#documentary+

[daisiesonafield-blog]

Hello, Daisy! May I ask why is the whole Olivia documentary thing a bad thing? It’s possible that I have missed something regarding an article but doesn’t it mean that she finally has a job? I saw a mention of it a couple of hours ago but ignored it, but it seems like there is something more to it. I’d appreciate your help, thank you in advance.

Hi dear,

I mean....I just want her to totally disappear that's why. But in a way it will be best if she's busy and not being Harry's literal shadow. However, the fact that it's an alleged documentary about a music venue makes my blood boil, bc you just know she's doing this to prolong her welcome in Harry's world and further associate herself with him.

I just can't stand her, she is the ultimate leech.

An anon did mention the guy who owns that production company is her "friend", so I bet she went begging him to let her do something with them.

Note: related to this

[artfilmfan]

Israelism (Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen, 2023)

[charlesoberonn]

Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me you know nothing about history

[gael-garcia]

The Palestinian (1977)

[pal1cam]

Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on the Palestinian cause :

“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)

“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)

“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)

“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)

“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)

“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)

“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)

“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)

“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)

“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)

“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)

“Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)

“5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)

“Aida Returns” a film by Carol Mansour (look for upcoming screenings through this link)

“Soraida, a woman of Palestine” a documentary style film by Tahani Rached (available on Youtube)

“Palestine In The Eye” a film by Mustafa Abu Ali (available on Youtube)

“ Naji Al-Ali An, Artist With Vision” a film by Kasim Abid (Available on Youtube)

“Tell Your Tale, Little Bird” a documentary style film by Arab Loutfi (Available on Youtube)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]

PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this is just a personal list and doesn’t include all types of Palestinian (or Palestinian related) visual media 🙏

[disease]

TATTOO DESIGN by SUTHERLAND MACDONALD | 1905

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[heritageposts]

The new fabricated piece of Israeli atrocity propaganda, that Hamas baked a baby in an oven, is lifted directly from Palestinian survivor testimonies about what Zionist militants did during the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948.

[Warning, explicit descriptions of torture and violence.]

“I saw the Zionist terrorist soldiers ordering the bakery man of the village to throw his son in the oven and burn him alive. The son is holding the clothes of his father tightly and crying from fear and pleading to his father not to do it. The father refuses and then the soldiers hit him in his gut so hard it caused him to fall on the floor. Other soldiers held his son, Abdel Rauf, and threw him in the oven and told his father to toast him well-done meat. Other soldiers took the baker himself , Hussain al-Shareef, and threw him, too, in the oven, telling him, “follow your son, he needs you there”. - Testimonial from Othman Akel, recorded in Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre (2010).

Like the saying goes, "every Zionist accusation is a confession."

It almost makes me wonder if it's part of a deliberate tactic to obfuscate search engine results. Because if you now search for something like say, 'Israeli solider put child in oven,' all the top results will be about Hamas, not Deir Yassin.

[snakebites-and-ink]

I need you all to see how newborn giant pacific octopuses look when they swim

The way their little stubby tentacles flop uselessly...they're so silly <3

[daisiesonafield-blog]

NOOOOOOOO ARE U KIDDING ME NOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO WE DON'T WANT IT NO NOOOO

Olivia Wilde is in talks to make her feature documentary directorial debut with the nonfiction studio XTR.

The doc will chronicle the storied, star-filled history of one of the world’s most iconic 1970s music venues. The under-wraps project has been in development for about a year, and more details are coming soon.

“Olivia and I met around 15 years ago and worked together in Haiti after the [2010] earthquake,” says XTR founder and CEO Bryn Mooser. “I started making films there, and she would always help out with them.  I’ve been encouraging her to direct this doc for a long time.” Wilde helmed the 2011 comedy short “Free Hugs,” which Mooser produced, and she exec produced several short docs that he directed or produced since 2010’s “Sun City Picture House,” including 2015’s “Body Team 12,” which earned both of them News and Documentary Emmys.

The doc feature is just the latest in a string of high-profile works from XTR, which has produced, financed and distributed more than 80 projects since Mooser founded the studio in 2019. The studio is now involved in making some 25 others. In the last year alone, they’ve produced or exec produced MTV Documentary Films’ Oscar-nominated “Ascension,” the HBO Max series “Menudo: Forever Young,” MUBI’s “Free Chol Soo Lee” and National Geographic Documentary Films’ “The Territory,” along with premiering seven films at Sundance and six at Tribeca. It was also a producer on Apple TV Plus’ Magic Johnson docu series “They Call Me Magic,” which was sold in a low eight-figure deal according to a source close to the production.

In July, XTR opened a $10 million, 35,000-square-foot studio and headquarters in Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood, featuring a soundstage, recording studio and production and post-production facilities for their own films and outside projects. “It’s a versatile space for filming interviews and re-creations,” Mooser says. “For us, this studio campus is a total dream, especially the ability to bring people together and create under one roof.”  The offices house some 50 employees, including head of film Kathryn Everett and head of development Justin Lacob.

Though XTR has backed doc features and series that have appeared on Netflix, National Geographic, Hulu, MSNBC, CNN, MTV and other outlets, one of its greatest assets is running the nonfiction streaming platform Documentary + (co-founded by Everett and Lacob), which is available on demand and existing free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel platforms. The company says DOC+ is available in over 85 million U.S. households and has experienced a 2000% jump in viewership since 2021. 

“This type of studio never really existed in documentary before. Having established ourselves on the majority of FAST platforms, it’s becoming more important than we even had imagined, especially against a backdrop of corporate consolidation in the industry,” Mooser says. “With such an uncertain landscape, it’s great to have a home like this for documentaries.”

-Full article. Link. Published Nov 3 2022.

Edit: follow up here.

[asurrogateblog]

my favorite part of beach boys lore is that the beatles are the villains

[artfilmfan]

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

[courtana]

JENIN, JENIN (2002) dir. Mohammad Bakri

[gael-garcia]

Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

[noodles-and-tea]

Back at it with my enchanted merthur shenanigans

[keeskiwi]

So much more of the natural world feels close and accessible now. When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. Sure, backyard birds like robins and western bluebirds would be easy, but not black skimmers or peregrine falcons or loggerhead shrikes. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote — the province of nature documentaries and far-flung vacations. But in the past six months, I’ve seen soaring golden eagles, heard duetting great horned owls, watched dancing sandhill cranes and marveled at diving Pacific loons, all within an hour of my house. “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”

-Ed Yong, When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place