2022 -
Doc Society Climate Story Fund Awards $645,000 in Grants to Nine New Projects
The Doc Society Climate Story Fund announced today nine new creative projects from around the globe that will receive a combined $645,000 in grants, with each work demonstrating a concerted effort to advance climate justice and protect biodiversity. This is the second cohort to receive the Climate Story Fund, which supports work from a wide array of storytelling mediums, including musical dramas, podcasts and documentaries. The fund prioritizes storytellers from underrepresented communities on the front lines of the global climate crisis, with the intent of providing much-needed support from production to impact campaigns. There is special emphasis on projects that […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 8, 2022 -
“Capturing the Scale of the Amazon Rainforest Is an Impossible Task”: DP Alex Pritz on The Territory
The Territory takes viewers deep inside the Brazilian Amazon, allowing them to bear witness to the ongoing conflict that has pitted Indigenous inhabitants against settlers looking to capitalize on the land. The film captures a pair of young leaders and their mentor, who defend the land with their lives, as well as settlers hoping to establish their own homestead, including those who engage in clear-cutting on their own. Director-cinematographer Alex Pritz explains how the film’s visual style distinguishes the different perspectives, his collaboration with an Indigenous cinematographer, and how his crew unexpectedly found themselves recording a settler burning down the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2022 -
“COVID Helped Us Discover a New Way to Create This Film” | Alex Pritz, The Territory
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking—whether in your creative process, the way you finance your films, your production methodology or the way you relate to your audience—did you have to reinvent in order to make and complete the film you are bringing to the festival this year? The Territory is a film about land conflict on Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon, which has been co-created with the Uru-eu-wau-wau community. With the arrival of […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2022 -
“My Hope Is That These Amazonian Voices Are Heard”: Editor Carlos Rojas Felice on The Territory
The Territory, which highlights ongoing conflicts in the Amazon between its Indigenous inhabitants and Brazilian politicians and businessmen, was co-produced by the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau community. The film thus grants first-hand views of the conflict, from the frequent invasions to the Indigenous peoples’ establishing of their own media team to broadcast their side of the story. Editor Carlos Rojas Felice explains how he retained the film’s environmentalist themes while highlighting the opposing views of the various players. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the editor of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2022
