HotHouse Wins Award at Sundance 2007The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah came to a close yesterday with an Awards Ceremony where
HOTHOUSE by Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dohan received a Special Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition! The film goes inside
Israel’s highest security facilities to witness everyday life of the nearly ten thousand Palestinian "security prisoners." World Cinema Documentary Competition jurors were Raoul Peck, Juan Carlos Rulfo, and Elizabeth Weatherford.
Labels: festival news, Israel, Palestine, prisons, Shimon Dotan
Thursday, December 07, 2006
HOTHOUSE Selected to 2007 Sundance Film Festival
We're pleased to announce that
HOTHOUSE—the latest film from renowned Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, whose films have been the recipients of the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and numerous Israeli Academy Awards—has been selected to the
2007 Sundance Film Festival.
HOTHOUSE takes inside Israel's highest security prisons, explores the lives of Palestinian "security prisoners" (including Hamas and Fatah members of the Palestinian legistature) and the evolution of their society, inside and outside of prison, towards a democratic community.
Labels: festival news, Israel, Palestine, prisons, Shimon Dotan
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Award-Winning Film JUSTICE
Receives U.S. Theatrical Premiere
Maria Ramos' critically-acclaimed film
JUSTICE, winner of several international prizes, premieres at
Film Forum in New York on October 18, 2006. The early reviews of this searing vérité look at Brazilian Criminal Courts have been great, with
Time Out giving it four stars, and comparing Ramos to Wiseman and Ozu, and
New York Magazine hailing it as, "a detailed blueprint of the favelas’ justice system...with artful character studies that reveal complicated motivations."
JUSTICE plays for one week only,
so buy your tickets online now!Labels: Brazil, NYC events, prisons, theatrical, vérité
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Two New Releases Added This Week
Including Rare Chris Marker Short Films
We added two more titles to our website this yesterday, including CHRIS MARKER'S BESTIARY, a collection of five short films about animals. The other addition, HOTHOUSE, explores the evolution of Palestinian prisoner society into a democratic community and the impact of this shift on Palestinian politics outside of prison. This brings the total number of New Releases for September, 2006 to 39! This diverse collection of titles, the most we've ever added at once, has something for everyone who needs a audiovisual resource, or for anyone who just loves docs. Labels: Chris Marker, Israel, new releases, Palestine, prisons, Shimon Dotan
Four Recent Release to Screen at
2006 American Sociology Association Convention
We're proud to announce that four acclaimed documentaries will screen at the upcoming annual American Sociology Association Convention in Montreal.
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER'S CROW is a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World. MADEMOISELLE AND THE DOCTOR is a comprehensive examination of the current international debate about the right to die. TO BE SEEN is a study of visual culture, of urban culture and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. Last, AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards. Labels: academic conferences, assisted suicide, criminal justice, oil, prisons
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