Are The Mosuo Sisters and Through a Blue Lens both documentary films?
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The Mosuo Sisters The Mosuo Sisters is a 2012 documentary film written and directed by Marlo Poras. It chronicles the lives of two sisters, Jua Ma and La Tsuo, who are members of one of the last matriarchal societies, the Mosuo tribe. Being an ethnic minority in China, the film explores their journey from working at a bar in Beijing to moving back home to their village in the Himalayas, dealing with the modern world impinging upon the traditional Mosuo culture and way of life.
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Through a Blue Lens Through a Blue Lens is a documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film follows interactions between police officers and drug addicts and documents the extreme poverty and suffering many addicts endure.
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Charles Wilkinson (director) Charles Wilkinson is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and film and television director. He is best known for his "environmental quadrilogy" of documentaries: "Peace Out", "Oil Sands Karaoke" and "" and "Vancouver: No Fixed Address". All four films premiered at Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, and have gone on to win awards at Hot Docs, the Vancouver International Film Festival and Yorkton Film Festival. Before moving into documentaries, Wilkinson worked for many years in dramatic television series and on feature films. His directing credits include such TV series as "", "The Immortal", "So Weird", "Dead Man's Gun", "Road to Avonlea", and "The Beachcombers", the feature films "Max", "Blood Clan", and "Breach of Trust" and the TV movie "Heart of the Storm". As a pre-teen, he was one of the original performers in the Calgary Safety Roundup, paired with his brother Billy as kid cowboy singers. "We sang both kinds - country and western."
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Sisters in Law (film) Sisters in Law: Stories from a Cameroon Court is a feature-length documentary film by Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto portraying aspects of women's lives and work in the judicial system in Cameroon, West Africa.
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The Africans: A Triple Heritage The Africans: A Triple Heritage is a documentary history, written and narrated by Dr. Ali Mazrui in the early 1980s and jointly produced by the BBC and the Public Broadcasting Service (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian Television Authority. A book by the same title was jointly published by BBC Publications and Little, Brown and Company. The film series premiered in 1986 on BBC and controversially on local PBS stations throughout the United States.
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M. David Mullen David Mullen, A.S.C. (born 26 June 1962 as Merritt David Mullen III) is a Japanese-born American cinematographer known for his photography on "Twin Falls Idaho", "Northfork", "Akeelah and the Bee", "The Astronaut Farmer", "Jennifer's Body", and "The Love Witch". He often collaborates with The Polish brothers.
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Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月 ) aka The Lighthouse (UK) or Times of Joy and Sorrow (USA) or "Years of Joy and Sorrow", is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
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Sisters in Resistance Sisters in Resistance is a 2000 documentary by Maia Wechsler that tells the story of four young Frenchwomen who fought against the German occupation of France during World War II. The film won Outstanding Documentary by the Academy Award Screening Committee and won Best Documentary in the Woman in Cinema Film Festival.
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Emiko Omori Emiko Omori (born 1940) is an American cinematographer and film director known for her documentary films. Her feature-length documentary "Rabbit in the Moon" won the Best Documentary Cinematography Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and an Emmy Award after it was broadcast on PBS that same year. One of the first camerawomen to work in news documentaries, Omori began her career at KQED in San Francisco in 1968.
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Under the Dome (film) Under the Dome () is a 2015 self-financed, Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It was viewed over 150 million times on Tencent within three days of its release, and had been viewed a further 150 million times (total 300 million views) by the time it was taken offline four days later.
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Voices of the Children Voices of the Children is a 1999 Emmy-Award winning documentary film written and directed by Zuzana Justman. It tells the story of three people who were imprisoned as children in the Terezin concentration camp. It was produced and shown on television in the United States.
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A History of the Blue Movie A History of the Blue Movie is a 1970 Graffiti Productions/Sherpix, Inc. documentary pornographic movie.
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Lee Mo-gae Lee Mo-gae is an Asia Pacific Screen Award-winning cinematographer known for his work in "A Tale of Two Sisters", "Traces of Love", "The Good, the Bad, the Weird", and many other films.
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Blue Eyed Blue Eyed is a 1996 documentary film by Bertram Verhaag in which Jane Elliott is teaching a workshop on racism.
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Beyond Our Differences Beyond Our Differences is a documentary film aired December 26, 2008 on the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
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My Hero Brother My Hero Brother is a 2016 Israeli documentary film directed by Yonatan Nir. The film tells the remarkable story of a group of young people with Down syndrome that embark on a demanding trek through the Indian Himalayas, accompanied by their brothers and sisters. As the siblings deal with formidable physical and emotional challenges, unresolved conflicts come to surface and heart-warming friendships develop. The original soundtrack was written and performed by Ehud Banai.
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Mooncusser Films Mooncusser Films, LLC is the film and video production company founded by documentary producer/director Christopher Seufert. Notable projects include cinema verité films with alterna-folk musician Suzanne Vega, the late illustrator Edward Gorey, and one upcoming portrait of legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles. Mooncusser Films has provided content to PBS, the Discovery Channel, VH-1, Twin Cities Public Television, and the History Channel.
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Naked Yoga (film) Naked Yoga is a short documentary released in 1974 and illustrates the practice of yoga in a natural setting and in the nude. The plot of this movie includes women practising yoga in Cyprus and in a studio. These visuals are interspersed with images of Eastern art, processed for "psychedelic" effect. The narrator also relates the practice to Buddhist philosophy. It was shown on television in the UK, however it has not been released to video.
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Ashes to Honey Ashes to Honey (ミツバチの羽音と地球の回転 , Mitsubachi no haoto to chikyū no kaiten ) , (literally ""Humming of Bees and Rotation of the Earth"") is a Japanese documentary directed by Hitomi Kamanaka and released in 2010. It is the third in Kamanaka's trilogy of films on the problems of nuclear power and radiation, preceded by "Hibakusha at the End of the World" (also known as "Radiation: A Slow Death") and "Rokkasho Rhapsody".
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Dogtown and Z-Boys Dogtown and Z-Boys is an award winning 2001 documentary film directed by Stacy Peralta. The documentary explores the pioneering of the Zephyr skateboard team in the 1970s (of which Peralta was a member) and the evolving sport of skateboarding. Using a mix of film of the Zephyr skateboard team (Z-Boys) shot in the 1970s by Craig Stecyk, along with contemporary interviews, the documentary tells the story of a group of teenage surfer/skateboarders and their influence on the history of skateboarding (and to a lesser extent surfing) culture.
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The Machinists The Machinists is a 2010 British documentary film directed by Hannan Majid and Richard York. The film documents the exploitation of garment workers in Bangladesh with the personal stories of three young women working in factories in Dhaka.
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A Walk to Beautiful A Walk to Beautiful is a 2007 American documentary film, Executive Produced by Steven M. Engel and Helen Diana ("Heidi") Reavis, produced and distributed by Engel Entertainment about women who suffer from childbirth injuries in Ethiopia. In 2007, it premiered in film festivals and was chosen for the International Documentary Association Best Feature Documentary Film of the Year award. The following year, the film opened in theaters in the United States in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A 52-minute version of "A Walk to Beautiful" that premiered on "NOVA" on PBS on May 13, 2008 won the 2009 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Informational Programming (Long Form) category on September 21, 2009 at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony on September 21, 2009 at Rose Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.