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With stirring testimony on offer from the organisers of the groundbreaking women’s peace camp, this doc doesn’t need its superfluous dramatic recreations

If ever there was a film guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye of sentimental Guardian readers of a certain age, it’s this one. Essentially, it’s a straight-up talking-heads-and-archive-footage documentary about the Greenham Common women’s peace camp as told by some of the activists who were there, with a few dramatic recreations knitted in. These acted bits, shot on setups that mimic the look of early 1980s video footage and grainy Super 8, aren’t necessarily badly made, and in fact are almost convincing at moments as fake archive footage. But they do lower the tone and cheapen Briar March’s earnest, unabashedly emotional chronicle, which throws a long-overdue spotlight on a chapter in the history of civil disobedience.

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The Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has revealed 12 local titles that will play at the festival this year.

The films include eight documentaries, two dramas and two retrospective films and seven of them are world premieres. Following its U.S. premiere on HBO Max, Jan Oliver Lucks’ “There Is No I in Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the festival.

Films also include Michelle Savill’s “Millie Lies Low”; Luit Bieringa’s “Signed, Theo Schoon”; Peter Bell Brook’s “Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life”; and Lula Cucchiara “Fiona Clark: Unafraid.”

Briar March’s “Mothers of the Revolution”; a restored and remastered version of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita’s landmark film “Patu!”; Tu Neill’s “Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life”; John Mills and Aileen O’Sullivan’s “Whetu Marama – Bright Star”; Kathleen Gallagher’s “Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place” And Dr. Annie Goldson...

Universal Pictures has debuted the trailer for the powerful documentary ‘Mothers of the Revolution.’

The feature-length documentary tells the story of the extraordinary women behind the Greenham Common Peace Camp.

Narrated by Glenda Jackson and featuring interviews with key participants including Julie Christie and Rebecca Johnson, alongside archive footage from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Mothers of the Revolution takes you through one of the longest protests in history, when between 1981 and 2000, thousands of women from around the world came together at Greenham Common to take a committed stand against nuclear proliferation.

Forty years ago, these everyday human beings began with that first step on their march to Greenham Common and became the heroes of a movement that changed the world.

Directed by Briar March, the doc is produced by prolific filmmaker Matthew Metcalfe and Leela Menon.

Also in trailers – Full trailer lands for ‘My Name is Pauli...

Feature documentary will tell the story of the women’s peace camp and the part it played in the demise of the Cold War.

The Greenham Common protest camps, which played a part in the demise of the Cold War, are to be the focus of a feature-length documentary from New Zealand’s Gfc Films and UK-based Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group (Uphe Content Group).

Production is underway on Mothers Of The Revolution, directed by Briar March and produced by prolific New Zealand filmmaker Matthew Metcalfe and Leela Menon. It has been earmarked for release in autumn 2021.

The Greenham...

Feature documentary will tell the story of the women’s peace camp and the part it played in the demise of the Cold War.

The Greenham Common protest camps, which played a part in the demise of the Cold War, are to be the focus of a feature-length documentary from New Zealand’s Gfc Films and UK-based Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group (Uphe Content Group).

Production is underway on Mothers Of The Revolution, directed by Briar March and produced by prolific New Zealand filmmaker Matthew Metcalfe and Leela Menon. It has been earmarked for release in autumn 2021.

The Greenham...

Feature documentary will tell the story of the women’s peace camp and the part it played in the demise of the Cold War.

The Greenham Common protest camps, which played a part in the demise of the Cold War, are to be the focus of a feature-length documentary from New Zealand’s Gfc Films and UK-based Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group (Uphe Content Group).

Production is underway on Mothers Of The Revolution, directed by Briar March and produced by prolific New Zealand filmmaker Matthew Metcalfe and Leela Menon. It has been earmarked for release in autumn 2021.

The Greenham...

Cliff Curtis.

After appearing in more than 50 films and TV series Cliff Curtis will make his directing debut on a family film based on the true story of a boy whose dog is lost overboard, feared dead.

Produced by William McKegg and Belle Avery, Herbert is one of three films funded by the New Zealand Film Commission.

The others are Mothers of the Revolution, which will chronicle the lasting impact of the Women’s Peace Camp at the UK’s Greenham Common, and Cousins, a drama about three disconnected cousins who spend a lifetime in search of each other.

Amanda Beatson and McKegg wrote the screenplay for Herbert, adapted from the book Herbert the Brave Sea Dog by Robyn Belton.

The book recounts the day 10-year-old Tim Snadden’s dog Herbert fell off a boat into the treacherous waters of French Pass in the Marlborough Sounds. Those on the boat...

Thirty-five students from 20 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 39th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view the finalists. films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash grants of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000 respectively, may be presented in each of four categories: Alternative, Animation, Documentary and Narrative. Winners will be brought to Los Angeles, along with the international student winners in the Foreign Student Film category, for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 9, at 6 p.m. at the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative

“Falconer,” Micah Robert Barber, University of Texas at Austin

“In Between Shadows,” Tianran Duan, University of Southern California

“Last Remarks,...

Better This World, The Tiniest Place and the other nominations for the 2011 Ida Awards have been announced. The 27th Annual Ida Awards (documentary awards) are presented by the International Documentary Association (Ida) “a non-profit organization promoting documentary film, video and new media, to support the efforts of documentary filmmaking and video production makers around the world and to increase public appreciation and demand for the art of the documentary…the Ida has approximately 2,800 members in 53 countries, providing a forum for supporters and suppliers of documentary film making.”

This years presentation will see “the 2011 Career Achievement Award [awarded] to legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank. He will be presented his award by Werner Herzog. Director Danfung Dennis (Hell and Back Again) will receive the 2011 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.”

The full listing of the 2011 Ida Awards nominations is below.

Best Feature Award

Better This World

Directors/Producers/Writers: Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega...

Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan in Eugene Jarecki's Reagan Euthanasia, Political Repression, Liberian Warlord: International Documentary Association Nominations David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award This award recognizes exceptional achievement in non-fiction film and video production at the university level and brings greater public and industry awareness to the work of students in the documentary field. GUAÑAPE Sur Director/Executive Producer/Writer: János Richter Executive Producers: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella Producer: Georg Zeller ZeLIG- School for Documentary, Andanafilms, Icarus Films Heart-quake Director/Writer: Mark Olexa Executive Producers: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella Producers: Georg Zeller, Nadia Caruso ZeLIG – School for Documentary River Of Victory Director/Producer: Trevor Wright Executive Director: Jack Emery Producers: A. Todd Smith, Jordan Augustine Full Mountain Pictures, Brigham Young University Smoke Songs Director/Producer/Writer: Briar March Executive Producers: Jan Krawitz, Jamie Meltzer, Kris Samuelson On the Level Production Transit Director/Writer: Regina Tan Producers: Haley Quartarone, Juvia Chua,...

The 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival — which is still going on as of this writing in Missoula, Montana — has announced their list of award winners, giving prizes to seven films out of the dozens that screened this year. Plus, if you’re in Missoula and you’ve missed any of the winning films, there will be a repeat screening of them on the fest’s last two days on Feb. 19 & 20.

The big winner of the fest is the film This Way of Life, directed by Thomas Burstyn, which takes home the Best Feature Award. In addition to the honor, Burstyn will also be taking home $1000 in prize money. (The rest of the winners get $500 each, courtesy of The Documentary Channel.) This Way of Life chronicles the struggles of a New Zealand family as they try to hold onto their passion for raising and caring for horses.

The other...

The seventh annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which ran on Feb. 12-21 in Missoula, Montana, has given out awards to a dozen films. There are four main awards: Best Feature, the Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Mini Doc, which were each judged by a different panel of jurors.

In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.

Best Feature:

Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan

Artistic Vision:

GasLand, dir. Josh Fox

(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)

Big Sky Award:

Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres

Artistic Excellence:

Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs

(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)

Best Short Film:

Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...