Are both the Up Series and Welcome to Nollywood documentary films?
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Welcome to Nollywood Welcome to Nollywood is a 2007 documentary film directed by Jamie Meltzer, which premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and also played at the Avignon Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival in the summer of 2007.
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Up Series The "Up" Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. So far the documentary has had eight episodes spanning 49 years (one episode every seven years) and the documentary has been broadcast on both ITV and BBC. In a 2005 Channel 4 programme, the series topped the list of "The 50 Greatest Documentaries." The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films material from those of the fourteen who choose to participate. The aim of the series is stated at the beginning of "7 Up" as: "Why do we bring these children together? Because we want to get a glimpse of England in the year 2000. The shop steward and the executive of the year 2000 are now seven years old."
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Darren Bender Darren Bender became known in the UK TV industry for launching several long-running new film-maker's initiatives ("Coming Up" & "The Other Side") at broadcaster Channel 4. As commissioning editor there, he encouraged over one hundred drama and documentary film makers to make films inexpensively and often experimentally for late night slots on Channel 4. After a spell as head of production at one of the regional branches of the UK Film Council, he set up "Bigger Pictures", his independent television and film production company. His first feature film "Exhibit A" was released last year. He has a slate of low budget movies and continues to make a variety of television content including male-skewed programs for Channel Five.
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Pop-Up Porno Pop-Up Porno is a series of short films, directed by Canadian filmmaker Stephen Dunn and released in 2015. Each film in the series features a narrator relating their own story of an embarrassing online dating experience, as a pair of hands turns the pages through an illustrated pop-up book of the story.
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Welcome to Lagos (TV series) Welcome to Lagos is a British three-part mini-series which originally aired on BBC Two in April 2010. Narrated by David Harewood, the observational documentary series looked at life in the slums of Lagos. The series follows denizens of Lagos slums as they go about their daily lives, from people living in the Olusosun rubbish dump to inhabitants of Makoko.
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Step It Up and Dance Step It Up and Dance is an American reality television competition series where contestants are supposed to "learn what it takes to make it big in the cutthroat dance industry". Actress and dancer Elizabeth Berkley serves as host, and director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell mentors the 12 dancers chosen from around the country as they learn a variety of dance styles. Director and choreographer Vincent Paterson and choreographer Nancy O'Meara serve as judges for the competition.
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Being... N-Dubz Being... N-Dubz is a documentary series detailing the life and times of English hip-hop group N-Dubz. The series was sponsored by Adidas Originals, and broadcast on 4Music and Channel 4 from 21 June 2010 to 18 May 2011. Two seasons of the show were broadcast. The second series focuses on the group as they travel to America to meet with top American producers. The second series premiered on Channel 4 on 13 April 2011. The series was narrated by Loose Women panelist Lynda Bellingham. The first series of the show was released on DVD on 24 September 2012.
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Blowdown (TV series) Blowdown is an internationally broadcast documentary television series that follows a team of explosive demolition experts as they prepare and implode iconic, complex and challenging structures around the world.
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Indian Film Festival of Melbourne The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is an annual Indian film festival based in Melbourne, Australia. It is presented by Film Victoria and the State Government of Victoria, and produced by "Mind Blowing Films", a Melbourne-based distributor of Indian cinema across Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2010, the festival was previously called Bollywood & Beyond, and from 2012 was re-established as an initiative of the Victorian Coalition Government Victorian Government that aims to strengthen ties between the Indian film industry and Victoria. Award-winning Bollywood actress, Vidya Balan is the ambassador for the Indian Film Festival Melbourne, and has been since its initiation. IFFM is an important fixture in the local arts calendar: permitting a local audience to engage with some of Bollywood's best. The festival also travels to Sydney, and has previously travelled to Adelaide, Perth and Auckland.The festival presents a diverse array of film and events: with cinema: both indie and Bollywood, curated from across both India and the diaspora, and strives to foster an inclusive cultural collaboration.
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This Is How I Made It This Is How I Made It is an American reality-documentary television series on MTV. The series premiered on October 13, 2012. The series sheds light on the mountains that various athletes, actors, artists and other celebrities hurdled over in order to become the person they are today.
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Welcome to the Jungle (2007 film) Welcome to the Jungle is a 2007 American found footage mockumentary-horror film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh and starring Sandy Gardiner, Callard Harris, Nickolas Richey and Veronica Sywak. A stylistic homage to the highly controversial cult horror film "Cannibal Holocaust", the film follows a group of ambitious reporters who run afoul of a bloodthirsty native tribe.
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Inshallah, Kashmir Inshallah, Kashmir (also known as Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror) is a 2012 documentary film directed, produced and written by Ashvin Kumar. It is the story of contemporary Kashmir. A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of ordinary people; warped and brutalised by two decades of militancy and its terrible response. Tehelka says, "Although the camera and narrator usually provide the impartial eye in a documentary, stitching the story together, in Inshallah, Kashmir it is the Kashmiris who weave their deadpan narrative into a cohesive picture. Their matter-of-fact monotone says more than an entire valley of screams could."
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Mr. Untouchable Mr. Untouchable is an English language documentary film for HDNet Films, directed by Marc Levin, and produced by Mary-Jane Robinson. The film, which opened in limited release on October 26, 2007, like the memoir, "Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments" (released in February 2007), addresses the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a former drug kingpin in New York City. The film includes first-hand testimony from Barnes himself and was produced by New York-based Blowback Productions.
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Grow Up (film) Grow Up is a 2017 British coming-of-age short film written and directed by Student film maker Adam Iraki, and starring/introducing Celine Bui, Anita Bencsik and Adam Iraki. Filmed in 2 days, "Grow Up" depicts the childhood and adolescence of Kiera (Celine Bui) as she's approaching 20 with a good degree in hand, but she's understandably feeling lost. After meeting teenagers, Kiera is drawn into 16-year-old Annika's simpler life. She ends up spending the day with Annika and her friend Frankie. Juggling the life of a teen and that of an adult and the feeling of lagging behind.
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House of Carters House of Carters (previously known as The Carters) is an American documentary/reality show on the E! cable network, and MuchMusic in Canada, about the lives of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and his four siblings reuniting in Los Angeles (while Carter was gearing up for the Backstreet Boys 6th studio album "Unbreakable") as they try to revive their careers as well as reconnect as a family. The series premiered on October 2, 2006. Eight episodes were ordered. The show stars Nick, B.J., Aaron, Leslie and Angel Carter.
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Falling Up (film) Falling Up (known in Australia as "The Golden Door") is a 2009 romantic comedy film that was released direct-to-video in late 2009 or early 2010 depending on region.
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New Nigerian Cinema New Nigerian Cinema (also known as New Wave or controversially as New Nollywood) is an emerging phase in Nigerian cinema, in which there became a major shift in the method of film production, from the video format, which came about during the video boom, back to the cinema method, which constituted the films produced in the Golden era of Nigerian cinema history. The films in the New Wave are specifically characterized by improved narrative complexity, aesthetic nuance, much higher budgets and advanced overall production values, when compared to video films from the second generation of filmmakers. They are mostly released theatrically, although some are still released directly on DVD.
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Biola Alabi Biola Alabi is the founder and managing partner of Biola Alabi Media, a consultancy and production company. Biola Alabi Media produce Nigeria’s food travel documentary-series "Bukas and Joints" airing across Africa and in the USA.
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Cradle to Grave (film) Cradle to Grave is an American feature-length dramatized documentary which premiered in the US on 8 January 2017, on the National Geographic Channel, directed by James Tovell.
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Nuts + Bolts Nuts + Bolts (pronounced "Nuts and Bolts") is an American television documentary series hosted by Tyler, The Creator. The series premiered on August 3, 2017 on Viceland and focuses on the rapper's interests and how things work.
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Bringing Up Baby (TV programme) Bringing Up Baby is a four-part British television documentary series which compares three different childcare methods for babies: the Truby King method (a strict, routine-based method from the 1950s), the Benjamin Spock approach (a more relaxed approach based on parents' instincts, popular in the 1960s), and the Continuum concept (in which babies are in constant contact with a parent at all times, based on tribal child-rearing methods and popular in the 1970s). Each method was advocated and administered by a nanny for two families each. The series was controversial when it aired on Channel 4 in 2007, particularly due to the actions recommended by Truby King advocate Claire Verity, and questions over Verity's qualifications.
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Up to our Necks Up to our Necks is an unauthorized documentary film on the American metal band Slipknot. This unrated biography shows never-before-seen interviews with the band members, but does not have live footage nor music by the band.