The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, to be held from April 3–6 in downtown Durham, N.C., has announced that the recipient of this year's Career Award is filmmaker William Greaves.
The Career Award presentation will showcase Greaves' first film, The First World Festival of Negro Arts, as well as a 20-minute section of his most recent work-in-progress on Harlem.
Also (synopses from the festival's press release):
- The Fighters (1974) — This 1971 [sic] fight movie, starring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, tracks Ali's first, unsuccessful effort to reclaim his heavyweight title from Joe Frazier after it was stripped from him because of his radical politics. Classic cinéma-vérité footage of training and trash-talking is followed by the magnificent fight in its entirety.
- Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) — The film covers the life and times of the world-renown African-American Nobel Peace Prize Winner and United Nations statesman, who not only pioneered the organization's peace-keeping and conflict resolution strategies, but also was one of the leading advocates of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) — Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 ½ (2005) — Reunited with two actors and one particularly outspoken member of his crew from Take One, Greaves endeavors to make another film about making a film about two middle-aged actors coming together to play reunited lovers.
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