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8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION
12th & DELAWARE

ACT OF GOD
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES
AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY
AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE
ANTOINE
ARMADILLO
ART OF THE STEAL

BABIES
BANANAS!*
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
LE BELLE VISITE
BLANK CITY
BREATH MADE VISIBLE
BUDRUS

CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY
CIRCO
CITY OF BORDERS
COLLAPSE
COLONY
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO
CROPSEY

LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

FAMILY AFFAIR
FAREWELL
A FILM UNFINISHED
FOUR SEASONS LODGE
FREAKONOMICS
FREEDOM RIDERS
FREETIME MACHOS

GASLAND
GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD
GOOGLE BABY

HIS & HERS
HOW TO FOLD A FLAG

INSIDE JOB
INTO ETERNITY
THE INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD
JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK

THE KIDS GROW UP
KILLING KASZTNER
KINGS OF PASTRY

LAST TRAIN HOME
LIVING IN EMERGENCY: STORIES OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
THE LIVING ROOM OF THE NATION
THE LOTTERY

MARWENCOL
MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT
THE MIRROR
MONICA AND DAVID
MY PERESTROIKA

THE OATH
OCEANS
OH MY GOD?
ONLY WHEN I DANCE

P-STAR RISING
THE PEDDLER
THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS
PETITION
THE PLAYER
PRESUMED GUILTY

THE RAINBOW WARRIORS OF WAIHEKE ISLAND
THE RED CHAPEL
REGRETTERS
RESTREPO

SECRETS OF THE TRIBE
SEE WHAT I’M SAYING
SINS OF MY FATHER
A SMALL ACT
SNOWBLIND
THE SOUND OF INSECTS: RECORD OF A MUMMY
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
SPACE TOURISTS
STONEWALL UPRISING
STRANGE POWERS: STEPHIN MERRITT AND THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
SWEETGRASS

TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK
THE THORN IN THE HEART
THUNDER SOUL
THE TILLMAN STORY

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS

VIDEOCRACY
VISUAL ACOUSTICS

WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”
WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY
WAR DON DON
WASTE LAND
WE DON’T CARE ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY
WILLIAM KUNTSLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS

YODOK STORIES

JANUARY 15, 2010 – (New York) The Cinema Eye Honors, celebrating artistic achievement in nonfiction film in 12 categories, were presented tonight at the Times Center in New York City where Louie Psihoyos’ THE COVE – the acclaimed undercover investigation into secret dolphin hunting in Taijii, Japan – was the night’s big winner, receiving three Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Outstanding Production and Outstanding Cinematography.

The third annual event drew a packed house of documentary filmmakers, with presenters including Albert Maysles, Academy Award winners Barbara Kopple and Peter Davis, Ellen Kuras, Amir Bar-Lev and Bill Plympton.  The event was hosted by Cinema Eye co-chairs Esther Robinson and AJ Schnack.

Legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda was awarded the Cinema Eye for Outstanding Direction for THE BEACHES OF AGNES.  Her longtime production designer, Franckie Diago, accepted the award on Varda’s behalf.

Anders Østergaard’s BURMA VJ received two awards, Outstanding International Feature and Outstanding Achievement in Editing, as did Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s OCTOBER COUNTRY, which was named Outstanding Debut and received the award for Original Music Score.

RJ Cutler’s behind-the-scenes look at Vogue Magazine, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE, took the Audience Choice Prize.  Jessica Oreck received the first Cinema Eye Spotlight Award for her debut feature, BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO.  The Spotlight Award is intended to showcase a film that has not yet received proper attention in the United States.

[Full list of winners below.]

Ross McElwee’s 1986 documentary classic SHERMAN’S MARCH was presented with the first Cinema Eye Legacy Award.  McElwee received his award from two-time Oscar winner Kopple and then discussed the film and his work on stage with Thom Powers, chair of the Cinema Eye Honors Nominations Committee and Documentary Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival.

The process for selecting the awards began with a list nearly 100 feature length nonfiction films eligible in 2009. The nominees were selected by a panel of documentary programmers from 14 different film festivals in North America and Europe.  More than 150 members of the documentary community – filmmakers, distributors, programmers and critics – voted for this year’s Cinema Eye winners.  Two categories – Original Music Score and the Spotlight Award – were voted on by a select jury.

http://www.cinemaeyehonors.com

2010 Cinema Eye Honorees

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

THE COVE
Directed by Louie Psihoyos
Produced by Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Agnès Varda
THE BEACHES OF AGNES

Outstanding Achievement in International Feature Filmmaking

BURMA VJ
Directed by Anders Østergaard
Produced by Lise-Lense Møller

Outstanding Achievement in Debut Feature Filmmaking

OCTOBER COUNTRY
Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher

Outstanding Achievement in Production

Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens
THE COVE

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

Brook Aitken
THE COVE

Outstanding Achievement in Editing

Janus Billeskov-Jansen and Thomas Papapetros
BURMA VJ

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri, Ted Savarese and Kenric Taylor
OCTOBER COUNTRY

Original Music Score Jury: Natalia Almada, Laurie Anderson, Brendan Canty, T. Griffin and Craig Wedren

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation (tie)

Bigstar
FOOD, INC.
and
Francis Hanneman, Darren Pasemko, Kent Hugo, Omar Majeed, Brett Gaylor + The Open Source Cinema Community
RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO

Spotlight Award

BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
Directed by Jessica Oreck

Spotlight Jury: Pernille Rose Gronkjær, Jason Kohn, David Polonsky and Jennifer Venditti

Audience Choice Prize

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Directed by RJ Cutler

Legacy Award

SHERMAN’S MARCH
Directed by Ross McElwee

2010 Cinema Eye Honorees Press Release

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking is proud to announce that Ross McElwee’s 1986 classic SHERMAN’S MARCH has been named as the first recipient of the Cinema Eye Legacy Award.  The award will be presented at the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors in New York City on Friday, January 15 at TheTimesCenter with McElwee scheduled to attend and accept the award on behalf of the film.

The Legacy Award is given to a film that embodies the Cinema Eye mission statement of recognizing and honoring exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film as well as being a film that has inspired a new generation of filmmakers to create art in the nonfiction realm.

In presenting SHERMAN’S MARCH with the Legacy Award, the Cinema Eye Honors recognize the film’s distinctive place in the history of American nonfiction filmmaking and the lasting influence of McElwee’s singular, first-person epic on a host of filmmakers who have chronicled their own stories.

Download the full press release.

Voting is now open for the 2010 Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize where you can vote for your favorite nonfiction film of 2009 from a list of some of the year’s most loved, most talked about documentaries.

This year’s nominees are:

• ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
• THE COVE
• EVERY LITTLE STEP
• FOOD, INC.
• GOOD HAIR
• THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
• TYSON
• VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR

Voting closes on January 8th and the winner will be announced at the 3rd annual Cinema Eye Honors on January 15, 2010 in New York City.

Go here to vote now!

ACT OF GOD
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES

CITY OF BORDERS
COLLAPSE

LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET

FOUR SEASONS LODGE

KILLING KASZTNER

LAST TRAIN HOME

MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT

ONLY WHEN I DANCE

P-STAR RISING

THE RED CHAPEL

SNOWBLIND
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION

VIDEOCRACY
VISUAL ACOUSTICS: THE MODERNISM OF JULIUS SHULMAN

WILLIAM KUNTSLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE

YODOK STORIES

THE COVE nominated for a leading 7 Awards
BURMA VJ and OCTOBER COUNTRY receive 5 nominations each
FOOD, INC. and LOOT will also vie for top award

Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda among six nominated for Outstanding Direction

Five films selected as inaugural Spotlight Award nominees, recognizing films that have yet to receive the attention they deserve

Download Full Cinema Eye Honors 2010 Press Release Here

Sheffield, UK – Nominations were announced tonight in the United Kingdom for the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors, recognizing excellence in artistic achievements in nonfiction filmmaking.

Louie Psihoyos’ THE COVE, a film about dolphin hunts in Japan that recently drew worldwide attention when it screened at the Tokyo Film Festival, received a record-tying seven nominations, including nods for Production, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Debut Feature and the top prize, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.

Receiving five nominations each were the acclaimed Danish film BURMA VJ, by director Anders Østergaard, about the 2007, monk-led, anti-government uprisings, and Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s debut feature OCTOBER COUNTRY, a lyrical portrait of mosher’s up-state New York family.  Both were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.

Rounding out the nominations for the top award were Robert Kenner’s popular expose on industrial agriculture production, FOOD, INC., up for four awards, and Darius Marder’s debut film, LOOT, a hypnotic story of a treasure hunter and his aging clients, nominated for three awards.

In co-directing, co-producing, photographing and co-scoring OCTOBER COUNTRY, Michael Palmieri became the first individual nominated for five Cinema Eye Honors in a single year.  Last year, Ari Folman set the previous high mark of four nominations for WALTZ WITH BASHIR, a number matched this year by Donal Mosher.

Other multiple nominees included LOOT director Darius Marder, 45365 co-director, co-photographer and editor Bill Ross, BURMA VJ’s Østergaard and THE COVE’s Psihoyos, all up for three honors.

Palmieri & Mosher, Marder and Østergaard were among six nominees in the Outstanding Achievement in Direction category.  They are joined by legendary French director AGNES VARDA for her autobiographical THE BEACHES OF AGNES, John Maringouin for BIG RIVER MAN and British director Terence Davies for OF TIME AND THE CITY.

Cinema Eye also unveiled a new honor – the Spotlight Award, designed to honor films that have not yet received the recognition that they deserve in the united states.  Films recognized in this category did not have to be eligible for other Cinema Eye categories in order to be nominated.  The inaugural Spotlight Award nominees include BECAUSE WE WERE BORN (France/Brazil), BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO (USA), EPISODE 3: ENJOY POVERTY (Netherlands), THE SOUND OF INSECTS: RECORD OF A MUMMY (Switzerland) and TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION (USA).

The nominations were announced at the Cinema Eye Roller Disco by Cinema Eye Honors co-chairs Esther Robinson & AJ Schnack and two-time Cinema Eye Honoree Simon Chinn.  Robinson was the director of the Cinema Eye nominated film A WALK INTO THE SEA: DANNY WILLIAMS AND THE WARHOL FACTORY.  Schnack is the founder of Cinema Eye and the director of KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON and this year’s CONVENTION.  Simon Chinn produced the 2009 Cinema Eye Outstanding Feature honoree MAN ON WIRE.  Rachel Rosen, programmer for the San Francisco Film Society is also a Co-Chair of this year’s event.

Nominations were determined in voting by top documentary programmers from international film festivals.  This year’s nominations committee was chaired by previous Cinema Eye co-chair Thom Powers, documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival and programmer for New York’s popular Stranger Than Fiction Series.  Committee members included Meira Blaustein (Woodstock Film Festival), Heather Croall (Sheffield), Sean Farnel (Hot Docs), Ben Fowlie (Camden), Tom Hall (Sarasota/Newport), Doug Jones (Los Angeles), David Kwok (Tribeca), Caroline Libresco (Sundance), Janet Pierson (SXSW), Powers, Rosen, Sky Sitney (Silverdocs), Sadie Tillery (Full Frame) and David Wilson (True/False).

98 films were eligible for the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors and 78 of those films received votes from the nominations committee.

Download Full Cinema Eye Honors 2010 Press Release Here

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking will be held at the Times Center in New York City on January 15, 2010.

Indiepix, the online distributor of independent film, returns for a third year as Founding Sponsor and Co-Producer of Cinema Eye.

New sponsors for 2010 include Presenting Sponsor – HBO Documentary Films and Contributing Sponsor – Sheffield Doc/Fest.

The Cinema Eye Honors were launched in 2008 to recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field.

Previous award winners have included MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET) and MAN ON WIRE (Outstanding Feature in 2008 and 2009), WALTZ WITH BASHIR, UP THE YANGTZE, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS, BILLY THE KID, GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL and THE MONASTERY – MR. VIG AND THE NUN.

Presenters have included Al Maysles, DA Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, Barbara Kopple, Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Jehane Noujaim and Laurie Anderson.  Previous incarnations of Cinema Eye were held in March at the IFC Center and the Times Center.  This is the first time the event will be held in January.

Nominations for the Third Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking to be announced Thursday, November 5, 2009 at Sheffield Doc/Fest in the United Kingdom.

Voting has now closed and the nominations have been tallied.

98 Nonfiction Feature Films were eligible for this year’s awards.

78 of these films received votes from our Cinema Eye Nominations Committee.

Find out this year’s nominees on November 5.

This Year’s Eligible Nonfiction Films:

21 BELOW
45365

AFGHAN STAR
THE AGE OF STUPID
AMERICAN CASINO
AMERICAN SWING
ART & COPY
THE ART STAR & THE SUDANESE TWINS

BALLERINA
THE BEACHES OF AGNES/LES PLAGES D’AGNES
BEST WORST MOVIE
BIG RIVER MAN
BLOOD TRAIL
THE BOYS: THE SHERMAN BROS. STORY
BROTHERS AT WAR
BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY
CARMEN MEETS BORAT
THE COVE
CRIPS & BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA
THE CROSS: THE ARTHUR BLESSIT STORY
CRUDE

DEFAMATION

EARTH
EARTH DAYS
EPISODE THREE – “ENJOY POVERTY”
THE END OF THE LINE
EVERY LITTLE STEP
EXAMINED LIFE

THE FIRST BASKET
FIXER: THE TAKING OF AJMAL NAQSHBANDI
FOOD, INC.
FORGETTING DAD
FUEL (formerly FIELDS OF FUEL)

GOOD HAIR
A GOOD MAN
GOTTA DANCE
GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN

HAIR INDIA
HERB AND DOROTHY
THE HORSE BOY/OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

IF I DIE TONIGHT
INTANGIBLE ASSET NUMBER 82
IT MIGHT GET LOUD

JONAS BROTHERS: 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE

LET’S MAKE MONEY
LOOT
LOVE ON DELIVERY

MORE THAN A GAME
THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN

NECROBUSINESS
NO IMPACT MAN
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
NURSERY UNIVERSITY

OBJECTIFIED
OCTOBER COUNTRY
O’ER THE LAND
OF TIME AND THE CITY
OLD PARTNER
ONE MAN VILLAGE
OUR CITY DREAMS
OUTRAGE

PASSING STRANGE
PRESSURE COOKER

THE QUEEN AND I

RACHEL
RACING DREAMS
RENE
REPORTER
RIP – A REMIX MANIFESTO
RISEUP
ROUGH AUNTIES

SACRED PLACES
SEA POINT DAYS
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
SERGIO
SHAKESPEARE AND VICTOR HUGO’S INTIMACIES
SOUL POWER
SOUNDS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO

THOSE WHO REMAIN
TYSON

UNDER OUR SKIN
UNMISTAKEN CHILD

VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR
VOICES FROM EL-SAYED

THE WAY WE GET BY
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE
WHICH WAY HOME
THE WINDMILL MOVIE
A WINK AND A SMILE
WINNEBAGO MAN
THE WONDER OF IT ALL

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG
YOUSSOU NDOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE

Cinema Eye Mission Statement
The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field.