Yoav Shamir Articles

BEST DOCUMENTARY The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda Veteran filmmaker Agnès Varda remembers her life’s beaches, sand dunes, sun rays, and more. Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard In 2007, thousands of monks took to the streets of Burma to protest the military government’s brutal anti-democratic policies. The Cove, Louie Psihoyos Beautiful, intelligent dolphins are abused and slaughtered to provide entertainment and fodder for ugly, stupid people. [...]

The European Film Academy has announced the ten non-fiction features up for the 2009 Prix Arte for Best European Documentary. The nominated documentaries are: THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Les Plages d’Agnès) Agnès Varda, France BELOW SEA LEVEL, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / USA BURMA VJ, Anders Østergaard, Denmark COOKING HISTORY (Ako Sa Varia Dejiny) Peter Kerekes, Slovakia / Austria / Czech Republic THE DAMNED OF THE [...]

Tribeca Film Festival Awards 2009 Tribeca Film Festival 2009: April 22-May 3, 2009   The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: About Elly / Darbareye Elly, directed and written by Asghar Farhadi Best New Narrative Filmmaker: Rune Denstad Langlo for North / Nord, written by Erlend Loe Best Actor: Ciarán Hinds in The Eclipse, directed and written by Conor McPherson Best Actress: Zoe Kazan in [...]