2014 Cinema Eye Winners Revealed
The Act of Killing, Stories We Tell and Cutie and the Boxer win top awards at 7th annual Cinema Eye Honors. Joshua Oppenheimer’s film on Indonesian death squads wins Outstanding Feature Film. Sarah Polley named Outstanding Director for Stories We Tell. Cutie and the Boxer wins 3 awards, including Outstanding Debut. Awards go to Let the Fire Burn, Leviathan, The Crash Reel, Sound City
2015 Cinema Eye Honors Announces Winners
January 7, 2015, Astoria, Queens, New York – Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’ first person account of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA spying, picked up four awards at the 8th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature and Outstanding Direction, held Wednesday night at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. It’s the […]
306 Hollywood
Do objects retain a spark of life from their owner after that person dies? This question catapults a dynamic brother-sister filmmaking duo on an epic odyssey to excavate their deceased grandma Annette’s unassuming Newark home of 71 years. Toothbrushes, tax documents, three vacuum cleaners—her motley collection of stuff becomes a universe unto itself, springing to […]
5 Broken Cameras, Detropia Top 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors
Documentary about Palestinian occupation wins Outstanding Feature; Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady receive Outstanding Direction for Detropia; Only the Young top Debut; The Imposter wins for Production; How to Survive a Plague for Editing; Chasing Ice for Cinematography and Bully takes Audience Choice
76 Days
On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis in four hospitals, 76 DAYS tells indelible human stories of healthcare workers and patients who struggle to survive the pandemic with resilience and dignity.
78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the deliriously choreographed two-minute shower sequence in Psycho ripped apart cinema’s definition of horror. With a shocking combination of exploitation and high art, Alfred Hitchcock upended his own acclaimed narrative structure by violently killing off a heroine a third of the way through his film, without explanation, justification, or […]
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Thomas Sung relates to George Bailey, Jimmy Stewart’s character in It’s a Wonderful Life. In the 1980s, he was a busy lawyer in New York City, but he saw a need. There was no bank serving the Chinese immigrant community. Institutions were willing to take in millions in deposits from Chinese families but were unwilling […]
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade recognized the right of every woman in the United States to have an abortion. Since 2011, over half the states in the nation have significantly restricted access to abortions. In 2016, abortion remains one of the most divisive issues in America, especially in Missouri, where […]
Acasa, My Home
For two decades, the Enache family—nine kids and their parents—lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world, with lakes and hundreds of species of animals and rare plants. When the authorities decide to claim back this rare urban ecosystem, […]
Advocate
Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel is a force that won’t be deterred. Having defended Palestinians against a host of criminal charges in Israeli courts for nearly five decades, she is a staunch supporter of compassion within the court system. Frequently subjected to harsh criticism in the press and in the public view, Tsemel remains optimistically […]