News - Written by twhite on Sunday, February 7, 2010 22:00 - 0 Comments
The Big Screen: February 2010
Opening: January 31 Venue: Camp Hill, PA (opening of national tour) Film: Takedowns and Falls Dir./Prod: Todd Hickey Distributor: Self-distributed http://www.takedownsandfalls.com/
Every autumn thousands of wrestlers throughout Pennsylvania begin their seasons with the dream of making it to the PIAA State Championships. Few ever make it and even fewer win. But, for all who try, the journey to obtain the most elusive titles in high school wrestling is one of dedication, pain, sacrifice, failure and triumph.
Takedowns and Falls tells the story of a group of Pennsylvania teens and their relationships within a high school wrestling team on a journey to attain a state championship. It chronicles ...
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Book Review: Documenting the Documentary
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
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Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol, a profile of Mark Hogencamp, an upstate New York man who, after suffering brain damage in a barroom brawl, transforms his trauma into creativity, in the form of doll-scale World War II-era town in his backyard, earned the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at SXSW. LA Weekly film critic--and Documentary Feature juror--Karina Longworth had this to say about the film: "Marwencol stood out from the competition pack for a number of reasons, but for me the most refreshing thing about it was that it seems to fuse several different strands of contemporary nonfiction filmmaking that rarely ...
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