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Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theatrical director. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. In 2003, Wiseman was awarded the Dan David Prize for his outstanding films, which make us reckon with our emotions and the cost to society of marginalizing...  MORE

Frederick Wiseman is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theatrical director. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. In 2003, Wiseman was awarded the Dan David Prize for his outstanding films, which make us reckon with our emotions and the cost to society of marginalizing those who cannot speak for themselves. In 2006, Wiseman received the George Polk Career Award, given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. The first feature-length film that Wiseman produced was The Cool World in 1963. He next produced and directed Titicut Follies. He has both produced and directed all of his films since. They chiefly are studies of social institutions: for example, hospital, high school, police department. All have been aired on PBS, one of his primary funders. The style of Wiseman's films is often referred to as the observational mode, which has its roots in direct cinema. However, Wiseman dislikes the term: What I try to do is edit the films so that they will have a dramatic structure, that is why I object to some extent to the term observational cinema or cinéma vérité, because observational cinema to me at least connotes just hanging around with one thing being as valuable as another and that is not true. At least that is not true for me and cinema verité is just a pompous French term that has absolutely no meaning as far as I'm concerned. Aftab, Weltz LESS

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For more news visit ? english.ntdtv.com A Human Rights Film Festival kicked-off in Warsaw on Friday night. The headlining film for opening night was a documentary about petitioners in China. Here's more from our Warsaw correspondent. The 10th annual Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival kicked-off in Warsaw on Friday night. [Konrad Wirowski, Programming Director, Watch Docs Festival] "The festival began as an educational program created by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and is organized every year around the 10th of December, which is International Human Rights Day. " A special guest of Watch Docs this year is American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, who will be conducting a master's workshop at the festival. Before the start of the opening film, Wiseman was given an award for lifetime achievement. [Frederick Wiseman, Award-winning Filmmaker]: "I think the work the Watch Docs festival is doing in bringing movies about human rights to Poland and raising the issue of the various ways that human rights are violated around the world ... it's an extremely important thing to do and I respect the people that are doing it." The documentary film chosen for the opening night is called "The Petitioners". It shows the desperate plight of the so-called petitioners in China. These are people whose rights have been violated and who try to register their grievance by petitioning. But often, petitioning leads to further persecution by the authorities. [Maciej Nowicki, Director ...

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