Cinema Eye Honors
Encyclopedia
The Cinema Eye Honors is an award
which celebrates nonfiction films and filmmakers, recognizing the breadth of the genre
and includes the crafts of cinematography
, editing
, producing
, directing
, etc. It was first presented at the IFC Center
in New York City on March 18, 2008. founded by: AJ Schnack
, Thom Powers, John Vanco, sponsored by Indiepix (President Bob Alexander
)
Award
An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...
which celebrates nonfiction films and filmmakers, recognizing the breadth of the genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
and includes the crafts of cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...
, editing
Film editing
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...
, producing
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
, directing
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, etc. It was first presented at the IFC Center
IFC Center
IFC Center is an art house movie theater in Greenwich Village, New York City in the United States of America. It is located at 323 Sixth Avenue, on the former site of the Waverly Theater, which was itself a well known art house movie theater...
in New York City on March 18, 2008. founded by: AJ Schnack
AJ Schnack
AJ Schnack is an independent filmmaker. He directed Kurt Cobain: About a Son, which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival...
, Thom Powers, John Vanco, sponsored by Indiepix (President Bob Alexander
Bob Alexander
Robert Somerville Alexander was a Canadian professional baseball pitcher. He attended Bethany College in West Virginia. Alexander was signed by the New York Yankees in . However, he did not make his major league debut until 1955 with the Baltimore Orioles...
)
Winners in 2008
- Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)Manda Bala is a U.S. documentary film directed by Jason Kohn about corruption and kidnapping in Brazil.Kohn has said "I really thought of Manda Bala as a non-fiction RoboCop depicting a very real, broken, and violent society." It premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where...
- Dir. Jason Kohn; Prods. Joey Frank, Jared Goldman, Jason Kohn - Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Taxi to the Dark SideTaxi to the Dark SideTaxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...
- Alex GibneyAlex GibneyAlex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time."... - Outstanding Achievement in Production - Ghosts of Cité Soleil - Seth Kanegis, Tomas Radoor, Mikael Rieks
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - Heloísa Passos
- Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - Doug Abel, Jenny Golden, Andy Grieve
- Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - Chicago 10Chicago 10 (film)Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace is a partially animated film written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight...
- Animation by Curious PicturesCurious PicturesCurious Pictures is an American animation studio and multi-media company set in New York City and Santa Monica that creates and produces television programs, commercials, animation and videogames for audiences worldwide.... - Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - Billy the Kid - Jennifer Venditti
- Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the NunThe Monastery: Mr. Vig and the NunThe Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun is a 2006 Danish documentary film directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær.-Plot Summary:Jørgen Laursen Vig owns a Danish estate, with a ramshackle castle, on the island of Fyn...
- Dir. Pernille Rose GrønkjærPernille Rose GrønkjærPernille Rose Grønkjær is a Danish film director.She graduated from the National Danish Film School in 1997. She is the director of various documentary films for the screen and for television including Min morfar forfra, Repeating Grandpa , and The Monastery: Mr...
; Prod. Sigrid Dyekjær - Audience Choice Prize - The King of Kong: A Fistful of QuartersThe King of Kong: A Fistful of QuartersThe King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film that follows Steve Wiebe as he tries to take the world high score for the arcade game Donkey Kong from reigning champion Billy Mitchell...
- Dir. Seth GordonSeth GordonSeth Gordon is an American film director, producer, and film editor. He has produced and directed both film and TV for various film and television studios, including PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations 1% For Development Fund...
Winners in 2009
- Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - Man on WireMan on WireMan on Wire is a 2008 British documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently released in paperback with the new title...
- Dir. James MarshJames Marsh (director)James Marsh is a film director known for directing the cult film Wisconsin Death Trip starring Marcus Monroe and Sir Ian Holm. He won 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing Man on Wire....
, Prod. Simon Chinn - Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Waltz with BashirWaltz with BashirWaltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
- Ari FolmanAri FolmanAri Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.-Biography:Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director... - Outstanding Achievement in Production - Man on Wire - Simon Chinn
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - Encounters at the End of the WorldEncounters at the End of the WorldEncounters at the End of the World is an American documentary film by Werner Herzog completed in 2007. The film studies people and places in Antarctica...
- Peter ZeitlingerPeter ZeitlingerPeter Zeitlinger is an Austrian cinematographer, who has worked with the director Werner Herzog since 1995. The film Encounters at the End of the World was nominated for the Academy Award 2009. Peter Zeitlinger studied from 1980 - 1987 at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna... - Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Man on Wire - Jinx Godfrey
- Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation - Waltz with Bashir - Yoni GoodmanYoni GoodmanYoni Goodman is an Israeli animator. Goodman began his career as an illustrator and graphic designer, working for two of Israel's major newspapers, Maariv and Haaretz. In 1998, he studied at the department of visual communication in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, majoring in...
, David Polonsky - Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition - Waltz with Bashir - Max RichterMax RichterMax Richter is a German-born British composer.-Biography:Richter studied composition and piano at University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus...
- Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - Up the YangtzeUp the YangtzeUp the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming,...
- Dir. Yung ChangYung Chang-Biography:Yung Chang is the director of Up the Yangtze. He is a Canadian filmmaker currently based in Montreal, where he earned a degree in film production in 1999 from Concordia University... - Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - Waltz with Bashir - Dir. Ari Folman; Prod. Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman Paul
- Honored Shorts - BreadmakersBreadmakersBreadmakers is a short documentary film, directed by Yasmin Fedda and produced by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell. The documentary is about Garvald Bakery, a bakery in Edinburgh, Scotland, which employs adults with learning disabilities. The employees talk using individual expressions, repetitive...
, City of Cranes, Kids + moneyKids + moneyThe 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures...
, One DayOne Day (film)One Day is a film directed by Lone Scherfig. It was adapted by David Nicholls from his 2009 novel of the same name. It stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess...
, The Tailor - Audience Choice Prize - Up the Yangtze - Dir. Yung Chang
Winners in 2010
- Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking - The Cove - Dir. Louie PsihoyosLouie PsihoyosLouis Psihoyos is an American photographer and documentary film director known for his still photography and contributions to National Geographic. Psihoyos, a licensed scuba-diver, has become increasingly concerned with bringing awareness to underwater life...
; Prod. Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher StevensFisher StevensFisher Stevens is an American actor, director and producer. His most recent successes include the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film The Cove and 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Crazy Love... - Outstanding Achievement in Direction - The Beaches of AgnèsThe Beaches of AgnèsThe Beaches of Agnès is a 2008 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda. The film is an autobiographical essay where Varda revisits places from her past, reminisces about life and celebrates her 80th birthday on camera...
- Agnès VardaAgnès VardaAgnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.... - Outstanding Achievement in Production - The Cove - Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography - The Cove - Brook Aitken
- Outstanding Achievement in Editing - Burma VJBurma VJBurma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 uprisings against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras, and the footage was smuggled out of the country...
- Janus Billeskov-Jansen, Thomas Papapetros - Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation
- Food, Inc.Food, Inc.Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner. The film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and...
- Bigstar - RiP!: A Remix ManifestoRiP!: A Remix ManifestoRiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright"directed by Brett Gaylor.Created over a period of six years, the documentary film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the Open Source Cinema...
- Francis Hanneman, Darren Pasemko, Kent Hugo, Omar MajeedOmar MajeedOmar Majeed is a Pakistani Canadian film director and producer who studied cinema at York University Film School and later on studied editing at the International Academy of Design in Toronto. He is the son of Musarrat Nazir. He went on to work as producer Toronto's CityTV and won a Gemini Award...
, Brett GaylorBrett GaylorBrett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Montreal, Quebec. Born in 1977, he grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He is a member director of EyeSteelFilm documentary production company and its Head of New Media....
, Open Source CinemaOpen Source CinemaOpen Source Cinema is a collaborative website created to produce the documentary film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a co-production with Montreal's EyeSteelFilm and the National Film Board of Canada...
- Food, Inc.
- Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score - October Country - Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri, Ted Savarese, Kenric Taylor
- Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film - October Country - Dir. Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher
- Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film - Burma VJ - Dir. Anders Østergaard; Prod. Lise Lense-Møller
- Spotlight Award - Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - Dir. Jessica Oreck
- Audience Choice Prize - The September IssueThe September IssueThe September Issue is a 2009 American documentary film about the behind-the-scenes drama that follows editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her staff during the production of the September 2007 issue of American Vogue magazine. The film is directed by R.J. Cutler and produced by Eliza Hindmarch and...
- Dir. R. J. Cutler - 2010 Legacy Award - Sherman's March - Dir. Ross McElweeRoss McElweeRoss McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, and Harvard professor, known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort. Many cultural aspects of his southern upbringing are present in his...
External links
- All About The Cinema Eye Awards for Documentaries at About.comAbout.comAbout.com is an online source for original information and advice. It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company....
- The First-Ever Cinema Eye Honors. at IFC.comIndependent Film ChannelThe Independent Film Channel is an American cable TV network that airs independent film and related programming. IFC programming includes commercially interrupted feature-length films, original documentaries, shorts, animated series, original series, acquired series, and content exclusively for...
- All These Wonderful Things: The Vote is On: 98 Nonfiction Features Eligible for the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors by AJ SchnackAJ SchnackAJ Schnack is an independent filmmaker. He directed Kurt Cobain: About a Son, which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival...