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Lisa Leeman - Resources - Lisa Leeman
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Sign up for updates. Money Changes Everything or Does it? Considering Whether Documentaries Should Pay for Play. January, 2004. How Close it Too Close? A Consideration of the Filmmaker-Subject Relationship. June, 2003. Amman With a Movie Camera: Teaching Documentary in Jordan. Beijing Doc: A Report on Nonfiction Filmmaking in China. Composers Confab: Creating the Best Score for Your Film. Cutting Comments: A Women Editors Roundtable Feb/Mar 05 issue ID. Other articles on Documentary Ethics.
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Lisa Leeman - Metamorphosis - Lisa Leeman
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The power and intimacy in Leeman's unsentimental portrait of animator Gary/Gabi and his/her four-year quest for a sexual identity change is equalled only by the honesty and bravery of the film's subject.". Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times. Informative and fascinating.". Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle. Robert Hawk, Sundance Film Festival. Silver Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival, 1990. Montreal World Film Festival, 1990. Parnu Film Festival, 1990 (Estonia). Tokyo Film Festival, 1991.
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Lisa Leeman - Crazy Wisdom - Lisa Leeman
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88:00; Directed by Johanna Demetrakas. Produced by Johanna Demetrakas and Lisa Leeman. After 10 years of research, 4 years of active filmmaking, traveling from Scotland to Tibet, interviewing over 65 people and unearthing footage dating back decades, Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival,. And the Maui Film Festival,. You can visit Crazy Wisdom's homepage here. Tax-deductible donations can be made here! We are proud to an...
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Lisa Leeman - News - Lisa Leeman
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Sign up for updates. LAUNCH OF AMERICAN VEDA DOCUMENTARY PROJECT. Created on Tuesday, 01 December 2015 21:10. I've teamed with acclaimd author Phil Goldberg to create a multi-platform project to tell the story of how Hindu philosophy and the practices of Yoga have profoundly influenced American culture and spirituality from the time of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman to the Beatles’ seminal trip to India, and up through today’s thriving yoga scene. MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION HERE. Santa Fe, NM. Created ...
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Lisa Leeman - About - Lisa Leeman
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Sign up for updates. Writes, directs, produces, and edits documentary films. Her current film, AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda. Co-directed with Paola di Florio, premiered to sold-out crowds at the Seattle Film Festival May 19, 2014. It won the Audience Award at the Illuminate Film Festival, and the Spirit of Cinema Award at the Maui Film Festival. Look for AWAKE. In theaters in the fall. Lisa’s last film, the award-winning. And the Starz Denver Film Festival. Premiered theatrically at Manhattan's Film Forum.
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Lisa Leeman - One Lucky Elephant - Lisa Leeman
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May 17, 2014 - With deep sadness, I report that David Balding has passed away. Impresario, artistic director, development whiz and mainstay of Circus Flora - for David, "the circus was always a microcosm of the world, a harmonic unity of the opposites that David drew together within the grand tent.He had no children, except for Flora the elephant.". Read David's obituary here. I think David would have chuckled at the New York Times headline of his obit:. David Balding, Producer Who Adopted. One Lucky Ele...
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"THE INSIDE PITCH": OWN Documentary Club
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A Hollywood executive discusses screenwriting. Wednesday, November 10, 2010. My documentary MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS. Has been acquired by Oprah Winfrey for her new cable channel, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. OWN will premiere on January 1, 2011 in 75 million homes. MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS joins a line-up of cinematic documentaries comprising the network’s upcoming documentary film club, similar to Oprah’s book club, set to begin spring 2011. OWN has partnered with. MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS made its theatrical de...
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ACE Documentary Grant Winners : The Humane Society of the United States
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January 24, 2014. ACE Documentary Grant Winners. Medicine of the Wolf" won first place in the 2013 ACE Grant. iStockphoto. Shadow Trade" won first place in the 2012 ACE Grant. Benjamin Todd. Cages of Shame" won first place in the 2011 ACE Grant. Martin Guinness. One Lucky Elephant" was the 2010 ACE Grant winner. American Chimp" was the 2009 ACE Grant winner. iStockphoto. The Elephant in the Living Room" was the 2008 ACE Grant winner. The Concrete Jungle" was the 2007 ACE Grant winner. iStockphoto. This f...
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Filmmakers - AWAKE
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Enough to make a modern soul look inwards.”. Mdash; The New York Times. Ldquo;Dreamy, entrancing. and while such material can be hard to pull off,. Directors Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman are masters of atmospherics.”. Mdash; The Washington Post. Ldquo;Engrossing and informative. From start to finish”. Mdash; The Village Voice. Ldquo;AWAKE is an absolute treasure and. Should not only be watched, but experienced.”. Mdash; The Movie Network. Ldquo;Gripping, inspiring epic. Mdash; Yoga Journal. Counterpoi...
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Lisa Leeman - Who Needs Sleep? - Lisa Leeman
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Directed by Haskell Wexler and Lisa Leeman. Ahhh the glamorous life in Hollywood. Or is it? Film crews routinely work sweatshop hours, often clocking 15 to 18 hour days at the expense of their families, their health, their well-being, and even their lives. In 1997, after a 19-hour day on the set, assistant cameraman Brent Hershman fell asleep behind the wheel, crashed his car, and died. Deeply disturbed by Hershman's preventable death, filmmaker and multiple-Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler.